Another happy experience of lady devotee of Baba ji to get gift from Baba on her birthday.

Dear Hetal Ji,

Sai Ramm! This is the first time I am writing to you, as I would like you to post my experience in your wonderful Blog, to share my experiences with other devotees.

I live in Dubai. It was my Birthday last week on the 22nd of March. A few days before my Birthday, I got a dream, wherein I saw that my lap is getting filled with lots of udi. In that dream, I was so excited, that I rushed to call my family members. By the time they arrive to see this, all the Udi on my lap, turns into cotton. When I woke up, I had mixed feelings, as I didn’t know what the dream meant.

Last year on my Birthday, i.e 22nd March 2008, my Dad’s friend had returned from Shirdi and coincidently on the same day of my Birthday, he sent us Udi/Prasad. I was so happy that year. I wished that this year also, in some way or another, Baba sends me His blessings. My Birthday this year fell on a Sunday and on the same week of my Birthday which is on Thursday (26th March, 09), I received an air mail from Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan! The envelope contained Udi and on the outside of the envelope it read “With Sri Sai Baba’s blessings”. My joy knew no bounds. It was so strange that I received Udi from the temple itself!!

The envelope also contained the receipt of a small donation that I personally made in December‘08 when I visited Shirdi. This was so strange-because I had already received the receipt in December’08 itself from the Donation Counter. To top it off the receipt was dated 21-Jan-09.

Is it not strange that I received the receipt of a donation 3 months later with UDI, when I had already received the receipt at the donation counter in December’08? Wasn’t this just a means or way of Baba blessing me on my B’day and giving me an indication of His blessing in my dream? I don’t know if it is common of Sri Sai Baba Sansthan to send Udi in this manner, that too 3 months after the donation was made? When I didn’t even need a receipt!!!

Strange are our Baba’s ways. I guess the receipt was just a means, of sending UDI to me :)

But, it definitely strengthened my faith in Baba and I was overcome with Joy at this beautiful experience.

Baba is in each one of us. Let’s continue having Shraddha and Saburi in Him.

Sai Ram to All!


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The following is an experience but more than that a devotee wishes to spread a message among us. I am thankful to Baba that He chose me spread this message.

Jai Sri Sai Baba

Hi Hetal,

Your site is very good. I wanted to share an experience and also thought that your site could be of help in spreading the message.

During my vacation to India in Jan 09, I visited Shirdi and started on my pending reading of Sri Sai Sat Charitra sitting in the parayan hall. When, I was about to complete a priest/Sadhu came to me and enquired from where I was and gave me a booklet, asked me to print a large poster of the first page and distribute to the Sai Mandir's in and around my area so that Sai Devotees can benifit from it. I was wondering how he came only to me and none other in the hall. I was happy to get an opportunity to perform the duty and be Baba's server. I took out some Prints and distibuted them as asked before I came back to the US. Also got some prints to US for distribution.

With the intention of getting this message across to as many devotees I scanned a copy of the same and am attaching it with this email. Would want you to consider posting it on your site so that devotees can get benifited.

Thanks -
Santosh Bharadwaj


After reading this experience and downloading the attached picture, I was surprised to great extent. The reason is that another post regarding "Celebration of 100th year of Chavadi Procession" is being written by me and I chose Baba's day to post it, but somehow thought to post this experience earlier. In a way Baba has shown His willingness to translate that write up from Sai Leela Magazine and share with one and all. Thus, as is already said every post of all my Sai Baba Blogs are posted as and when directed by Baba and its only He Who is maintaining them.


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This is an experience, rather a great spiritual note which a lady devotee of Sai Baba has been experiencing in her life. It is a very well drafted and touches heart from deep within. This is the first time that I have this opportunity to post such a spiritual note on this blog. Thanks Jayanthi ji for sharing with me and all.

Namaste, Hetal

I happened to visit your website sometime back. Though it was a brief visit, I could appreciate your faith and dedication to Sai Baba. He is such a blessing in our lives.

I’m Jayanthi, born and brought up in Bangalore. I’m a teacher basically but have taken a break from my job for the past two years. I have attached a file which contains a letter I wrote to my friend sometime back telling her about how Baba entered my life. I thought I could share it with you as well. I will definitely visit your website more often.

I’m writing this to share with you something that I have shared with very few people so far. A very sacred event that changed the course of my life. I’m going to share with you how my Divine Master entered my life as a blessing. I’m doing this because you are someone who is fortunate to be blessed with the presence of the Master in your own life and thus understand the significance of it all.

