Ah! the wait is over today. Here is the 500th post of this very blessed blog. This achievement is of all of us, not just only me or editor or blog itself. If you all have not shared your experiences, read and commented on them, it would not be possible for us to stand at this phase. From day one this blog has been serving as a "Platform" (as you all say) for devotees all over the world to get together and share their views, opinions, suggestions and above all prayers. With your increasing interest and support, we changed look of the blog in mid June to make navigation more user friendly. Day by day we are trying to make our service to the best of the standards, but all would not have been possible without your enthusiasm. The keeness of all readers to read experiences and few devotees mailing me why experiences are not posted daily, we decided to share experiences on daily basis from October 26, 2011. Few devotees mailed me saying that they used to keep the blog page open and went on refreshing page to first read new post on the day of posting! We are doing our duty from one side but when the readers reply us and share their views we understand how can we serve more better and how much our service is being liked. While post count has reached 500, comment count is near six times of it. This shows clearly how readers love this blog. We also love you all for your continuous support and co-operation.

This blog has given much to me also. First of all it has showed how much Lord Sai Baba loves me through you all. Even i am human and i used to fail in times of difficulties. But leelas of Lord Sai Baba has gradually strengthened my faith and patience. I am really amazed how blessed we all are that we are under loving roof of our beloved!

Lastly i would like to thank our editor Sai brother Anil ji for his untiring efforts to edit experiences regularly and at any time i needed. His contribution has been tremendous, without him, i guess, it was not possible for me to post this 500th post so soon. I pray to Lord Sai Baba to enable us to be at His service for many many more posts to come.

Let's now see who those lucky devotees' are whose experiences are shared in today's post.

Shraddha and Saburi

Sai Sister Ritika ji from Canada says: Sairam Hetalji, Sorry Baba ji for delay in writing this experience and forgive me for my mistakes in narrating this experience.

Hetalji, first I would like to thank you for doing such a wonderful work and giving all Sai devotees a platform to share their experiences. I want to share with you my experience with Sai Baba. So I am writing to you. I am sorry for writing such a lengthy experience, but I tried to shorten this as much possible. I hope you will read this. If you don't want to post on your blog its fine because I just wanted to share it with someone, who can understand my feelings. In case if you post this on your blog please do not disclose my email id.

I am Ritika from Canada. This experience happened on 7th Oct 2011. My husband came from office and wanted to have dinner at some restaurant. So he told us to get ready. I told him that I don't want to eat outside, instead drop me at Sai's temple, which was on the way to the restaurant (i.e. temple comes first then the restaurant and distance between temple and restaurant is 5-10 min drive). He dropped me at the temple around 7.20 PM. At 7.30 PM, Dhoop Aarti started and I joined in for the Aarti. While Aarthi was going on, I asked Baba that I want to see Your whole Aarthi. So please Baba don`t send my husband before 9 PM. So that I can enjoy Your Aarthi and spend some time with You. After, Aarthi and Palaki procession ended, I sat in front of Baba, watching Him quietly and chanting Sai Ram. A Sai devotee was requesting everyone to have Baba's Prasad, so I went and had some Prasad of Baba. After having Prasad, again I sat in front of Baba wondering in mind that my husband will come at any time to pick me up. Therefore, I sat little bit at the back so that I can see from the window if my husband's car is coming or not. Because my mobile battery got discharged and I was unable to make or receive his calls.