My Baba and the Healing Picture

January 26, 2009

AUM SAI RAM

'Wherever this picture is kept,there will be blessings, healings and miracles.' BABA

In December 2009, I brought with me five pictures showing Baba with the gold lingam and, at the bottom of which is written –

' Wherever this picture is kept, there will be blessings, healings and miracles.'

I thought I would give them only to people with physical ailments and diseases. Anyway, for no apparent reason, I gave one of the pictures to Sheila, a beauty therapist and a masseuse when I called upon her, at her beauty saloon, for an eye-brow threading. She accepted the gift and thanked me profusedly.

I noticed that there was a nice photo-frame on her dressing table and I asked her whether she could buy one for me . I would put the moon darshan picture of Baba in the frame, I told her.

Early this year, I met her again and I asked her about the photo- frame. She looked anxious. She made me promise that I would not be angry by what she was going to tell me. I made the promise though I am not easily angered. Then she emptied her chest. What she told me, however, broke my heart to pieces:

' I am a practising adventist, you know. Our church does not permit us to display pictures and artefacts of saints and gods. I am sorry I cannot buy a frame for the picture of Sai Baba.'

'Hein?' I said in total disbelief .

Thrown off- balance,I added:

'If you can't…you can't…no problem!'

Later in my prayer I asked my sweet Lord Sai Chandra:

'Why did 'you'- my Baba within, my own God-self give this girl the blessed picture. She was radiating with good health. Her husband was not ill. Her kids were not sick. So why? Was it meant to ridiculise my persona?'

The next morning, I decided to meet Sheila and to ask her to give me back the picture. Before I could do so, a brow-beaten Sheila came up to me and said:

'Last night, my father in law was taken very ill. He was yelling with excruciating pain. I took him to hospital. He was not admitted. He was sent back home. The whole night he was wriggling with pain. I could not bear to see his suffering. I phoned a client-an influential personality- to have my father-in-law admitted to hospital. The first thing he did when he reached our place was to give a picture of Sai Baba to my father-in-law. He solemnly told him:

'Keep this picture with you and pray!'

Taken aback, I asked:

'What is your father-in-law suffering from?'

'Prostrate cancer!' was the reply .

'O Sheila, I am so sorry! Now I understand why 'my Baba' gave you the healing picture. It was meant for your father-in-law. Even if you people don't beleive in Sai Baba, please give it to him and ask him to keep it with him always.If he is not healed, at least, he will be relieved of pain and suffering.'

What an experience!

At the Lotus Feet of Sai

Anita