It is said that the Master arrives when the student is ready. My Master came into my life like a blessing a little more than five years ago transforming it in every sense.
Way back in 2003, just before going to bed one night, I was praying from the depth of my heart in front of the picture of Sri Raghavendra Swami, a great spiritual Master. I had just then finished my advanced course in Pranic Healing and I was pleading Him to make me a good healer when suddenly I felt a strong Force pulling me from behind. I was taken aback with surprise!!! I was forced to take backward steps until I reached the window where I had placed a small calendar on which were printed the pictures of Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi. I turned around to find His picture but didn’t understand what was happening!!!

Though some of my students would give me the pictures of Baba every now and then, I had never paid any attention to Him till then.

I simply bowed down and begged Him to let me know whatever it was that He wanted me to know. (I now realize that He has had a lot of things to say…) That was the blessed day that He chose to manifest Himself in my life… It is said that devotees don’t go to Baba but when the time is ripe, it is He who pulls them to Himself. He would call all such people He would draw to Himself as His sparrows. And it gives me a great amount of joy to realize that I’m one of His sparrows!!!

My faith in Baba grew gradually and it continues to grow by the day. From being someone very cynical, extremely ego-centric and shallow, I am now realizing a broader horizon and understanding the depth of life and existence because Baba has been helping me open my heart and know that there is a better way to live. He was a great healer Himself when He lived in a body about a hundred years ago. And when in all naïve simplicity I begged God to make me a “good healer”, Baba entered my life. And like the proverbial, “Healer, heal thyself”, I was made to understand that I had to undertake the journey of healing my life, my past, my fears, my flaws and my inhibitions.

I now understand that you cannot heal others unless you are healed yourself. Though the healing process has begun, I have a long way to go – I’m aware of this. I also understand that the “I” is a nonentity and the one who heals is the “Higher Force” we call God. But when you are connected to the Higher Force through your spiritual inclination and a pure way of living, you can act as a channel for the Higher Force to flow through you.

I now understand how transitory everything in this world is and the only permanent source of peace and love is God; Sai Baba, Whom I fondly call “Father”, is the manifest aspect of God in my life. I also understand that all the Masters in this world are the same in essence and are one with God.

It is indeed difficult to express how intently my Divine father has been helping me to heal my life and is guiding me in every sense. Countless issues that had been buried deeply within for many, many lifetimes are coming up to the surface for healing and release. I’m becoming aware of the many not-so-good aspects within my own self. Initially it was very difficult to accept all the seemingly “evil things” within because my ego had held me under the belief that “I was good without flaws”… it feels like a joke now!!! I’m kind of getting used to this cleansing process and am aware that this process is very healing and also inevitable keeping my spiritual evolution in view.

In Kabbalah it is said that - “If you should feel the evil within, be proud and grateful. This means that you have merited the revelation of your evil. Every time we feel a new sensation of evil, we should be happy, because the next phase will be the reception of Light.”

Recently I happened to read about the teachings of Kabbalistic philosophy for the very first time and was amazed to realize that its essence beautifully explains the spiritual truths that I’m beginning to understand in my own life. It states that when one makes a degree of ascent in the spiritual life, one needs to invariably fall down by a degree only to rise higher up. This upward and the downward swings are inevitable until we are completely healed and can reflect the “Light” we call God perfectly well. This is when we become one with God and the purpose of life and our creation is realized. This helped me understand what is happening in my life beautifully. Two years back, there was a sudden spiritual spurt in my life and I was filled with such spiritual fervour that I had never experienced before. It came unasked for and lasted for almost a year when I had amazing and thrilling spiritual experiences. (It will make a very long story and so I will share them with you some other time.) And with the same sudden intensity came the downfall... a phase of void and emptiness. I’m glad this is happening because I now understand that I’m only waiting to bounce back with greater intensity and grow and heal further as a person.

Though I have certain anxieties about my future and feel bewildered once in a while, I’m most often aware of all the twists and turns that my life is taking. Every thing, every little thing in my life is being constantly guided by my Master in order for me to realize the purpose of my life… to realize and become one with God. Salvation is not a sudden, one-time happening, it is a gradual process like the blooming of a flower.

Through the grace of my Master, I have made a humble beginning in my spiritual life though I’m aware that I have a long, long way to go. It is the time given for me to heal and reconsider my priorities in life; change my perception and heal my vision. It is only during those moments when my faith wavers that I become anxious about my future but deep within, I’m aware that each one of us are constantly being guided by our Higher Selves and God.

