Amazing Five Shirdi Trips

Anonymous Shirdi Sai Mahaparayan Devotee From India Says: Om Sai Ram. Thank you to all the people who are working on this site and making it the best day by day. This is my fifth post as Bade Baba came into my life and started improving and as said He makes us know the importance of self realisation.

So, after my second Padyatra, my friend and I decided to do the continuous five trips to Shirdi as we really wanted to make it happen at least once in our lifetime. But as said Shirdi Wahi Jate Hai Jinhe Baba Bulate Hai (Only those go to Shirdi whom Baba invites/calls ).

So we were planning from January but the main problem was with me because I am jobless so I needed money to travel and I didn’t want to take money from home. Then I decided to take private tuitions and by Baba’s grace I got a phone call through my friend that said “Are you interested in teaching a student because it is very close to your home?” I instantly said yes and when I got the address it was near Sai Baba Mandir. I felt happy and blessed, but due to some reasons again I was not ready to teach because I’m tired of doing those things which I’m really not interested in. I requested Baba that they should delay it. With Baba’s grace the same thing happened and they had not responded.

Then again I thought about what I should do? Like a dumb but then I thought my dad’s sister (Atya) was willing to come to Mumbai. So one day my Mom told me to go and bring her from the village,” I said ok but there was a condition “While coming first we will visit Shirdi.” Only when she said ok did I make a plan to tell her (Atya) to make a wish for five trips because her son is very weak and was going on a wrong path. The day came and again I was worried if I would go, I won’t be able to come early because they will force me to stay there for some days and I didn’t want to stay because I was applying for admission in that particular month and also there was not any vehicle except red bus which I am not used to and feel sick, so because of this condition I avoided.

Then my dad told me that I will go to take her. After some days (Atya) she came to our place. I was very happy and was making a plan to convince her? So one night I went for a walk and was thinking continuously how to convince her? I had a word with my friend but even she was not sure about the five trips because she had given her money to one of her friends and only that was the source where she could finance herself for the trip. She had mentioned that we should not miss trips in between as it is not good, so that was in my mind.

After I spoke and came at home, my Atya suddenly said, “I and Pooja will be going for five trips to Shirdi.” I was so shocked that I just cried in my heart and constantly started looking at Bade Baba’s photo and went into the bathroom and started crying. One thought aroused in my mind that (Baba Himself takes the responsibility to fulfill His devotee’s wish, He himself make the way and we don’t even have to think for it to work, all we can do is just have a wish from the heart.

Next Thursday we went for our first trip by train from Dadar to Sainagar Shirdi. We reached there by 4:00am and after taking a rickshaw to the Samadhi mandir we reached there and had darshan of Sai Baba. On the second Thursday my friend told me that she won’t be able to come because of some personal problem which she had in the office. But then she told me that we should not skip, so I firmly believed that I shouldn’t skip because my (Atya) won’t be ready to skip and if I skipped then she would not come for the next trip and my (five trips) would remain incomplete. Then I told my friend to adjust somehow because we talked together but even then she told me not to wait for her to complete my trip.

Then, I thought it must be Baba’s will because nobody can come to Shirdi against His will. Later likewise in this way I completed my five trips very happily and Bade Baba is always there to protect me and guide me. Only one thing I would like to say is that no matter where, how, what you wish, He is listening to you even when sometimes you can’t even say it in words.

Om Sai Om Sai Ram. Thank You Bade Baba. Please be with me and with everyone always. You are pure bliss, omniscient, loving and always caring for us. Once again thank You for this opportunity to make me write. I love You Bade Baba.

Anonymous Sai Devotee