SHIRDI SAIBABA - Our Protector

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SHIRDI SAIBABA - Our Protector

Shri Sai Baba is always full of Mercy. What is wanted on our patt is

whole hearted devotion to Him. When a devotee has got firm Faith and

Devotion, his wishes are soon fulfilled. Whenever a Devotee had complete

and whole hearted Devotion to Sai Baba, all his calamities and dangers

were warded off and his welfare attended to by Baba (See " SAI SAT

CHARITA CHAPTER XXV, Page 133 - 9th Edition 1980).

 

I would like to narrate here the recent Sai-Leela experienced by me. The

19 year old Boy Ganesh came to our house at Vijaya-nagar from M.T.S.

Railway Colony (about 5 Kms. from our house) on the evening of Thursday

7th April, 1985 and told me as follows:

 

His elder Brother Sri S. Ramani (who is working in Railway Workshops,

Hubli as a Fitter) had left Hubli on the night of 5 April 1985 for

" TIRUVARUR " (a famous Town in South India) along with his friends to

attend the marriage of his friend and co-worker Sri. Vijayakumar there

fixed on 7th April 1985. After attending the marriage, he left Tiruvarur

by Train all alone on the same afternoon at 1 P.M. (7.4.85) for Hubli

Via. Madras and Bangalore. He reached Mayavaram Junction at about 3-30

P.M. where he had to change and catch the train for Madras at 5 P.M.

While boarding the train at " Mayavaram " he slipped and fell down on the

platform, his head dashing against a stone. He was seriously injured on

the head and Blood was flowing from his Mouth and head. The station

staff at Mayavaram identified him from the Railway pass, he was having

in the " Money purse " found inside in his shirt pocket. After giving

First Aid treatment to him, they rushed him to Tanjore General Hospital

by a Special Van. After admitting him there in the Hospital at about

8-30 P.M., they trans-mitted the news of the accident to the parents of

the Boy at Hubli through the Railway, 'Microwave', which was received by

them at about 10-30 P.M. on the same night (7th April 85). As the father

of the boy was seriously ill and bed ridden, his mother with her

co-brother's son (Sri. Natarajan) left Hubli by " Night Bangalore Bus " at

11 P.M.

 

After reaching Bangalore early morning at about 6 A.M. on 8-4-85, they

engaged a Special Taxi and reached Tanjore at about 9 P.M. the same day.

They saw the boy at 10 P.M. in the Hospital. The boy was in a " Coma "

(unconscious from the time he met with the accident) and the doctors did

not give any hope of his survival.

 

On 10th April 85, his cousin brother Natarajan gave an 'Express

Telegram' asking the Boy's Father Sri, Srinivasan to immediately proceed

to Tanjore to see his son's face for the last time. The telegram was

received by the boy's father at about 11 P.M. the same day. Sri.

Srinivasan a staunch devotee of Sai Baba, rushed to the Pooja Room and

prayed before Baba (his eyes welled with tears), " Baba, kindly save my

son, I am unable to move from the house as I am severely attacked with

Asthama " . Then he prostrated before Baba's photo. He did not have a wink

of sleep throughout the night and he was uttering Baba's name the whole

night.

 

Early Thursday Morning (11^-85) Baba prompted him to send his son Ganesh

to our house in the evening {after attending his college studies) and

attend " Baba's Arathi " in our house and pray to Baba to save his son's

life.

I did evening Arathi to Baba at 6 P.M. and prayed to Baba to save his

son. Then I took Ganesh to Sri K.R. Gopinath's house for weekly Bhajan,

it being thursday. At the end of Bhajan, all the devotees observe 2 mts.

silence, praying for the welfare of the whole universe. Before the close

of the " Bhajan " , I appealed to all Sai Brother and Sisters (assembled)

to pray to Baba to save Sri. Srinivasan's eldest son, Ramani's life, who

was lying unconscious at Tanjore Hospital.

 

 

When I opened my eyes after observing two minutes' silence, Baba with a

smiling face, made gestures to me saying: " Why fear, when I am here?

Cast all your burdens on me, I shall surely bear them. " I told the Boy

Ganesh to go home without any anxiety and also sent word to his father,

" not to worry as Baba had responded to our prayers " and his son would be

saved by him. I also gave him Baba's Udi to be sent to his Brother at

Tanjore Hospital,

 

Wonder of wonders!! Sri. Srinivasan received a Message through Railway

Microwave on 12-4-1985 that his Son Ramani regained consciousness at

8.50 P.M. (exactly at the time when Baba made gestures to me in Sri.

Gopinath's house (Prayer Hall) and he need not go over to Tanjore as his

son would be discharged after a week or so. This pleasant news was

conveyed to us by Ganesh on the morning of 13-4-85.

 

Dear Sai Bandhus, see, how kind is our Mother Sai towards Her children.

If one surrenders to our Samartha Sadguru Sai with Tan, Man, Dhan (Body,

Mind and Wealth) one need not fear anything in this world, Our Sai is

the Boat which will safely carry us across the ocean of this " Samsara "

(Mundane Existence) to Eternal Bliss.

 

 

R. Radhakrishnan,

Hubli - 580 032. (Karnataka)

(Source Shri Sai Leela June 1986)