Shirdi Sai Baba Gifts me a Pink Dress

Today when I started to write something after a long gap, I was reminded of an incident which seems to be worth sharing being Baba's Day. Though I had informed in one of my earlier posts that I will not be able to translate articles from Sai Sarovar due to my exams, but still if Shirdi Sai Baba wishes the posts will not stop. With the His grace only there was not a single day when there was no post. I received mails from many devotees, who shared their experiences to be posted on the blog. My hearty thanks to all for their contribution.

Every alternate day, I am posting a write up or experience on this blog and a Sai Baba bhajan on other blog. Yesterday an experience of devotee has already been posted on this blog and today is the turn for a bhajan. But I will not go for it. Instead I would like to share with you one of my own experience which also includes Mrs. Sasikala Ravivenkatesan, being Baba’s day. The title of the post does not suggest it to be an experience; it is very apt which one can understand after reading the whole incident.

Few days back (or say just a month ago), I was introduced to Mrs. Sasikala Ravivenkatesan. We both share a common Shirdi Sai Baba yahoo group, so we came in contact. There is a link on this blog where one can ask questions to Shirdi Sai Baba and receive answers from Him. She must have also visited that website and asked some question of Shirdi Sai Baba. In the answer she was ordered to give a pink dress to a favourite person of her. The same she asked me about my favourite colour while chatting. I wrote lavender and pink. Though I like black, maroon and lavender, why I wrote Sai Baba knows very well and it is revealed to me later. She told that she had guessed it correctly. To this my answer was plain ok. I thought it to be a casual conversation and so I did not correct myself here and went ahead. Then she started asking me which type of cloth I prefer to wear and such sort of questions. I answered her. In the end she disclosed that Shirdi Sai Baba had told her to give a pink dress to her favourite person and she had chosen me.

I was just surprised and requested her not to take any pain for me. She refused saying it to be a direct order from Shirdi Sai Baba. At last I had to accept what she wanted. I considered it to be Sai Baba’s wish as He has balance sheet of good and bad karmas and He very well knows what is good for me. She purchased a beautiful pink dress and informed me. Here is would like to clarify that I was never ever attracted to pink coloured outfits and so I don’t have any of this particular colour. But as it was Sai Baba’s wish I did not have anything to say. Again next day she said me that she had exchanged that pink dress with a maroon one. I thanked Sai Baba mentally for taking care of my favourite colour. She even bought matching earnings of maroon colour. On the day of dispatch, something went running up in her mind and she again exchanged that maroon dress with another pink one. Thus, she sent me a pink dress, maroon earrings and a pair of black coloured crystal stone anklet. Oh what a colourful Sai incidence!!! One colour of Sai Baba’s choice and other two of my choice.

All this was not known to Mrs. Sasikala Ravivenkatesan, I remained silent as I was fully aware of her feelings towards me and did not want to hurt her. After receiving her gift (rather Sai Baba’s gift) I told her everything. She too accepted it as Sai Baba’s wish and was very happy. Sai Baba never takes credit on Himself. In this case too He was behind the scene, just to watch us acting on the stage, created and maintained by Him. Pink colour is considered as sign of love, colour of love and Sai Baba has showered His love on me in this way. Sai Baba used to say that materialistic things are prone to destruction one day, but if they are given by Him, its value, divinity and purity can be measured on any scale of the world. Even if His gift is in material form, I cannot measure its worth.

I prostrate at the feet of my Sadguru and my hearty thanks for the lovely Pink Dress !!!


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Devotee Experience - Deepak and my mother

Sai Satcharitra has proved gem to Sai devotees. From my point of view, it consists of Ramayan, Gita and Mahabharat. Sai Baba is ever living with us in the form of Sai Satcharitra. Hemadpant had started writing the book when Sai Baba dwelled in His mortal body after getting His permission. Even Sai Baba had said that He will Himself write His own biography. What is then more auspicious and more divine than sai Satcharitra? It is very familiar that Sai devotees do Parayan (continuous reading and finishing the book in a week) of Sai Satcharitra in order to fulfill their wishes or to solve any problem. Here is such an incident of my family. But first I would request to go through introduction of this write up as it is continuation of an earlier post.

My cousin is doing MCA in Ahmedabad while living in hostel. Though he was good in computer applications, due to commerce background, he found it hard to cope. So he got ATKT (Allowed To Keep Term) in second semester in two subjects. He was really nervous, as now to go through the subjects again was tough. Besides he had to prepare very perfectly for the third semester as the exams were in the month of December and the result of second semester was declared just a month ago. Moreover the re-examination of second semester was scheduled in the January. Due to this my maternal uncle and aunty were very worried. But they all had firm faith in Sai Baba. They knew that Sai Baba will help them in any way and this happened.

My mother talked about my cousin to one of our family friends and a staunch devotee of Sai Baba. She also thought for two days and on the third day, she called me and said that she would start doing Sai Satcharitra Parayan and also asked me to check when my cousin’s third semester exam were. Actually it is her practice that whenever she or any other member from her family is in difficulty, the only remedy was to do Parayan of Sai Satcharitra. When I rang my cousin, he told that the exam started on the same day and that day was Thursday. So my family friend started reading the sacred book and prayed Sai Baba for success of my cousin in his third semester. With Sai Baba’s grace, though one or two subject’s exams were tough, he could pass it well. Now only two subjects of second semester were remaining.

My mother too believes that by ready Sai Satcharitra our wishes are fulfilled. So she started Parayan of Sai Satcharitra to help my cousin to pass through second semester subjects. She used to read sai Satcharitra and went to the Sai Temple which is 4-5 kms from our house on feet and returned back in the same manner for continuous seven days. She wanted to give shawl which was on Sai Baba’s idol in the temple to my cousin. But for first six days something happened that she could not get it. On the seventh day, the poojari (we call him Baba only as he dresses like Sai Baba) was present. He is very old now and hence can not attend to the duties of the temple regularly. There are many other volunteers in the temple who now look after it. The poojari is very kind to every one. Somebody had put a shawl on Sai Baba’s idol and went away. It was of orange colour. It was very beautiful and this fascinated my mother. She asked the poojari to give her the shawl and he readily gave. This shawl was like Sai Baba blessings to my mother and of course my cousin.

Soon after some days in the last week of January he gave second semester exams. He was surprised to note that while writing the exams he knew everything. He went on writing and writing and there was no end to it. He was very confident that he would pass in the exam this time. Thus his faith in Sai Baba increased two fold.

Third semester results were declared in the last week of March. Everybody was confident that he would pass and yes he could clear all the subjects in one stroke. Only second semester uncleared subjects’ result was pending. We eagerly waited for the ATKT result to be declared. Sai Baba was really testing our Shraddha and Saburi. We daily used to pray to Him for the results. But for many days the results were not declared. The university authorities told that those students who have not cleared the second semester exams would not be allowed to fill up the form of fourth semester exams to be held in June. This made situation more tensed. Now we had only one hope and that was Sai Baba.

Yesterday in the evening, my aunty called up my mother and gave the good news that the results were declared and my cousin cleared both the subjects. Like this Sai Baba helped my family. He cares for each and every need of my family. He has proved that He is with us always and whenever we need. I had promised Sai Baba that whenever the results are declared, I will share this experience to my fellow Sai devotees the very next day and here it is. Thanks Baba for being with us whenever we need You.


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