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| Pic sent me to by mail |
Baba is Shiv, Baba is Shakti. Baba is Annapurna Devi. Sai means Sakshat Eeshwar. After coming to the US, Baba gave me the opportunity of serving him in unique ways like never before. Every saturdayI, i started regularly visiting the early morning Kakad Aarthi in Shirdi Sai Darbar, Sunnyvale, California. I volunteered myself in various activities of Shri Sai temple. The founders there liked my service and offered me regular volunteering. During the holidays and weekends, food is cooked on grand scale in the temple. 4-5 different dishes are cooked to be offered to Baba during the Choti Aarti(during the Aarti..Shirdi Maajhe Pandaripur..) @ 8am ie the aarti which follows the Kakad aarti. During one of these days, the lady devotees who used to cook could not make it to the temple. One of the founder asked me if i can cook. I replied in affirmation and he asked me to cook some 2-3 dishes that day. I cooked Vegetable biryani, lemon rice and curd rice. The food was then offered to Baba and the other devotees who came liked the Prasad (food) very much. It was after this that i became regular in cooking every week. Volunteers kiddingly named me "Chef". I intently wished that baba liked the dishes.
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| Shirdi Sai Darbar,CA |
I believe that being engrossed in his thoughts, adding ingredients with devotion and mixing them with dedication, pouring all the love we have in our hearts will surely win his grace and brings us closer to each other. Cooking in the temple became a regular weekly task for me and i truly rejoiced every moment of it. I can't thank Baba enough for providing me this opportunity. Baba even provided the opportunity of doing Abhishek to the main murthy in the temple, doing the mangal snan and changing his clothes and ornaments and making him ready for the darshan. Baba even acknowledged the fact of my cooking during the first week itself. I wanted to have Shirdi Baba's Vibhuti from Shirdi and one of the devotees mailed me the Vibhuti prasad along with Baba's picture. Guess what the picture was. Yes that was the one shown here. Isn't that awesome. Baba is so omniscient. His abode is in his devotees hearts. Hail to Such Satguru who is the inner ruler and the wire-puller of this universe.
