SAVASANA- YOGA SAMADHI

One day Baba called his devotee MAHALSAPATI on full moon and told him" mama! take care of my body for 3 days,if i come its fine otherwise bury me and put two flags in my remembrance."

On that night at 10:00 he slept on floor, breathing stopped and his body resembled like a dead body. everybody came to know and decided to do cremation, but MAHALSAPATI stopped the people having belief on SAI BABA. he cautioned them not to come near BABA until the three days are completed. He took care of BABA body by keeping on his thigh and didn't let anyone come near it. After 3 days on fine morning at 3:00 BABA came into consciousness started breathing, opened his eyes and stretched his hands and legs. From this incident we can say about BABA yoga power!!!

His present cremation also come under yoga skill only, that is why now also he is giving dharshan to his devotees in different ways and in dreams and helping his devotees in difficult situations. only we need faith and diligence.

MIRACLE OF SAI BABA-LIGHTING OF DIYA WITH WATER

SHRI SAI BABA likes diya and flower. Every day in part of his daily routine he used to ask oil merchants to lend him some oil to lit diya. One day all the merchants decided not to lend oil to sai baba,as it is a plan by all of the merchants didn't lend him oil. for that Baba laughed to himself and returned to masjid. That night all the oil merchants went to masjid and hid secretly to see how sai baba will lit diya without oil. BABA took oily container of his pour water into that he drank and spit into the container and pour that liquid in a diya and lit it. surprisingly diya s are like that whole night. The merchants who observed this miracle begged sai baba to forgive them and he forgave them with kind heart and told them " whatever we give today we will get in future, remember this" and blessed them.

Baba likes chanting of mantras or deity names along with flowers and diya. He gives blessing to the people who always chant " om sai ram"

ROHILLA:

There is a person so called ROHILLA in the SHIRIDI. He used to have harsh voice.Irrespective of timings,he used to recite the verses in the qua ran his holy book aloud, disturbing the people always. some of the people who were unable to bear his harsh voice complained to BABA about it. Baba said " He has a wife who always torturer him. so to escape from her he always recite the qua ran so that she doesn't torture him". and sent the people away. The fact is that ROHILLA has no wife and everyone knows that but, BABA means the wife is nothing but the "difficulties which we face due to our karma" and everyone in their life to prevent these difficulties has to chant the name of GOD. So to remove the difficulties in our life and to obtain peace we should also chant. "OM SAI RAM"

DASAGUNA PRAYAGA HOLY DIP EXPERIENCE WITH SAI BABA:

SHRI SAI BABA never left the place shiridi,but his fame reached all the people over the country. So many devotees from various places visited shiridi and took sai baba dharshan and his blessings. many of devotees use to get peace in there life when they took blessings and vibhuti from SAI NATHA.

One fine day SHRI SAI BABA devotee SHRI DASAGUNA MAHARAJA decided to visit shiridi have dharshan with SAI BABA and then go to the PRAYAGA(where Ganges and Yamuna river meet) to have a holy dip. Indians believe that if they have bath in PRAYAGA they will get bliss in their life.

DASAGUNA MAHARAJA asked SHRI SAI BABA to give permission to let him go PRAYAGA so that he can have bath and obtain bliss in his life, then SHRI SAI BABA said "There is no need to go PRAYAGA if u have faith in me, i ll show here itself" and as soon as the words completed Ganga and Yamuna river water flow from his thumb of his both feet. SHRI DASA GUNA MAHARAJA was surprised when he saw this miracle of SAI NATHA and he worshiped him by chanting his name.

SRIRAMA NAVAMI:

Gopalrao gundu and Damu are the devotees of SAI NATHA. They both are having two wives but are not blessed with children,finally with BABA blessing they both had a boy. In that happiness Gopalrao decided to do held a fair in the shiridi. It was decided to held fair on SRIRAMA NAVAMI.

shiridi has water problem, whole village has only two wells. one well is always dry in summer and other one has salt water. SAI BABA put some flowers in the well and they turned out to drinking water, but that water is also not sufficient so TATYA PATIL made some people to bring water from other villages. They built temporary stalls for the fair and many games and wrestling competition use to be held. AMEER SAKKAR also started chandan utsavam at the same time

CHANDAN UTSAVAM:

CHANDAN UTSAVAM is honored by great Muslim saints, chandan paste is put in the thali and these are carried with band and music in the village and go to masjid and apply the chandan paste on the walls. This is also held on the day of SRIRAMA NAVAMI. In the morning Hindus celebrated the SRIRAMA NAVAMI and in night Muslims celebrated the CHANDAN UTSAVAM with out any conflicts. SRI SAI NATHA decided to celebrate GOKULASHTAMI on that day itself.

SRIRAMA NAVAMI started in the year 1914 and spread all over the INDIA. A devotee named RADHAKRISHNA BHAI with all her efforts established SHRI SAI SANSTHAN with all these thing those are Palanquin,silver vessels, cooking vessels,photos etc. are in the SANSTHAN. on every SRIRAMA NAVAMI SHRI DASAGUNA MAHARAJA took the responsibility to celebrate SHRI RAMA birth by performing kirtan and sing glories of Shri Rama by haridasu. In the beginning it started with 500 devotees and now 7500 devotees are participating in the festival. with SAI BABA blessing festivals were held smoothly without any conflict and diseases.

RESCUE OF DADASAHEB KHAPARDE SON:

SHRI SAI NATHA frequently use to utter these words "When I am here how can my devotees suffer?" Once KHAPARDE son health went bad. doctors told them it is plague disease after some medical tests. KHAPARDE wife became upset when she heard about this and requested SHRI SAI NATHA to cure the disease of her son. SHRI SAI BABA consoled her with some words and lifted his kafni and to everyone surprise baba has two swellings of plague on his hand then SHRI SAI NATHA told "look how i sustained this and i will bear more suffering but never allow my devotes to suffer"

MIRACLE OF SAI BABA:

SHRI SAI NATHA always exhibit his concern to all his devotees whether they are near or far away from him.The below story is the best example of his concern towards his devotees.

Once on Diwali SHRI SAI NATHA, to give warmth in winter was using dhuni to set up fire with the help of some twigs. after some time suddenly to everyone surprise put his hand in the fire,and the hand burnt, seeing this MADHAVARA pulled his hand from the fire and exclaimed "deva!! why did you do like this" for that BABA answered "In a village one lady was cooking and blowing the fire with the help of paper pipe. meanwhile her husband called her, she attended him without noticing the baby in her lap, so to save the baby i put the hand in the fire. my hand got burnt but the baby is safe know and that is my happiness". Hearing the BABA words all devotees were puzzled, but within a week that couple visited BABA to convey their gratitude and asked "SAI on that day you rescued our baby who is our heir. how is your hand, is it burn't?" with this incident we can say that BABA always looks after all his devotees and knows all happening in the world with his divination.

when the hand got burnt BABA rejected to use any type of medicines, but for devotee satisfaction he let the BHAGOJI SHINDE to apply ghee and tie the hand with some leaves. he started on the Diwali on the year 1910 and continued till the year 1918 when BABA went to samadhi state.

BABA PROMISE

There are many other stories and miracles of BABA which will come later in the parayanam.

BABA will always bless the people who read his stories and miracle,and show his concern towards them with this we end the parayanam of Thursday.

" who ever chant my name with love and devotion i will fulfill their desires. their devotion will increase and in all situations i will rescue them. Those who read my miracles will have happiness and satisfaction in their life. who ever always chant my name and keep their mind on myself with faith and devotion i will release them from all bondage. By chanting my name all the sins of yours will be removed"

                                                          First day parayanam completed

SECOND DAY PARAYANAM

                    SECOND DAY PARAYANAM

                                       FRIDAY

BHIKSHA:

SHRI SAI BABA is a great saint who blessed and all people with his happiness with his dharsan. he carried a tinpot and zoli and go to 5 or 6 houses and begged for food. He used to stand near door and say " AKKA give me a bread" All ladies in SHIRIDI waited for BABA to hear his voice while doing their household works. When they serve him food BABA used to say "GOD WILL DO GOOD" and go away. In DWAPARIYUGA ladies waited for SHRI KRISHNA like wise ladies in SHIRIDI waited for SHRI SAI NATHA.

