Different are the ways of baba in protecting his children. Words are less to describe them. Can a person count the stars in the sky? How foolish it is to measure the grace of Baba on his children. The less said about it, the better. But as the children of baba, is it not our responsibility to share his leelas. Definetly yes, in one form it is a way of Guru stuti and living upto the expectations of Baba. In what way? What does baba expect from a devotee. Is it money, gold, jewels, diamonds etc. Baba never gave importance to all these in his lifetime and considered them as hurdles in realsing the self, rather baba expects us to remember him and show our gratitude for what has been provided to us as his blessing.
So, in this small incident which appears as a coincident for non-believers, but definetly a miracle and grace of Baba for all those who believe and have faith in Baba- especially for me, this is a divine grace and shower of baba's blessings-. Since last june, when I came into touch with Mallapur Shirdi Sai temple, I have been frequently visiting that temple. It is a great temple with simple architecture replicating Shirdi. The people who have constructed this temple upon the instructions from Sri Sivensan Swamiji of Shirdi constructed it in a very much similar fashion to Dwarakamayi, Gurusthan, Chavadi present in Shirdi during the 90's, because this temple was constructed around 1991. There are so many incidents associated with the temple, which if collected can become another big ocean of sai miracles.
I strongly feel that visiting this place is almost like visiting shirdi and even to visit this place also, you need permission from baba. Just as somebody cant visit shirdi without the permission of baba, here also you cant visit this place without the permission of baba. I can say this with authority because, I have a personal experience about it. I have a close friend of mine who was in lot of troubles. He was facing financial problems, family problems etc and was totally clueless how he can come out of it. During one of the interactions, I suggested him to visit this temple and get the blessings of Baba, so that he can get rid of his troubles by offering a cocunut to dhuni and do the dhuni puja at this temple. There is a great significance of this dhuji puja, sri sivensan swamiji insisted this to be the utmost important thing and emphasised about it saying "Baba always made devotees whoever came to him to offer coconut to dhuni. When somebody asked Baba about it, He told them that through this He is burning away the bad karma of the devotees and releasing them from their sufferings. It is just like clearing our blocks which were acting as hurdles in our progress. Once those blocks are removed, the path is cleared and we can proceed further, here our bad karma is acting as a block and by offering the cocunut to dhuni Baba is removing our blocks and making the path clear for our progress with his blessings". Hence sivanesan swamiji emphasised on this very much.
We also offer the coconut to dhuni whenever we visit the temple and there are so many instances with our relatives and friends who got relieved of their problems after visiting this temple and offering coconut to this dhuni by the blessings and grace of baba. Coming back to my friend, listening about this temple, he said that the next day morning he will immediately go to this temple and seek the blessings of baba and asked me to accompany him. Everything was planned and he was supposed to come next day early morning, but till date he could not come and visit the temple. I only thought that maybe he doesnt have Baba's permission and when time comes Baba will only call him to his darbar.
About the actual incident, I started with my wife and two kids on my bike to this temple on this sunday morning. We planned to stay there itself till evening and then return back. From my home, there are two ways to go to this temple, one is from the old city and the second one is through the ring road. I preferred the ring road route because there is a longest flyover - in asia running through 11.4 kms- going along the ring road. I drove through the shade of this flyover so that my kids wont face the heat of hot sunday sun. Everything was fine after reaching there and we spent our time under the neem tree of the gurusthan over there. Now there was an appointment with one of the friends and we planned to move early so that we can reach home by the time my friend comes.
So we started our return journey by 3.00 pm. It was very hot and my wife was insisting to sit for some more time till the sun sets so that the kids wont face the hot sun. As it was an important appointment, putting it on Baba, I proceeded further, then immediately by the grace of baba, there was a big cloud which covered the sun giving us a natural shade like an umbrella minimizing the heat of the sun. This continued till I reached the home. The cloud was always like a shield protecting us. Maybe somebody may think it as a coincident, but I felt it as a grace of Baba otherwise, my kids would have suffered a lot due to the red hot sun. Thanks baba for your wonderful grace on your children. Thought comes to mind that baba is saying "Why Fear, Whem I am with you". Will sai ever ignore protecting his children. Those who spend their time with Sai, He will only look after their welfare, protection and everything.
