A father never tolerates his kids doing wrong things or get addicted to wrong habits. To avoid this, he always takes precautionary steps and if it does not seem to work, he resorts to harsh methods too. This same is done by our Lord Sai Baba to take our His kid from a bad habit of stealing. While i was reading this experiene i had goose bumps all over my body.

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Anonymous Devotee from USA says: Sairam Hetal Ji, thank you for providing this platform. I am sharing the following experience and am considering this a confession to Sai.

I have had a bad habit of stealing since I was a child. I tried my best to get out of it, but I just felt compelled to do it. I moved to US and as you know they have open merchandise in this country. I started picking up a few things, when I was in stores. That went on for many years and lately (since the last 2 years) it increased even more. Please bear in mind, that I did not have any kind of financial problems or issues. It was just compulsion. I started going into stores just to lift things (things that I did not need at all). Baba gave me several warnings and each time I would apologize and go on (because I could not stop myself).

Finally a few months ago, he dealt with me in the right way by giving bitter medicine to child to cure him of the disease. I went into a store to buy a frame for Baba’s picture (I had the picture with me). I bought the frame and a few other things and lifted a few things too. As I was paying for the stuff I bought, Baba reminded me one last time not to do it. But again in my own (bad) way said this is the last time and will not do it again. As I was leaving the store, a guy walked up to me and said that I want to talk to you about the unpaid merchandise in your bag. I was shell shocked and could not say anything. In short, he called the police. I was arrested and released on a bond. All this time, I was in a shock and was not realizing what was going on.

This is very touching experience of an anonymous devotee of Lord Sai Baba who was challenged by worst situations of life. Lord Sai Baba did take good care of his family after He appeared in his dream. Read on it will certainly bring tears in your eyes as me.

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Anonymous Devotee from Australia says: Sairam Hetal Ji, I am very glad that I came to know about this blog and able to share my experiences with Sai. Hetal Ji, please post my experience with our Sai. This is my first post of my experiences in your blog. You are doing great work Hetal Ji. Baba’s blessings will always be with you. Please do not disclose my email id and my name. I want to be anonymous devotee of Baba.

Baba, I am extremely sorry for the delay in posting my experience with You. I shifted Australia in 2009. I had a really hard time for getting decent jobs. I was not happy with the conditions I was going through, but still I managed daily to bear decent rented house to stay with family. Here we just had couple of friends, and completely strangers in this country.

Then things even got worse, when my wife got diagnosed with cancer last year. I didn’t know what was going on. I was thinking that I didn’t have good job and that was the worst thing and all of sudden this illness came and I was mentally totally broke. I don’t know how to manage, of my take care of toddler, my wife with her illness, or go to work. As the treatment was very serious somebody has to be with her all the time in the hospital. I was not able to keep my son in the childcare full time as it’s very costly here.

Happy Republic Day to All Sai Readers!!!

Editing the below experience of Sai Sister Geetha Ji i was reminded the way through which i was attracted to our Lord Sai Baba. In her case her mother and Shri Sai Satcharitra were instruments to take her closer to Lord Baba and the same was with me. I really enjoyed reading and editing the following experiences.

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Sai Sister Geetha Ji from India says: Hi Hetalji, I am a small devotee of Shri Sairam and I am a regular reader of your blog. My grandfather my mother are ardent devotees of Sai Baba. I really don’t know when I started worshiping Him, but for past 5 years, I am seeing His miracles and blessings in all the paths of my life. I really don’t know which one to be shared here, as this is my first post. Please do know disclose my mail id.

• Experience 1:
  
  During the year 2006, I was searching for job and I attended many interviews, but I didn’t get select. Then I started reading Sai Satcharitra, because my mother used to do 7 day Parayan, and she used to tell us miracles of Sai Baba, whenever she reads any chapter. By this way, I got attracted and started reading it as a story book. But I didn’t complete it within 7 days. It took time. During that period, I started to experience life in a better way, and I got selected in a very big MNC company.

Lord Sai Baba has His owns ways to rescue His devotees. At hard times we question Him why did He did so, but when it passes away we realize with smile on our lips that all that He has done was for our betterment only. How can this merciful God cause any harm to His kids even if their past deeds are not so good. Following are few such experiences of devotees.