BABA put all the liquid foods like milk,curd etc in tinpot and solid foods like chapati,rice,bread etc in zoli and returned to majsid. He put all the food as prasdam to GOD first. dogs,cats and crows ate all the food but BABA never drove them away. The ladie who swept the floor took 10 or 12 chapatis BABA never said any thing to her and whoever felt hungry ate the food, then BABA ate ther remaining food. BABA tounge has no taste since he acuired control over it and he is satisfied with small piece of bread also..

INSIGHT OF BIKSHA

Food is partaken by sanyasins and the inner meaning behind this act is described, To prepare a meal we follow 5 activities and those are 1. pounding,grinding,smashing.2. milling the grain or wheat 3. cleaning house with broom  4 cleaning the vessels.5.cooking food on stove , all the above 5 activities are called sins but without performing those we cant have food so to avoid the above 5 sins the sanyasins go to householders for food and the sins of the householders are forgiven with their blessing when they offer food to the sanyasins and this is main reason for them to go through BIKSHA, and SADDGURU SAI also followed the same method and this is the insight of BIKSHA.. But  people oppose this and say how come cooking food and eating becomes sin? To the people here i am telling in the whole world except devotion and tranquility each and everything is a sin. Every day in Pooja we have to utter the following mantra to get protection from the GOD.
 " శ్లోll పాపోహం పాపకర్మాహం పాపాత్మా పాపసంభవా "

    " we were born because of karma based on deeds done in previous incarnation.We are doing sins. mentally and physically also and we are pleading GOD to save us".  we are facing sorrow or happiness because of our  good and bad deeds done by us in previous incarnation. The moments  that we enjoy  after facing sorrow is called happiness and  how can we say that happiness is called happiness? because we face sorrows again after happy moments and we are enjoying happiness in the name of sorrow. 

  IN DEVI  BHAGVATAM  SRI SUKH YOGINDRA SAID " In this  house hold life we have sorrows because of birth,death,disease,greed,excessive desire,kids,love. and whatever we do and everything in this household life is full of sorrows. So remove our sorrows from our lives we have to pray 

 SHRI SAMARTHA SADDGURU SAINATHA WITH THIS SLOKA  GIVEN BELOW

 "సాయిశరణంసాయిశరణం సాయిశరణం సాయిశరణం 

  సాయిశరణం దుఃఖహరణంసాయిశరణం సాయిశరణం"

     

UNIVERSAL POWER- SAI BABA

SHRI SAI BABA  used to say " The  persons who does not belong to me ( no faith on me) they can't come". Devotees were unable to leave SHIRIDI without SAI NATHA permission. Devotees used to face problems when they don't listen the advice and warnings of  SAI BABA. some stories are shared  below

    One day TATYAKOTE PATEL went to the Masjid and asked for SAI NATHA permission to visit KOPERGAV fair and BABA said " Don't leave SHIRIDI now, wait for a few minutes" but TATYAKOTE PATEL didn't listen and started to KOPERGAV. On the way one of the horse legs sprained and the cart fell down, but TATYA was safe, he regretted for not listening to SAI BABA advice. One more incident also happened like this and he faced a problem.

One day an older person from EUROPE visited SHIRIDI to see SAINATHA. He asked BABA permission to leave SHIRIDI but SAI said " Today you stay in SHIRIDI and leave tomorrow" but the European didn't obey BABA words and started his journey. After his cart crossed SAVUL BHAVI the horses were frightened because of a rickshaw and they ran and cart fell down. He fell down and had minor injuries and joined in KOPERGAV hospital.

 This is a story about AMIR SAKKAR. He lives in BHANDRA and he does commission business. He is suffering from knee pain so he visited SHIRIDI and met SAI BABA. BABA ordered him to stay in chavidi and he stayed there for 9 months. When the pain was reducing he was bored and left SHIRIDI without taking permission from SAI BABA and stayed in choultry for that night. But his bad luck followed him because in that choultry, one person is about to die and  died  after SAKKAR gave him water to drink and he was afraid of the police because they may arrest him and say he is the murderer and he regretted for leaving SHIRIDI without BABA permission and went to chavidi and continued to stay there.

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KAKAMAHAJANI is the devotee of SHRI SAI BABA. 

 Once he visited SHIRIDI to spend there for a week and go. When he went to see BABA, he asked him " when are you leaving?" To that KAKAMAHAJANI replied " As per SAI order i will leave" then BABA said " Then leave tomorrow only" So as per BABA Order though he wanted to stay for a week he left SHIRIDI next day. Next day when he went to office his boss is waiting for him because he has to do work of another college since he is not feeling well. Boss sent letter to SHIRIDI for KAKAMAHAJANI to return but as he obeyed SAI NATHA order that letter also returned from SHIRIDI.

  VAKEEL BHAAVUSAHEB DHUMAL is the devotee of SHRI SAI NATHA 

   Once DHUMAL on his court work should go to NIFAD, since SHIRIDI  is on the way he thought to stay for a day and leave but SAI NATHA didn't allow and asked him to stay in SHIRIDI for a week and then go to NIFAD. DHUMAL was worried about the case which he had to argue and reached there but the case got postponed because the magistrate is not feeling well.

NIMONKAR is devotee of SHIRIDI SAI

 He settled in SHIRIDI only doing divine service to SAI NATHA along with his wife. His Son lives in BHELPUR and he was not feeling well. His wife thought to spend with his Son and relatives and stay for 4 day and return but NIMONKAR ordered her to return next day only.She went to BABA for permission and bow near him and he blessed her saying " Go soon without delay and spend with your son and relatives, stay for 4 days and return" with this NIMONKAR  told her to do same and send her.

  SAI BABA IS FOND OF HONESTY

   I wish SHRI SAI NATHA miracles should prosper forever in devotees hearts. SAI BABA  says telling a    lie is a fault and doesn't like people who lie and  he says that if any vow made by devotee is not fulfilled is also called lie.If any devotee thinks to offer anything to him and they forget he will somehow remember them and receive the offering or vow, henceforth save his devotees from the fault of telling lie and bless them,given below is story of illustration


    SAI devotee AATMA RAM is resident of BANDRA. His wife once thought to offer 3 items to SHRI SAI NATHA and they are brinjal chutney ,brinjal fry and kova.
 
        BANDRA resident and BABA devotee PURUANDAR started to SHIRIDI with his family,then AATMA RAM wife came to know this and gave brinjal to his wife and asked her to cook brinjal chutney and fry and offer SHRI SAI NATHA. As she requested she cooked chutney and sent to BABA at lunch time and RADHA KRISHNA MAI served the chutney then BABA asked to serve brinjal fry also and then RADHA KRISHNA MAI thought how to get brinjal then SHRI SAI NATHA asked from " where did you get the brinjal chutney" and everyone came to know that brinjal chutney came from AATMA RAM wife so BABA also wants fry which she thought to offer.  If devotees think to offer anything to him with faith and love he waits with eagerness to receive the offerings.

         One day BANDRA resident and BABA devotee BALARAM MANKAD started to SHIRIDI AATMA RAM wife came to know about this and gave kova to him and requested him to offer SHRI SAI NATHA  showing her devotion and love towards SHRI SAI NATHA. MANKAD reached SHIRIDI took blessings from him but forgot to offer the kova given by her. BABA waited till evening and finally asked him"what did you bring for me?"  he told nothing then BABA said " don't tell lie, AATMA RAM wife sent you kova with you know?" then MANKAD regretted and offered the kova to SAI NATHA.
BABA shows so much love and attachment to the devotees and their offerings.

THE OMNIPRESENT-SAI NATHA

One afternoon a hungry dog barked near TARKAD wife and she gave one bread to that dog, he ate the bread showing affection. That evening she went to Masjid and BABA told " I m satisfied  with the food offered by you and " and she replied " BABA  I m depending on others for my food then how can i offer food to you?"  than BABA smiled and said " you offered bread to the hungry dog when it came to you and remember that dog and me are equal likewise ants and remaining living beings are all equal to me and i m present in all of them and i ll be everywhere. The people who can see me in all the living beings are my true devotees and keep in mind that SAI BABA and all the other living beings are same and every time first serve the one who is hungry and eat later". listening to the above words the devotee felt so happy and cried in that happiness,took blessing from SAI NATHA. In all Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavadgita and in all sacred books there is a great statement "ప్రాణులు యందున పరమాత్మను చూడము" and BABA explained it so easily.Let us all try to follow the BABA words and pray him to provide virtue for us.

