Sai Baba Where Not ?

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Sai Baba Where Not ?

Is it not a wonderful thing to note that Baba's eyes are every where,

fulfilling the cherished desires of devotees sooner or later. One may

shed tears while facing calamities in life but' the same eyes may bring

tears of joy in the long run. This is popularly know as " Sai Leela " . If

what is expected happens then there is no wonder in it If an unforeseen

or unpredicted thing happens then it is a miracle. Some times with the

best efforts put in, people fail and say it is bad luck and on some

occasions with little efforts they get success. This is a matter of

luck. If joys and sorrows are not mixed and interwoven then the very

purpose of life is defeated.

Today Sai cult is spreading far and wide like passing the that current

when the switch is made on. Why ? The answer is very simple. Sai Baba's

blessings are with those devotees who look to Him and serve humanity

selflessly. Another key reason is that; Sai Baba is easily approachable

without observing any hard and fast dogmas or religious practices. Baba

does not have any faith , of the in caste, creed or isms. .

I for many reasons believe that Baba's leelas are very strange and He

wants things to take their own course and time whether for good or bad

To substantiate the above matter. I feel here to pen my few but most

significant experiences in recent times.

The first and foremost worth recording event took place on Thursday

21-1-1982. As usual I applied udi and prayed to Sai to fulfil my two

desires while leaving home for office. The first desire was that as

being the senior most in my department having j put in service for 19

years I wished for my promotion and secondly the posting in the same

district and office where I am working at present. To my great surprise

and to that of all others, the postman delivered a cover on 21-1-1982 at

4-15 p.m. When I opened the cover, I found the proceedings of my Head of

the department wherein I got promotion as Statistical Officer and was

posted in the same office where I was working.

Another equally worth noting miracle is that no sooner I reached my home

joyfully on 21-1-1982 at 7.00 p.m. than my daughter N. Vasanthi handed

over a post card to me. The readers may be very anxious to know what was

this letter. That was an invitation to me from Shri. K. H. Kakresaheb,

the Court Receiver, requesting me to come to Shirdi as a delegate to

participate in the annual gathering to be held on 31st January and 1st

Feb' 1982. You can well imagine what 'were my feelings on that day.

Accordingly I visited Shirdi on 30-1-1982 and participated in the annual

gathering on the forenoon of 31-1-82. While at Shirdi I associated

myself with Dr. S. D. Parchure editor of English Saileela magazine who

was kind enough to inform me that my article " The purpose of,; Human

Life " was under active consideration for publication then (now it is

published in the issue of March, 1982). As already mentioned above I

received my promotion orders on 21-1-1982 but it is after paying homage

to Lord Shri Sainath on 30th and 31st January, 1982 I took charge of the

post of Statistical Officer on Thursday i.e. 4-2-1982.

Special mention may be made of another incident that occurred on

28-2-1982. It was in the last week of Feb' 82 that my wife having only

meagre amount at her disposal, started renovation of the house. Her

financial estimate for the repairs failed. Consequently worry and

anxiety annoyed us. She is a member of Orgallu Chitfund. The lottery

draw for Rs. 10.000/-(Ten thousand) was fixed on 2.8-2-1982 at 2.

OO'p.m. On that day before leaving for Chitfund office to witness the

draw, I prayed Sai Baba whole heartedly with a request to help me at

this critical juncture. At 2. 00 p.m. all the members of the Chit-fund,

who optioned for lot, were looking very eagerly for the result of the

draw, for every body present was in need of money. Just a few seconds

before the draw I placed the small photo, which is in my fore-finger

ring on the number assigned to us and closed my eyes for a while. The

moment I opened my eyes I heard that the number of my wife was

announced. I was taken away by an air of surprise to see the

disappointment of other members and getting the result it my favour. Is

it not Baba's presence here to help me ? This being the reason I

selected " Sai Baba where not " as suitable title for article. My joy knew

no bounds and really it was inexplicable. Had Baba not helped me I would

have been put to much inconvenience as there was no other alternative of

meeting the financial requirements. From this it can be safely concluded

that Baba's eyes are every where Sai knows what we want and the

fulfillment of what we want depends upon the strength of devotion and

time factor. If every body gets all the things done favourably without

making concrete efforts, then there would not have arisen human

problems. But the pity is that day-to-day affairs do not move in the

direction as desired by us, Some time heavy and strong expectations may

prove futile if these have no divine sanction. Man proposes and God

disposes. Let us all hope and pray that Baba's eyes which are everywhere

cannot escape the attention of true devotees, who are increasing in

number day by day. What is likely to happen may be different from what

actually happens. All depends upon the sincere efforts of human beings

and ever increasing faith in Sai.

Let us hope that with Baba's blessings the gap between expectations and

the attainment will be narrowed considerably leading to optimistic life.

Let Baba help all of us and make tomorrow better than today and day

after tomorrow still much more better than tomorrow.

N. Machander Oas

 

Warangal (A. P.) 506002

 

(Source Shri Sai Leela Magazine April 1983)