Sai Baba Is Everywhere

Sai Sister Namrata Ji from USA says: Hello Hetal ji, Thanks a million for hosting such a beautiful website. I read your site almost every day and gain more faith by each experience I read. Thanks for the wonderful platform to share Shri Sai Baba's experiences. Here is my very small experience. Please do not disclose my email address.

We Live in USA and have 2 kids. Elder one goes to school and younger is 2 year old. Today, I and my husband had to go on an urgent work to an office and kids were not allowed to be taken there. My son would be in school, so I wanted someone to take care of my little one. My friend was going to India and I could not ask her to take care of my kid. There was a lady near my home, who does Home day care, and I requested if she would take care of my daughter. She said she will definitely help. But she asked me to come and see her a day in advance so that my daughter would get used to her.

Lord Sai Baba is always helping His devotees to come out of difficult situations of their lives. This not only saves the devotees, but it also increases their faith in Him, which is more important. The same is, i guess, experienced by below anonymous devotee.

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Anonymous Devotee from USA says: Sairam Hetal Ji. From past 9 months, it has become a habit for me to read the devotees experiences on your blog on a daily basis. It not only boosts my faith in Baba, but also provides answers to many of my questions through the experiences of other Sai devotees. This blog has introduced me to many methods (9 Thursday's Sai Vrat, Sai Prerna, Sai Stavan Manjari etc.) to come more close to our beloved Baba. I want to thank you for the wonderful job that you are doing. May Sai bless you and your family.

Please do not disclose my email id and name. I want to be anonymous devotee of Baba. This is first time I am writing my experiences and am invoking Baba's help for it. Please feel free to edit my experiences, if needed. Herewith I am sharing couple of miracles of our beloved Sai that I have experienced amongst many others.

Sharing herewith experiences of few more devotees with Shirdi Sai Baba.

Om Sri Sai Ram

Sai Sister Swati ji from India says: “Baba” is a word so short, but this word is so magical and divine. It fulfills the mind with peace every time, when it is uttered.

My mother had always been an ardent devotee of Sai Baba. She usually says that you do good deeds, have a pure heart, you would always find Baba by you, holding your hand, guiding you through good and troubled times. As I grew up, I realized what she said was true. You think of Baba, pray to Him with all your heart, Baba wouldn't ever let you down.

Yesterday (January 21, 2012) i received mail from Sai Brother Sachin ji narrating his Padayatra (traveling on foot) experience to Shirdi. After going through the content of the mail, we decided to post this experience by not considering our blog policy as it would be very much informative to devotees all over. It will certainly prove to be a useful guide for those interested to go to Shirdi by walking. Below is his mail with all necessary details.

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Sai Brother Sachin ji from India says: Hello Hetal Ji, Om Sai Ram. This is Sachin Nath from Hyderabad. Please find attached document wherein I have my experience of Mumbai to Shirdi Padayatra along with pictures and links to videos and also do's and don’ts of during Yatra for those devotees, who may want to pursue Padayatra in future.

This experience details of each and every day of the Padayatra. I am sure this will be helpful to many devotees who intend to do such a Yatra or it may motivate few others to go on such Yatra. There is not much information on such Yatras on the net despite lakhs of devotees undertaking such Padayatra every year. This experience also carries pictures and video links and do's and don’ts of the Yatra. I will be grateful if the pictures are posted along with the experience as that will be really interesting for Sai Devotees.

I will have no issues if my email and my contact number (09666682162) are put along with my experience, just in case if any devotee wants to seek more info from me directly. This was my first experience of Mumbai to Shirdi Padayatra 2012 (distance of almost 270 km). I am hoping to see this experience on your website along with pictures soon.

Shirdi Padayatra 2012 (Shraddha Padayatrik Mitra Mandal)

In the year 2010, during one of my visits to Shirdi, I saw a big group of people (Padayatris), who had walked the distance of Nashik to Shirdi, a distance of almost 100 km. After that, I read about Mumbai to Shirdi Padayatra online (it was a very brief article) and I became very interested in participating in one such Padayatra myself. Since I stayed in Hyderabad, getting in touch with Padayatri Mandals and groups in Mumbai was very difficult and more so there was not much contact information about such Padayatras on the internet .

