Yes my name is Janki & i am from Pune. Thank you so much for reading & replying my mail. I will definitely chant sairam as you advised and also light lamps at home.

Offering Food and Blanket to poor :

Just to share a small incident where i felt baba reads our heart. I did Baba’s 9 Vrats but somehow due to mental stress and other uncalled reasons i could not do a proper udyapan of this vrat. So i thought i shall atleast do some daan to few needy people on the 9th thursday i.e . on 12/1/2012. By deepest of my heart i wanted to go to a dargah and offer some food as well as some blankets to the fakirs or poor people there. But somehow i was unable to do so. I went to Ganesha & Maa Jogeshwari Temple and offered the poor there, but had still left with one blanket and some food. I was unable to find any more poor people so i thought of returning back home but all my way i kept thinking i should have gone to a dargah…………

Fakir accepting Blanket and blessing:

I was just 1 Km away from my home and i went to a small baba’s shrine situated near my house and was returning a suddenly i saw four fakirs sitting near the temple (which normally never happens), i stopped and went to them and offered food to them they happily took it and one of the fakir asked me” beti bahot thandi hai hamay odhney ke liye kuch nahi layi” listening to it i burst out of tears and gave him that last blanket, he then blessed me and said we are going to Haji Malang and will pray for you and your family and said Allah tera bhala karay.

Venkat this is a very small incidence but i could feel Baba there and after many months i smiled from the bottom of my heart. I thank Baba for everything and being there with all of us.

Aum Sai Ram

Janki K J

Janki,

I realized from this leela that Saibaba helps us when ever we wish to do a Good deed. I have realized many times Babas favour in small incidents like these. All thats required is heart to do good and Sai is there to show us the right way and bless us too – Venkat

Planning to Cook for Shirdi Sai baba and offer in Sai mandhir inChicago  temple:

Vision of beautiful Sai baba:

“You can still contribute,i was watching these inner voice talking to my self.Suddenly i saw the same saibaba graciously showing his lotus feet towards me,then i started washing his feet and putting chandan,Kukum and doing Aarathi to his feet.”

 All of a suden my friends told that they all did Pada Pooja for Baba….

Which really thrilled me….and also i got my share of grapes where poojari gave a whole packet to my friends.When we checked it we found four bunches of grapes were there (we four freinds only planned for this service)It was amazing !!!

Writing Sai Sai Sai one crore times

Sairam,

I started writing Shri Shirdi Sai Baba’s name everyday. I wrote his name SAI for 1 crore times.
I started that book on DUSHEERA – 6 Oct, 2011 being Thursday. I finished writing that book on 21 st December 2011 also being a Thursday. Once you are done with the book, offer food to people on Thursday.

Just a day before finishing the book, i.e on Wednesday night I realized that the next Thursday is with Vishaaka Nakashtra (thats my birth nakshatra). According astrology, any work done with ones birth nakshatra falling on a Thursday is auspicious.

Secondly, I finished that book in 78 days = 7 + 8 = 15. 1 + 5 = 6. 6 is the lucky number for librans.
I simply love Sai baba, his name itself strengths me and make my life easier and smoother.
All the name in our house are names after him. Like Sai Kiran, Shirisha, Sai Vrushank, Sai Sudeep,
Sai Dudin, Sai Satvik etc …

May baba have his immense blessings on all of us… I totally surrender myself to him …

Rekha.

A devotee mailed me his experience and shirdi sai baba photos taken in his house. He was inspired by Coconut lamp offering for Shirdi Saibaba article in StarSai and done this pooja.

Click Here to Read about Coconut Lamp pooja for Shirdi Saibaba

Devotees experience – Saibaba shining in the light of coconut lamps:

I wanted to share my experience with all devotees am a devotee of shirdi sai baba am staying abroad we don’t have any temples here, I do my prayers at home i brought baba’s idol from India, every Thursday  i do pooja & offering to baba

shirdi saibaba shining with his divine rays of blessings in coconut lamps pooja.

I read about coconut lamp offering in your site, as you said I thought may be baba made me to visit your site, last Thursday i lit coconut lamp and it was glowing entire night, i felt more attached to baba then before the feeling is different hard to put in words you feel baba has blessed you, one as to try this offering at least once am sure they will write back to you their experience,

Swami Samartha and Lord Dattatreya are also in the pooja place with Shirdi Saibaba:

Small photo of Swami Samartha and Lord Dattatreya and Mahalakshmi brings the Pooja to life

i thought of it very much and decided to take this photographs to share the moments ,  let light of saibaba glow every were

shirdi saibaba accepting divine coconut lamp offering

May shirdi saibaba bless you and all in your family with good health, peace and prosperity.

Let the Light of Shirdi saibaba glow every where

Sai Ram,
Raj Attavar

Note: Take proper care while lighting coconut lamps. More information about coconut lamps and safety tips are written  in below article

Shirdi Saibaba photos in coconut lamps pooja

When God Listens. …
He is listening at all times, we are just unaware and think .. that he isn’t .it takes time for us to believe and see, that it actually happens..

Prayers to buy a House :

My parents were settled in the US for almost 6 years, when they started looking for a house in April of 2008, we are a family of four., I was visiting my parents for the first time during that year
…we started with 2bedroom houses, it was a good time to buy a home as the prices of homes were low my parents were Old enough to own one now…
Initially when we started the search was slow, but then the desire to own a home of our own was kind of kindling in our head and heart and we were done staying in a rented accommodation.  My parents filed the bid for many houses , one after the other. Sometimes more, sometimes less than the quoted price. But tough luck…They would go to open
houses, short sale and did almost everything possible to buy a house…but I guess the time was not right…
I was by this time back in India, working, leading my life, I would be online with my sister, checking all the houses that they were interested in and believe me, by now it was already October and we were nowhere close to buying a home.

Believing Shirdi Saibaba will give a house i loved:

My parents had faced disappointment too many times already. Anyway in the month of
December, my Sister and I really liked a house, and my father also placed a bid for it..and for the first time I wrote in my prayer book ….

Thanks for giving this house to us and (wrote the address of the house and also the date 15th December 2008) and as usual  we didn’t get the house..

From January 2009 to March 2009, they filled up another 8 to 10 homes, each time their frustration rising , but they carried on relentlessly. In march we were close to buying one and almost paid the initial amount, when the owner’s last minute bait and switch, let us down..
My Sister and Parents by now, had stopped telling me about the developments regarding the house, each time mounting frustration and hopes crashing down and what seemed so simple for the world, was like the the most difficult thing for us to achieve. It was the fag end of
April by now we had filled up a total of 20 or more houses in the last
one year and the result was just the same..
One day after, I had finished talking to my Sister she thought she hung up and I could actually hear her and my mom talking about some auction, though didn’t understand much of it and hung up…The next morning, I visited sai baba’s(Shirdi) temple, which was a regular
ritual for me, my prayers in that book are too baba as well .

Sometimes we fight to sai ! Give me my beautiful house baba !

In the temple, I had my fighting session with baba, where I told him that he had been unjust and unkind and not once did I feel guilty for what I said. I drove back home and slept, as it was a Sunday, only to be woken up to a Call by my Dad and he said….

” We have bought a house”

after a week of hardwork I was in deep slumber, I was having difficulty identifying the difference between  a dream and reality and then to hear it again ” We have bought a house” . I knew about all the houses that they were interested in, his next statement was something
that shook me beyond belief he said remember, we had filed this house twice before and we didn’t get it, I filed for this house in December and January,

I jumped out of the bed and reached for my Prayer book and read the address of the house, that I had thanked baba on the 15th of December 2008 and it was that very house, we got this house in an auction $75000 cheaper, than what it was in December, thanks to my uncle also, who was our realtor, he was god sent for us….

Shirdi Sai baba fulfills your desire little later when you least expected it :

I actually understood the meaning of these two words faith(shradha) and patience(saburi), easy to preach and difficult to follow, all this is beyond a miracle. This house is bigger than what we ever thought, that we could own, it still seems like a dream, since then, this is
just one of the many miracles or prayers that have been answered, telling me, that he is listening all the time and I can’t ever thank him enough for this one…

Love you loads baba.

Swati

Being surrounded by wonderful sai devotees as close friends is one of the gift i got in this birth. We all have our own negatives, positives etc but one thing in common amoung us is “Love for Sainath”.

One of my best sai friends are Renuka Mohan’s family…Though i have never met most of my sai devotee friends, i could visualize everyones bhakti whole heartedly. I wish to share their 2011 Shirdi Trip experiences here.

Planning to go shirdi Pilgrimage :

October 02, 2011

Sai Ram Friends

By Sai’s grace every year we go to shirdi in Sept / Oct. Last year, we could go in Nov. only

We are planning to leave for shirdi on the 7th October (Friday) early morning. that day we will be going to Kolhapur, have Maa Lakshmi’s dharshan/ stay there, next morning, start to Shirdi, will reach Shirdi that evening. Baba has to be with us through out. Should come back to Bangalore by 13th night.

Mohan’s Birthday is on 9th Oct. He wanted to be with Baba  on that day. so we have planned accordingly.

I request you all to post your Prayer requests in this same link.

I will pray for you all in shirdi.
Sai bless us all
Sai Ram

Renuka

October 14, 2011 – Sharing beautiful divine experiences after coming back from Shirdi trip

Sai Ram Friends,
How are you all
By Sai’s grace, we had a good trip & we came back home last night.
We had been to Kolhapur, shirdi, Shani Shingnapur & Pandarpur.
We had good experiences this time too in shirdi.
But before writing all that, I want to share some of my thoughts with you all here.

Friends, I know many of you are living in far off countries. You might not have visited Shirdi for years now.

I swear upon my Sai, Sai is more vibrant, alive & responsive in our pooja places in our homes than in shirdi.
I tell you this from my own experiences, if this is not right may sai pardon me.
Shirdi is crowded beyond imagination. After waiting for more than three hours in the queue for samadhi Mandir dharshan, one is pushed out by Securities as they do in thirupathi. The Securities are very very rude.

Things have changed like anything in shirdi. this is the 7th consecutive trip to shirdi for me. & how was it in the 1st year & how was it in this trip. I can write an essay on it.

Maharashtra schools are closed for dhasara/Diwali vacations, so the crowd is touching 3 lakhs per day, they say.
Poor Sai must be feeling real, real tired, I feel.

Some things which I enjoyed the most in this trip are:

We were in shirdi for 5 days. Daily EArly mornings, I used to get up at 3.30, take bath & was sitting & singing Kakad aarthi in Dwarkamayee, then see Abhishekam & sit & recite VSN in Chavadi, go to gurusthan, hanuman, shani, ganesh & shiva temples & them come back to our room. Tis was a fantastic experiece. Very very blissful. I never knew that they play VSN in the temple there. As abhishekam is done, VSN is going on there. The Security lady would allow me to sit inside chavadi & recite VSN there.

Mohan had wonderful experiences this time too.
Let me put all that in my next thread.

Friends, wherever you are, just keep your eyes closed & say Sai Sai Sai. It is our shirdi. No need to feel bad that you can not go there.I promise Sai is with you in your home, dont worry.I prayed for each & every one of you sitting in Dwarkamayee.

Sasi called up the next day to tell shailaja’s reunion with her husband. ( we are sai devotee friends who care for each other and closely follow others life too ) I felt very happy & thanked Sai Bow to Shirdi Sai Maharaj
Sai ram

Sai Ram

Sweets and flowers from shirdi saibaba:

It was Mohan’s Birthday. We were standing in the queue in Dwarkamayee. As we were touching the dhuni (It is completely closed now) & were heading to have dharshan of Sai(Shamrao Jayakar ji’s photo), a priest came from somewhere & handed over four sweets to Mohan ( I was standing before him & a gentle man behind him, the queue was very long. He never even looked at others, he just came, smiled at Mohan & gave him the sweets. We were stunned.

He said in the hotel that he wanted 9 flowers from samdhi mandir, he didnt get any till night. But before we could go back to our room, when he went for dharshan in the special queue, he was given a bunch of roses, ofcourse there were 9 flowers in it.

Before we could start to Bangalore, he went in side to have samadhi mandir dharshan (previously they would allow me to go along with him, now even physically challenged persons are not allowed with out passes, they have to go alone only), for a fraction of a second, Sai bent his head as if to look at him, he said. He was very happy & almost crying at this unique experience.

On his birthday, a small boy came running to Mohan & opened his right hand& placed a pocket of sugar candies & ran away.

In Khandoba temple, we could do complete aarthi to Khandoba raya & sai nath ( all the 4 of us) & they gave him jilebis .

So these were Mohan’s experiences.

Beautiful Shirdi Saibaba Cooking statue :

When me & my daughters were walking in Dwarkamayee road, suddenly I saw an idol of sai (the cooking posture) a very big marble idol it was. I felt that I shd get a sticker atleast in that handi / cooking posture & wanted to place it in the pooja place that I have made in my Kitchen. I was asking Charanya to take a photo of that idol & give me. she sadi we will search for stickers of that pose. We searched in  a shop, but he said it is not there in  any of the shops.

Just as we came out of that shop, a lady came running towards us selling Sai’s ssmall photoes put in asmall frames. Ashu was so happy to see the first phot handed over to her, yes ofcourse it is Sai’s cooking posture. This morning I placed Him in the teepoy in my kitchen & started the day with Naivedyam to Him.

Thank you Sai nath, be with us always Sai Deva

Bow to Sri Sai: Peace be to all

Sai Ram

Renuka Mohan

To be continued…

This sai friend of mine shows a example of how we all get upset with sainath when the worst happens in life and how shirdi saibaba himself pulls us back to his dwarakamai. Sai sometimes remains calm even when painful incidents happen in life but only very few shirdi saibaba devotees can hold him tight and someday they can see how sai works.  This girl had to wait over 12 years with shradha and Saburi for a peaceful married life. May sainath bless and couples and do good to all who read this true story.

SAI Blessed me  against all Astrlologer’s  Prediction

Dear Venkatji ,

I really appreciate your wonderful contribution for  this site.I regularly visit this site and will be inspired by devotees experiences.We are all very lucky to post our experiences and get a chance to share with all.
I get tears into my eyes .I cant describe how our SAI will bless us if we completely surrender to HIM.
SAI came into my life when I was studying 10th class.HE blessed me to secure good percentage though I didn’t deserve for that.
There are many miracles in my life.Here is the one miracle which turned my life completely.
I would like to tell  all SAI devotees how sai miraculously blessed me against  all Astrologers’ prediction. It’s been almost 12 years of Journey of my life with insults, heart breakings, Rejections, Ignorance. Sometimes I was stubborn and didn’t listen to SAI and made myself miserable .Sorry , this blog becomes lengthy but I want to reveal  the odds I faced in my life and how SAI came to rescue me .

Getting married too early only to suffer :

I got married at the age of 19 years but it was lasted only for few months and we parted our ways .I went for higher studies and finally resulted in divorce.When I was supposed to get married to this guy I didn’t ask SAI to stop this if it is not HIS will.Probably my past karma prevented me from doing that.

Meanwhile one of my friends introduced me a guy. I told him clearly if he is Ok  with me as I was a divorcee ,we can go ahead. we developed a good rapport after one year he simply got married to other girl because his mother didn’t agree for our marriage (mine is a second marriage).I cried for one month  still I had strong belief in baba that may be this guy is not Baba’s will.

Due to my mother’s compulsion I had to agree to marry other guy. But I was so scared to marry him and SAI was showing all  bad signs. We didn’t understand that and we fixed a date for marriage.

Sai Baba comes in dream showing how much he cares :

Very next day morning in my dream Baba was scolding me not to come near to HIM but I was  pleading him how my life would be if I get married to this guy.Still I remember  baba’s  face it was so saaaad and consoling me “ I’m worried about you”,

with fear I asked  baba “ If I get  married again ,how my life would be , will it be lasted forever?”.

Baba answered me  again “ I’m worried about you”.

I woke up suddenly with fear and it took me sometime to realize the dream.I didn’t tell anything to my family.

It was a Thursday .we went to sai  temple  I just looked at baba he was smiling at  me. I prayed HIM to take  care of me and get married to this guy if it is HIS WISH. We came back home my brother said “let us call it off”. It was incredible and got shocked  to understand Baba’s leelas.My brother found out that guy was a cheat and what he told  all were lies. Koti Koti Pranamam to baba for saving me from this guy.

Baba started blessing me to boost up my career and  got into an MNC company with handsome salary.

I have  become  more strong and always chant sai’s  name.Due to the bad experiences  I wanted to stay away from guys.Without my knowledge I was getting attracted to my colleague but internally I knew that I didn’t deserve him as I was a divorcee. I thought that who will accept a divorcee girl.To my surprise that guy proposed me to get married. Instead of replying him I cried a lot about my situation as I felt that he would not accept me if he would come to know about my past and that to he was younger to me.I knew that it was not possible.Unexpectedly he accepted all these odds and was ready to get married.

He agreed to talk  to my mother and met my family twice.After a week he said that he cant marry me.My heart was broken and it reminded me of my dream where sai ‘s  worry about my married  life.I  determined myself that  I would remain single .Adding to that whoever Astrologer I met or through my friends  said  My marriage will  not be fruitful  secondtime also and I would be single rest of my life.

When we face disappointments we get angry with sai baba :

But this guy used to show so much of love and effection I was hoping that he would marry me.After that he has flown to USA still he was in touch with me over the phone.One fine day he suddenly called and apolozised me because he couldn’t marry me.I didn’t understand what happened to him suddenly .After few months he himself  told me that he started seeing other girl who was staying away from her husband as they didn’t have good terms. She proposed this guy before her marriage but he couldn’t marry her .My heart was broken so terribly and crying all the day. I resigned my job and planning to go to USA as my visa was already approved.My downfall started here.

I got  angry with SAI and blamed HIM for not preventing me from seeing this guy. I was so panic  at  any cost I strongly decided to marry this guy . I was searching for a way and thought that baba was not  helping me.I was not in my senses and not thinking of anything else except going mad about that guy and crazy to marry him at any cost.
That time my concentration was only on that guy nothing else. I blamed SAI for this situation and asking SAI why HE was not blessing me with that guy, how many times I should get  rejected by guys, what’s wrong with me?. SAI appeared to me blurred and indicated that I was blind and not in a position to understand HIM. At this stage, my aunt influenced me to turn to other religion .I ignored sai and jumped over to other  religion and started praying with selfishness.I was blind and coudnt understand SAI’s message that GOD is one

Back to USA struggling to earn a living :

I went to USA and led a horrible life without job and food.I used to cry a lot , so frustrated and panic.I was completely stayed away from SAI . I went through a terrible life which I have ever faced in my life. I had to come back to India with great insults and heart breaking.My borther was so annoyed with me as I was not with SAI and running blindly after that guy.Still I was so stubborn and tried to end my life as I couldn’t bear that  pain. At last that guy came to India and got married to her.Hearing that I shattered and went to deep depression.

I stopped talking  to all ,sitting idle and crying whole day.Eventually I was coming into my senses again .I started feeling myself bad that I creid for that guy and wasted  one year for him but he ended up marrying other girl.I got annoyed that just because of this guy I left  SAI and  put my life so miserable  myself.SAI gave me wonderful career but I didn’t  care that,  running mad about this guy.

My mother gave me SAI’s ring which I used to wear before. I started realizing How SAI blessed me and miracles and felt bad that I cheated and blamed SAI for my own mistake.My pain aggrevated and crying again for SAI just  scared to go back to SAI whether SAI would accept me.

Sai comes again in dream to make me strong :

That night I had a dream in that I was passing by a street where I happened  to  see Sai temple but I had a fear that Baba is in angry with me but I bent  my head slightly into the temple there SAI Father was welcoming with smile. With Joy I stepped into the temple there SAI ordered me to take coconut from Priest then I was telling SAI “ Baba I didn’t listen to you that  guy  married to other girl.It’s paining me Baba.” Baba with Motherly love was  consoling me “ Don’t worry . Leave it”.

I woke up and understood that Baba was not angry with me .I came back to my normal life like visiting Sai  temple and reciting  aarathis.It took me almost one year to come out of that depression and used to cry that why I made a such a big mistake by leaving Sai.Still I’m ashamed of myself for not showing gratitude towards SAI and running after that guy.BABA PL FORGIVE ME.

Later I asked SAI to be with me always still I thought that this is my Destiny so that I cant marry any guy in my life again. I came back to USA again in 2010.I sincerely started my Job searching but I had to wait for 3 months.SAI showed me how people behave if you don’t have money  and Job.

Blessed with Job and a Good soul mate by grace of Shirdi Saibaba :

Each and Every second I used to cry infront of Baba as it was hard to face that situation.After 3 months SAI blessed me with a job and so many miracles in my life again.I completely surrendered to SAI and I was at peace.

My Mother was really worried about my  marriage and fell sick.I told her that probably my past karma would not allow me to marry again so I remain single.But to make her feel happy I registered my profile online and met some guys for marriage.None of the attempts were succeeded.Finally I got an alliance through one of our family friends in USA. This guy is also a divorcee and that family assured us that this guy is such a nice guy so we don’t have to look back.I met that guy but internally I was reluctant to get married.3 months passed by and one fine day this guy agreed to marry me.

After so much of hesitation and  fear I asked SAI if it is HIS will for me. I knew that if it is not SAI’s will somehow the marriage will not happen.Finally I got married to this guy this year in February in USA.He is such a nice guy so lovable and caring.How can I show gratitude to Our Beloved SAI Father and for HIS motherly love on HIS devotees.

My relatives and friends show great respect to our family now as I got married to a well settled guy in USA .They are the people insulted my family many times as I was not getting married earlier.SAI blessed  me abundantly.KOTI KOTI PRANAMAM DEVA.
I’m writing this with full of tears how SAI made my life and blessed me with a wonderful husband.

Peaceful Married life after 12 years of pain :

SAI is showing many wonders in my life.My husband is also a SAI devotee and visit SAI’s temple.Whenever I visit SAI temple  I thank HIM for giving me married life.My first marriage happened at the age of 19 now I’m 33.It’s almost all 12 years of painful journey.

whenever I happened to see families or married couple my heart cried that I was so unlucky and would have to stay single.Many Astrologer’s scared me that I will not get married again.SAI led me through all struggles and blessed me with a husband.

I cant stop praising SAI . This is possible just because of SAI’s blessings.He recently rescued my husband from dangerous situation.Thanks a lot SAI.Many more miracles in next post.

SAI RAM.JAI SAI RAM.

Lavanya ( name changed for privacy reasons )

Goddess Durga is one of my favourite goddess especially because one of the priest who did seva by helping thousands of devotees in the path of light wrote my horoscope in which he mentioned every sunday between 4.30 to 6 PM ( evening – raahu kaal ) , It will be good if i light Lemon lamps to Goddess Durga.

In south india especially Tamilnadu , lighting lemon lamps for Goddess Durga is followed widely. Some say we must light lemon lamps only in Temples and some like me prefer lighting lemon lamps to worship Goddess Durga both in temples and also House.

goddess Durga

My love for Goddess Durga :

All the sites in www.StarSai.com network expresses my love for  Saint Shirdi Sai baba , the Hindu Gods and goddess and also simple puja so that devotees will follow such puja and be blessed. In 1999 when i was in chennai , i used to go to Mylapure Kabaleeswarar – Lord Shiva temple.. The goddess Durga here is very powerful for me .

I started my love for lighting lamps by lighting lemon lamps to this Goddess Durga and offering Lemon Garland ( 21 , 48 , 54 or 108 lemons tied used thick needle and thread and offered to goddess ).  Those days very few men follows lighting lamps in temple and being young i will be one amoung many ladies with my little knife cutting lemon, taking out the juice and twisting the lemon inwards and applying kumkum in 4 corners of lemon to light lamps.

Anyway friends, Many times i used to think , we made website for Goddess Mahalakshmi , Goddess Saraswati and now we surely have to make for Goddess Durga also.

In north india , Durga Puja is widely celebrated..Being south indian i am not aware of their customs but wish to post some good experiences from Goddess  Durga devotees.

i had a dream as if i see Tiger and next day felt Goddess Durga wants me to do something for welfare of Durga Devotees.

goddess durga

Now lets come to the sai durga leela which made me write this article !

I have a habit of cleaning Dhuni “the sacred fire of Shirdi Sai baba in Nagasai mandhir. Yesturday the fire was high and i was digging with the iron rod which i affectionately call as Baba’s weapon. The same as Goddess Durga has in her hands for killing the demons..This we use to clear the ashes and make it fall down between the iron bars down to the Dhuni tank where the ashes are collected. Then i dropped big wooden log , a neem tree wood n came home.Usually all the ashes will be on my head and in the tap where people clean legs itself i clean my head opening the water tap…I feel very happy and energetic when ever i work for dhuni and consider its saibaba’s love on me to offer me this small work for welfare of sai children and also joining with my friends to filter udi , keeping in the sacks for distributing as prasad to Devotees.

You can learn more about my Love for Dhuni – the sacred fire of sai in ShirdSaibabaDhuni.com

goddess lalithambigai a form of sri vidya

A friend asking me if i wish work for the cook who makes prasad for temple :

While i was digging dhuni, a friend of mine Udayakumar was joking that it seems the Cook of the saibaba temple who makes prasad needs a assistant and if i will be willing to join. He asked me this again and again laughing at me saying “The cook nagaraj wants a assistant, do you wish to join ? ”

I said “whats there in joining as assistant to cook as he is doing a sacred work of making prasad for sai devotees but i only know to dig dhuni “.

Udayakumar said “cooking also is same, instead of keeping iron rod like this and cleaning ashes in the dhuni, you have to mix inside the vessel ”

Then my sai friends talking few minutes outside shirdi sai baba temple and i came home very late at 10.PM. I had my dinner and sat in my computer.

Since i am job less for over a year , i was trying few commercial sites and one of them was my desire to make a directory for cities all over the world. I thought of making this site but felt what ever i try to earn a living i am not successful and what ever i do spiritually atleast serves welfare of thousands of good hearted devotees.

StarSai.com was made in 2004 and in 2007 i made sites for both Goddess Mahalakshmi and Goddess Saraswati.  I had dream of Tiger a year back and felt Goddess Durga also wants me to make a simple website for her. I postponded it forever…Finally last night i decided to make it and fastly added few Goddess Durga Mantra and Photos.

Deep inside me i was feeling very painful why i am suffering like this and all i know to do is such sites, guide devotees in pain and i also need a good life and a good career. I told sai baba atleast i know to do this and felt satisfied.

I finished the website – Sai Durga Puja , requested my sai friends to have a look at it and looked at the shirdi sai baba portrait in my puja room saying “saibaba please show me a way, i only know to do this ”

A beautiful dream which gave me the words “Shri Vidya ” and i saw Rice :

Friends, i had a long dream which i completely was not able to recollect. I felt blissful . All i could remember was the final words i heared

It was as if i am standing near the place where they drop wooden logs to be dropped in dhuni and i hear the word “Shri Vidya ”

It was very clear and a divine feeling when i heared it friends  “Shri Vidya” ..When i heared it , i felt so peaceful and sacred.

Then Udayakumar asks me “Did you got the prasad ? ” ..I said no and he goes to the place where they distribute food prasad in Nagasai mandhir and i can clearly see few “RICE ‘ which is yet to be cooked.

That was the dream , i woke up very happily and immediately started researching what really “Shri Vidya ” means.

About Shri Vidya from Wikipedia :

Sri Vidya (also spelled “Shri Vidya”) is the name of a Hindu religious system devoted to the goddess Lalit? Tripurasundar? or simply Tripurasundar? (‘Beautiful Goddess of the Three Cities’). she is a tantric  form of the goddess Shri (Goddess Lakshmi ), consort of Vishnu  However, the late orthodox leader of the largest Samaya school of ?r? Vidy?, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal, says that the ?r? in ?r? Vidy? is a title of respect meaning The Vidy? and has no connotation to Lakshmi. .

And Indian scholar V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar states she is a form of Durga or Paravati, consort of Shiva, as well as several names from the Lalita Sahasranama which call her the beloved of Shiva. The Sanskrit  word vidya  means “knowledge” or “lore . A thousand names for this form of Dev? are recited in the Lalit? Sahasran?ma, which includes ?ri Vidya concepts.

Meru Chakras are frequently a central focus and ritual object for this worship of the Goddess. They are a more potent form of the Sri Yantra, since they are three-dimensional. Meru Chakras can be found in rock crystal and in metal, often a traditional panchaloha formula of silver, antimony, copper, zinc, and pewter, which enhances the flow and generation of Sri’s beneficial energies, covered in gold.

My understanding of Shri Vidya :

I felt the dream as blessing of Goddess Durga , Lalithambigai whom i admire a lot and also Shirdi Sai baba. I used to go to a temple in chennai in Thirivanmiyur where theres this

Thiripurasundari

Shri Vidya is also Thiripura sundari  who sits on a pink lotus in the center of Shree Chakra. The shree chakra in 3 dimentional state is called meru and in its center resides the goddess of 3 cities or lets say Three universe . Hence she is known as Thiripura sundari .

Science of Soul :

Theres so much to learn and write about “Shri Vidya’ . Its the knowledge of self – Self realization – ultimate knowledge.  The best way to put it is its the science of Soul .

Kill the evil and bless the good :

The greatest aspect of Goddess Durga, Lalithambigai and Thiripura sundari  all who are one and the same in “Shri Vidya” is that , they kill th evils and do good to the devotees

Evils can be internal like our anger, bad habits, lust, greed etc and external like evil minded people, people jealous of our growth and other external evils etc.

My knowledge to explain Shri Vidya is too less and i can only request the devotees to buy DVD of the sacred Lalitha Sahasranamam and listen to it everyday.You can also search for Lalitha Sahasranamam mp3 on net and learn the meaning of 1000 sacred names of Goddess Lalithambigai in below link

Lalitha Sahasranamam – 1000 divine names of Goddess Lalithambihai

I feel , i left this article with very little information beyond what i understood. Especially the rice i saw in dream refers to the pineal gland in medical science and this place is spiritually know as Ajna chakra.

Ajna: The Brow Chakra

Ajna (along with Bindu, is also known as the third eye chakra) is linked to the pineal gland which may inform a model of its envisioning. The pineal gland is a light sensitive gland that produces the hormone melatonin which regulates sleep and waking up. Ajna is symbolised by a lotus with two petals, and corresponds to the colour Voilet, indigo or deep blue.

Ajna’s key issues involve balancing the higher & lower selves and trusting inner guidance. Ajna’s inner aspect relates to the access of intuition. Mentally, Ajna deals with visual consciousness. Emotionally, Ajna deals with clarity on an intuitive level

and sai making me realize that when sai says he resides as Conciousness in every life on this earth, He wants us to keep our conciousness high in Ajna chakra so that we can feel his Inner guidance. Hope i am not confusing and i don’t want any of you to practice typical meditation techniques to raise kundalini etc.

 

meditation sri vidya conciouness soul

Good thoughts ,actions makes guru raise our conciouness high to ajna n to Sahasrara

My concept of keeping your conciousness high where it should be for sai and goddess to help us :

Well, the first request from shirdi sai baba is to over come inner enemies like Anger, greediness and Lust. Once this is over come automatically the Guru himself keeps your conciousness high and thus you will be in a better state to hear the voice of Saint. I mean to say you will be able to get internal guidance for every step in your life, every action you perform etc.

After 5 years of working on starsai.com guiding thousands of sai children in the path of light, with my innocent way of writing pooja etc and no mastery of any arts , why should a Saint give me such a dream and make me write all this ?

Its hard to express and ‘Sri Vidya” …I cant say what i know is the problem and as the vedas say ” who so ever is choosen will understand Sri Vidya”.

My request to all Durga and shirdi saibaba devotees

1. Keep your mind and ego on check every minute

2. Make sure only good thougts are encouraged.

3. Be true to your mother, sister, father and wife, children and be responsible to them.

4. Never be greedy. Never. Some one may earn bigger than you irrespective of your hardwork you still remain in low status. This is his purya punya..so dont feel sai has not helped you.

5. Good thoughts leads to good actions..So be happy for good thoughts

6. Do good karma…good work..always do any good work that helps you, your family and the society as whole.

7. Don’t expect immediate results or results itself…do your work and be happy in the lap of goddess like child.

8. The entire concept of Shakti devotion like goddess durga devotion is to accept her as our mother and so we all become her children . The problems in universe are seen as play of goddess and the one who holds the feet of Goddess Durga – Thiripura sundari and Saints like shirdi saibaba are sure to cross this wordly ocean safe.

Om sri sainathaya namaha

om sri durga namaha

C.Venkatraman

18:06:2010

While thinking about “Sri Vidya” , i dint focus on the obvious goddess who relates to Sri Vidya – Goddess Saraswathi. You can read my love for goddess saraswathi in

SaiSaraswathi.com

Its our men, women and children who are struggling for life  :

When things don’t happen to us it doesn’t pain much and our prayers may not be really that sincere. Trust me, when your dear ones had a head ache that pains and someone thousand mails away whos a total stranger to you is struggling for life, thats  “Just a interesting breaking News” . All we  do is suffle between news channels for the latest breaking news from Japan every since the Earth quake and tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan. To worsen the situation the Fukushima Nuclear reactors has started to emit dangerous nuclear radiation .

When you chant “Sai Ram , Sai Ram , Sai Ram for 5 minutes today, believe that someone in japan is getting what he/she needs the most :

Japanese mother feeds child at a shelter in Tamura, fukushima

photo courtesy – Associated press – Japan earth quake tsunami photos

Hundreds of thousands of japanese living in and around 20 to 30 km from the nuclear plant are evacuated who are facing problems in getting clean Food, Shelter and water. I am sure the situation improves but what made me write this article is that when each one of us pray sainath whole heartedly lets believe someone in japan is blessed with good food, shelter and water …may be someone is saved or someone facing health issues is cured….or a mother searching for her son has reached him. We never know how what the millions of japanese needs at the moment.

Does prayers to God and Saint Shirdi Sai baba really make a change ?

I really din’t felt like praying this time friends because i feared when nature is doing its work we can’t do much but watch silently. I am not taking a helicopter and a rope to rescue someone crying for life and i am not prime minister of a country to send rescue workers and humanitarian aid. I am as ordinary as millions around the world who express their love and sympathy for japanese people.You might ask what can your prayers do. I believe it can.

When we do it as sincerely as if its for someone dear to us, our prayers become powerful and as i said above lets hope someone in japan or any part of the world needing a favour from God has been answered.

All i have is my Sai baba of Shirdi and StarSai.com to help millions of sai devotees realize what their 5 minutes of “Naam smaran ” – Chanting of Sai’s Holy name can do.

My experience after 2004 Tsunami – Prayers to Goddess of Nature :

I spent 5 hours everyday praying for nature goddess between 2004 december to 2006 every single day in Saibaba temple coming around dhuni and dedicating my prayers for Earth, Air, Fire, water and space and the Nature goddess to keep the good people safe when natural disaster happens.  For such a man who was motivated to pray for years due to the impact the 2004 tsunami created in me , i wonder why it took 3-4 days for me to realize Japanese people too needs our prayers.

I really did pray to shirdi saibaba in temple when ever i offered fire wood in the sacred dhuni every night in Nagasai mandhir. It was just few seconds of prayer to saibaba to do good to japanese people. Honestly i din’t care much about it other than my few seconds of prayers.

Today i cleaned the Sacred fire – Dhuni in Nagasai mandhir with my friend and was walking towards home when my friend Kanna called up and told me about the breaking news about the Nuclear radiation in Japan. I thought may be i din’t do what i am supposed to do.

May be we humans are so much used to disasters that untill it happens in our country or our neighbourhood  , we don’t connect to it emotionally or spiritually.  I saw clippings on news channel Children, Men and women in japan who were evacuated are in a hall and i realized how many of these kids are feeling uncomfortable , sick or thirsty or hungry and how many are in pain of missing their dear ones and relatives.

What can we do :

Join us to show devotion on Shirdi Sai baba or any God you love doing anything you like..

1. Chanting of Gods name you like and for Shirdi Saibaba devotees a simple chant of

Sai Ram

Sai Ram

Sai Ram

for 5 minutes and pray for japanese people.

2. You can light a lamp or candle in a temple or safe place in your home. Make sure you light lamp in a safe place and pray God to bring light in the lives of millions of japanese people.

3.  Close your eyes and mentally pray Shirdi Saibaba to do good to as many people who needs help at this moment.

Sai Ki jai

With love

Venkat

Always in the holy feets of shirdi saibaba

15 :3: 2011

Note : Chantings can be done in mind whole heartedly remembering shirdi saibaba and not written as comments here to the article as  ” sairam , sairam sairam”….. You can post other comments , prayers related to the issues.

I got a mail from a devotee Charu few weeks back. I was reluctant to publish this leela because most shirdi sai baba devotees mails me asking why Sai baba gives hints , dreams but it doesn’t come true.I don’t want some devotees to wait too long expecting something to happen believing in such hints or dreams.

Honestly sai alone knows why some dreams come true and some doesn’t . We are his humble devotees and have to love sainath no matter what happens. Here’s a devotees experience about how Shirdi Sai Baba helped her for a Good married life.

Om sai ram

I am writing to share with u and other devotees a life changing miracle of our baba.
Forgive me if I cannot relate it as well as I am not a good writer.

Searching for Soul mate through Sai blessings :

In the year 2005 I was very depressed and sad as I wasn’t finding anyone to marry I was dejected  and didn’t trust anyone.I went to the Lodi road temple of saibaba and cried and told him that I don’t trust anyone and will not get married until the man who I have to marry comes with an I’d from baba.

Saibaba Vision : Face of a man charu might get married to :

I left the temple approximately a month later I howled myself to sleep and told baba to show the man I would marry in my dream or else I would believe there is no one for me..

Surely my baba showed me a face of a man with distinct features in my dream the man had 2deep dimples un mistakable.

I woke up believing there is someone for me and felt that baba has shown me a face that was good enough to move on that someone would come my way I remembered the face very clearly. my sister convinced me that I should believe in my dream but not to get fixated to the features or face as I had never met this man

Meeting the man i saw in dream :

2weeks or 3weeks later I went with my sister to the oberio hotel in Delhi for dinner where they had invited people for dinner and a friend of my brother in law was bringing a friend and his girlfriend with great reluctance I went I met everyone and I got introduced to the friend who when I saw I turned white it was the same face I dreamt of I looked at my sister and told her it’s him this man was there with his girlfriend who he wanted to marry I believed with conviction I met my destiny….months later I found out the gym he visited and was drawn to it his girlfriend moved to another city he was still with her we grew close as friends

Got married in 9 months :

His relationship went downhill as his father didn’t agree for the marriage in the mean time I didn’t tell him about my dream I use to get nervous con fussed all kinds of emotions.I once read  the sai sachitrata and went to the temple of baba in saket whilst praying to him I howled and asked him to reconvience me on whether this was who I was going to marry I told him that I was going to sing his bhajans with the crowd and I want to read this mans name in the bhajans believe it whilst singing his name came on 2occasions

I am a impatient devotee again a few months later I told baba that I would marry him if our horoscopes match with difficulty I got the time and had it matched… mind you… there was still nothing between me and this man we were friends he was battling marrying his girlfriend with his family and shortly my astrologer called and said it’s a match made in heaven 34 out of 36 gunas match…..

His girlfriend weeded away and we got together after which I shared my dream and in 9 months we got married with no hitch and are happy …saibaba gave me overwhelmingly

Charu

Note :  Sai dreams at times might not come true. This is because in few relationships sai would have predicted problems after marriage or after few years and instead of the couples living togather in reality sai would have shown it in dream to wash away the karma. This is my personal understanding . I write this because i never wish to create expectations in the heart of saibaba devotees.