With warm regards,

Jayanthi
(18-11-2008)


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One another experience of lady devotee of Sai Babaji.

hetal ji

om sai ram

hetalji, i am sending you a word attachment of my experience with Baba and also the photos. Please put it on ur blog so that other devotees can also have a look at it.

We have only read in books that Baba comes home in some form or the other and the bliss is experienced by the devotees. But only when miracles happen personally to us do we understand the bliss experienced by such devotees.

Here is my experience.

Our family has been undergoing tough times last year and I have been praying to Baba very sincerely to give solutions. I have a small puja area which I have created for myself in my house on the side table of my bedroom. Its my habit to first take darshan of all the little idols of Baba and other Gods as soon as I wake up and then carry about my duties of the day. On the last day of last year i.e. on 31st December, when I woke up as usual I went to pray to my Gods and to my utter surprise I find the symbol "Om" written in Hindi. I called my mother and grandmother and we were all very thrilled and believed that all our problems were coming to an end as Baba himself has appeared to bless us. Along with the Om, there was a slip on which was written that Udhi will cure all our health problems. There was also a packet of Udhi on Baba's photo. Exactly after 10 days, once again there another symbol written in Udhi as "SAI" and once again we were all very happy at home.

On 8th Feb'09, my grandmother cleaned up my room and she also cleaned up both the symbols Om and Sai. This made me very depressed and I cried and cried and cried. I was very upset and angry with my mom and grandmother. I removed all my little idols from the table and told my mother that I will put the idols back on my table only after Baba comes back again. My mom as well as my Grandmother felt very bad and they were also depressed and cried a lot. My grandmother went to Sai Baba Mandir and also to few other templies apologizing to God for whatever she has done. None of us were happy and today i.e. 11th Feb to our utter surprise both the symbols Om and Sai has come back along with a slip stating that Baba wanted the idols back in place. There was also a heap of Udhi on the paper on which we received Baba's note. The paper was stuck to the table inspite of the fact that there was no glue at home. Now, my mom, grandmother and myself were so thrilled and happy. We called a few of our friends who came home to take Baba's blessings and Udhi. We are all very happy once again and we are cherising every moment of this bliss.

We feel very blessed and we thank Baba for all His blessings being showered upon us. Thank you Baba. Thank you very much and please bless everybody in this world so that there is only peace, love and happiness everywhere. Love you Baba - Priyanka

Bangalore
priyu31@yahoo.com


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Following is not an experience but a dream where Sai Baba comes to rescue His devotee.

Jai Sai Ram,

Wanted to share one of my Expriences with Baba, as below,

About 2 months back, I had a dream wherein I saw I was coming home very late at night from an official outstation trip. It was way past 11 pm and my office bus drops me some distance away from my home. First I think of calling my father to pick me up, but then I decided to take an auto to my home. I tried to stop many autos but none stops, suddenly an auto comes with some bad character people & they start teasing me. I get frightened & start walking fast.

After some time I see one bad character lady following me & trying to take hold of me, I increase my pace & she follows me. Suddenly we reach end of road & she pushes me, I try hard to resist her, but am unable to do same. I call for Sai baba loudly to save me, suddenly 5-6 senior policeman appear there & I am saved, at the same time my eyes drift to the opposite side. I see a small Baba temple on the service Lane. Same time Pujari opens the temple door & LO!! instead of Baba Statue, My Dear Sai Maa is Sitting on his seat in his favorite Pose & smiling & looking lovingly at me, as if assuring me not to fear. After this I suddenly woke up from my dream. Even after 2 months, remembering Baba's smiling face I feel so blessed. I still do not know exact meaning of this dream but feel blessed & extremely delighted to see Sakshat Sai Ma Smiling.

Rgds
Simi


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Sai devotee Bhushanji had recently been to Shirdi and wishes to share his experience of the trip. He has sent me a detailed mail and I am presenting it here. He had also taken responsibility of taking prayers to Shirdi and acknowledged immediately from Shirdi, which has been informed earlier on other blog.

Hetalji,

Jay Sai Ramji….

Greetings & Best wishes on festival seasons…

May Baba Bless us all.

I had sent you 1 quick mail from Shirdi it self to convey my acknowledgement of all Prayer Requests of Almost all Sai Devotees (Those who had sent their prayer on or before 7th March 12, 2009 3pm) and especially for Warm Wishes to all on colorful festival Holi. I was in slightly in hurry at that time, so I had just passed these two things but now I’m sending some more details of my Saidham visit & holy Darshan of Deva.

