Om Sai Ram,

Dear friends I am not a good writer but I want to share some of my experience with my baba .

After coming to the feet of my baba my life took a U turn which in word i wont be able to express . It is baba who saved my mother when she was lying all alone in our flat , which was in 3rd floor. I and my bhabi was on the way to Delhi in Rajdhani . she came to see off in BBSR railway station and after going from station she had an attack .

The doors were closed . And when my train reached cuttuck I gave a call to her and she was that time lying near the land line phone and her voice was too low . I could come to know that she had an attack as she was complaining of having savior pain in chaist . The doors were closed from inside and that too my house was in 3rd floor . For which I was just making her cool over phone and said her to take courage to get up and open the main door and to inform our immediate  neighbor.

Saibaba’s care on Mother

My train was moving towards Delhi and I was just crying holding babas photo which i carry every time . I prayed baba to save my mother and I will come to Siridi . I gave a call to my cousins who rushed to my place and took my mother to Aditya Care Hosp by an auto . Where the Dr said it to be a major cardiac arrest and she was taken to ICU .

Its really Sai who saved her:

I am from Kharagpur returned to hospital and when I went inside my mother who is a strong believer of Lord Jaganath Bhagwan said me that the Auto she brought in that she saw a Big photo of my Baba and she said me that my baba saved her . Thanks to my sweet baba . Who has become my heart and soul .

Went to Shirdi to thank Baba:

She got well soon by bless of my baba and I kept my promise . The day she got discharged I went that same day to Siridi . He also saved my younger brother who recently had an road accident and had a brain hamrage but my saved him . Thanks to my baba and may baba bless everyone and bring all to his feet.

Jai Sai Ram

Ambika Das

In 2007,i used to light Coconut Lamps for shirdi saibaba regularly at home and wrote article in below link

Shirdi Saibaba Coconut lamps pooja

I received below mail from a Sai devotee who was inspired by the article and lit coconut lamps for sai in her house.

1^st day saibaba statue arrive my home. Second day, I did this pooja at home (6/10/2011,7.15pm) . Sai baba really beautifull on this coconut lamp. Please upload my photo to your website. Thank you. Sai will always bless you. – Gomathi A/P Krishnan

Here’s Beautiful Shirdi Saibaba Photo shining with Coconut lamps lit by Gomathi

Shirdi Saibaba photo taken by sai devotee Gomathi from Malaysia with coconut lamps

I love this purticular Shirdi Saibaba Photos to show as example for Coconut lamps pooja because see how the devotee has keep 2 ever silver plate and also some stuff below cocos to make sure it stands steady !

Hundreds of Shirdi Saibaba devotees has read that  Coconut lamps pooja for Shirdi Sai Baba and asked me one question.

“Sairam  Venkat, what should i do with the coconuts after the ghee/oil is over?”

The answer is simple -

What will you do with the lemon when lemon lamps are lit, Obviously you will dispose it but when it comes to coconut, sometimes the inner part becomes dark as that also burns and sometimes it looks edible.

I don’t recommond cleaning and having it as prasad. My humble request is please let it cool off few hours, Sprinkle water to make sure theres no fire or smoke and then

1.Drop in a garden or bushes or under trees ( if you have garden in home)

or

2. Once its completely cooled,its ok to drop it in the Dust BIN.

The use of coconut is only untill the lamps are glowing…once its done, you can throw them to dustbin and its ok to do it. I believe some  devotees think about washing the coconut and have the inner part as prasad but in India, we can never say  oil and ghee are available in various prices. Some can afford good quality and some can’t . So better follow above instructions.

Lighting coconut Lamps:

Please read the link in beginning of this article if you also like to Light coconut lamps pooja for sainath Maharaj.

