Sai Baba’s Raised Finger Retreats The Disease
Shirdi Sai Global Mahaparayan Devotee From India Says:
Om Sai Ram
My humble pranams to you. My name is Shivani. I have grown up in Baba’s shade and Baba is the only God we have known all our life. I would like to share a vichitra leela of Baba which took place on this week’s Thursday.
Baba is usually very strict with me. By strict I mean that having grown up listening to Baba’s tales and having heard about Baba’s miracles all throughout my life, I had quite a fanciful idea about Baba, that whenever and wherever I would call Baba, I would be able to have His darshan in physical form. During my adolescence for three years, every night, I slept requesting Baba to come and talk to me in my dreams and felt sorely disappointed when I did not receive such a blessing.
How Baba entered my mother’s life when she was very young and how filled with power and miracles, the early encounters were, all the stories are so mesmerizing that I often complained to Baba that Deva why have You never waited for me also. My mother was blessed with Baba’s physical darshan on a number of occasions, and each one is wonderful.
In a way, Baba has brought me up from early childhood, I sometimes felt Him talking to me but without any concrete proof it is easy to dismiss it as an imagination too.
However, by strict abstinence from providing any concurring proof, Baba kind of reinforces that He will give when He has to give and in that measure only what He feels is right.
Though for quite a long time, I remained angry with Baba that He is not coming in my dreams, not coming to meet me, etc. till how much time can one sulk? I have more or less given up sulking, hehe, with the belief that it is His choice of the way with me.
Though Baba does not conform to my stupid ideas about Him, in very different ways, Baba seems to give out His love.
This Tuesday, I was overworked. There is a lot of physical work, I felt dead tired by the end of the day. This in itself is another leela of Baba. When the lockdown began, businesses crashed. Our work was not doing well for some months even before the lockdown. With the start of the lockdown, for quite a lot of time sales were zero. Thus shutting down the regular physical premises to save expenditure, we started operating from home itself. Where there were earlier seven employees to assist with the work, currently the salary of even one person was not affordable.
Before the lockdown started, though I had been doing the same work for about a year, I didn’t even know how to even fold the lehenga. But once it started, without any strain, Baba taught me to finish it, fold it and pack it also in cartons. Very unique experiences were there, I would not feel the weight of even 8, 10, or sometimes 15 kg of the parcel. I was able to lift it at ease.
At the beginning of the lockdown, the ceaseless chanting of Baba’s name was suggested as a powerful sadhana. While it was only a youtube video, I had watched, however it almost felt as if a Shaktipaat of instruction had taken place. A long-standing and aged female devotee of Baba had said that she chants the name of Baba 24*7. Though there was no physical meeting, nor any personal interaction, yet even to the astonishment of my intellect and mind, every word of instruction was given was automatically followed without any extra effort.
I began waking up at 4 AM and chanting Baba’s name, tried to chant His name mentally throughout the day, learned the Marathi artist, and began performing them four times a day. I had no inclination to do so, but somehow all of it happened on its own.
I could not continue for long. The unabridged version of Sai Satcharitra (translated in English from Marathi in Ovi Meter) is extremely powerful. I read it twice back to back in quick succession and it sent jitters all throughout my body. So much so that I could not even read the epilogue the second time. My heart started palpitating and my mind actually reeled.
The stories narrated in the complete version are even more sweetly described, it sometimes actually looked as if I am not reading but eating sugar. But the philosophy narrated was so complex and full of concepts of Vedant that while reading it I joined my hands before Baba and said, “I cannot understand even a word of it. What is the use of reading without understanding therefore till now I have neglected to read the full version. But I wish to read and I will read it even though I cannot understand it in many parts when You feel like You can make me understand.”
The wonder was that soon after reading it twice, I went into acute depression and even had to take help of antidepressants for some time but my mother was at the time researching various things and came across the detailed study of meditation, self-inquiry, etc. which she made me also refer to and understand, after which she herself started reading the complete version of Sai Satcharitra and everything suddenly made sense. It was as if Baba had referred to all those studies for giving an understanding of the Satcharitra.
I apologize for having deviated so much. Coming back this Tuesday, I felt extremely tired at night and slept even without doing the nightly dhyan. I experienced an attack of diarrhea at night and felt quite uncomfortable. My fever also increased and I faced all types of negative thoughts in a half-dazed condition.
In the morning, when I woke up and went to my parent’s room, my temperature was higher than 103 degrees. The most obvious thing looked Covid which was not such a good thing. I felt worried about my parents’ health especially since my mother had just recovered from Cancer, but felt ok then as whatever has to happen will happen. It is already a miracle that Baba has saved us from Covid for so long and also that I seem to be down with it though my parents go outside more often. Also, the timing was good since on account of the Diwali holidays work would be less.
But Baba saved me even from this. A virtual appointment with the doctor was fixed in which he said that it is most probably not Covid since the temperature is very high.
By Baba’s grace, not having Covid was a big relief but with constant diarrhea and high fever, I spent the day shivering and shaking. The next day was Thursday. By Baba’s grace, the fever came down.
I completed the Mahaparayan assigned chapters in the afternoon and reported the same. Diarrhea still continued but since the doctor had prescribed a five-day course, I was not so worried.