 DEEDS OF SAI NATHA ARE UNIQUE

SAI devotee NANASAHEB  gave a wooden table of 4 feet length and 1 feet width for BABA to sleep on it. He thought BABA will use it on floor but SHRI SAI NATHA changed the table as swing with the help of old clothes which are tied to all corners of the table and tied the table to the hook of Masjid and started to sleep on the swing.The clothes which  are used to tie the corners of table are of thin material and every one wondered how come it bears the weight of table as well as BABA also! it is a strange and BABA s miracle. In this miracle only two more unusual happenings are there and those are BABA used to keep diyas on all corners of table and sleep comfortably on that small table and with 4 diyas!.That;s why HEMADPANTH said " Angels also should watch the unique sleep of BABA." meanwhile everyone out of curiosity used to assemble to notice how BABA climb the swing and get down  after sleep. seeing this BABA got irritated , broke the table and thrown it away.

MIRACLE OF SAI NATHA -DEVOTEE  DISEASE IS  CURED IN A DREAM

In the year 1909, BHEEMAJI PATIL used to suffer with tuberculosis disease, he came to SHIRIDI and prayed SHRI SAI NATHA and asked him to cure his disease. seeing is pain BABA showed sympathy on him and said, 

" Don't worry, i ll remove your sorrow and difficulties. whoever with so many pains and problems come to Masjid same moment their problems will be solved and they will be happy. The fakir in the Masjid is kind and loving person. I ll cure the disease and save them."  

   Before he entered Masjid he spitted blood for every 5 mins but in the presence of SAI NATHA he didn't spit one time also. Baba ordered BHEEMAJI PATIL to take rest in BHEEMA BHAI house which has no suitable means for a tuberculosis patient. While BHEEMAJI PATIL is in sleep he got a dream in which when he is student in a school, teacher hit him because he didn't recite the poems. in the other dream he felt some big stone on his chest was moving up and down and hurt him.with the help of these two dreams the PATIL disease was cured by SHRI SAI NATHA. Strange! how come the disease get cured in dreams?  people may get this doubt. Everything is possible for divinity , all the SAINTS and SADDGURU are also powerful as GOD. SHRI YADGIRI NARSHIMASWAMY , SHRI ANJANEYA SWAMY and so many others gave there darshan in their devotee dreams and blessed them in the past and present also!
In the same way SHRI SAI NATHA removed sorrows of his devotees in all times by blessing them in their dreams. BHEEMAJI PATIL started SAI SATYAVRATAM in MAHARASHTRA to show his gratitude and tradition is followed by them till now. 

 SHRI SAI NATHA IS UNIQUE DOCTOR
    

 In one of the posts I mentioned that he used to look after some patients in his daily life. His way of treating  patients with various disease is really so strange at times and below i m sharing some stories after reading them you will also think the same.

A devotee named BALA GANPATI SHIMPHI  used to suffer with malaria disease. He took so many medicines but it didn't cure, so one day he came to SHIRIDI to visit SAINATHA and prayed him then BABA said " you offer curd rice to the dog near Lakshmi Devi temple" he did the same, his malaria cured permanently!

One day in SHIRIDI, a person eyes got swollen and became red. His neighbors took him to SAI BABA.Generally in such cases the treatment would be with mild solution to remove irritation on eyes but BABA smashed some black cashew seed and prepared tablets with them, placed on his eyes and tied with a cloth.everyone was scared seeing this treatment but nobody asked BABA. next day when patient came he removed the cloth and pour water continuously on his eyes and they are cleaned and became normal.

A devotee BALARAMDHURANDARU is suffering with asthma for so many years. He visited SHRIDI took BABA darshan and did service but never told about his asthma to him. but  SHRI SAI NATHA knows everything and once he gave chilum ( earlier days they used take tobacco in this form)  to him and asked him to inhale, he doesn't have the habit but to obey his orders he inhaled only once and immediately his asthma was cured.

Once BAPU SAHEB BUTTI suffered with cholera. Then BABA told " soak badam,pista and acrota and boil them with milk and sugar and take it as a medicine" doctors said it can't be cured like this and it may get severe but BUTTI has faith on him and obeyed BABA order and his disease was cured!

A devotee of SAI on one day was suffering with diarrhea. Having faith on him he thought BABA will  somehow cure his illness and decided not to share his problem with anyone. but he didn't stop his service. he used to bring  mug of water and keep it in a corner and used it whenever he needs it. The omniscient BABA, one day gave some peanuts to him and asked him to eat and drink water after that and said " your loose motions are controlled and you can do your work happily" but as per doctors if we eat peanut condition gets worse but strangely it was cured! and this is miracle of BABA.

BLESSING OF SAINATHA IS BEST MEDICINE

 In the previous post i told you about the strange medications done by BABA. and we can also notice  blessing and words showed more effect than a medicine and the medicines only work when BABA tells to use it, otherwise disease gets worse.

once a devotee suffered with some disease than BABA gave one medicine to him and it cured for him. later after 2 yrs he got the same disease but without BABA permission he took the same medicine and disease became more for him,than he went to Masjid and took blessings from BABA and it cured again.

BAVU SAHEB BUTTI devotee of SAI once suffered with vomiting s and BABA asked others to convey him that he should come to Masjid, though it is severe BUTTI somehow went to Masjid. Than SHIRIDI SAI made him sit opposite to him and threatened him with his forefinger and said " be careful you should not vomit again" and at that moment it is cured! 

Once a Sanyasin lived in PUNE and he has severe ear pain. operation was over but pain didn't get reduced. so he visited SHIRIDI  and SHRI SAI NATHA blessed saying " అల్లా అచ్చా కరేగా". after sanyasin returned PUNE , in a week he sent a letter to SHIRIDI and it is written as " with BABA blessings my ear pain got reduced"  BABA blessings are the best medicines.

A devotee of SAI lives in HAARDHAA and used to suffer stomach pain since 14 yrs.he took so many medicines but it didn't cure. BABA blessed him and gave vibuthi and it got cured he never faced that problem again.    

 RATAN  EXPERIENCE WITH SAI NATHA

RATAN JEE was a business man who is rich and have everything in his life but he is worried that he didn't give birth to a child so on advice of DASAGUNA MAHARAJA he went to SHIRIDI to take blessing of SHRI SAI.

when he went BABA said " you have to give me 5 rs and you already gave 3 rs 14 paisa give me remaining 1 rs 2 paisa". RATAN JEE offered the amount but this is the first visit to SHIRIDI and thought how he offered the remaining amount? he took blessings and returned to his place. After some days while checking his accounts he noticed that he gave 3rs 14ps to a saint who asked for journey to SHIRIDI. and was surprised and faith on him increased. In a period of time with BABA blessings he gave birth to a child.

A STORY OF LIZARDS

One day BABA and devotee are sitting in Masjid then a lizard on a wall made some noise then devotee with curiosity asked " what is the reason behind noise made by lizard" BABA told " Her sister is coming to see her from AURANGABAD that why in happiness she is doing like that" devotee was puzzled with answer and kept quiet.

 In the meanwhile a person who came from AURANGABAD  on his way to destination, halted in SHIRIDI to take darshan of  SHRI SAI NATHA  . His horse was hungry and tired so he didn't start immediately. while he is cleaning his horse saddle one lizard fell down and it went to the other lizard and devotee noticed all this. both the lizards played with happiness, and devotee is puzzled again.

With this story we can say that BABA is omniscient.   let us pray with faith and devotion and i hope everyone will have his blessings and remove our sorrows and problems. 

 CHOLKAR  EXPERIENCE  WITH SHRI SAI NATHA

I wish SAI blessing will be there in all times. who ever prays SAI with faith and devotion , he will notice there  problems with concern and bless them, regarding this i want share a story with you.

CHOLKAR is a devotee of SAI and once prayed to BABA and made a vow like this " I m suffering with poverty if i pass the government exam with your blessing I will come to SHIRIDI ,do service and distribute kova to everyone in Masjid". with BABA blessings he get passed the exam and he got permanent job and he was happy. he was eager to fulfill his vow. As he is in poverty money was not sufficient for journey to SHIRIDI. he saved money by having  tea without sugar and went to SHIRIDI took his blessing distributed kova to everyone and gave one coconut also. while he was in SHIRIDI he stayed in BAPU SAHEB JOGU house, when both of them are about to leave Masjid BABA told JOGU " give tea with more sugar to your guest" on hearing this CHOLKAR felt surprised how come BABA came to know the secret act of his savings and felt happy and cried before him then BABA said 

"when you pray with devotion and faith i will be there. physically i m here but i can see everything and i know   what are you doing even you are beyond sea .wherever you go ill be always with you. ill be in your hearts whoever finds me in all the living beings they are true devotees and lucky".


