MY CHEERFUL TRIP TO SHIRDI
Saibaba Temple located at Shirdi is considered as one of the richest temples in India. Shirdi is considered as a sacred place for Saibaba devotees, and Saibaba is liked by everyone, irrespective of their caste, creed, community and religion. Shri Sai baba of Shirdi is considered similar to the god by his devotees. Many devotees have also shared their miraculous experiences that they have got in their life after visiting this holy temple of baba. Devotees are permitted to touch the baba’s statue and can offer flowers and clothes to him. His statue was made out of white marble. It is a very good temple and by visiting this temple, one can feel some sort of peacefulness and mental satisfaction than ever before.
MIRACLE OF SRI SHIRDI SAIBABA
I am not a great devotee of Saibaba during my young age, and I was not aware of him, though I was a good devotee of Guru Raghavendra Swamy from my childhood onwards.
During the year 2002, an incident gave birth to an unshakable belief with Shri Shirdi Sai Baba, and from then onwards, I felt his presence everywhere and anywhere. On one morning that is on 05.06.2002, I finished my office work and was back home in Chennai by 7:30 p.m. I had my dinner, talked to my mother about the day, and went off to sleep. After sometime, I came to realize that I have left one of my office bags, in the bus, where I kept some office cash also in that bag. I was very much worried about that, and I started praying to Shirdi Saibaba during the whole night. The next day when I approached the bus conductor which I travelled it on yesterday evening, and told about the incident, to my surprise, that good conductor showed me my bag, and after verifying it by asking me some questions, he immediately returned it to me. I was very much thankful to him, and when I gave him a 500 rupee note, he hesitated to accept it and asked me to be very careful with my belongings. Due to this wonderful incident, I have planned for a trip to Shirdi during January 2003.
MY CHEERFUL TRIP TO SHIRDI
I am interested to share my cheerful experience of visiting Shirdi, which I have experienced it along with my parents, which highlighted the inner peace, spiritual vibration, and my reasonable prayers were also answered there. During our visit, I felt a strong presence of Sai Baba within me, and experienced a sense of calm and spiritual bliss.
As soon as we got down from the train in the morning, a person came to us, and enquired about our stay, since we were not booked any cottages. To our surprise, he took us to a private cottage, and helped us to get a room for staying! Then he took us straight away to samadhi mandir and there we had nice darshan of our divine father Sri Shirdi Saibaba. When my father wished to thank him, we could not see him, since he has already disappeared from that place, hence I strongly believe that Baba personally came in the form of that person and helped us.
We (Myself and my parents) were in Shirdi for about 3 days. Daily Early mornings, I used to get up at 4.30 am, take bath & used to sit & watch songs in the Mandir, and then I used to see Abhishekam & then come back to our room. This was a cheerful experience, and I really felt very much blissful, thankful and our Shirdi trip was really wonderful.
“OM SAI NAMO NAMAH SRI SAI NAMO NAMAH SADGURU SAI NAMO NAMAH”
WRITTEN BY
R. HARISHANKAR