Abounding Sai Grace

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Abounding Sai Grace

 

On 5th August 1984, my colleagues and myself were in

Bhubaneshwar to conduct a Product Seminar of our Company (Bharatia

Cutler & Hammer Ltd.) in high spirit. The assignment over, we checked

out of our hotel post-haste to catch the Puri Express bound for Howrah.

When the Express chugged out of the station, I decided to rearrange my

luggage for better convenience, I discovered then the loss of a pair of

my newly-stitched costly dress. My unswerving faith in my Sadguru

Shirdi Sai Baba made me cool; but the wisdom of Anandamayi Ma that " one

should never bother over one's loss and only leave it to one's Guru if

he is spiritually elevated " rang in my ears. That made me more calm.

When we resumed duty at our Calcuta Office, I decided to try over the

S.T. with my Bhubaneshwar Hotel Management, thinking that if my store of

" karma " were good I might get my dress back; if not at least I would be

spiritually elevated. After 3 days of strenuous effort, I received this

message from the hotel over the trunk-line: " your dress is intact in

room No.101 " . When we colleagues checked out of the hotel, 3 unfamiliar

brothers were also present. So it sent shivers of joy in me and I

thanked Sai mentally. I got the dress back in a few days' time.

 

Saigrace is abounding. The same August month on 18th,

Saideepa, Saisudha, my wife Lalitha and self left Calcutta to attend my

sister-in-law's marriage in Mannargudi and arrived at Madras on 19th

evening. I hailed an auto and landed at Foreshore Estate just to pay

our respect to my 84 year old maternal grandfather there. After

discharging the auto, my wife realised the loss of her handbag,

containing the Calcutta Flat keys. I kept cool; but not my wife. She

could not bring herself to the new grave situation. On 20th morning an

auto pulled up close to our flat. Its driver alighted and drilled me

with searching questions before he handed me my wife's handbag. In

gratitude to Shirdi Sai and his honesty, I gifted the driver with cash

and availed the same auto to catch our train bound for Mannargudi. This

trip was as pleasant as one would feel after a thunder shower on a

sweltering day.

 

Did n't Shirdi Sai Baba rightly affirm: " do not be anxious

that I would be absent from you " .

 

 

 

 

T.R.Anand

 

Calcutta - 700 029 (West Bengal).

(Source Shri Sai Leela July 1985)