Introduction

Baba - Pranam to HIS Charan

I am blessed to be born in a family of Sai devotees. Right from my childhood I know HIM as god. I just used to fold hands and close my eyes and used to say 'Saibaba'. Thats it. When I look back, this incident is the basic one I suppose.

We used to stay at my maternal grandparents' house. My grandfather is an ardent devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba. One day no one were present in the house. There was a big hall and Baba's photo is there at the wall above the door.

My grandfather sat in the middle of the room exactly in between the two doors (all the doors of all the rooms are linear. It is a vastu principle that, if you look from the front gate, the 'Tulsi Plant' in the backyard should be visible.)

He called me and I went to HIM. He told me then by asking me to look at the Baba's picture at the back on the wall. 'See that picture of Baba. You have to pray HIM. There is no one else other than HIM. No mother, no father, no brother, no grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncles etc.' Forget all of them and just pray to HIM only. You should remember HIM only.'

You believe it or not, I am at a very tender age then. I was born on Jun 26th, 1979 and he died on Apr 18, 1984. I was hardly 5 years then. I couldn't understand why was he saying so to me. I got tears when he said, 'forget about your parents'. But somehow I couldn't show my tears to him. I just nodded my head as if I listened to him.