I request you to remember the following friends :

To Light coconut lamps you can use

1.Ghee

2.Gingelly oil ( Til oil, Nal ennai as they call in tamil)

3. Coconut oil too but i recommond Pure Ghee to be more auspicious as anything that comes from cow brings auspiciousness)

1.Be very careful while lighting coconut lamps and keep a eversilver or bronze plate and make sure it stands steady. Do not light coconut lamps if you dont have a safe place at home. Make sure you remain in home when lamps are glowing..it takes few hours if you use Ghee.

If you have to go out then dip the wicks inghee and make sure its completely off and then move.Keep in safe distance from children…They can worship but you must keep an eye on them.

2.Use thick wicks...i mean many wicks togather to light coconut lamps as its going to glow big and beautiful. If you light in open area in temple etc, wind cant put off lamps with thick wicks.( some temples many not allow coco lamps…make sure they do and some family members may not like ..so see if all cooperates…i dont want to create problem in your house…ha ha)

3. Once Ghee /Oil is over, sometimes the coconut itself burns along with wicks. Personally i allow it to happen as i work with Dhuni with high fire while cleaning it and i believe sai will always make sure its safe for us. ..if you feel its unsafe, try to put off by using any flowers or any other safe means or sprinkle water carefuly. Then let it cool off few minutes and then sprinkle water..drop in garden or better in Dust bin after allowing atleast 5 to 10 hours to cool off.

For more information on Pooja , follow below link..

Shirdi Saibaba Coconut lamps pooja

Sainath maharaj bless you

Venkatraman

09/10/2011

I can’t say the small Shirdi Sai baba temple my father build in front of my temple as the world’s smallest Shirdi Sai Baba temple.May be there are temples smaller than this for sainath. The reason i still wish to have this as title for this Sai Leela is that few month back, i had a dream in which i hearred above words from sainath

“Worlds Smallest Shirdi Sai Baba temple”

I am not really active and a person who takes care of temple and pooja room clean always but try my best to clean this sai mandhir atleast every month. I am sure once my parents are back from U.S ( sisters house) in jan 2012 , they will maintain it clean and fresh regularly .

Shirdi Sai baba temple my father build in front of our house

Only thing i am doing to this Sweet Shirdi Saibaba, Lord Ganesha and Hanuman :

I promised my Amma to offer milk in a small vessel to Sainath every morning which i am sure is shared by Ganesha and Hanuman. Ha ha… Only recently the little Hanuman came to this temple and he is protecting our house and our family with Ganesha and Sainath maharaj.

A surprise from Sai on a beautiful day:

Its first saturday of puratasi month auspicious for Lord Venkateswara, Hanuman,Lord Rama and all Vishnu avatar….. As it was leave for Office, i woke up late and opened the main door of the house and went to take off the wooden slab i use to keep infront of the temple to close it every night.

Last night i came late from office at around 10.30 and when i closed it ,i din’t saw anything. Today to my surprise , i saw a yellow cover and wondered if it was a courier or something. It was like a parcel.

I immediately took it and opened the cover. It was a beautiful Dhoti  and a white angavasthiram. Both had silk border in green and brown color.(The dhoti is the traditional men’s garment in the Asian subcontinent in India. Its known as veshti in tamil).

I was wondered who would have walked into my house opening the compound gate, took off the wooden slab and kept this cover with Dhoti to Sainath. I took it inside my pooja room and thought a while what to do with it.

Its obvious that someone living in the colony or any stranger would have worshipped whole heartedly to sainath and when their wish is fulfilled they would have offered  a Dhoti to sainath . The only thing i din’t feel good is they would have mentioned it to me or dhottapa the old man who cleans our house about their wish and offered it.

Further no one will be comfortable when a stranger had come into our house without our knowledge. Anyway, probably this is how sai works wonders in lives of many sai children around the world and i have to agree the connection between sai and any devotee has no barriers. In future i wish to build a real “StarSai” temple where millions of shirdi saibaba devotees can come in and feel the Sai in their heart.

