This is a holy Sani pradosham day auspicious to Lord Shiva and Parvathi. I wish to post this expression of devotion of a sai child who wrote me about how StarSai inspired her to do Lamps offering to Sainath in their house.

sri saibaba pooja

How big is your Shirdi Sai Baba photo in house ?

If you see , the Shirdi Sai baba photo is very simple small picture but look at the arrangements she made with the wooden stools to light these beautiful lamps..

There are Sai devotees who fill their house with numerous sai photos. I have seen some sai devotees desire to have BIG BIG sai photos in their house. Fine…its good ..even i love to have but lets realize the fact that having beautiful sai baba photos and statues are not enough..We have to take effort atleast once every month to do simple pooja…atleast offer a glass of water or milk to sai every morning , chant sai sai sai and have the water as prasad.

Lets light lamps with oil, Ghee :

I suppose these are candle lamps and wish to mention ,devotees who are abroad who come to india, try to purchase few brass lamps which is offordable than silver lamps. You can use them to light lamps regularly in your house. If you really can’t get lamps for time being its ok to light candles. I say this because Ghee lamps are very auspicious and theres a beauty in traditional indian lamps.

Ofcourse for offering many lamps you might have to relay on such candle lamps unless you live in india where you can look for earthern lamps made of mud which is used to light lamps lamps .

Now lets go to the mail i received along with Sri Shirdi sai baba photos with lamps offering

sri shirdi saibaba with beautiful lamps offered with devotion

My love for the one and only ” SHIRDI SAI BABA”- GOD of ALL..

I have become a humble devotee of SAI just for the past 9 months only. I used to pray HIM before ;but not been HIS real disciple. SAI is the symbol of LOVE, CARE, TRUTH and ultimate LIFE itself! I never knew about the importance of lighting lamps before SAI. Your site really inspired my entire family and made us do it.SAI wanted me to do it and to make me aware of that HE made me enter your sacred SITE.

Shirdi Sai Baba pooja with lamps offering , fruits and your love

The pictures posted by you on the site was marvellous and so realistic and clearly expresses the level of depth in your devotion. SAI BABA called me to Shirdi only last oct 2009 where i placed my foot on the holy place of HIM. To my amaze, I was deeply and devotionally taken to HIM closer after that. To be frank, came across you site just a month n half back.

Was awestruck and melted on reading the articles of your site. I really thought of expressing my LOVE and BHAKTHI for SAI in the form of lighting 108 lamps. As you say, 100% total surrender to HIS feet is essential in order to gain HIS blessings. FAITH and PATIENCE are the 2 keys to enter SAI’s wonderful BHAKTHI. I truly believe in HIM. HE is always the sweetest GOD!!! In this short span of 9 months SAI bhakthi; I ve always learnt something new in my LIFE daily, SAI has made me see the reality of LIFE and GUIDED me throughout.

sri saibaba shining with the glory of lamps

On seeing HIM my eyes promptly sheds tears of LOVE on HIM. Always chant Sai.. Sai.. Sai.. will make one reach the pinnacle of success in LIFE.. Never SAI lets down anyone. HE doesnt expect anythin except the total surrender to HIM. Once you shoulder all matters on HIM, definitely HE directs you and GIVES you the BEST.

Remember: “Whenever you are in deep sorrow or in extreme happiness jus say SAI, HE simply multiplies your happiness and destroys all sorrows in your LIFE”!!!

LOVE HIM always..

Jai Sai RAM…

Sneha Sundar.

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Sairam friends, Feel free to share your beautiful pooja offered to sainath by writing to me from contacts in homepage . Take proper safety measures while lighting lamps too.

Sai blessings to you and your family.

C.Venkatraman

7 : 8 :2010

I have been spreading the greatness of Lighting lamps in home and temple for years now. Many saints in ancient india has sacrificed their entire life time giving importance to lighting a simple earthern lamps.

Shirdi Sai baba himself indirectly conveyed the message of Lighting lamps by lighting lamps in his holy dwarakamai during his life time. Well, we all only take the leela that sai did , How sai used the water to light lamps when the oil sellers denied to give oil to him. Let us make sure we light lamps in our house every day and also tell our friends who are hindus to do it.

Life is getting faster and some second generation indians who settle abroad sometimes asks me very childishly, if its ok to put on electric lamps. NO

please remember lighting real name with following

GHEE

Gingelly Oil

etc are very very beneficial and Lighting the real lamp only is recommonded.

