Sai leela for Saidham project Sai Seva for Aged women

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Sai Ram

 

With Pranams to Lotus feet of Sadguru Sai, I want to share His leela with you all. I offer pranams to Baba for my wonderful Sai sisters and brothers.

 

As you all know, we at IMM are trying to get help from Sai family for our Saidham Project since 2007. Sister Dimple is putting lot of time on writing to the group. On 28th June, she and satya selected some names to send mail. We performed puja, distributed Prasad, sister Dimple went through the process of selecting names and sending mail while satya kept on chanting “Om Sai Sri Sai Jaya jaya sai†all the time.

 

We received two responses on 30th June appended below.

 

(1) SAIRAM. Dear Dimple Ji, Thanks for the information,and I will be able to send at least $27.00 ,per month for sure,and may be BABA willing ,sending more also,but this must I can pay every month for sure,please let20me know,also as I live in USA,can I send you checks, in the name of your ashram,and we go from there.

(Anju)

 

 

(2) would you please tell me how you manage to get my email address and who referred you.Shyam

 

Sister Dimple responded to these mails. Following mails are received from Brother Shyam

 

Sai Ram DimpleG,May be, I am the chosen one.Would you mind telling me when did you formed srisaidham / how long you have been rendering the services to the needy thru' this organization.I have seen your website. However,can you swear in the name of Sai Baba that the donors funds are utilised for the most deserving in the society to the best of your knowledge.Sorry, if i am pestering you as i need to ensure that what i keep aside from my monthly salary for a Sai cause is best utilized for a charity in his name. Otherewise i will be answerable to him

and to my own concious for the wrong judgement.with humble pranams at thy lotus feet.Shyam (July 1)

 

Dear DimpleG,Can you please confirm me if the master/visa card mode of donation/payment shown in your website is safe and secure. Also let me know if they charge you anything for such transactions. So that I can do an online transaction not going out for this purpose.In the meanwhile let me chek with Sai for an appropriate answer if i can pool this from both funds that is allocated everymonth for Sathya Sai and Shridi Sai Projects.Jai Sai RamShyam (July 1)

 

Sairam DipleG,I am really sorry for everything. My request for Sai's approval for this donation from the fund i saved was not approved. As you know His ways are always strange. So, i am unable to proceed as planned as i am only a custodian of the fund once i set aside in his name.However, I will arrange to send you a special donation of Rs.2500/- tomorrow (Thursday) on Sai's day to your account. I tried to send you money thru' credit card but noticed a huge rate difference, so i aborted the send request, but still strange enough i lost AED.1 for the trying.You do not have to

mention my name in the donors list, but if you still insist you may mention my aged mother's name (Mrs. Thankamani Sachidanand)on whose behalf I am sending this sum to all mothers under your care as a small contribution in Sai's name for their motherly affection they might have shown and supreme sacrifices they might have done during their life time on this earth.Whenever I get another opportunity to donate I will definitely keep you in mind.Sai Ram to all there.ShyamPS: I might be able to send you money only after my office hours tomorrow. So after the transfer I will send you another mail. (July 2)

 

We are disappointed on getting this mail on Thursday. We are disturbed lot. Since August 2007, we strongly believed that we had prompting of Sadguru Sai for this project and we had His guidance and approval in every thing we do.

 

While I sat with a gloomy look, looking into Baba’s face, I recollected a mail I read on the group sent by brother Umesh. We had faith (shraddha) on Baba and may be this is test for our patience(Saburi)

 

I lit two lamps and incense sticks and chanted the following mantra sent by brother Umesh 108 times. I am thankful to you brother Umesh.

 

"PATRI GRAMA NIVASAYA SARVA SHAKTI YATAYUTE SHIRDI KSHETRA MAHIMAYA SAINATHAYA NAMOSTUTE"

 

I pleaded before Baba that we should get clear directions to continue or stop. If He approves our seva and the plans,

Brother Shyam should be sending donation only with Baba’s permission. If not he should not send us any money. We will also stop sending further appeals and will wait for His directions.

 

Great loving and dependable Baba responded by showing His leela. Following is the next mail from Brother Shyam.

I want to share this with you all. Why should we worry while He is in charge! One of our dear family members once said “If Baba brings this to you – He will surely see you throughâ€.

Dear DimpleG,Further to my earlier mail I was a bit distrubed that night as I could not get the approval to send this money for the charity cause of IMM. However, since I deeply felt yours might be a deserving cause, i fervently prayed to Baba and after my Thursday (Baba's day) worship, i found that he has not only approved of my monthly fund allocation in Shirdi Sai's name to donate you, but also my weekly thrusday dhakshina and also the allocation of Sathya sai fund allocation too to your organization.So, I assume, by giving you a hope in the beginning to donate you something without His consent, may be, Baba wanted to anihilate my ego as i

halfway felt assured that Baba would approve of my action.So, now as approved by Sai, I sent all the above funds (more than my 12/13 monthly collections) also additing a little bit more making it all together Rs.10,000/- to the bank account of Indira Mahila Mandali, SBA/cNo.11373144673, SBI, Vinukonda, Guntur, Andhra Pradhesh 522647. Now let us thank Baba for his kind gesture in approving donation to aged women's cause. Please note that this is purely for the welfare of aged women and children and this money should not be utilised for anything else other than this.Though I wanted to send money to your HDFC Bank Vijayawada as mentioned in your website, the money exchange office here found 2 branches of the same bank in Vijayawada hence they could not identify this account is maintained in which branch of HDFC. Therefore to avoid confusion of future

donars I would suggest that you may update this information in your website.With pranams at Sai's lotus feet.Shyam

 

HAVE FAITH ON BABA. NO DOUBT HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US OR LET US DOWN. BUT HE HAD HIS OWN WAYS AND TIMINGS. ALL WE NEED IS SHRADDHA AND SABURI

 

We are confident that He will surely do this in His own way and all we need is the patience. Here I recollect one more quote from Sai Family (Sister Nimmi I believe) keep PUSHing.

 

Pray

Until

Something

Happens

 

What we have to do Bow toSai and keep PUSHing.

 

We are thankful to the wonderful brothers and sisters of Sai Family and thank you all who stood with us and helping us in this little Sai seva. Thanks to one and all. May Baba richly bless you.

 

Your sister

Rajeswari