                                                       Second day paryanam completed.

                       THIRD DAY PARYANAM 

                                  SATURDAY

 DIVINE KNOWLEDGE

BABA enlightened  and cleared  the  devotees  confusion on divinity  in various ways, varies according to the person and situation.  some times he used to preach directly , sometimes he used to tell indirectly with help of others, some devotees are helped with religious books or paryanam,some devotees questions are answered in their dreams and some used to experience it and learn. Here a story is shared,

One day rich man who is a miser came to Masjid and asked BABA "  Enlighten me with divine knowledge of Brahma ". then BABA with pleasure said " So many devotees came to my Masjid and prayed  to remove their different problems based on financial , health, employment, diseases etc. no one ever asked like you to give divine knowledge and with so much interest. definitely  I ll give you, he asked one boy to bring 5 rs from a person but boy returned with empty hands likewise he sent the boy to 5 places to borrow 5 rs and every time boy returned with empty hands. Seeing all this man, impatiently said " BABA quickly tell me otherwise i have to pay more money to the horse cart for extra time." then words by BABA are

   "Oh my friend everything i did till now is to show you about divinity.  I sent the boy to 5 places to borrow 5 rs and you didn't offer 5 rs thought you are having 25  rs with you." then man checked his purse and he has 25 rs with him and he regretted, asked to forgive and give the blessing. then BABA said " forget all the desires you have. whoever are attached to the worldly pleasures like money and to the relations like wife and children , who are arrogant and over confident and always worries about worldly pleasures and emotions can never understand the words of SADDGURU. To get the divine knowledge we should have ability to forget everything and leave all the worldly pleasures, relations, emotion etc then only he can reach GOD. Those who want to reach DIVINE LORD they should have 4 qualities they are

 1. one who always speaks truth 2. meditation 3. single without any relations 4. self observation. without these one cannot reach the LORD."

" In this world we have two things. one is good for us and we get happiness with other thing. first one belongs to lord and second one belongs to worldly pleasures. clever people go with good things and remaining opt the second one. whoever fulfills his responsibility his mind would get peace than he can analyze what is important and permanent then only he can reach the LORD.  we cant get divine knowledge by ourselves we nee SADDGURU and blessings of LORD. when we leave  these 1. life 2. worldly pleasures 3.desires 4. arrogance 5. intelligence unless we leave the above qualities we cant get divine knowledge. whatever is sufficient for us we should take and that leads to satisfaction, then we can get remaining all abilities to gain divinity and reach LORD."

ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD

SAI devotee DASA GUNA MAHARAJU translated ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD into MAHARASHTRA language.but he didn't understand the content of the UPANISHAD properly and was not satisfied with translation so he asked BABA to clear his doubts and explain properly, to that SAI NATHA said " your doubt will be cleared by a small girl who works at KAKA SAHEB DIXIT house which is in VILLI PARLE." DASA GUNA  and others wondered how can a small girl explain the UPANISHAD which are not understood by pandits also. As BABA said DASA GUNA stayed in KAKA SAHEB house.

Next day morning when DASA GUNA woke up he heard a small girl who is a maid in his house was singing a nice song about a red saree and doing her work happily, he noticed this and felt pity on her. so he gave a red saree to her the next day , the girl felt so happy seeing the saree wore it and played with her friends all the day. Next day she came to work but with the old clothes and kept the new saree in her house but there is no sorrow in her face and started to sing song happily as she does everyday. DASA GUNA observed  happiness of the girl and thought deeply again and he got the answer. In reality she is a poor girl, the saree which she received is not permanent all through her life she understood this fact so she was happy though she  wore the same old clothes. and DASA GUNA understood that we will be happy if are satisfied with what we have by analyzing what is permanent and what is temporary in our lives and his doubts about ISHA VASYA UPANISHAD and BABA words became true.

This is unique way of preaching.If you have any doubts don't approach anyone immediately "first think and then try to get answer with experience and your doubts will be cleared. If you are not capable regarding this then only you approach SADDGURU or in other ways"

                                                 ఓం శ్రీ సమర్థ సద్ద్గురు సాయి నాథ మహా రాజ్ కి జై

ANANTH RAO PATAMKAR

SAI devotee named ANANTH came from PUNE took blessings from BABA and asked " I read all the Vedas and Upanishads but i don't have peace in my life, i heard that after listening to your witty words many got peace of mind in their lives". then BABA said " I think you understood that book knowledge is not useful,now listen to me long ago one merchant like you came to me for peace of mind then a lady horse in front of him pour dung and it fell in 9 places , that merchant took all those with him and he got peace of mind what else can i say?"

Ananth didn't understand the words of SAI BABA so he asked DADA KELKAR then he clarified that lady horse means LORD blessing dung means devotion,and they are in 9 ways,

1. sravanam ( to listen) 2. keertnam ( to sing) 3. smaranam ( repeating sacred mantra) 4. paada seva 5. pooja 6. namskarichatu (praying) 7. dasohamanuta 8. sakyamu 9. aatma niveedanamu. we have to follow any one of these with faith and devotion. 

  some may get doubt BABA can tell ANANTH about the 9 ways of devotion directly, but ANANTH asked BABA to tell in his witty words so he gave the words like this. devotee took the blessing and went with peace of mind.

OMNIPRESENT-SAI NATHA

In previous posts i shared some stories saying BABA is omnipresent. i want to share two more stories.

A devotee named V.H. TAKUR was a accountant in revenue office, he went BELGAM on some office work. Than he met a Kannada yogi  APPA. Yogi gave him a book " VICHAR SAGAR" written by NICSHAL DAS and asked him to read and told " your desires will be fulfilled ,when you go in east you will meet a great yogi , and he will bless you with good future". later TAKUR got transferred to JUNNURU. In JUNNURU he has to cross a hollow place in a hill and they should go on elephant only and he did the same. Then he was transferred to KALYANA village. over there he met NANA SAHEB and came to know about SAI NATHA  and came to SHIRIDI to take his blessing then BABA said " here method is not so easy as told by APPA YOGI or as elephant ride on the hollow hill, you have to put effort to know the spiritual values". when TAKUR heard this wondered how come BABA knows this secret which is only kept to him and prayed BABA with more devotion . Then SAI NATHA told " reading is not sufficient we have to implement and explained everything and blessed him" 

 One day a devotee who is a advocate came to SHIRIDI from PANDARI PURAM for SAI NATHA darshan. He prayed ,took the blessing after offering dakshin he went to a corner and sat. Then SHRI SAI NATHA looked at him and said " people are so cunning they will respect us but on our back they speak bad about us". BABA words are not understood by other, but advocate regretted hearing those words.Then the advocate told KAKA SAHEB DIXIT that " So many days ago our judge was not well , so he came to SHIRIDI to recover from the illness with his blessing. then some advocates discussed that if we are sick we have to visit doctors, we should not trust such kind of BABA or his vibuthi , and i  also took part in  that discussion".

 This incident happened long ago and that too far away from SHIRIDI, That too in rest room of pleaders. BABA made him remember this incident and taught some moral values. we should never blame other. we should never cheat who trust us blindly. whoever we may avoid now or leave them we may need them in our future so we should be careful and never hurt others with our words and it is a fault. people should know this that is the reason he warned him. SHRI SAMARTHA SAI will always save us from our faults and bless us.

SAI NATHA IS A SAFEGUARD TO HIS DEVOTEES

In KOPARGAV  a devotee MIRIKAR went to some place and on return he went to Masjid for darshan then BABA said " do you know tall BABA ? means snake " he showed the snake with the help of his both hands " it is dangerous but, how can it harm my devotees? when i am there what harm will that snake do?"no one understood the words of BABA. later with permission of BABA MIRIKAR took SHYAM to the village. when  they reached they halted at ANJANEYA SWAMY TEMPLE to take rest , then MIRIKAR was reading newspaper then snake was on his lap and he didn't notice but one person heard the hiss sound and shouted " snake snake " . MIRIKAR was frightened. every one came with sticks but snake came down without doing any harm , later it was killed. BABA knows the danger before so he cautioned them with the words and sent SHYAM along with him. MIRIKAR prayed to BABA with more devotion 

One day in Masjid BAVU SAHEB BUTTI was so worried because one astrologer told him ,

" you may die".but he came as usually and took darshan then BABA consoled him and said " why do you worry and fear when i am there to protect you i will see how death will come to you?". That evening when BUTTI went somewhere and he saw a snake. servant tried to kill her with help of stone but BUTTI sent him to bring a long stick. before he bought the stick snake didn't do any harm and went away. BUTTI remembered BABA words and felt happy and prayed with more devotion.

