It was in the month of July 1980 that I first met Pujya Shri
Acharya E. Bharadwaja, who is doing yeoman service for the spread
of Sai devotion, at Chivatam village. It was a
''Mandalaradhana Day” after the Mahasamadhi of "Mother of L.Hivatam"
and a Guru Poornima day too. On that auspicious occasion and in the
presence of so many "Mahatmas", I got an inspiration to start Sai
Satsang at Kovvur. Accordingly we started Satsang with the children of
our surroundings, who belong to the age group of 5 to 15 years. It
is now going on every -day with increasing faith and devotion and
the participants of the Satsang are enjoying the blessings of Baba
as well as the appreciation of the society. It is clearly
evident from our experience that it is His Power alone that enables us
to conduct the Satsang every day without fail. I wish to narrate
here a great miracle which happened at our Sai Kuteer.
It was in the month of July 1983 that my sister-in-law. Smt. Lakshmi
Kamamurthy, who is the chief organiser of our Satsang, was worried a lot
regarding how to celebrate the coming Guru Poornima Day. As all the members
of our Satsang are only children, we do not have any patrons to raise funds
for special offerings on that day. So, Smt Lakshmi had decided to celebrate
it in a simple way without much expenditure. But the compassionate Baba
would not allow His devotees to be disappointed in any matter. On 6th July
1983, the postman handed over a registered cover to Smt Lakshmi. It was from
my brother's son, Mr. Satya Prasad, who is working in Hyderabad. Immediately
after opening the cover nineteen ten rupee notes (a sum of Rs. 190/-) fell
down. In utter astonishment, she unfolded the letter inside, in
which she found Rs. 75/- kept separately. Mr. Satya Prasad wrote in
the letter that he used to send Rs.25/- to Shirdi every month. But he
could not do so since three months for unknown reasons. So, he is
sending that amount o( Rs. 75/- for the coming Guru Poornima Celebrations
in our Sai Kuteer. But he did not mention any thing about the other
190/-. Smt, Lakshmi thought that they were put in the cover by mistake
and so she dropped a letter immediately to Mr. Satya Prasad seeking
clarification about this amount. By return post, he confirmed
that he did not know anything about those Rs. I90/- and that he sent
only Rs. 75/-. Then we understood that it is nothing but a "Sai
Leeela". In that way Baba, financing by Himself, got performed Sahasra
Nama Puja, Anna Samaradhana; etc., on a grand scale on Guru Poornima Day.
P. S. R. Vijaya Bhaskai
Kovvur (West Godavari District) A. P.]
The experiences of Devotees as published in Shri Sai Leela Magazine, can be
read at www.saileelas.org/magazines/SAILEELA/exp.htm
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