I used some websites like Fropper, indiadivine.org and also www.shirdisaibabaexperiences.org to let people know of my intent to do Padayatra with a hope that someone would contact me to join them for a Padayatra. But nothing came out of it until June/July of 2011. One gentleman named Nivas contacted me and informed me that there is a group leaving for Shirdi in the next couple of days. But that was too short a notice for me to take a break from my work for almost 2 weeks. I had to let go off that opportunity at that time, but Nivas did inform me that there will be another one in December.

It is always wish of Lord Sai Baba to take any devotee in His fold. But once a devotee is attracted and attached to Him, He makes it a point that the devotee never leaves Him. Though His devotee has to suffer because of his past karma, it is always that Lord Sai Baba takes care of him. But sometimes few of us fail to realize this because of our ignorant mind. When this is realized it really painful and such a pain is experienced by the anonymous devotee below.

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Anonymous Devotee says: Namastay Hetal Ji, this is my humble request to please don’t disclose my name or email. I am the same person, who posted Baba's Stavana Manjari in Telugu pdf very long back. Hope you remember me. Now, I am in a very miserable situation with lot of guiltiness. I am unable to control. Here is one experience of mine with Baba. Please post this if you really feel its worth to post in your blog.

"Dhuk Mein Sumiran Sab Kare Jo Sukh Mein Karena Koi,
Jo Sukh Me Sumiran Kare Dhuk Kaahein Ko Hai."

This is Kabirdas Doha, which I learnt in my school days, which applies to one and all and particularly to me. I used to pray to Baba like anything to fulfill my wishes (Job and my other personal problem). I daily used to go to temple and pray to Him. I used to tell so many things to Him about my problems.

Then suddenly, one night I cried a lot before Baba idol and asked Him to help me. I asked him like anything. Then suddenly my eyes fell on one book brought by my roommate “Saibaba's question and answers book”. I took it and prayed to Baba and opened one page randomly with saying my problem and asking a solution. With closed eyes, I pointed my finger on one answer from that book, in which I got a reply like “Reading Guru Charitha on Ugadhi (South Indian's New Year) will solve my problems”. With a little hope, I slept that night and waited for Ugadhi festival day.

Lord Sai Baba gives us even that which we havent dreamt of anyday. We are considered for such blessings only if our past deeds are good. I guess actions of this anonymous devotee are very good and so Lord Sai Baba is giving her its good fruits.

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Anonymous Devotee from USA says: Sairam Hetal Ji, Thank you very much Hetal Ji for giving all Sai Devotees this great opportunity to share our experiences with Baba. Baba will be always with you and fulfill all your desires. Please do not disclose my name and my email id.

Baba gave me so many miracles in my life. I posted in your blog earlier. Recently I posted My Wonderful Experience to Shirdi in your blog. Still it is not published before it is published Baba gave me one more wonderful experience in my life. I cannot forget this experience because it changed my life.

Sai blessed me with very nice job for which I was waiting from a long long time. Here is my experience about how He blessed me with job.

In my last post, I mentioned that Baba said to me to read Ramayana. So I started listening to Ramayana, which gave me so many miracles in my life. After finishing each Kanda in Ramayana, I was facing a miracle related to that. I went to India and had wonderful Darshan of Sai at Shirdi, which I posted earlier. By Baba grace after coming back from India I started Sai 9 Thursday vrat again.

Few devotees' karmas are so good that with Lord Sai Baba's support they sail across very easily. Below is same kind of experience of Sai sister Uma ji.

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Sai Sister Uma Ji from USA says: Dear Hetal Ji, my name is Uma. I am from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Currently I am living in USA. I really appreciate your effort in making this blog wonderful and excellent place, where all the devotees can share their experiences. Also devotees feel relaxed, when they read theses Sai Leelas. I am in love with this website. Please do not disclose my email-id.

I came from a middle class family, my dad struggled a lot to give me and my sister good life and education. My dad is very humble, honest person, very down to earth person, though he could not earn money. People respect him a lot and everybody in my family. My relatives admire him a lot. My mom and dad are devotees of Sairam now. Whenever they get time they read Sai Satcharitra.