One midnight in Masjid BABA was accompanied with AMIR SAKKAR to sleep. while he was sleeping, BABA shouted in sleep " oye AMIR some snake is coming near to harm me look come and save me " then AMIR went near BABA but he didn't see anything and he thought may be it was a bad dream of BABA and returned to his place to sleep then he saw a snake in the lantern light and shouted . people gathered and snake went away but BABA was still in sleep. BABA cautioned AMIR while in sleep only by shouting , otherwise AMIR would be harmed by the snake. so BABA safe guards his devotees in his sleep also.

I wish everyone faith will be doubled after reading such stories.

BABA RESCUED SHYAM FROM SNAKE POISON

One day a snake harmed SHYAM. the snakes poison passed all through his body so quickly. In the SHIVA temple they cure such type of emergencies so his friends thought to take him over there but,SHYAM said SAI NATHA will only save me please take me there so everyone went to Masjid when BABA saw him he warned " oh coward Brahman you don't come up if you come i will see....go away " hearing the angry words of BABA ,SHYAM was disappointed and fell down since he came to him with so many hopes.after few seconds BABA returned to normal position and consoled saying " SHYAM don't worry this kind fakir will save you. you go home and take rest have faith on me" he told TATYA PATEL" let him eat but he should not sleep and stay in the house only , he is fine now" and sent him along with SHYAM. the words became true and SHYAM recovered in few hours only.

some may get doubt why BABA showed anger on SHYAM. actually BABA anger was not on him but about the poison snake only. he ordered poison not to pass through out his body. SHRI SADDGURU SAI words are enough to save ones life

DEVOTEES SHOULD SHOW AFFECTION TOWARDS PEOPLE BUT NOT ON THINGS

A devotee of RAMA used to  read VISHNU SAHSRANAMAM everyday in Masjid. he spends all the
time in devotion only, but he has more affection on thing and always say " its mine", " its not yours" so to remove this  thinking of him BABA thought to teach him a lesson.

One day BABA purposefully gave VISHNU SAHSRANAMAM book to SHYAM. He was afraid to take because he doesn't like argument with him, but BABA forced him to take the book. after some time Rama devotee returned Masjid and noticed that his book is with SHYAM and started argument with him. he scolded him then BABA seeing his anger said " oye if you have some money you can buy the book again but if you hurt them with harsh words that person will never talk with you. when you are reading the book since so many years you must have know everything by now then what is the use of the book? why are you so bothered if some other reads your book? remember one thing everyone should not say " this is mine or that is mine" affection on things. but you should have affection towards people and all the living being. intentionally I gave your book to SHYAM please calm down and think properly".

After listening BABA words also he didn't change. he started argument again and said " tell him also the same way as you told me. If i ask him to give his books does he give me?" to that SHYAM replied surely i ll give you tell me what books do you want? and the Rama devotee felt bad, then BABA said " now see the difference between you and him". affection should be towards people but not on things this is another beautiful message from BABA.

HARIDASU SHOULD BE SIMPLE- ADVICE OF BABA

In MAHARASHTRA HARIDASU don't appear like simple haridasu as in our state ANDHRA PRADESH. they used to wear a long coat over shirt, kanduva and dhoti with a big hat on their head called as " peta" over there and hold an instrument tambura.

One day DASA GUNA also dressed up in the same way and went to BABA for permission to give harikadha presentation in SHIRIDI. BABA looked at him and smiled and asked " you are looking like groom with this dressing where are you going" to that he replied " i am going to tell harikadha" then BABA said " why are you wearing all the garments? remove all of them with hat also. haridasu should be simple and should not wear any garment like others" immediately DASA GUNA removed them and took blessings. later he never dressed like that. he used to wear only garland and hold the tambura and recite all harikathas. HARIDASU is the resemblance of NARADA MAHA MUNI who chants HARI mantra and travel from one place to other. so BABA advice to haridasu is to be simple and recite with devotion.

  

WE SHOULD NOT BLAME OTHERS

One day in Masjid a person was on anger and started talking only bad about some other person. he forgot all the good qualities in him and pointed out all his bad ones and talked all rubbish.generally BABA doesn't like and in is view point blaming others means cleaning their faults. for example to remove our dirt we use water,soap,brush and many other methods are there.similarly if we blame others we are cleaning their faults  with our tongue so whoever scolds and blame us we have to thank them it seems! so strange. BABA called the person who blamed other person after the argument is over and showed him a pig and said " see the pig it is eating all junk food leaving the remaining good food behind? in the same way you left all the good qualities in him and talked about bad qualities only with your tongue. how can you behave like a pig being a human and its a sacred life among all other living beings it it fair on part of you?" this way BABA told him in a smooth way and made him realize his mistake.

 HEMAD PANTH WROTE SHRI SAI BABA SACHHRITRAM 

ANNA SAHEB DHABOLKAR who is called as HEMAD PANTH by BABA did service with full devotion and faith. he experienced  all the miracles of BABA and wrote the book SAI SACHHRITRAM with all the stories,messages and miracles of BABA. even he has own experiences with BABA to pen down.

HEMAD PANTH is a  resident magistrate in BANDRA and 1910 year he went to SHIRIDI for SAI NATHA darshan and when he saw BABA he felt so happy, forgot all his problems. whoever take darshan of BABA will feel the same and their thoughts will be changed, sins in the previous incarnation will also be removed if they have faith and slowly we ll loose interest on worldly pleasures. " after seeing SAI NATHA we feel he is everywhere in this world".this is best example to tell about greatness of BABA.  ANNA SAHEB DHABOLKAR was popular as HEMADPANTH.

HEMAD PANTH was surprised with different acts and miracles of BABA ,also experienced his omnipresence also with this incident. on the day he reached SHIRIDI there was big discussion between him and NANA SAHEB about SADDGURU in SATE house. since it is time for afternoon pooja they stopped the discussion and went to Masjid and when they reached BABA said " NANA what is HEMADPANTH arguing about?" he was surprised with this question since SATE house is far away from Masjid but BABA knows the discussion and argument which happened. time, distance and speed are not the obstacles for BABA to know what is happening in this world so we call him omnipresent and HEMAD PANTH accepted heart fully with faith and devotion.

HARDSHIP OF OTHERS MUST BE PAID GENEROUSLY 

One day SAI NATHA devotee RADHA KRISHNA MAI was suffering with malaria fever. so to cure her fever BABA thought to visit her house in afternoon,he came to her house and asked to bring one ladder then one person went and bought the ladder. BABA climbed that ladder and went into her house, he gave 2 rs to that person who bought the ladder , seeing this some people said " he bought the ladder only, how did you give 2 rs to the person". then BABA replied " we should always be generous in paying money to the people who work for us, never disappoint them for their hard work and not postpone their payment then only both the workers and owners will be happy and no misunderstanding will be there".

If we follow the words of  BABA , so many problems in this world would be solved and we have peaceful world.
                                                    సాయి శరణం  సాయి శరణం  సాయి శరణం
                                                     సాయిశరణం   దుఃఖ హరణం సాయి శరణం  

GREAT MIND READER-BABA

A yogi who read all the great books like PATANJALI about yoga but failed in learning yoga asana,he heard  about fame on SAI NATHA and came to SHIRIDI to take his darshan and ask his help to learn yoga perfectly. when he reached Masjid he saw BABA eating roti with a onion. he was disappointed after seeing this and thought " he is eating onion with roti. how can he teach me yoga?". BABA sensed his thoughts because he reads mind easily and spoke " NANA whoever can digest the onion only those should eat it!"he was startled with this words and surprised how come BABA sensed his thoughts and again thought  " onion is equal to deer meat and it is prohibited and provokes anger in us and the reason why all the saints and yogi will not eat onions and he read this in so many books so he was confused after seeing BABA" to remove the confusion of yogi BABA said " NANA what should we eat? what should not be eaten? what we ate and who eats? is all illusion" till then he was eating onion  and suddenly full onion came out from his mouth and played with it in the air. seeing this yogi was amazed and didn't utter a word for a second. immediately he fell on BABA feet to forgive him and told him about his incapability and prayed with faith.BABA blessed him and gave vibuthi and told him " son! put more effort in learning" gave some tips,encouraged and sent him.