It was very excellent experience of my Shirdi Tour. I had taken 17 people with me including kids for my Remarkable & Memorable Visit of SaiDham. Right from the age of 68 to 2.5 years, each age group was involved to pray to almighty god Saiji. And every thing went on very smoothly including stay. Not a single problem occured due to blessings of Deva. Really He is so kind & merciful.

I had taken total print of 127 prayers, which reached upto specified time. Some of them were come through mobile also. But very surprisingly, prayers were came from Tanzania, California, Tokyo, NJ, Kathmandu, Brazil, UK, Australia and so many places of world including Great India….!!

We reached there at 3:40pm on 8th March. We got Divine Darshan of Beloved Baba on the same day before Dhoop Aarti. Ooh What a Divine show it was???!!! I and some members of my team also took part in Sej Aarti at around 10:30pm.

On next day, at 7:30am, 9th March, 2009, we got very fine darshan again of Shri Sainath. So Heart touching !!! But it was a great rush at that time. So, I joined in queue again to put prayers of all Sai Devotees in to lotus feet of Babaji. Actually, it was my interest to see HIM again & again….. How one can satisfy by seeing HIM once????

I just requested to pujariji to put my prayer booklet (it was just like a booklet of 127 prayers) in the lotus feet and he had done it in very pious way. I had prayed a lot for all my family members, all devotees & Peace + Prosperities of whole world. I felt very happy to do so… May SAINATH Bless us All.

Then, we had taken visit & darshan of all places of Temple premises and near by area, took deep interest and knowledge of almost everything.

We had a Holy darshan of HIS beautiful look on Holi again.... for a quite long period of time....!!! No word to express our feelings!!! And how one can conclude & cover all these divinities in words???

I left Shirdi, with one final prayer “Oh Lord, I don’t like to go away from YOU but still I’m going with more greed of your company & Darshans. Please call me again very soon….." And tears were literally flowing from my eyes. My heart was crying.

And see the great experience of my life….

As & when I came back, I had a detailed talk with my cousin regarding our visit to Shirdi. She is coming to India with her sister and friends this week and interested to visit Shirdi with me only. So, I have to give honorary service to them BUT again it is my interest to see Shirdi & Baba again N again …..!!!!! Waah Sainathji aap ki leela ka jawab nahin!!!!

So, in near future, I may visit Shirdi again, if HE wishes…..

I’ll let you know all for prayers….

Please keep in touch with mails & blog of Hetalji.

Jay Sainath...
Bow To Shri Sai....
.... Peace Be To All
Bhushan Dholakia
Jay Sai Ram


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Following is a small experience of a lady devotee of Sai Baba

Dear Hetal,

Thank you for your service and great work.

My whole family (both parents and in-laws) are devotees of Sai Baba since many years. I have looked up to Baba for His help and blessings during all my difficult times. I feel Baba always came to my aid and showed me the right path. A lot of good things have happened to me on Thursdays (my birth, my first job interview, my marriage and many small incidents) and this has reinforced my faith in Baba.

I have been trying to conceive for past 6 months and there were few medical issues that I came across. I prayed to Baba and sought His Blessings in guiding me through the pain and suffering. Later, I realised that I have not made proper use of the Sai Satcharita though it was with me for a long time. I did 2 Saptahs consecutively and at the end of the 2nd Saptah (reading of Sai Satcharita), I got a postive test for my pregnancy (that was a Thursday too). I then vowed to continue with the daily reading of Satcharita and also started writing "Om Sai Ram" in a notebook daily. I now realised that Shraddha and Saburi are the only two ways to show our devotion to Baba.

I still have to undergo a scan after few weeks in order to see if everything is alright and I firmly believe Baba will bless me at all stages. I read today the Chapter which shows how true devotion should be and as written in it - though God puts us to test sometimes, He blesses all who have firm faith and devotion in Him.

Let all devotess look up to Lord Sai as their sole Rescuer, with patience and perserverance.

Jai Sai Nath

Warm Regards

Srilakshmi


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This is another brief experience of Sai Devotee wherein her faith was assured by Baba and He took care of her brother's job and career.

Dear Hetalji

This is one miracle which happened when my brother got job in a reputed software company. He was in bench for about two weeks and was frustated and one after noon he called me and said that he was going to quit the job, if he does not receive project next day. I tried to console him but he seemed determined. So in the evening i went to Saimandir near my home in Bangalore and prayed Baba to get my brother a project and LO the miracle happened he got a project and now he is awarded best employee award and is going abroad in couple of weeks. Please post it in your blog.

Hope Baba bless all


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Following is the mail from Sai devotee Srinivas about describing his experience with Shirdi Sai Babaji.

