SAIRAM
Namaste. Just wanted to share my experiences with Swami.I humbly suggest
that we should not say "why I believed in HIM" -- in past tense,rather it
should be "why I believe in HIM.
I am from south India. I have many relatives and friends who are staunch
SWAMI devotees. well educated and sane people who have shared their blissful
Swami experiences with me and I thought they were mad.I even witnessed the
out-pouring of vibhuti(one week),kumkum the next and manjal (turmeric) the
third week from Swamis photo kept in a hostel mess hall at Stree Seva
mandir,Saligram Chennai but even then I was still sceptical. I chose to believe
the useless stories in India Today and similar magazines.I really regret all
those lost years when I could have been drenched in bliss but chose not to
acknowledge GOD in human form in our midst. I was mad, not them.
After marriage I came to North India and on the last day of LKG class of
my son (2006) I saw a calender with Swami s picture in his class and without
thinking I folded my hands in prayer. His teacher asked me _Do you know who
this is? I said - I'm from south india and everybody knows HIM there.The
teacher shared her Swami experiences with me and a thought just burst in my
mind then and there that "why am I again and again being told about Swami. Is
it a message for me that I have been ignoring or unable to understand? I
decided to search on net about Baba. I loved what I read and started feeling an
inner happiness and peace and started doing e-puja on puttaparthilive.com
website.I vowed that I MUST have darshan of Swami that year when I come for
annual vacation.
This occured in early 2006. A short time later I noticed that the 3 month
old infant daughter of my sil went blue when she cried.She was diagnosed with 4
big problems in her one little heart. Our family was devastated because the
infants elder sister was a patient of Thalessemia and this childs cord blood
had been saved to use for her elder sister. Also the financial burden of
treating both of them was unimaginable.
While searching for treatment options my friend suggested SSSIHMS, where
Swami showered free treatment blessings on such patients. I wrote mail and
explained all and recd reply to wait until Sept 2006.Then my brother suggested
me to contact a sai devotee doing seva in Whitefield hospital who was my
mothers classmate. We went to Whitefield in June and the rest is "divine
miracle". Child was operated without delay. I had my first darshan of Swami
from second row in ladies side with my children and my sil elder child and
husband. I broke down as I sang and saw the mangala arti as I was seeing it
"live" for first time.
Since then Swami has blessed me with Divya Darshan every year and Darshan
in my dreams (many times)whenever I am upset or worried.
I had lived 36 years of my life in a place which was not far from Parthi
or Whitefield but never went there.Now Swami would lovingly call me from 1000
kms away each year for HIS Divya Darshan. In 2007 Swami blessed me with darshan
along with my Mother in wheel chair , Father, brother with his family and
another brother at Parthi. In 2010 I prayed that Swami should bless me with
darshan in Shirdi and Parthi with family and Swami did.
I regret that I did not come to Swami earlier but on other hand I feel so
blessed that I have seen GOD when He was here in human form. I'm sure Swami
will always be there for all of us - HIS Bangarus and as my sons teacher
recently said- now that Swami is not limited by His human form His Blessings
and miracles will be brillliant decorations of the Golden Age of Sai - that HE
promised.
OM SAI RAM