PREVENTION OF CHOLERA BY SAINATHA

One day in the morning when HEMAD PANTH went for darshan, he saw BABA milling wheat grains with the help of tirugali (grist mill  used in earlier days) and was shocked.SAI NATHA don't have to do this since he is a yogi and everyone offers him food. what is the use of wheat flour for him? he didn't understand. meanwhile some ladies came pushed BABA aside and they did the work happily. after they finished with work BABA ordered " please take this flour and sprinkle at the border of SHIRIDI". HEMAD PANTH out of curiosity asked people over there and they replied " now there is cholera problem in SHIRIDI to prevent the disease BABA will make us do this activity". HEMAD PANTH didn't understand the relation between cholera and wheat flour but SAINATHA is omniscient and there is specific reason behind his acts. 

SADDGURU is the person who saves us all the time. we have to pray with faith and devotion. i wish we all are under the blessings of SHRI SAI NATHA.

                                                               Third day paryanam completed.

                          

                      FOURTH DAY PARYANAM

                                      SUNDAY

SHARE FOOD WITH OTHERS:

  On every Sunday a fair is  held at SHIRIDI. Since many people visit from various surrounding places, they also come to Masjid for SAI NATHA darshan and it looks so lively with so many devotees in darbar.one day HEMAD PANTH was soothing BABA feet , meanwhile SHYAM said " HEMAD PANTH ! why there are bengal gram on your shirt" then he checked and so many fell down then he was surprised and checked with left side hand also then some more fell down, everyone laughed by picking the grams and started eating.BABA said " HEMAD  PANTH has a bad habit of eating alone without offering to others and these grams exhibit his bad habit". HEMAD PANTH felt bad for BABA words and said " i will offer food to everyone who are with me and than only eat. i m sure you know this? then BABA replied " its true. if anyone is there with you, you ll offer but when nobody is present what will you do? you always believe that i ll be present with you only then why you never remember me while eating? otherwise will you eat without offering to me?" to that HEMAD PANTH stammered to reply and people laughed again. actually there is nothing to laugh here BABA gave this message to everyone. 

 In this world everyone are busy with their worries and problems in their life, its hard to have peace of mind for few minutes also.we do not get time to worship GOD. so whenever we get little time and  if we don't chant mantras or worship, it means we are unlucky. so if you get a time try to worship GOD or SADDGURU. the one who want to overcome all the worldly pleasures will never eat without offering food to others, if nobody is there also pray GOD before you eat. In BHAGVAD GITA SLOKA also it is written that praying before you eat is a good habit and all our sins will be removed. if we eat for ourselves means we  get sin in our lives, so we should have a habit of sharing and praying before we eat and to bring awareness regarding this BABA gave message to HEMAD PANTH in a unique way. regarding this one more story is given below. 

                                              
                                                KRISHNA - KUCHELA

   

SHRI KRISHNA and KUCHELA were students in SANDIPANI ashram. one day their GURU gave some rice flakes to him and told him take SHRI KRISHNA along with him and bring some sticks and you both share the rice flakes. after some time they reached forest, KRISHNA was tired and asked KUCHELA to give water but KUCHELA said " you should not drink water without eating anything in the morning" but he didn't tell about the rice flakes. after a while SHRI KRISHNA acted as he slept then KUCHELA took this chance and started eating. SHRI KRISHNA asked his friend " what are you eating ?" then KUCHELA stammered and lied him saying " what is there to eat nothing. i m biting my teeth due to severe cold, may be that noise is heard like eating something". KUCHELA didn't know that SHRI KRISHNA knows everything and he suffered from severe poverty because he did not share food with him, he himself got all the difficulties for such mistake. when he offered the rice flakes share of SHRI KRISHNA  he is blessed with a new life.so always share food with others.

DEVOTEES WORSHIP AND BABA BLESSINGS HAS NO BOUNDS

 Devotees used to worship BABA according to their wish,with his permission. BABA never stopped them in doing service to him and gets angry if anyone interferes with his devotees worship. One day MAVISI BHAI a devotee of SAI NATHA was scrubbing his stomach with pressure. The people over there noticed this and cautioned her saying " put less pressure otherwise BABA feels pain in the stomach". BABA was angered by their words and put his sataka deep into stomach and put all the stress by leaning on  the wall. Seeing this everyone feared but no one prevented him. BABA got so much anger because they all interfered when she is doing service to him on her wish. the people who cautioned her regretted for their words and BABA came in to normal stage. if his devotees try to kill him with pure love and devotion he feels happy but if anyone interferes he can't bear. SAI NATHA doesn't even bother about his life when it comes to his devotees worship. Blessing of SAI NATHA will be there for us always and we should only worship him with faith and devotion.

MIRACLE OF BABA EXPERIENCED BY A DOCTOR

Once a devotee asked his friend who is a doctor to visit SHIRIDI and worship SAINATHA.But he is a devotee of SHRI RAMA so he said I won't worship BABA since he is a Muslim.Then his friend said "dear friend nobody will force you to worship BABA in SHIRIDI, you can do as you wish" So the doctor came SHIRIDI. Both of them went to the Masjid to worship BABA. Strangely, the doctor was only the first one among all other devotees to worship and pray BABA. Everyone asked for the reason then he replied " I saw my SRI RAMA in the place where SAI NATHA was present so I prayed him".everyone looked there but they saw SAI BABA only. With this unusual incident doctor thought " SAI NATHA is a great saint but not an ordinary Muslim, I wont come to Masjid unless BABA blesses me" After 4 days another friend forced him , so he gave up his thought and went to Masjid then BABA " who invited this doctor to the Masjid?" why?" He was surprised when he heard the words of BABA and worshiped him with devotion. That night he got a dream and SAINATHA blessed him. From that on wards  he became more devoted to SAI NATHA and worshiped him all his life.

A QUARREL OF TWO DEVOTEES

ANNA CHINKAR is a devotee who is rough but is kind at heart so BABA allowed him to stay in Masjid. One day he is giving massage to BABA left hand.at the same time MAVISI BHAI who was the devotee,mentioned in  previous post was giving massage to back and fingers of BABA. in this process both of there faces came nearer, as MAVISI BHAI is witty in nature she exclaimed " ohoo this ANNA is a old man and he is trying to kiss me". as ANNA is a rough person he got angry and started to argue and scold her and quarrel became severe. everyone laughed at there quarrel . BABA kept quiet, after some time interfered between them saying " stop your argument, a kiss between mother and son is fair thing" hearing this everyone felt happy as BABA cleverly stopped the quarrel between them.

   CHOLERA IN SHIRIDI

There was cholera in SHIRIDI. To eradicate cholera GRAM PANCHAYAT ordered people to follow 2 rules 1.wooden logs should not come into a village 2. they should not kill a goat. At the same time one cart came with wooden logs and no one allowed the cart into village with fear of cholera but they need wooden logs for household works .BABA understood the problem and brought the cart to the Masjid. no one has courage to prevent BABA as he needs wood  to lit  DHUNI. People also took the required wooden logs. BABA helped them with a kind heart.

One day a person brought a goat to the Masjid.its weak because of old age and may die at any minute.At that time MOHMED URAF BADE BABA is present over there. BABA likes him so much with that affection he asked him to kill the goat but BADE BABA replied " why should we kill her? Is it necessary?". and avoided SAI NATHA words. Immediately he ordered SHYAM to complete the task, he agreed and went to bring a knife, in the meantime BABA also ordered KAKA SAHEB DIXIT he immediately brought the knife and started to kill her  then BABA scolded him saying " being a BRAHMAN how can you kill a goat don't you have any feelings?" then DIXIT replied with modesty saying " whatever you say I will do. Ialways chant,devote and worship you. I will obey your orders and I m not bothered to judge whether it is good or bad". BABA was satisfied with his reply and said " I will only kill her ". while he is taking to " thakia" it died in the middle. with this story we have to understand that they are 3 types of disciples

1. who ever understands the inner thought of SADDGURU and perform the action without his order are the best ones 2. Who obeys SADDGURU orders without any thought are average 3. who does not obey orders immediately and try to judge the good and bad in it are normal one.we should have faith, patience,devotion then SADDGURU blessing will be there for us always.

AN EXPERIENCE OF KRISHNAJI ALI BAGHKAR 

SHRI AKKALKOTKAR MAHARAJA is also a saint believed by so many people in the 19th century and they say that he is an incarnation of GOD DATTATREYA. KRISHNAJI is a devotee of AKKALKOTKAR MAHARAJA thought to visit AKKALKOT and worship him. That night he got a dream and SHRI AKKALKOTKAR MAHARAJA said " Son! now I am presently in SHIRIDI.you don't go to  AKKALKOT, visit SHIRIDI and worship me as you wish  and do all Pooja over there only".So he went SHIRIDI and worshiped BABA. This moment is happiest and strange one in KRISHNAJI life so he thought to ground the foot marks of SHRI SAI NATHA as a token of happiness. He shared the idea with his friends and they all decided to ground the foot marks where BABA was first appeared and that is under neem tree. A copy of foot marks was carved with wood. They showed them to SHRI UPAASANI BABA who stays in SHIVA MANDIR, he made some changes and to bring awareness of SHRI SAI NATHA divinity and yoga power he gave them a SLOKA and told to carve those letters also

                         
                                       "   సదా  నింబవ్రిక్షస్య మూలది వాసాత్
                                           సుధాస్రావిణం తిక్త మప్య  ప్రియంతం
                                           తరుం  కల్పవ్రిక్షాధికం  సాధయంతం
                                           నమీస్వరం  సద్గురుం సాయినాధం"

later they went to seek permission of BABA and worshiped him then BABA gave them permission and ordered to ground them on SRAVANA POORNIMA . As per SAI NATHA orders they bought the foot marks and grounded them grandly in that day. At present also we can see the foot marks with the SLOKA under the neem tree.

HARISH CHANDRA PITHALE 

A MUMBAI resident HARISH CHANDRA has a son. He is suffering with a disease which is not cured by  medicines nor Ayurveda also. when the parents lost the hope of his son's survival they heard about SHRI SAI NATHA, immediately they went SHIRIDI and worshiped BABA to save his son. BABA cured his son disease. In that happiness HARISH CHANDRA distributed sweets to everyone over there.He offered fruits to BABA and when he is about to leave BABA called him gave VIBUTHI , PRASADAM and 3 rs to him and blessed him and said " earlier I gave you 2 rs  now I am giving 3 rs, keep these coins in your Pooja Mandir and worship. you ll have a good life". Actually this is the first time for HARISH CHANDRA to visit SHIRIDI so he didn't understand BABA words but he obediently took the money prayed him and returned MUMBAI. He narrated all the incidents to his mother which happened in SHIRIDI and told this also " BABA gave 2 rs to us it seems. I didn't understand. you know anything regarding this" then his mother thought for a while and said " yes son! Now I remembered one thing. As you took your son now to SHIRIDI your father also took you to AKKALKOT MAHARAJA than he gave 3rs to your father. your father Worshiped them. Later we all forgot about it and again with your luck SHRI AKKALKOT MAHARAJA as  SAI NATHA  gave you 3rs again and blessed you". After listening to this HARISH CHANDRA was more devoted to SHRI SAI NATHA. 

HARI KANOB 

HARI KANOB is a resident of MUMBAI came to SHIRIDI.He wore new chappals and a turban which is known as jaripeta. He left the his footwear near corner to worship SAI NATHA. He took blessings, when he came out his footwear was missing. He searched but he could not find them. He returned to his place but he was irritated and he is thinking about his new footwear only which were missed at the Masjid. He went out to have lunch then he heard a small boy shouting " HARI KA BETA - JARIKA PETA" and he has stick in his hands with his footwear hanging. HARI KANOB called that boy and asked why are you shouting like this then he said " BABA told me to do, if anyone asks for footwear you confirm that his name is HARI and father's name is KANOB and he wears turban then only give the footwear".He gave all the details and took his footwear but he didn't understand how come SAI NATHA knew his details and how he recognized that the footwear belongs to him only.

TO COMMIT SUICIDE IS A FAULT

A devotee of SAI NATHA is a resident of PUNE, he suffered with so many problems in his life.  He used to visit SHIRIDI every year , and share all his sorrows with BABA, BABA used to listen and keep quiet. 7 yrs are passed. In 1916 his condition became more worse and out of depression he thought to commit suicide in SHIRIDI only. That  night he thought to jump in a well and take his life purposefully. BABA sensed his thoughts and saved his life in his unique way. devotee stayed in DIXIT house,nearby there was a hotel and that owner named SAGUNA MEERU NAYAK came near this  devotee, told him to read AKKALKOT MAHARAJA autobiography and gave the book to him and went away. He started reading and he came across a story in which it is written, one devotee suffered with a disease so much so he got fed up and thought to suicide, and jumped in well than AKKALKOT MAHARAJA saved him and spoke," all the sins you made in your previous incarnation are the problems for you in this life and you should suffer , if you attempt suicide the problems will be doubled in your next life and you have to suffer more than this in your next incarnation of life so, why you want to suffer in next incarnations also? " he cautioned and blessed him.

when he read this story, devotee realized his mistake and thought the karma should be fulfilled and thanked BABA for sending the book in right time.later he worshiped BABA took his blessings.with the blessings he got good name in astrology and settled in his life happily. with this story we can say that BABA is also AKKALKOT MAHARAJA only.

SAI NATHA FULFILLS THE PROMISE MADE TO HIS DEVOTEE

B.B.DEV is a devotee of SAI NATHA who lives in DAHAN. His mother made 25 vows to fulfill those vows she decided to organize all the ritual at the same time and invited 200 Brahmans to have lunch in the ritual function. DEV wrote a letter to SAI NATHA and invited him to attend the function. ZOGU told BABA about the letter and invitation then BABA said " They remembered  and invited me then how can i forget them. tell them that you , me and other person will attend the function". ZOGU replied with the letter.

Few days before the function, one man with Bengali dress,other one as saint and 3 rd person who collects donation money came to DEV. DEV told them to meet him after 2 months. They went away. At the function time DEV was busy with the works and at the same time the person with Bengali dress came again to DEV telling that I came to attend the function , two more persons are there with me. DEV invited them with pleasure. They ate and went away.

In the function time DEV thoughts revolved around SAI NATHA only. SAI NATHA nor JOGU didn't attend the function. He was disappointed and wrote a letter to SAI NATHA saying that he didn't fulfill the promise.

ZOGU received the letter and went near BABA and read the letter then BABA said " DEV is disappointed because I didn't fulfill the promise. I pity him, to fulfill the promise i don't care about my life also. when i came in Bengali dress he thought i came for donation money to clarify his doubt I also said I came with two more persons for lunch. when he cannot recognize me why should he invite me ?" DEV read the letter and felt happy.

DEVOTEE BEST COMPANION IS GOD

DADA SAHEB KAAPDKAR and his wife are devotees of SAI NATHA. Every day in afternoon DADA SAHEB wife used to bring lunch to Masjid exactly at 12:00. After SAI NATHA finishes with the lunch, she used to eat. One day she sat near BABA and started to massage his feet at that time BABA smiled happily and massaged her hands. So many people saw this and SHYAM said " Its very nice to see this, God and devotee are helping each other so nicely".

Its true! God  also worship  his devotees in the form of  blessings. In BHAGAVADGITA also it is mentioned  "who ever adores and worships me in different ways in the same way i ll bless them with happiness in all ways ". "KRISHNA"  mean " who ever worships him he ll worship them also" That is the reason why he is know as GREAT "SHRI KRISHNA PARAMATMA"  We hope our SHRI SAI KRISHNA blessings will be there on us always.

 EXPERIENCES OF CAPTAIN HAATE WITH SAINATHA

Captain Haate is devotee of SAI NATHA lives in BIKANER. One day in his sleep he got a dream that he offered curry made with bottle gourd and dakshin to SAI NATHA. Then he woke up and decided to offer them really to SAI NATHA. So he sent 12 rs money to his friend through money order and told him to cook curry and give remaining 10 rs as dakshin to BABA. His friend helped HAATE , he cooked the curry and took to Masjid. On that day BABA waited for the curry and  ate only bottle gourd curry. His friend wrote the above incident in the letter and posted. HAATE read the letter and felt happy.

One more time Captain HAATE felt that he should have sacred coin which is used by BABA. So he gave 1 rs to his friend who is going to SHIRIDI. His friend went to Masjid and prayed and gave the 1 rs given by HAATE to him. SAINATHA took the 1 rs , looked at the coin keenly and played with the coin and said " Give this to your friend along with the vibuthi and prasadam. I don't want this. Tell him to live peacefully and happily". His friend told the SAI NATHA words and gave the 1 rs to him. He felt happy.