Please have a look at my simple website to spread the value of lighting lamps

shirdiSailight.com

Venkatraman

I have a contribution from one of my sai sister , the below photo which describes the value of lighting lamps. In the photo is the traditonal indian Kuthu Vilaku

Why do we light lamps – Deepam – Kuthu Vilaku

kuthu vilaku - Traditional indian lamp - Value of lighting lamps

1. Naam smaran , chanting Sai’s Name Sai Sai Sai or Gods name

2. Listen to Shirdi Sai baba aarti or aarti of any gods they love

3. Read sai satcharitra by hamadpant as remembering life of saint is a blessing

Thus the nava vidha bhakti – 9 forms of devotion and any way of devotion which suits you can be choosen to show sai bhakti rather than keep on worrying or expecting a sai dream or a sai miracle or some changes in your life.

Friends, one of my sai friend vidhya asked me , all your articles are good, but in the end you have a sad note that you are struggling, you dont have a good career, your personal life has few problems etc. Some how i feel praising sai and expressing my own failures makes sure sai devotees accept the truth.

The truth is that sai baba of shirdi is blessing you always for your devotion and good deeds but at times he may not be able to do miracles or a change you expect. This saibaba knows your desire .Please have patience and continue to hold his holy feets and when something good happens. Call it his grace , his love on you . Don’t be surprised or exited in the name of miracle. Ya i too call it “Sai Leela ” but let our devotion on saibaba go beyond what we experience in material world . Money..relationships and ….

This sai baba of shirdi is all about love . Every sai leela comes from your love on sai and saibaba’s response to your love after months or years of patience.

Few things that hurt me – What is real Shirdi Sai Baba miracles :

i dunno yaar..from the time i get the farwards with name “miracle ” about sai baba statue being discovered somewhere in some country , i am feeling a bit hurt…ok i am happy for it but are we missing the little sai children somewhere in some corner..some village of india who could have experienced something for his/her devotion on sai. This too is a miracle known only to the individual devotee alone.

I appreciate sharing sai leela and thats what starsai is also for but we must have a soft , polite gesture in doing so.

may be i am wrong or phychologically i get irritated…atleast this is ok.

But u see there’s this new saibaba temple in …….( i dun wanna be specific ) and someone keeps on sending me a farward saying many experienced miracle in that temple. Well , i am happy the temple is good but is not all shirdi sai baba temples are blessed and sai devotees are gaining blessings in every little and big sai temple in every part of world ?

Every saibaba temple and every sai devotee has a leela thats BIG :

To everyone their temple experiences a leela , a sweet happiness….and its good but why so much focus on one temple alone ? …..well friends…where are we going ? are we going to tie saibaba with what we alone do to him or accept that where ever there is sai , where ever there is a sai temple or even a sai photo, leelas happen based on faith of the devotee who worships sai.

u see our sravanthi and kamala lives in machilapattinam where theres biggest statue of saibaba in world…to them that temple and that sai is a leela.

A small leela that surprised me in mumbai sai temple :

i go to a small sai mandhir in mumbai in andheri east…a man sits there and writes ” datta guru saibaba” thousands of times…if i go there, he touches my feets and says he was just remembering me and i came….in 2006 i gave him 3 saibaba photos and came back coimbatore..when i went to mumbai after 2 years , i was literally shocked this man has been looking at the 3 sai photos i gave him and wrote “datta guru saibaba” thousands of times all these years.

its a small temple..the size of our kitchen in house but is this not a leela ?
a experience of sai bhakti…a feeling of divinity….when the hairs stands in our hand and we feel sai in ourselfs..

Am i also going to do the same ?

Tommorow i will build a real starsai temple and am i also going to tell the world…oh here comes starsai…come everybody because everyone who comes here experiences a miracle….does it sound good..even if i say that i must also say where ever there is saibaba..in what ever way he comes….be it U.S australia or a village in india…his real temple is ones own heart.

may be i must encourage all this being a sai child…but why am i writing contradictory views….is it because i am not a part of it ? i wonder whats wrong with me but somehow mind is not happy when i see such farwards .

suddenly you switch on tv and cnn ibn says saibaba opened eyes in banagalore and one fine day sai appears in moon …

recently i wrote this article

Shirdi Sai baba Live darshan

even i have many things to change in me friends…..i serve but i have many negatives in me which has to be burnt away .

Pulling a sparrow to Shirdi Saibaba’s kingdom :

Today i went to a institute to enquire abt webdesign course though i cant afford it..i told her i cant come on thursdays as i have to go nagasai mandhir as i stand near lamps tray and clean and also take care of dhuni ..somehow we started speaking about saibaba . i promised to give her sai books and came out…

she asked me how can you pray a human being….i explained her a bit and told her…..sai has said he will drag his children like a sparrow tied to thread and if you are a sparrow you will come to sai.

she smiled …..today i made someone know sai and it ends there…rest is her wish and this is what we all have to do…

first we must know sai..praise sai and suddenly when we come across a good soul, let them know my shirdi saibaba ….now its between that soul and sai to connect.

The real ashtama siddhi – 8 fold powers of shirdi sai baba :

This is my saibaba of shirdi,who brings water and fire from the stroke of his satka….this is my sai who commands to mother of nature to stop the rain when the villagers run to him due to heavy rain.
This is my saibaba who gives food to me , you and millions of his children.

No wonder , he can be found in sea, lake,river,sky,mountains ,under the earth as bhooma devi and over the earth as lord mahavishnu…

lets see saibaba beyond statues and photos. Sai does a simple thing

“I push my devotees one step ahead in their life – spiritually “

if you are lazy to wake up early in the morning and have been praying saibaba one year to help you wake up early, he helps you in this

If you are lazy and continue to only say i am a sai devotee without taking any efforts how can he help ?

So saibaba works for us …Sai is happy to work but we also have to know him the way he wants us to know.

This article is not wrote to hurt others sentiments…Its expression of ordinary sai devotee..not to change what happens today and in my life time but to help millions of sai children in hundreds of years to come.

After 100 years when this venkat wont be alive i have to make sure my words to sai children is read and understood.

Tommorow someone will send a farward that he discovered a shirdi sai baba statue in Missisipi river or Ganga or even some where in iceland.

It is miracle .I am happy about it but many of us indulge so much in miracles and make people praise miracle forgetting saibaba’s own words

Saibaba says to kshama

“You see your village astrologer…they say whats going to happen in your life 2-3 days ahead. I go beyond and say whats going to happen further . Events happens as it were and you relate it as my deed ( my leela ) and thank me , i inturn thank the god almighty for his blessings on my children”

when your guru is so humble and polite, is it not also your responsibility to “Keep LOW” at times and say…ya a miracle happened here , we were happy because where ever there is sai, there is miracle.

As i always love the term “Sai Unlimited”

yes he is Sai Unlimited …..

Thousands of shirdi sai baba temples.
Crores and crores of shirdi sai baba photos and statues around the world in devotees houses
Millions of devotees
and one sweet Sai.
Simple. Humble and CALM.

Sai is now in samadhi. Silence . Nothingness…Dhigambara..the point where theres nothing. No leela..No miracle..Just you and Sai. When you meditate on Sai like this with heart and soul , you become one with him.

Even i need a job…my parents are worried about me…if i keep on expecting a leela , will it be possible for me to show devotion on sai friends ?

Thats why i do agree that sai is found some where down in lake or river or even in ocean but thats not his way . Even if a shirdi sai baba statue made in jaipur or andhra or even in shirdi is properly bought in shop and kept in temple, that too is a leela . Is it not friends ?

Imagine we were living during shirdi saibabas life time and you see sai face to face. This experience can be got even today when you whole heartedly look at a shirdi sai baba statue or photo or while reading sai satcharitra.

How beautiful is our sai and the surprising assurance from him adds to it

“When you look to me. I look to you”

Is there a better leela friends…Scrool down and look at our sai baba of shirdi. This moment he looks at you. How powerful must be our sai to assure with confidence …take any small or big sai photo or statue or simple see me in the form of light. When you look at me and remember me , i also look at you, remember you and bless you.

A sweet heart of all saints
Sai baba of shirdi

again i say

When it rains heavily , he stops it by command of his words
be it shirdi or andhra or a village in tamilnadu or some where in japan or new jersy or florida. If you are in pain and call him. He comes to you. Gives hand to you and lifts you from danger.

How beautiful is this leela.

The God who can stop the rain , the god who can make the rain come down to bring smile to thousands of farmers and the god who can stop the fire never bothered about his powers ( miracles )

Sai is simply in you…call him….love him…deeply truly and with tears in eyes bow to him…How beautifully Das ganu sings

‘Sai i am the broomstick of your masjid “

We are blessed by sai and that alone is truth. His leelas are part of his blessings

and where ever there is sai, who ever takes the name Sai Sai Sai always in their heart and soul, miracles comes and goes. Our love on sai and saibabas love on us alone is permanant.

This is Sai Unlimited friends

C.Venkatraman

always in the holy feets of shirdi sai baba

11 jul 2010

Kindly Note :

As i said i wrote this article with pure devotion and blessings on shirdi saibaba suddenly without any intention. Shirdi Sai baba miracles shared on internet may be true, farwards too can come as blessings of sainath maharaj but we have to understand miracles are part of every sai devotees life. I have my food everyday by sai grace . Even this is a miracle for me friends. How many are struggling without food…

All i feel is , its ok about what happens today but after 100 years the way people understand sai and who are truly devoted to sai may find my words useful follow shirdi saibaba’s path of light.

This morning i got a very sacred dream by sai grace…

I am standing infront of our house in water tank n pouring lots of water over myself with big vessel..like am taking bath ..i see the water is mixed with yellow tumeric powder.As if a holy bath for myself to be pure.

Be pure – Complete Brahmacharya for 5 month :

Then i got a message to follow complete brahmacharya strictly for 5 months – 2 and half plus 2 and half month.

Then i go to a hill temple…it has very nice wide steps to go…

me amma appa and few relatives are present…

I go to all sannidhi in temple and suddenly i feel sad..it seems to be a Lord Hanuman and Durga devi temple.

Looking at me sad , a young man comes farward and asks “why are you sad ”

I don”t trust him so  i stand there still sadly.

He runs inside Hanuman sannidhi , even inside the karpagraha and takes A very long big beautiful garland offered to Lord Hanuman with big big paasi …

He comes outside with the garland ,reaches me and immediately offers the Garland of Hanuman on me saying

“You are a Raama Bhakta , so garland is a gift for you “

I feel very embarrassed as he does this infront of other devotees and i try to say ‘no no its ok” but he forces the garland on me.. I touch the beautiful big big paasi and feel happy.

Then the priest of hanuman in nagasai mandhir suddenly comes..he seems to be the priest there too..He says me

“You are not brahmin and a garland of hanuman is offered to you…Now it belongs to Hanuman…you deserve this purticular garland for your purity but Hanuman needs a new garland. So give money for new garland ”

He asks this politely..

The man who gave me garland had already given me 1000 rs. So i am giving that money to Hanuman priest.  He tells me No no you keep 2 rs with you for your expenses and give me rest.

I go down , mean while my parents n relatives already in the car. I run took take their chapals and move towards car.

I woke up with tears in my eyes friends..i dunno how sai beautiful gave me this dream . I was moved by the care sai and goddess durga showed on me. Offering a garland being offered to Hanuman and saying you are a Raama bhakta made me realize with out my own knowledge , many times i have been chanting

“Sai ram ….sai ram ..sai ram…”

Once someone  saw me on road and told my amma…venkat was speaking to his own and walking in road…my amma asked me why i behave like this..i said i was doing Naama smaran…chanting sai naam..Though i do internally at times my lips move and people think i speak to myself.

Probably i have been loving Sai and Lord Rama chanting their name even with out my personal efforts

more article about how shirdi sai baba inspired Lord Rama and Hanuman devotion is here

http://www.starsai.com/rama-navami-festival-shirdi-sai-baba-devotees/

Om sri sainathaya namaha

venkat

AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE GHOST
“shree satchidanand satguru sainath maharaj ki jai”

This is an experience with mr.tarkad,on one of his visits to shirdi on a particular day in the morning he was performing his morning duty in shirdi.this was near the bank of the rivulet and he was sitting under the pipal tree.it was still dark and there appeared a wild cock.the cock attracted mr.tarkad’s attention and came near him and suddenly it turned in to a black coloured snake.the snake rose and took an upright position over there and expanded his body.

He got scared and started praying baba for help.after smtime the snake disappeared.mr.tarkd was scared to death.suddenly he heard smone saying”hey mansa(human) u r sitting in my way from where i pass daily .i order u to move away from my way”. in no time a small dwarf like ugly looking person stood in front of him..but,mr.tarkad did not move he said he’ll move from there  only after completing his daily rituals.then the dwarf started growing taller and said “its my territory and i once again order u to move away from here.”though mr.tarkad was scared bt for him ,only baba cd order him in shirdi as he reckons him to be the master of the place and nobody else.mr.tarkad then lifted handful of mud and taking Saibaba’s name threw it on that tall standing image and prayed baba to come for the rescue.he saw a big line of smoke in place of that image which disappeared in the thin air .

mr.Tarkad literally ran away from the place and went to dwarkamai.he fell on baba’s feet baba jokingly asked him”bhau early in the morning why u were seeking the help of my “udi” ?he then said”bhau u did a good job today .u hv given mukti to that vetal(ghost).mr.tarkad thanked baba and asked him whether these ghosts and witches are true things in this world ? ( if i cd hv hd such scary experience i cd never hv asked anyone if its true that too after such memorable experience………..ha ha ha)

anyways coming bk to the story baba said “bhau this is also the creation of the lord. but remember the saviour is always stronger than the distroyer is .while i’m sitting in this sacred dwarkamai no one can inflict any harm to you.be fearless”.

friends,when i opened the book this story came right in front of of me.actually had some issue in the office hv a meeting tom with the base manager for the same .i was jst telling venkat i’m not scared coz i’m speaking truth and baba will surely be with me tom coz he knows better who is right.through this story baba answered me he is with me.i love him.

“ANANTKOTI BRAHMANDNAYAKA RAJADHIRAJ YOGIRAJ PARABRRAHMA SHREE SATCHIDANAND SATGURU SAINATH MAHARAJ KI JAI”

Vidhya

howz everyone here ?i love to read stories of baba.so ,from many days was thinking of posting atleast 1 story everyday.thought of starting from today.Baba bless me when i do this work.

shree satchidanand sadguru sainath maharaj ki jai

Sai Leela 1 – Sai Raham Nazar Karna Bachhon Ka paalan Karna

once during Dasganus stay in shirdi he was called upon to give performance in a village near shirdi.dasganu maharaj use to keep babas photo on the stool and use to garland the same before he began his kirtan.one afternoon he came to dwarkamai and informed baba that in the evening he will proceed to perform the kirtan in a nearby village and hence he needed baba’s blessings .Sai baba told him that he is free to go but requested him to tk bhau (mr.tarkad) along with him.

shirdi saibaba looking at you with love

Dasganu said that he has no objection in taking bhau along but he would not like to deprive him of his ritual of lighting lamps in dwarkamai in the evening.(mr.tarkad use to light petromax lamps in dwarkamai everyday in the evening).hearing this baba said he need not worry about dwarkamai lamps as somebody else  wd attend to that task.,bt insisted that dasganu shd tk bhau along with him.both dasganu and bhau who was present there undrstood that it was baba’s order .then as per agreed time they left in the evening for that village which was about 7 to 8km away .

In those days there was no transportation facility like today so had to go walking.by the time they reachedthe village the sun had already set.they unfolded the mats on the ground ,kept the stool with baba’s photograph on it and garlanded the same.they lighted the petromax lamps and hung at four corners.

Villagers had gathered and dasganu started his kirtan .after abt an hour wn night hd already set in they encountered trouble.
around 7 to 8 people who were very dark complexioned possibly from bhill tribe came over there.they were carrying a dead body over their shoulders and were on the way to cemetery to perform thye last rights .their leader straight came to dasganu maharaj and threatened him.he inquired abt the photograph on the stool .

Dasganu explained politely stating that the photo is of saibaba who is from shirdi and he worships him as his guru as well as his diety.he went on to state that saibaba gives medicines to poor people and relieves them from their agony.he is performing the kirtan ,which will bring happiness to villagers .then that bhill leader told the people to keep the bier down and addressed to dasganu stating that if his diety is mighty ,then it shd b possible for the diety to bring bk life into the dead body.he challenged him to do so otherwise he would kill him and his troupe.dasganu was very scared and he approached bhau seeking for advice.
Bbhau had realised that this cd be baba’s creation and they shd plead him only and invoke his mercy to come to their rescue.he suggested to dasganu to perform his famous kirtan

“SAI RAHAM NAZAR KARNA BACHHON KA PALAN KARNA”

and leave it to sai to decide the rest.then dasganu began his popular kirtan as he got so much engrossed in it that bhau hd never seen him in that state before.he was literally dancing and all the villagers were positively esponding to him.Bhau was rather keeping a watch on the dead body.about an hour or so smthing unprecedented happnd.

The life had returned to the dead body .it broke open all the strings tied around him and sat on the bier and started clapping and joined the kirtan along the rest .bhau caught dasganu maharaj with both his hands and told him to stop the kirtan .baba had saved them from fear of loosing their own lives .the kirtan stopped.those bhills got up.they helped that dead body(which was no more dead then)to stand on his feet.they told him to bow to dasganu and then made enquiry abt baba.
next day wen dasganu and bhau went to dwarkamai

Saibaba said “ganya good that my bhau was there yesterday with u otherwise who wd hv saved u from the wrath of the bhills ? “

on hearing this dasganu said that they are totally dependant on him in situations like that.

friends its true we r totally dependent on baba .wt is is important is baba knew in advance wt was going to happen during the kirtan or may be it was all his creation to imbibe confidence in dasganu.baba knows the best how to pull people towards him and this will continue to happen .lets us leave all our problems and sorrows to baba’s feet .

keep a stong faith towards him.devotion is the key word.where a dead man can cm alive then the pain sorrows are nothing comparatively.when we divert our mind to baba and baba only these things wnt even bother us.
“ANANTKOTI BRAHMANDANAYAKA RAJADHIRAJ YOGIRAJ PARABRAMHA SHRI SATCHIDANAND SATGURU  SAINATH MAHARAJ KI JAI”
SAIRAM,
VIDHYA.

Sai, i love you truly madly deeply , Shirdi Sai baba smiling to you .

Sai,

Let all of us love you

Love you

Truly

Madly

Deeply

Let us imagine that you are with us with the same beautiful body of yours.

I wish to touch you. Your fingers, your palm and see how many nerves are visible in your hand when you become thin having very little food and giving away rest to all of us hungry for your prasad.

Sai,

Bless us all

to love you

Truly

Madly

Deeply

I wish i had been your pet horse shyam karna so that you will always caress my neck and feed me before i ask for food.

I wish i had been one among the guest in chand patils marriage party when you first came to shirdi and Mahalsapathi invited you with love

“Aaaoo Saayee”

I wish i had been DAS GANU who was adamant in not leaving his ambition to be a fourzdar in police and you always ask me to quit my work and i try to escape from your eyes. Can a child escape from a mothers caring eyes. You are going to catch me for sure.

I wish i had been Bayaji ma who carried tasty food and searched for the sweet fakir in the woods. You know Bayaji ma is searching you but you let her do the search. Years later when we sai devotees think its a big deal to offer food to saibaba painting or statue , you want us to think about the devotion of this sweet Bayaji ma who took strains and searched for her sweet saibaba to have food. Sai alone knows how hot it was, what she did when she got fever and still wanted to serve food to her sai and where was this sai hiding like Krishna making yashodha run behind her.

Sai I wish we all learn to love you

Truly

Madly

Deeply

Yes i really imagine this moment that i am alone with Sai in a green mountain. Where ever i see , i see greenary and i look into your eyes.

Sai, i can see myself

Sai, i can see crores of sai children in your eyes

Each one of your devotees are reflecting in your eyes.

Sai i fall in your feet, its a beautiful day

when i met you on peak of this Green mountain…

SAI,

I LOVE YOU

I want to stand with you on a mountain..

I want to love you

Truly madly deeply

Om sri sainathaya namaha

C.Venkatraman

12 : 12: 2009

inspired my the beautiful sainath my sai friend priya sent me from the temple her mother built.

I wanna share a beautiful leela.

my parents started painting works in house .A painter came n painted kitchen. Suddenly after 2 days he was saying i wont paint the windows and doors and we must pay extra.

I dint like this behaviour also. He comes to paint like collector. Morning 11 to evening 4 .I  got irritated. so payed him and asked to leave. My parents were worried but i told baba u take care.

A week before itself i got a dream in where i hear the name  “Kandhasamy venkat.”

i asked my friend why i got this dream in name of a movie..he he.Then my father arranged a new painter today.Hes a old man and does work properly. He has painted our colony Ganesha temple and he used to smile to me once in a while  as he know me for 2 years. I Found that his name is kandhasamy.