I enquired my neghbour selvam uncle and my friend kanna. The priest in Nagasai mandhir the one whom i affectionately call Dhuni Iyer, used to ask me for a Dhoti from 2005 but i never got a chance to give him. Today evening i wish to take this to Nagasai mandhir and give him as gift of sainath. I believe this will be the right way to use the offering giving for sainath in the dark of night by a devotee whom sai alone knows.

Shirdi Sai baba temple with Dhoti offering for Sai, Lord Ganesha and Hanuman

What i learnt from this Sai Leela:

1. Sai works wonders in the lives of devotees based on the intensity of their love. Be it a big temple or a small mandhir out side house, what matters is how we show our love for sainath, our internal feelings that will melt this saints heart. Its not essential that one must go to Shirdi or only big temple. Its all in us . Lets build a sai mandhir in our heart and worship him whole heartedly

2. Secondly though i agree

There should never be a barrier between any Devotee of sainath and Saibaba,

We must follow rules in any temples or public places be it shirdi or even small mandhir in your locality.

Example – In the shirdi saibaba temple i go usually, when devotees ask the priest that they wish to offer cloth to baba, the priest first asks them to go to office, register their cloth, get a recipt and then through the temple office it comes to priest for the offering to sai.

I used to think all this years that such rules are really bad and temple authorities must allow devotees to act as they wish. Lets say in Shirdi, they have some rules , for que, about accomodation, about , Aarti etc. In know not all devotees follow rules or not all rules are right. Some VIPS are given special treatment which is very obvious because Shirdi is in “INDIA”.

But beyond all this rules must be followed in any temple no matter how much our bhakti is on God.

I am sure rules which are too harsh or which spoils the environment and peace of many devotees will be addressed by sai himself because sai knows how to change things.

I feel if the devotee who Offered the Dhoti personally told me that sai has helped their family , i would have surely accepted their bhakti and felt happy for they have been benefited by the mandhir my father build and asked them to directly give the Dhoti to the temple priest.

Anyway, Sai works wonders .

Sai moves in mysterious ways to perform his leela

and This is another sweet Sai leela..

I have to tell this to my parents when they call me at night from U.S … I have to lock the compound gate here after at night…May be sai wants me to do it and hence did this leela.

I wrote above article in the morning…now its night at 11 …

My amma asked me to give 100rs along with beetle leaves to Dhotappa (as i got my  MBA result 2 days back and completed it) who is over 80 years old and cleans vessels and takes care of our house. So got ashirwad from him and took Dhoti in my bag and went to Nagasai mandhir.

When i was fearing if i will even pass in my MBA exams in the month of may 2011, a old 77 year old devotee whom we call “Corporation Thatha” told me you take sai’s name and write, sai will surely help you pass and write himself.

Halwa for MBA:

Today i told him that i completed my MBA and he was happy. Myself and prem went to near by shop to get sweets. We decided on Halwa( he he) asked the guy to cut each piece into 3 halves so that many devotees can have it. The just before shej aarti, I offered 4 pieces of halwa to Dhuni Baba and took rest inside main hall.

The priests affection on me – offered me a Coffee while they were chatting sitting in steps of mandhir :

The priests were sitting in the steps near side door and asked me to have coffee…They were telling that its sai krupa that you were able to do seva in dhuni with all its heat and i accepted it.

Then i told Dhuni priest all that happened in the morning and wanted to give him the dhoti..He asked me why dont you give to dhotapa as he’s old and might need it. I said dhotappa wont wear it and he also asked me to give to priest.

Dhuni priest accepted that he will have it.

Then i took few wooden logs for dhuni …digged the dhuni …it was too hot and the coconuts also burst a little…then after temple was closed, i requested dhuni priest to accept the dhoti along with 100rs Dakshina. He said

“Sai himself has giving it”

Then i finished my work and happily returned home. I was hungry a bit as i dint had dinner at night and today was content with the prasad in Nagasai mandhir – lemon rice..so had banana and horlicks…Mean while parents called from U.S…appa laughed  alot saying it became a real temple…

anyway, told them am going to lock the home at night here after and they agreed.