It was a dream for me go to USA, when I was in 3rd year of my engineering. I went for GRE coaching and gave exam at the end of 3rd year. Later I met a guy and fell in love with him. He is working as software engineer at Hyderabad. He is very nice person and he is the only one I can trust 100%. After meeting him, I dropped my plans for going to USA and did not apply to any universities.

When we talk about devotees of Lord Sai Baba, there is no one who will say that everything in his/her life is going on well and now they do not need any grace ofb blessings from the Lord. Everyone is suffering in this world and there is no way to opt out of it. We only need to have strength to face challenges which are outcome of grace of Lord Sai Baba. Such is an experience of Sai brother Ganesh as shared below.

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Sai Brother Ganesh ji from Singapore says: I am writing from Singapore. Please do not share my email address. I do not know where to start. Please forgive me if the narration is bad. Because I simply have too many miracles and I strongly believe that I am blessed by Shirdi Sai Baba. I am only giving highlights of my life so far to prove that Baba's love and care towards His devotees.

My life was a chaos since childhood. I was below average student in studies and scared of Maths even though my father was Mathematics teacher. I suffered a lot in my life. My mother passed away, when I was 13 years old and my step mother tortured me. I lost my father in the year 2008. My entire childhood was full of debits my step brother left behind. My father spent a fortune clearing them. I barely completed my B. Sc. in a remote village. Soon after my father had divorce with my step-mother. My father started believing in Sai Baba. I also started slowly believing Him and I haven't received any miracles from Him at that point. I visited Shirdi three times between 1998 and 2002. I constantly believed Him since then.

Lord Sai Baba when in His bodily form used to appear in dreams of devotees, the situations turned up as said by Him and the dreams were not dreams, they were realities and instructions for the devotees in their resting states. Today also we come across many devotees (including me) who say that Lord Sai Baba come in their dreams and help them to come out of situations. When i had just started praying to Lord Sai Baba, He appeared in my dreams and gave me instructions about the form in which He wishes my service to Him. Following is an experience of Sudhamayee ji who has shared one of her dreams and showed us how Lord Sai Baba is alive even in spirits through His Samadhi in Shirdi!

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Sai Sister Sudhamayee ji from India says: Good Morning to all. After reading different experiences of SHIRDI SAI devotees, I too wanted to share mine and here I am. I had been serious devotee of Baba since the age 15 yrs. He changed me a lot from then. Baba appears in my dreams often and gives important instructions to me, whenever needed. I feel I am one of the luckiest persons in the world.

It happened in the year of 2008, when I was pursuing last semester of my B. Tech. degree. I was very good at studies (One of the toppers). However my talent is limited to only WRITING exams. I have very poor communication skills. Basically being a very shy girl, I never used to attend any seminars, group discussions, debates or anything, which requires bold presentation of one’s views. When campus interviews were on, I used to fail in interview round, though I very well managed passing written tests. I lost in many MNCs like Infosys, Wipro etc. Even if I performed well in some interviews, for no proper reason, I used to get rejected. I was very much disappointed. Besides this, there was one more problem. Our family, especially my mom believes a lot in astrology and future telling. One day a tribal saint, who could tell the fortune of a person on looking at his/her face came to our home. On looking at me he predicted that I had “Nagadosham” (curse of goddesses of serpent) and that is the reason why I haven’t secured a job in spite of having talent. As a remedy he gave me a copper dollar containing the figure of three headed serpent and asked me to wear it on my chain. I and my mom could not deny his words.

Following are heart melting experiences of devotees with Lord Sai Baba of Shirdi.

Baba Appeared In My Dreams

Sai Brother Avinash ji from USA says: Sairam. I would first like to bow to the lotus feet of Baba for taking care of all His devotees unconditionally. Also I would like to thank you for doing such a wonderful job. It’s when the chips are down and nothing is going our way that we need to go and gather courage and faith that Baba is with us and the hardships will pass. I personally think Baba just tests our faith, while He is right beside us every minute.

I wanted to share a dream which occurred in 2009, in which Baba assured me that I will get a job. A little background at that time is here. I just finished with my masters in the USA. I didn’t have any job. The girl, I loved left me. I had no money and was living with roommates and was even ashamed to eat because I wasn’t paying anything. One night I couldn’t sleep till 5 AM with many things on my mind. I must have fallen asleep at 6 AM or so after which I had a dream. I would say blessing. The dream went like this: