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For the first time in Delhi withSai Baba’s blessings Mrs. &Mr. Madan Mohan Tandonbrings artist of internationalfame Sh. Navneet Agnihotri(maker of Asia’s largest SaiBaba’s painting) and Naagar& Party on a consecratedplatform in KamaniAuditorium, New Delhi on10th Feb, 2008 to presentthis unique combination of artand Sai bhajan in aid tosupport underprivilegedchildren through Prayas.As per Baba’s directionmoney realized through theauction of the painting will bedonated by Sh. NavneetAgnihotri to Prayas for therehabilitation of the underprivilidged children.Sadguru first looks at thequalification of his disciplesand then gives them suitableinstructions withoutunsettling their minds in theleast and leads themtowards the goal of selfrealisation. Blessed are theones who have beenidentified by Baba himself totruly participate in thissacred event as per theircore competencies gifted byBaba. Tandons a devout Saidevotee family to play thelead role, Sh. Vineet Nagpal(Royal card Products) to
Unique Combination ofPainting and Sai Bhajan
design and create Baba’sinvitation , Sh. Neeraj Kumar(Managing trustee-PracheenSai Dham Mandir, Dev NagarPolice chowkee) to exhibitSai Ek Parichay - Baba’steachings and preachings,Naagar and party (GurujiB.M. Naagar, Sh. BhuvneshNaithani, Sh. PraveenMudgal) to sing Baba’sleelas, Sh. Premnath forcomparing, Sh. DharminderSuri (General Secretary - SaiSawali Regd. Co- Editor SaiSumiran times) for completeevent planning and eventmanagement, above all Sh.Navneet Agnihotri throughwhom Baba will appear on awhite canvas and bless usall. If our demerits havecome to an end then Godarranges our meeting withsaints who give us properdirection regarding ourwelfare. Sadgurus like SaiBaba opens our eyes ofintellect and shows us thedivine beauty of self andfulfills our tender longings ofdevotion. When this is doneour desire for sense objectsvanishes and twin fruits ofVivek (wisdom) and Vairagya(non attachment) come toour hands and knowledgesprouts up even in sleep.-Dharminder SuriMany persons on hearing theleelas of Lord Sai used to beskeptical about the efficacy ofthe leelas. They visited Shirdiin order to verify theauthenticity of Baba’s leelas.As Lord Sai nath of Shirdiwas/is omniscient He couldknow the purpose of theirvisits and removed theirdoubts. It so happened thatthe greater the doubtingThomas initially, the ardentdevotee after visiting Shirdi.In this category stories ofmany persons comes tomind but the classic case isof Jetha bhai Thakkar(Chapter 35).Thakkar Dharamsey Jethabhai was a solicitor ofBombay. Kaka Mahajani wasManager of the solicitor firmof Jethabhai and was ardentdevotee of Baba. KakaMahajani was often visitingShirdi and staying there fordays and was returning aftergetting Baba’s permission.This fact was known toJethabhai. He was doubtfulabout Baba’s powers andHis all pervasiveness. Inorder to test Baba,Jethabhai alsoaccompanied Kaka toShirdi with anotherassociate during Shimgaholidays. After reachingShirdi Jethabhai alongwithKaka went toMasjid for darshanof Baba. ThereJethabhai thricetested Baba’spowers. First all ofhis doubt wascleared when hedesired that heshould getseedless raisins,then the raisins hewas asked to eatwere seedlesswhich was a greatsurprise forJethatbhai and hisdoubt was furtherremoved when thedevotee sitting nextto him told him thathe received varietywith seeds.Secondly when a thoughtcame to his mind that ifBaba is a great saint thenHe must read his mindand start distributing bygiving raisins to KakaMahajani first. This thoughtwas also read by LordSainath of Shirdi and KakaMahajani was first to receivethe raisins. Jethabhai wasintroduced by Shama toBaba. He forgetting hisresolve saluted Baba andalso paid dakshina to Baba.When Jethabhai went toBaba to take His leave hewanted that Kaka Mahajanishould also return with him.Generally Baba made Kakato stay in Shirdi for somedays but this time knowingthe desire of Jethabhai Heallowed Kaka to return toBombay with Jethabhai.Hari Kanoba (Chapter 49)an other skeptic who wentto Shirdi to test Baba andfound Him a great satpurush.Baba removed HariKanoba’s doubt in a uniqueway. First Baba got his newsandals disappeared andinstilled faith, confidence,trust and removed his doubtsby arranging the return of hissandals by telling the boy thatthe sandals should bereturned to the person whowas the son of Hari and whowas wearing jari borderedturban. Hari Kanoba wassurprised as to how Babacould know the name of hisfather which information henever shared with anyone atShirdi. After their Shirdi visitboth Jethabhai and HariKanoba became ardentdevotees of Lord Sainath.Today also Baba changesthe skeptics into his ardentdevotees by removing theirdoubts and by fulfilling theirdesires.-Premendra Ojha,(SOS)
 
Skeptics and Lord Sainath of Shirdi
“He, who carps andcavils at others,pierces Me in theheart and injures Me,but he that suffersand endures, pleasesMe most.” -Sai Baba
 
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Baba, as promised to you Iam writing my experience inthe newsletter. I want tothank my Baba for fulfilling allmy wishes. I pray that Hecontinues to shower Hisblessings on my family &me. By His grace, I wasblessed with healthy babygirl after struggling with infer-tility for 6 years and wentthrough a lot of medical treat-ments. I had completelygiven up hope in life. Day andnight, I would pray to Baba fora child. Once I had gone toSai temple and saw somepeople touching Sai BabaIdol’s feet. I thought that onlythe temple committee peoplecould do that and wished inmy mind that I could fall atHis feet and beg for mywishes. We came home andat that night, I dreamt of Saiand me touching his feet ask-ing for forgiveness for any-thing wrong I have done in life.At that moment, my feet werein the air and my head downand went round and round forsome time. I ask for forgive-ness again and then Saiblessed me with a big laddooand said I would get pregnantin
5
months. After
2
months,I did not get pregnant with IVFand doubted again whetherit was just my mind playingtricks on me as I pray dayand night. Again I lost hope.Then exactly after 5 monthsfrom the day I dreamt I wentfor a FET, which had a veryless percentage of gettingpregnant. This time it wassuccessful. My pregnancywent on smoothly with someminor problems. But Sai car-ried this baby for me and is atrue gift for me from Him.With His grace, we also gotour green cards for which wealso went through a lot ofhardships of being deniedand finally being approved. Ipray that He continues tobless us. Jai Sai Ram.PradnyaS,Courtesy-Dipika
Baba Blessed Me WithHealthy Baby Girl
“I may be here in Myphysical body, and you maybe far away beyond theseven seas. Yet, whateveryou do there I know instantly.Wherever you may be,when you spread yourhands before Me in suppli-cation with faith and devo-tion, there I stand behind youday and night, as steadfastas your faith and devotionis,” said Baba to Cholkar.Baba’s words are true foreach and every devoteeeven now; as they werethen. This is such a Leelawhere Baba literally wentbeyond the seven seas torescue a devotee.It was during World War-1, Capt. Jahangir F.Daruwala was at sea, withhis fleet of ships. To his ut-ter dismay he realized thatthree of his ships were hit bythe enemy and were sinkingfast. Soon these three shipswith the passengers andhimself would meet thesame fate. Being a goodCaptain he hoped to ferry theremaining ships to safety.He had Baba’s photographin his pocket. He promptlytook it out and earnestlyprayed to Baba to come totheir rescue. Just as he haspraying, Baba sitting in theDwarkamai shouted “Haq,haq”. The devotees surround-ing Baba, were astonished tosee Baba completelydrenched from head to toe.The water flowed in torrents,and the Dwarkamai soon be-came a pool of water. Thedevotees simply removedbuckets and buckets of wa-ter from the Dwarkamai forabout an hour. Then theygave Baba dry clothes towear.As Baba was silent aboutthe cause of His beingdrenched, one of the devo-tees drank the water as holywater and found it extremelysalty. He wondered at that,but kept quiet. Simulta-neously, at sea, Capt.Daruwala saw Baba in per-
 
Spread Your Hands With Faith,There I Stand Behind You
son, pull and tow his shipsto safety. On the third day af-ter this incident Baba re-ceived a telegram from theCaptain, thanking Him for therescue operation. Immedi-ately on his return he cameto Shirdi and fell at Baba’sfeet. He thanked Baba foranswering his prayers soswiftly and saving the lives ofhis crew and the passen-gers. Capt. Daruwala was anardent devotee and he tooka great deal of interest inBaba’s affairs. He donatedRs.2,200/- in two install-ments for the repair of theSabha Mandap as a small‘thank you gesture’
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Ambrosia In Shirdi
by
Vinni
Even One Leela of Babashould be enough, but wehere atSidharthaExtensionhave becomeso used tothese Leelasand they havebecome, partof our life.Last to last Thursday therewas lot of honey from thePhoto of Baba on the wall.Honey was collected in thetrays. Last Thursday honeywas oozing from the statue,and it was collected in akatori. This Thursday Udiwas oozing from all thephotos with usual words ofRAM, SHAM & OM.It was birthday of ourdaughter-in-law on 16
th
January (Wednesday), andmother of our Daughter-in-law offered Gulab Jaman thisThursday to Baba for thebirthday. After the puja thebox offered to Baba of Prasadwas opened. Only half theGulab Jaman was there anda very beautiful pearl wasthere on the Gulab Jaman. Itis not possible to describethe feelings of the devotees.Hand of Mrs Gupta wasshaking and many devoteeshad tears in their eyes. Iattach a photo of the GulabJanam with the pearl.A devotee offeredmilkcake to Baba in the bhog,as usual, part of it wasmissing.
Leelas of Baba in Amritwaniby Mrs. Veena Gupta
There were other usualLeelas of oozing Udi,formation of words RAM,SHAM. OM. Oozing of HoliWater from the Charans.Eating of Bhog. Udi on Bhog,documents and Lockets etc.Devotees interested inattending Sri Sai Amrit Vani,in person may contact onphone nos. 26346942,9868966605 or 9312494767only after 11 AM and before8 PM (IST) on any dayexcept Thursdays but pleasedon't call on Thursdays, Orsend the emails toveena_gupta_2000@yahoo.comDevotees should not bringany bhog with them and bein time. Kids are not allowedin the hall.Devotees may also join theyahoogroup of the devoteesof Sai Baba by typinghttp:// groups.yahoo.com/group/ mysaibaba20and send theletters to the group of 3100members by sending asingle letter tomysaibaba20@yahoogroups.com
Ashok Gupta
Sai Baba was very fondof lights. He used to borrowoil from shopkeepers andkeep lamps burning thewhole night in the Masjid andtemple. This went on forsome time. The Banias, whosupplied oil gratis, once mettogether and decided not togive Him oil. When, as usual,Baba went to ask for oil, theyall gave Him a distinct “No”.Unperturbed, Baba returnedto the Masjid and kept the drywicks in the lamps. TheBanias were watching Himwith curiosity. Baba took theTumrel (tin pot), whichcontained very little (a fewdrops) of oil. He put waterinto it and drank it, and then,forced it fall into the container.After consecrating the tin-potin this way, He again took thewater from the tip-pot andfilled all the lamps with it andlighted them. To the surpriseand dismay of the watchingBanias, the lamps began toburn and kept burning thewhole night. The Baniasrepented and apologized toBaba to forgive them, Babaasked them to be moretruthful in future.
(Shri Sai Satcharita)
Turning Water into Oil
My treasury is full and I can give anyone, whathe wants, but I have to see, whether he is quali-fied to receive My gift. If you listen to Me care-fully, you will be certainly benefited. While sittingin this Masjid I never speak any untruth.”
(SAI BABA)
 
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Rama Krishna G. Kothariwas born in 1908. He was aPathari Prabhu by caste. Hisparents first visited Shirdi in1911. On that visit, they sawBaba standing near the railingof Dwarakamai, distributingUdi to the devotees. They werefilled with devotion, and wereoverwhelmed with the love, tosee this beautiful sight. Upontheir return home, they startedworshipping a photograph ofBaba. They also started doingBhajans and called the BhajanMandali (group) ‘Sai Laj’.In 1913 his father was seri-ously sick with pneumonia. Dr.Naik was treating him, but wasskeptical of his recovery. Hetold the family that the chancesof recovery were slim, and hewould succumb to the dis-ease. Hearing this his motherprayed to Baba and vowed thatif her husband survived, shewould do ‘Padyatra’ (walk) toShirdi and thank Baba.The Bhajan Mandali alsocame to his home to performthe Bhajans (hyms), the wholenight. At nightfall the diseasetook a serious turn, the doctorwas summoned at 10.00 P.M.He gave the patient an injec-tion and medicines but told thewife that at about 12.00 P.M.her husband would die. Therelatives on hearing this, readthe Bhagwat Gita to the patient.Simultaneously Baba’sBhajans continued. At about11.00 P.M. the patient startedto suffocate, and had great dif-ficulty in breathing. The distortwife seeing his conditionwailed and cried saying ‘Babasave my husband’. The crisislasted till 1.00 A.M. when thedoctor was called again. Heagain gave the patient an in- jection & assured them thatthe crisis were over.The Bhajans continued till4.00 A.M. when the BhajanMandali and the relatives as-sured the wife that her hus-band had survived, so she bet-ter get ready, for the ‘Padyatra’(pilgrimage by foot) as per hervow. From that time the patientsteadily recovered and wasambulant in a few moments.So the family and the BhajanMandali started for Shirdi. AtKopargaon, the family hiredfive bullock carts to take themto Shirdi. But the wife would notsit in the cart. She just walked,behind the carts although herlegs were swollen andbruised.A short distance fromShirdi there was a stony,and thorny path. So shewent and rested under atree. She noticed a manwith a white beard in ashepherd’s dress. He ap-proached her and said,“Your vow has been ac-cepted by Baba somother, go the rest of thedistance by bullock cart”.The lady heard the lov-ing tone in the voice butshe adhered to her vow,and trudged the rest of theway. When she reachedDwarkamai, Baba wasseated with His devoteeswhen Baba said to NanaSaheb, “I met this lady onthe way and told her to ridein the cart, but she wouldnot listen. See how swol-len and bruised her legsare! But they will be alrightby the evening.” True toHis words the swellingand the bruises vanishedby evening.They stayed at Shirdifor a few days and re-turned home with Baba’sblessings and Udi.Courtesy-
