Miraculously, there is a shirdi temple here in Chicago. I wanted to go for baba's darshan so I searched for the nearest temple for baba.
The temple I usually go to near my school is beautiful and has idols of most of the gods but does not have baba's idol. There has been some incidents in my life that drove me closer to beliving in baba and I would like to share one with all of you devotees. It might say I have left everything to Baba, and immediately after saying it starts all it’s effort for securing its identity, gathered from society. It is very difficult for the mind or I to leave everything to Sai Baba. We have to leave it to the grace of Sai Baba and allow His grace to work. When the mind or I is trying to get calm it can never be. As Baba has indicated it requires a calm mind to grasp the grace. The mind or I can never fathom the grace, the grace has to be allowed to work on mind. It’s best when the I is absent and only the grace of Baba is felt, the grace is allowed to work on mind rather than mind working to find the meanings. The I with the wants, the I looking for directions, the I looking for the learning. Even while reading the great blessed book Sai SatCharitra, it is better that the I is absent. I is always surrounded with fears, and ifs. If I is there, that I would be much thinking over what is being written, what will the readers say, what will the intellectual people say. One feels it is Baba’s work His grace will guide whoever needs to read it.Įven the word I seem to be heavy so the word one is used, because the I is not there. And one feels it is all with Sai Baba’s direction and grace one is drawn to write this. The sacred book is not read with the aim to learn something, but only for the feeling of grace and love felt through it, yet it never ceases to give appropriate directions. If we go everyday and meet him, it is always going to be great. And it always gives a feeling of togetherness, with Sai Baba. Only hugging the book in those intense moments, when one does not even feels like reading, the grace from the book gives solace and soothing effects on heart and head.Īt the time of reading though it has been read again and again, there is a sense of newness every time. In emotionally and mental disturbance of a greater intensities, even hugging to the book have helped a lot. Though the book is most of the time pointing to the timelessness, it seems to guide me, with utmost love and care that only rare book can render. Each chapter when read at different times brings about the calmness, with the meaning relevant for that time. The grace that can clean and purify our minds, the grace that attracts us towards the highest.Įvery time I read it, it gives different when meaning.
It has the grace, which is beyond any level of intelligence. It has the most amazing thing that only few Masters like Sai Baba can give. Sai Satcharitra is a wealth given by Shirdi Sai Baba, and is blessed by Grace. But the book has much more than mere intellect of the thought, which can be found in millions of books in libraries and even in the weekly magazines and daily newspapers. Many of the intellectual minded people might find it same today. After reading a couple of chapters, the intellectual mind did not find it appealing, thought to be mere stories with hyped up miracles. It pains me even as I write this.ĭuring those times I was much into philosophy, and wanted clear explanations, to the mind, or rather looking for what appealed to the mind. Matter of fact is that I did not read more than two chapters at that time. -.Sai SatCharitra, when it was first given me to read, I had not gone into it deeply.
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