Forty Days Paarayan at Shri Sai Dwarkamai in Markham:
I Bow Down to Shri Ganesh
I Bow Down to Shri Saraswati
I Bow Down to my Guru Dev
I Bow Down to my Baba Shri Sadguru Sainath
"I bow to Him the Sadguru, who is the Embodiment of the Bliss of Brahman, the Bestower of the Greatest Beatitude, the Absolute, the Personification of Pure Knowledge, who is Beyond Duality (thepairs of opposites like pleasure and pain), All-Pervasive like the sky; to whom ‘Thou Art That’ and similar scriptual passages allude to – The One without another like Him, the Eternal, the Pure, the Immovable, the Witness of all Thoughts and Abiding ever beyond all Modifications (of mind and body) and Attributes (of the three ‘Gunas’...." From the "Foreword" to the first Marathi edition of Shri Sai Satcharita by Hari Sitaram alias Kakasaheb Dikshit
The last few years our life has been a real roller coaster. We always wondered, when we are with our Baba than why we are going through so much of turmoil, waited patiently for Baba to guide us. Every morning and evening we were visiting Sai Dwarkamai. September 2009, on one of the Thursdays I felt Baba is telling me 'sit here and do satsang with me' and in my mind I said, everyone is at the temple. I started getting ready to leave for temple and without His wish one cannot take a step forward, and it happened to me too. Having not left with any choice I sat with Baba and started the Satsang, those two and a half hours I felt a true joy of the Satsang, and the similar joy I felt the following Thursday. This was the 1st time in 6yrs I had a strong feeling of Baba being with me. I started serving meals to Baba more frequently. As I was asked to take the responsibility to initiate prayers at the temple every Thursday, I told one of the devoted family to take charge and relieve me of my duties, so can continue Satsang at Sai Dwarkamai...The First Sai Darbar where Baba menifested in the form of a life size portrait and a marble Swaroop, from where the Sai movement started in Canada...and suddenly due to different demands and reasons Sai Satsangs were started at various locations in Toronto and were stopped at the Dwarkamai, only the usual routine of Mangal Sanaan and worship continued. Baba has inscrutable ways to teach you lessons of life...I went through them too and it was realized during this Paraayan. After 2007 I could not complete the full cycle of 7 days Paarayan, I only could do one day Paraayan once a year. Finally I told Baba, now I will only do Paarayan when I come to Shirdi.
Let me share with you my dear readers...I have no words to convey my gratitude to my Gurudev, who is a living form of my Baba for me...Through these years He kept guiding us to continue reading Shri Sai Satcharita..had He not guided us thus we would have not savoured this wonderful nectar of Shri Sai's Leela. Month and a half ago, Baba told me 45 days mein kuch major hoga...and just within this period I was inspired to do Paarayan in 40 days sitting in front of Baba at 'Sai Dwarkamai' and here I will narrate those experiences I had during the Paarayan.
Thursday, February 18th, after I finished my Paarayan and Aarti, our door bell rang. I was taking tirth when I heard my husband opening the door and a lady's voice calling my name out... then my husband saying I will give and closed the door...understood something has been delivered. My husband opened the envelop by Fed Ex..brought it up and gave it to me saying it is a letter from the bank...This was about my credit card for which I owed the bank about $22,110.12 and was 6 months behind in my payments. When we read the letter we were amazed to the deal bank was prepared to make with us....something unheard of...reducing my debt straight from the amount above to $6000 reported to credit company's as settled to save my credit rating. We read the letter several times and could not believe that this could ever happen...as it seemed absolutely not possible because I was not in touch with the bank at all, never uttered a word to negotiate the late payments or any deal of the sort. I never returned or answered their call ...each time I would go to Baba and tell Him..Baba I am helpless, I don't have the nerve to tell them I can't pay...Please forgive me Baba...and every time Baba said 'you are sitting in Dwarkamai ...no one can harm the children of Dwarkamai'...
Baba I know this was not possible without Your divine intervention....from the first line of the letter to the last line of the letter was a pleasant draft of words...BABA I promise that the 16,110.12 that you saved me today, Baba I will be payback...please make me worthy of it.
Udhayaapan, Monday, March 1st was the udhayapan. For years I was trying to light akhand jota and was not able to, we tried many different ways, but some how or the other it would go off after little time and to our surprise when I told Baba to help me light it to go on for day and night...He looked after it....We felt blessed. We prepared Naivedaya worshiped Baba and enjoyed Prasaad together with our friends and devotees after the Udhayapan ceremony. Few couples joined us in the evening and one of them came with a great surprise gift for us...after having prasaad they told my husband that they want to send him to Shirdi and have a ticket for him, hope he accepts it...we were speechless at that and taking it as Baba's Prasaad for our Paraayan..we accepted. What more can we ask our Baba for, when He is there looking after our needs..fulfilling our dreams at every step of the way. "While writing this experience I just received this message on my blackberry phone..."Shridi Sai Baba said, "It will be what He wills. He alone will show the path. When the time comes, without a moment's delay, the wish will be granted" in shri Sai Sacharita ch19. Ovi 149
Bow to Shri Sai Peace Be To ALL
