Each of us are mere instruments for Baba

Dear Embodiments of Love, 

Sairam & Divine blessings of Shri Sai to you and your family. 

Our beloved Sai's planning, execution is always at it's best and all we need is utmost faith and patience i.e. Shraddha and Saburi. He will always make his children happy. You are going to read an amazing experience shared by Sai Anugraha Mumbai Coordinator & family member Divya ji in her own words. We are 100% sure that these kind of miracles increase our faith in our beloved Sai. Do not miss a single word/sentence to know how beautifully Swami connected the dots.

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It was in the year 2017-18 that I had seen a board outside Shirdi Sai Sansthan office in Mumbai stating Baba Prasadalay 100 - Annadaan seva organised by Sai Anugraha. I googled what Sai Anugraha is and got the email of MRK Kishore and he replied almost instantly, that’s how I got acquainted with Sai Anugraha and MRK Kishore. We connected stating that we had a clear intent and desire to serve and the incident or leela recounted below makes it evident that each of us are mere instruments for Baba to accomplish what he has in store for each one of us. 

There is an orphanage called children’s aid society in Mumbai where they do a lot of work for orphaned children. So they have 7 institutions in Mumbai alone and they take care of children who are victims of trafficking or are found on the road etc. (basically children who have no parents and are in very bad state). Out of the 7 institutions that Children’s Aid Society has in Mumbai, I had got a request from one of their homes at Dongri (which is by far their largest) that they had around 400 boy children and 300 girl children who had no uniforms and were really in bad shape. An estimate for around 1400 uniforms (2 pairs for each child) comes to a lakh and a half rupees and I had referred this matter to Kishore saying we need to do this seva as they are really in need. ,

While we were wondering on how to do this, there was an leela which gave us a proof of Baba's omniscience. It goes thus - after we got this request we parked it as already some other initiatives we’re going on in Sai Anugraha for which fund raising was already on. So we did not raise a fund request on this but parked it for the time being. In the meanwhile, a month prior to this my yoga teacher had told me that one of her students named Sudhakar was planning to distribute 1000 clay ganpati idols for free on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi (an effort to preserve the environment as people were polluting lakes and rivers with POP idols). So anyone who wanted to receive free clay idols could register their name with him and go and collect the idol from his house a week before Ganesh Chaturthi. I had collected one idol for my house as well under this initiative. 

Just a day before Ganesh Chaturthi, I had gone to Pune for a program and I was on my way back to Mumbai when I got a call from my yoga teacher asking me if I knew any orphanage which would collect 800 idols of Lord Ganesha for Ganesh Chaturthi since people who had registered their names with Sudhakar for the clay idols didn’t turn up at all to collect them. I was surprised to hear this as it was already 10 pm and tomorrow morning is Ganesh Chaturthi, so anyone who has decided to do the Pooja tomorrow morning would have already brought the idol by now and 800 is a large number to be given to any orphanage, even if we were to give, maximum it could be 1-2 idols to 2 orphanages and that too seemed doubtful since they might have brought their own idol by now. As I was thinking thus, my phone battery went off and I could not respond to the request. However she had left Sudhakar's number as a text msg so that I could call him if I had a solution. 

Next day was Ganesh Chaturthi and after finishing the Pooja at my home at around 6 am, I called Sudhakar and asked him if he has managed to give out his idols anywhere. He sounded extremely sad that people didn’t turn up after registering and as a result of this around 800 clay idols would get wasted now. As soon as I heard this, I told him, instead of randomly going to an orphanage, we could go to a Ganesh temple that I knew where we could distribute these idols as a Prasad to people who come to the temple today. I further added that I will come and help him as it may difficult for him to distribute these 800 idols all alone. He gladly accepted and that was the first day I met him. On the way, he told me that he is a devotee of Sathya Sai Baba and wherever he is today is his grace alone. 

As soon as we reached the temple we were surprised to see a lot of sweepers, maids and poor people coming to the temple and they were so glad to receive these idols, as they could not afford to buy one and they felt Lord Ganesha blessed them by this leela and almost 800 idols were distributed in a short span of 1.5 hours. This is Swami’s leela. After we finished the distribution, on my way back I was casually telling Sudhakar about this request which came from Children’s Aid society for 1400 uniforms (2 pairs for each child) which costed Rs 1.5 lakhs and he immediately said that he was looking for some seva opportunity and said that he will give this entire amount for the uniforms. He further added that he wants to spend lot more for seva but he needed an 80G certificate which can be given through a trust alone so he can’t give this money to the home directly. That’s when I introduced him to Kishore and they obviously connected well on account of their devotion towards Sathya Sai Baba. Thereby we got this Seva done through Sai Anugraha in less than 15 days of the request and the entire amount being sponsored by Sudhakar.

All this is Swami’s Leela using each one of us as mere instruments and it only shows his unbounded love for his children and that his glory is truly infinite and inexpressible! 

Jai Sairam

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