Dear Hetal Ji,

I am a devotee of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba. In my life so many miracles happened, before also i sent my experiences and our hetal ji distributed through this network. I am very thankful to Hetal ji.

Kindly distribute my experience among our sai family.

Since 3 years i am suffering from High Blood Pressure because i was taking self decision instead of depending on Baba, taking medicines and if stop again BP increased.

I used to read Sri Sai Satcharita read everyday one lesson and completed in 49 days. I could notice small change in my BP Control.

But one big miracle happened in my life.

I was trying to read the Sai Satcharita in 7 days. But i was not able to start reading, some disturbances occured. My habit is pray our Lord Saibaba in morning and evening.

I asked baba if Your will is there i can start the Sai Satcharita and finish it in 7days. One day evening (Wednesday) Baba prepared me in all repects and told me to start next day onwards (12/02/09) and i finished reading by 18/02/09 without any problem.

The second day of reading 13/02/09, morning 5am, out side my window i heard the voice "Om sainathaya namaha" repeatedly. I had never hear this type of voice from my window before. I stay (Singapore) on 5th floor. I woke up and looked outside from window from where the voice was coming. There are trees near my flat, but i did not find from where this voice was coming. The same day onwards my Blood Pressure started decreading. Before the last day of my reading my BP was normal.

After few days i went to hospital for check up. My doctor also surprised that my BP was normal 80/120. I stopped taking madicines and fully depended on my lord Sai.

If we have really Shraddha and Saburi every thing is possible by the grace of our lord Saibaba.

One more experience:

My second daughter's hair cutting ceremony was performed in Shirdi and we returned to my home town Sircilla (A.P).

We arranged a funtion at my house in Sircilla calling friends and relatives for lunch. Nobody can believe that Baba came to attend this function, but i believe. The day i saw our lord Shirdi Sai Baba come to this function and had lunch. He was wearing white lungi and white shirt with combless hair.

Baba called me and asked me to give meat pieces. I gave them to Baba. After launch when Baba left the function we did not see him leaving.

In my life Baba saved me so many times. Finally i can say that please trust in Baba and 100% depend on Baba then see what is the future.

Once again i am very thankful to our dear sister hetal ji.

Jai Sai Ram,

Thanks and Best Regards,
Srinivas Adepu
Singapore



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I received the following brief but heart trobbing mail from a lady Sai Devotee describing her experience of Shirdi Sai Baba.

Dear Hetal, I am the regular reader of your mails and I am really impressesed by your Seva to Baba and His bhaktas. I am really impressed but I need to mend myself and Baba help us to increase our Shraddha and Bhakti, so that He will show His blessing in our family. I am His bhakta for the last 2 years only.

Let me come to the point Hetal I have very good experience of Baba's miracle whether it is a coincidence or miracle whatever you may think!!! Hetal I am a school teacher and my husband is a Government servant. I usually come back homme by 2.15. So in the day time after 10 o clock our house is locked. My daughter is married and my son is in Chennai doing B.Tech. So some one had noticed that our house remains locked between 10.3.0 to 2.15. There are no neighbours even though it is flat. Quaters are not allotted to anyone. we live on second floor. First floor and ground floor are occupied.

That day when I came back from school I saw that my house is closed no lock outside. I thought my husband had come from office for some work so I knocked the door but it opened automatically. Even though I did not scare, removing my footware I said loudly (thinking my husband is there in the room) if you want to do some work why dont you close the door. When I moved I saw the almirah was opened then i saw my jewellery(only limited) but original spread on the bed. I went and saw another room. There too almirah was opened but clothes were as it were. It took some time for me to understand that thief entered our house. Then I called my husband and complained police. All proceedings were on, policeman came and went around the rooms and saw silver diyas kept on the hall table, and knowing that the jewellery were not stolen, he said, "First madam you go to temple and offer prasad to God, because this is the first case in my job that things were kept as it were and only 200 Rs cash were stolen". Even atm card wth pin was there. On the same day five other houses were robbed and there was heavy loss. But you tell me, is it not Baba Who saved us and made the thief's mind blank and took cash only. I cried in front of Him. We thanked God. Another main thing I would like to point out is that I used to come home by 2.15 but on that day I was at my home at 2.05, fast driving or Baba's kripa?! What is it? Is not Baba's kripa on our family?

With love and Sai Ram
Mrs.Malathy Ravi

I completely agree with Malathy ji that it was Who Baba prevented her valuables to be robbed and He gave her more valuable things (or virtue!!!) i.e. Shraddha and Saburi!!!


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