Already, Baba’s grace was so much, that I did not pray for any relief from diarrhea. However, at night a strange miracle occurred. Around 10 pm, in the volunteer group, there were still some requests though till that time usually all things were completed. I was also about to sleep but seeing the requests felt that no one was there to read at the moment, so should I read? But then again I had second thoughts that maybe the posters themselves would read and was ready for bed. Then while bowing before Baba, I again felt a dilemma and thought about asking Baba if it is my duty to read by casting chits. Baba replied yes.
So I sat down to read. The first chapter was Chapter 12 which talked about how no one can neither go to nor leave Shirdi without Baba’s will. The next was Chapter 13 which talked first about how Baba cured Bhimaji Patil by giving him pain in dreams. The other story was how Bapusaheb Booty suffered from vomiting and purges and how lifting and pointing His finger Baba ordered from now you will not purge. This story shocked me. It seemed as if Baba was saying to me that He is aware of my trouble. I felt moved that Baba has taken so much trouble to comfort me.
But this was not it. As I continued reading, there was also in the same chapter the story of Kaka Mahajani who suffered from diarrhea while the repair work of Masjid was going on, and Baba, while abusing and shouting at everyone, made him eat peanuts and cured him. This was as if Baba was hammering the thing in my head.
I felt relieved that now Baba has assured, me I will be well soon. However, I did not imagine that from that very moment the purgings would stop though I still seemed to be in a bad shape even to myself. But as if in obedience to Baba’s raised finger, diarrhea actually stopped every moment. I was wonderstruck, how can such a thing happen.
It was actually quite timely because that very night I suffered from a normal girl’s problem which is generally quite painful for me.
I also did not know what were my problems, but this Shri Sai intervened on His own in His own way.
Om Sai Ram!
I would like to end this mail, but I would also like to pose a few questions. If possible, please try to answer.
We all know death is the one certainty of our life but even with Shri Sai’s grace ever with me, I do not know how to deal with it. Death, suffering, and disease all seem to be part and parcel of life, but I do not know the way to accept them. Shri Sai says to have Shraddha and Saburi but what is Shraddha and how is it complete? I am sure it does not mean to have faith that desires will be fulfilled but rather to be desireless so that we have complete faith in what Baba does. But how to be desireless? Some desires do not leave saburi. Baba said it is courage but where on Earth do we find courage? I do not find it in my heart, then how can we talk about unwavering faith or true surrender, is it possible to surrender entirely, and if yes how? What are the steps, and how do overcome the difficulties of surrender?
If possible please try to answer. Many Pranaams.
Jai Sai Ram!
Sai Devotee Shamya
#MP-Experience 1935
Love Of Sadguru – Ocean Of Mercy
Anonymous Shirdi Sai Global Mahaparayan Devotee Says:
What can I say about Sadguru Shri Sainath, He has always been with me and my family from childhood and has shown endless mercies upon us.
He’s truly a form of divine Ananth. I would like to take this opportunity to describe what Sai leelas happened in our life after joining the Global Mahaparayan.
1. It seems like Sai is reading my mind, whatever I am thinking in my mind, I get the same chapters on Thursday in Mahaparayan. I was doubting something and I got chapter no. 23 to read which says not to doubt, be fearless.
Then, I was thinking about God and Guru and I get chapter no. 24 to read where Sai says there’s no difference between God and Guru. There are many instances where I am thinking something and I get exactly the same chapters to read on Thursdays in Mahaparayan and I am pleasantly surprised. Sai truly is Antaryami, He reads your heart and mind.
2. Once my husband had severe back pain and was not able to sleep the whole night. I applied Udi in the morning which was brought from Shirdi and the pain vanished. Thanks to Sai Baba.
3. It was Maha Shivratri day and I didn’t have a Shivling or Shiva photo in my home mandir. I was thinking of buying one whenever I go to the market. After some time my son was watching a photo album which consists of almost 500 pages and he was watching a Shiva and Parvati family photo in that album. I was pleasantly surprised, what a coincidence. I wanted a Shiva photo and Sai gave it to me on Shivratri day. I kept it in my mandir. Truly Sai is an Antaryami.
4. Last year my father had a stomach operation due to some blockage and I somehow wanted to give him Shirdi Udi (Vibhuti) which I had, so that he could apply it to his stomach, but since we both stay in different countries, I was not able to give him. But see the Sai leela, Sai sent one of my cousins the next day to my place and she took the Udi back to India and handed It over to my father and he is completely cured. Om Sai Ram.
5. My husband lost his job in January this year and due to the pandemic, it was very difficult to get another job. We had decided that if he doesn’t get a job by August then we will wind up and go back to India. But see the Sai leela, just before we planned to go to India my husband got calls for two job interviews. His ex-boss called him to join another company. Thanks to Sadguru Sai for helping us.
6. One of my building friends had given me a packet of Shirdi temple Vibhuti. I kept it in my home mandir and forgot about it. Then one Thursday in the Mahaparayan chapter, I got a chapter to read where Baba is saying “those who are fortunate enough to get my Udi should apply it to their forehead and drink little with water;” I was pleasantly surprised. I took the Vibhuti, and immediately applied It to my family members’ foreheads.
7. Once one of my friends recommended me to join the Mahaparayan group and I immediately agreed as we are Sai followers. They were giving us a pdf format to read on a mobile phone and the font was small to read. See Sai leela, that friend gave me Sai Satcharitra book (English one to read) as she had got two copies.
Such is the love of Sadguru Sai, the ocean of mercy….Om Shri Sairam!
Anonymous Sai Devotee
#MP-Experience 1936
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