Sai takes care of little things in our house . Its the same for every sweet sai devotees who are reading this. When you face problems in day to day life , dont take immediately decisions .

You know when the first painter rudely spoke, my parents tried for other painter who asked for more money. Then they decided to be calm and finally sai choosed who has to paint his house.

If you love sai and all in your family love sai , its sai family. Its Sai house. Doesnt he knows what to do for his own house and when to do it and with how much expenses ?

Sai, you are our shelter.

Bless everyone who reads this with peaceful shelter.

Om sainathaya namaha

C.Venkatraman

7 : 12 : 2009

I first dint know much about Lord Dattatreya as i am from tamilnadu. Here we all worship lord Murugan ( karthikeya ). When i was in mumbai on december 12th 2008 , my friend ashish said theres a Dattatreya temple  near our house but we dint know it. Today is Datta jayanthi so lets go there. We went there and i was very happy to see the Beautiful Dattatreya.

Shirdi Sai baba temple lit with divine Karthigai Lamps

From then on i used to go there when ever i wish and chant

Datta dhigambara

Shree paadha vallabha dhigambara

Narasimha saraswathi Dhigambatra

Swami Samartha dhigambara

and

Sai Dhigambara

I wrote this experience in www.dattatreyalotus.com

Shirdi Sai baba glowing like red sun to bless his sweet devotees

Dream about Lord Dattatreya and Lord Murugan :

I always had a feeling that Lord Dattatreya , the aadhi guru is same as Lord Murugan in south india. I love the Mantra

“Skandha Guru Kavasam” of lord murugan. When i recite this mantra infront of sai and Dattatreya i feel its also meant for them. I also got dream about lord Murugan when ever i sing this song doing abishekam to Lord Dattatreya.

It was a wonderful feeling.

My father said only this photo is beautiful as its bright like Sai Maharaj

Forgetting my love for Datta Maharaj :

After i returned from mumbai, i was worried about my life and career . Though i had  abig dattatreya statue in my house, i only light lamps to sai and datta but was not really devoted as before. when worries comes we tend not to show pure devotion on god.

Finally the 2009 Dattatreya Jayanthi was nearing. I decided i have to make dattatreya and Sainath happy today. So i listed to a good chanting of

Dhigambara Dhigambara Shree Paadha Vallabha Dhigambara

all the day

Did abishekam to Lord Dattatreya , Sai, Mahalakshmi and saraswathi with Ganesha and Shiv lingam. Offered Thulasi leave  for Datta as i dint got flowers. I really loved it.

Food for SaI Datta on banana leaf :

I told my amma that we have to offer food in Banana leaf to Sai datta today. My mother was having pain in her fingers and did everything with love along with payasam. Then i offered the feast to Sai datta, showed camphor then bowed to my parents feet and got ashirwad.  We offered some food to the crow and after half an hour, i had the food from banana leaf. I kept on asking sai datta with love

“Did you love the food ? …are you happy sai …?

In the evening i lit lamps as it was also Karthigai . Auspicious for tamils as its Lord Murugans jayanthi when all the hindus light lamps around their house .

Sai leela are not powers of saint, its your faith that gives power to Saibaba

Lighting lots of lamps in my Sai mandhir :

I decided to gift all sai children in StarSai family beautiful images of  Shirdi Sai baba with lamps. We lit more than 54 lamps around house. I kept lamps over terace, in compound wall and finally lit few lamps inside the mandhir. I took my big baba and kept near the small baba who resides in my temple.

The below photos will be a feast for your eyes.  The beauty of december 1st 2009 is that this day turned out to match my feeling that Lord Murugan and Dattatreya are one . Both Karthigai auspicious for Lord Subramania and Datta jayanthi came on same day. This thought came while i was standing in Nagasai mandhir and felt how beautiful are the leelas of saibaba.

Sai answers even our innocent beliefs and helps us grow in our devotion to God. Though Datta and Murugan are different gods which is reality, When we see both of them as Guru , the mantras of Murugan and Datta matches in their aspects , their attributes and their divine Leelas.

Hope all Dattatreya and Lord Murugan devotees understand my feeling. Guru bhakti is very important and each god has helps us hold on to a Gurus feet in their own way. Hope all of you love the Photos of Saint Shirdi Sai baba in our Small Sai baba temple.

Hope you enjoyed all the Saibaba photos friends.

Om sainathaya namaha

C.Venkatraman

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