I am really happy for this leela friends, may sainath do good to all his sai children with good health, peace and prosperity. Who ever reads this shall remember to be thankful to sainath all their life.

Let us not loose hope during our bad period and let us not forget saibaba during good period in our life.

Above incident happened on 24/09/2011, on sunday 25th morning , my friend Kanna called up and told me that the Dhoti is actually offered by our Colony Ganesha mandhir priest. He had some misdeeds which a priest must not do and my father avoided seva in local temple, so we keep distance from him past few month.

He has told Kanna’s father that my father had helped him join in temple as priest when he was struggling due to his misdeeds and hence wanted to give it as gift to my father. In that case he must have ran the bell and handed it over to me. I am not sure if i would have accepted but thats manners and not simply keeping it infront of sai.

Friends, Being a priest is a holy work. Not all can become a priest but these days some priests are involving in bad habits and thoughts and even go to the extent of spoiling devotees life.

In january this year, when my father suddenly got sick, this priest came home and coolly said, himself and 2 others went to a person who does bad omen and did something against my father.  My mother was shocked and said saibaba and Lord Ganesha will protect us. From that day my father gave up his responsibility for seva in the Ganesha mandhir and we kept distance from these evil people.

My father had 2 minor surgey and feared for little things…. only by help of the priest in Perur Pateeswaran temple and Lord Murugans grace, my father regained his strength and inner peace.

Friends, I don’t feel its right for the this man to enter our house when am sleeping and keep the dhoti opening the sai mandhir door.We never know if he has done this with good intention or bad intention as i had body ache all the day.

Sai changes even the worst activities of others as his own sweet leela..So sai made me think its offerd to sainath made me give it to the dhuni priest in saibaba temple.

I am sure Dhuni priest of saibaba temple having the dhoti wont effect him even if it was offered with any evil thoughts by the ganesha temple priest. I am not saying he is wrong but i did had a dream last morning.

It was as if …

Theres a huge shelter made of dry coconut leaves(pandhal) inside which they have arranged for annadhan. Suddenly the dry leaves catches fire and i run with a tub full of water to put the fire off…I hear sai telling me internally,…

“The roof is going to fall off anytime, so run out soon”

Immediately i run out of the shelter and escape.

With the above dream last morning and the following incident of Dhoti , i realized Sai has his own ways to safeguard his devotees. Its hard to understand this series of events if you read this leela once. If you think over it, you will realize how Saibaba changes the evil deeds of others on us as good happenings.

Keeping the Dhoti in sai mandhir is good deed but his intention/thoughts i know is always not pure. So i believe saibaba has helped us friends.

Friends, This article is too confusing as it has so many twists and turns but then i still consider all this as sai Leela….

first sai leela was the dhoti appearing as a surprise..

secondly, the fact that Dhuni priest of Saibaba temple has been asking me for a Dhoti for years now and i satisfied his want along with 100rs Dakshina

and thirdly, Any evil which could have come to our family is averted by saibaba.

Aum sri sainathaya namaha

Venkatraman Chandrasekaran

24/09/2011

The dhoti is the traditional men’s garment in the Asian subcontinent in India. (veshti in tamil)

There was a devotee of shirdi saibaba who was worshipping Sai remembering him as lord Ganesha himself. Every day he used to offer naivaidya for saibaba and sung lord ganesha’s mantra.

The devotee got a chance to go to shirdi and bowed to saibaba .

Sai at once said

” This man keeps a rat under my leg ”

The man was convinced that sai accepted his devotion to him as Ganesha.

lord ganesha and shirdi saibaba leela

Lets realize that Saibaba accepts devotion of any kind in what ever way you perceive him, be it Ram, Shiva or Ganesha

Aum sri sai ram

Venkat

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.