A Letter from heart to my sweet Shirdi Saibaba devotees in Malaysia

Sairam friends,

I have seen a wonderful awareness of Saint Shirdi Saibaba in Malaysia over the years. In 2004 when i started starsai, i used to get very few mails from sai devotees in India. Later in 2007, i realized Sai Bhakti has spread even into the villages of India where traditional Gods/Goddess is followed .Sometimes due to poor financial condition these innocent devotees are coverted to other religion misusing their weakness.

If this Sai movement has happened a decade back we would have retained many Hindus to remain as Hindus for generations to come because Saibaba has always encouraged one to follow ones one religion.

Anyway, i am happy atleast now Sai bhakti has spread deep into various towns and Villages of India.

From 2008, i realized Shirdi Saibaba devotees in Malaysia are coming across starsai.com .Malaysia has more of what they call as Sai center rather than Sai mandhir. Many sai devotees from Malaysia used to write me that they had been to Sai center etc. Anyway, What matters is how you capture Shirdi Sai Baba in your heart and build a temple for Sai Maharaj in yourself.

I used to have a good friend who wanted to come all the way from Malaysia to Shirdi. Unfortunately she decided to come all alone and stay in Shirdi for over 10 days. Though i had a elderly sevak in shirdi to take care of her, she did faced some issues during her stay in Shirdi.

Just because many innocent sai devotees believe that Saibaba himself is living in Shirdi and Sai will take care during their trip to Shirdi, they are becoming bold to come alone with out a family member or close family friend. This results in unnecessary problems at times.

My humble request to all sai children any where in the world is that, kindly don’t believe anyone just because they take the name of Saibaba. You can befriend anyone but be careful too.

Travel to Shirdi with a elderly person – Father/Brother or as a group -Do not go alone:

When you travel to Shirdi, kindly come with a family member – Husband, Father or come as 2-3 girls so that one can be a company to another but i would always advice coming with a elderly person is better. This advice suits for women who travel from any world in world even the one’s who travel from different cities in India.

The reason i wish to write specifically to devotees in Malaysia is that i realized devotees there are starting to take interest to travel all the way to India for their Sai darshan. Further this request is not only for devotees who wanted to come shirdi but to any temple or pilgrimage in India be it Tirupathi or Vaishno devi.

I agree Sai and Goddess and Gods will take care of you but why not always be in a safer side?

The Holy steps of Dwarkamai:

For those devotees in Malaysia who are not able to visit shirdi, do not worry. Its ok. Simply imagine that shirdi saibaba is living in your own heart. Even i visited shirdi in feb 2009 and so far din’t got a chance to visit shirdi untill i write this article. I do miss Shirdi but not Sai. Sai is always living as antaryami in our heart friends.

You can do the following imagination – Meditation

Think that you are in old village of shirdi during late 18th century. You are reaching shirdi in a tonga – horse ride, pay few anna to the horse man and walking across few huts towards Dwarakamai. You see Saibaba in distance and eagerly walk towards sainath maharaj.

When you go near Dwarkamai, you can feel the presence of Lord Dattatreya in the form of Saibaba.

Once you kept your feet in the holy steps of Dwarakamai, you are surrendering your body, mind and soul sai.

You take 2 more steps , walk closer to Sai.

Saibaba is sitting in a corner with a graceful smile.

Continue to imagine as you wish..

offer any food – naivaidhya

Offer fruits,

Garland , lotus …Roses and touch his feet

surrender to Sai and sit near his Holy fire – Dhuni and meditate on Saibaba.

Keep chanting any mantra or sai chantings you like

sairam , sairam sairam….

do this few minutes

This imagination will bring you closer to sai and will surely bring Sai closer to you

open your eyes and you can feel the real Shirdi is in your heart.

Sai lives in the walls of your heart.

Sai is always with you

I wish to present this article

“A letter from my heart to my sweet shirdi saibaba devotees in Malaysia”

as a gift to all sai children in Malaysia and wish them all Harmony in family, Good education, career, prosperity and Good health and peace

Aum sri sainathaya namaha

Venkat

always in the holy feet of shirdi saibaba