DEVOTEES MUST HAVE PATIENCE

A person named HARI NAYAK SATE suffered so many difficulties, He came to SHIRIDI to take blessings of BABA. He did GURU CHARITRA PARYANAM within a week, next day BABA came in his dream and he was teaching the CHARITRA. He shared this incident with KAKA SAHEB. In Masjid KAKA SAHEB asked BABA regarding this dream and BABA replied " Tell him to read Paryanam one more time and he will be happy ". At this time HEMAD PANTH was there and he was massaging BABA feet and he thought in mind " HARI NAYAK did Paryanam within a week and BABA gave his darshan in his dream I m doing Paryanam since 40 yrs but he never gave darshan in my dream. He was in SHIRIDI for a week only and got BABA blessing and I m here and worshiping him since 7 yrs but he never blessed me" and felt bad.BABA sensed his thoughts and told HEMAD PANTH to meet SHYAM and spend with him for a while and sent him. HEMAD PANTH went to SHYAM and told him that BABA gave orders to meet him. SHYAM smiled and told " I have nothing to talk about. I know only SAI NATHA and his stories. If you have no objection I ll tell one story about BABA devotee who is a RADHA BHAI an old lady".

 RADHA BHAI a devotee of SAI NATHA who is  old lady came to SHIRIDI and thought in mind that she will not leave SHIRIDI unless BABA communicates an initiatory mantra to her. She started to do fasting also,  3 days passed. Since she is older she became weak due to fasting, BABA came to know this and brought her to Masjid and spoke 

" why are you so much determined? just listen my words carefully. I worshiped my SADDGURU for so many years but he never taught me mantras then how can I communicate a mantra to you? I always worshiped him only with meditation and in other ways with devotion and faith.  SADDGURU expects only two qualities from his disciples and they are 1.devotion 2. patience. We should worship our SADDGURU with so much devotion and we must have lot of patience to seek his blessings from him. We should not be in a hurry. Patience removes all sorrows and difficulties. we should have devotion and patience then only we ll get blessings from SADDGURU.I never asked nor expected from my SADDGURU. Don't expect any mantra from anyone and it is not necessary. Always concentrate on your SADDGURU in all your actions. You don't need any books or any other to learn Mantras. Just have faith and devotion and be patient."
RADHA BHAI changed her decision regarding this and left SHIRIDI. She worshiped BABA as her SADDGURU.  

SHYAM completed the story and HEMAD PANTH realized his mistake and thought " SADDGURU knows when and how to bless his devotees. We should have devotion with patience. we should never compare with others, if we do we can never feel happy." Mean while afternoon HARATI started and both of them went to Masjid. When he reached BABA called HEMAD PANTH and asked " what you spoke with SHYAM".HEMADPANTH told everything to BABA, HARATI was going on but both spoke without getting disturbed.and BABA spoke as below

WISDOM OF SAI NATHA
" My methods are unique. Remember this story you will learn a lot. worldly pleasure will not erase from our mind unless we stop caring about our outer appearance. At some point you will know who is GOD and what is permanent than you can reach LORD " Harati was completed with this words of BABA.

                     'JAI SHRI SACHIDANANDA SADDGURU SAINATHA MAHARAJAH KI JAI'


                                                       4th day paryanam completed.

                           FIFTH DAY PARYANAM  

                                        MONDAY

MIRACLES OF VIBUTHI 

SAI NATHA likes vibuthi. He used to sing songs on vibuthi sometimes in the Masjid. "రా రమ్ము గోనెలు తో ఊధి ని తే తెమ్ము "song is famous till now also.BABA always lit DHUNI and give Vibuthi from this DHUNI to his devotees. some stories are shared in two posts,  how vibuthi helped BABA devotees in difficult times.

Once a scorpion bit a person who is a SAI NATHA devotee. It pained a lot.He thought at this time Vibuthi works well on such type of wounds but, at that time Vibuthi is not there with him. Than also he prayed BABA and took some agarbatti ash in his Pooja room and applied on the wound.He applied and removed his hand , strangely pain reduced. He felt so happy and prayed BABA with gratitude.

A devotee who is a BANDRA resident , his daughter was suffering with plague in other village.He started to the village to see her but he don't have vibuthi with him.At that time he met NANA SAHEB in the station and asked for vibuthi but he also don't have vibuthi.NANA SAHEB thought for a while and took some sand on the road prayed BABA and applied that on his wife forehead. Devotee noticed all this but he was worried for not having vibuthi with him and went to his daughter.Then he came to know that when NANA SAHEB applied vibuthi on his wife forehead and from that instant her daughter disease was cured.He was surprised and prayed BABA with gratitude.He felt happy.

Once SHYAM brothers wife got plague disease. Its getting worse. SHYAM asked for BABA help. BABA gave vibuthi and prasadam and told " you visit tomorrow, now you send this vibuthi and tell her to apply on the infected area and drink the water mixed with Vibuthi". SHYAM did the same. Next day when he went to see her , She is healthy and happy. SHYAM felt happy and prayed BABA again.

MIRACLES OF VIBUTHI

In MALEGAM (NASHIK) a doctor was there,He has a son in law and he suffered from a boil which is so severe. He took so many medicines but it was not cured.He did operation also but it was not cured.Than he heard about SHRI SAI NATHA and on their advice his parent went to BABA and prayed him. BABA put his finger on the boil and said " Who ever comes to Masjid are always healthy and happy. Apply vibuthi on the boil, it will reduce in a week". As he said the boil reduced in a week and was cured.

Once a girl suffered from dullness.She used to  lost her consciousness for every hour and cannot speak at that time. Medicines didn't cure her disease. On his friends advice father took her daughter to Masjid than BABA gave vibuthi and told to mix with water and drink daily. Earlier she used to get every hour but now she lost consciousness for every 7 hrs. After few days disease was cured totally.

In HARDHA one old person has stones in his kidney. Doctors told him that operation should be done to remove the stones but, he is afraid to get operated. Then some of his son s  friends gave some vibuthi and asked him to give this with water , son did the same and gave the water to his father, After few minutes stones dissolved and excreted. Old person became healthy after few days.

A BANDRA resident was unable to sleep properly at night times, and get dream in which his father scold and beats him. He was so restless since he is not having proper sleep. On his friends advice he took Vibuthi of SAI NATHA , applied on his forehead and kept remaining under his pillow and slept. From that day on wards he slept happily without any disturbance.

BIRTH OF MYNATHAI SON IS A MIRACLE

In 1904-05 NANA SAHEB lives in JAMNERU which is 100 miles from SHIRIDI.He has a daughter and she is about to give birth on that day but, her condition was not proper to give birth. She took so many medicines but there is no proper result. NANA prayed BABA to save his daughter from this hard situation.

In SHIRIDI there is a saint named " RAM GIRI BUVA" but BABA calls him " BAVU GIRI BUVA" He was going to " JALGAMU" so he came to Masjid for  BABA permission. Then BABA called  and told
"give Harati song and Vibuthi to NANASAHEB who lives in JAMNERU".Then BUVA replied "I have money to travel till JALGAMU only. JAMNERU is 30 miles from JALGAMU and I don't have money to travel more distance". BABA said " Everything will come to you only. don't worry,go fast" To solve his devotees problems he showed the interest and there is nothing strange in that.

Having faith on BABA BUVA started and reached JALGAMU. He has only 2 anna and its not sufficent to travel till  JAMNERU. He was thinking how to go then a horse cart came near him and asked " who is RAM GIRI BUVA" then he replied its me only than horse cart driver told him " NANA SAHEB sent me " and they both started to JAMNERU. They reached JAMNERU , BUVA went to refresh himself and when he returned again horse cart was not there. He was surprised seeing missing horse cart and some how reached NANA SAHEB house.

By that time MYNATAI health became worse and everyone lost their hope.At that time BUVA came with harathi song and vibuthi. They felt happy gave vibuthi to her and sang harathi, In few minutes she gave birth to a son and she was also safe. BUVA heard the happy news and said " Thanks for sending the cart. Now i will leave" to that NANA replied with surprise " I don't know that you are coming. I did'nt send any cart to you.".They both came to know this was also a miracle of BABA and felt happy. Both prayed with gratitude and devotion.BABA is present everywhere.