AmbrosiaIn Shirdi
by
Vinni
Baba Saved My Husband
It was through Baba’sblessings and grace that westarted our first Sai Bhajanwith three families during thefirst Thursday of February1999. It all began with theleelas of Baba when one ofthe devotees brought abeautiful photo of Baba ( Babasitting on a stone) from Indiaand wanted to place the photoin the local temple. However,for some reason, it did notoccur. He then expressed hisdesire to start bhajans onThursdays with my family andso began the devine missionin Columbus. Both of ourfamilies joined together withanother family for the first SaiBhajan. Since then not asingle Thursday has gonewithout having Baba’sBhajans and with thisupcoming month of February,we will be completing nineyears by Baba’s grace and weare celebrating this joyfulninth anniversary of bhajansfrom February 7 to February9, 2008.As Baba says that “I will pullmy devotees to me whereverthey are” we saw devoteespouring into weekly bhajans.As we started rotating theBhajans, at devotees homes,the number of devoteesincreased many fold. By2001, the number of familiesincreased to almost fifty. Laterthat year, I had a personalexperience, which promptedthe idea of building a mandirfor Baba:BABA’s Inspiration: After theinitial Bhajans in 1999, Iwanted to donate money forBaba’s Idol in India and withthat in my mind, during myvisit to India in 2001, I inquiredabout donating money forBaba’s idols at couple oftemples.As it is said that “Manproposes and God disposes”,Baba had a different idea andso He didn’t want mydonation to go anywhere else.After my arrival back to US,before forming the Sri SaiBaba Temple Society of Ohio,one day I had a dream whereI was standing in theDwarakamai with foldedhands and asking “BABA,
Our Journey TowardsBuilding Sai MandirIn Columbus, Ohio - USA
please let me know how I canfulfill my wish?” Immediately,I heard Baba’s voice loudlysaying “Mandir” “Mandir”twice. I could not believemyself and did not reveal thisto anyone at that time.During the same weekend,I happened to visit the localSri Sathya Sai center aftersix months. On the sameday, a divine person fromIndia, who has written manybooks on Sri Shirdi Babawas at the center. In herdiscourse, she mentionedthat she got a vision fromBaba that there will be atemple here in the city wheretwo to three devotees will bestarting and others will be joining. After hearing that, Iwas shocked and addressedthe gathering about thedream I had ; soon by Baba’sgrace, in a major step SriSaibaba Temple Society ofOhio was formed in 2001.By 2003, the numberfamilies participating in theBhajans increased toapproximately one-hundredand this required us to lookfor an alternate locationinstead of devotees’ homes.In June of 2003, a leasedaccommodation was takenin a shopping mall. Onceagain, through Baba’smiracle we could obtain thisplace with a rent, much lowerthan the market price. Initially,devotees did all of the fourAartis to Baba on a regularbasis, and later on a priestwas hired to perform thedaily rituals for Baba. Wecontinued for almost twoyears at the same placebefore moving to our currentlocation.We celebrate all the majorfestivals at the mandirincluding Sri Rama Navami,Guru Purnima, Vijay Dasami,and Baba’s Punya Tithi. Atpresent, around 200devotees attend the bhajansand on festival days, thenumber goes upto 400.Numerous devotees haveexperienced miracles in thistemple.With Baba’s grace anddevotees’ support, we bought7.75 acres of land in 2005.This wooded land has anatural creek and a fewpeople with divine powershave expressed that Babahad visited and sat at thissite for sometime. BhumiSuddhi pujan was done lastyear and we are finalizing onthe design of the Mandir. Theestimated cost of theproject would be around 2.5million dollars and we areseeking Baba’s blessings tocomplete this divine project.It is BABA who has beenworking towards building thetemple; we are simply theinstruments that He haschosen for this greatcause.I will try to post othermiracles and experienceswhenever Baba permits.Jai Sai Ram,In Sai’s Service,Varaha N Appikatla,Columbus, Ohio- USA
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Sai Baba
It is you sai to WH. M Iexpress my fellingsIt is you sai to whom Ishare my joy,It is only you sai nearwhom I shed my yearsof sadnessIt is you & you and noare elso Babawith the name of yourswhat is impossibleHanuman had evencrossedThe mightly occan withyour nameNot I am the greatdevotee meera norTulsidassBut a humble devotee ofyoursstanding before youpraying for a glimpse ofyourssai devotee
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