Mr. Ramachandra was a staunch devotee of Sai Baba. His wife and son loved baba equally or perhaps more. It was once proposed that son should go with his mother to Shirdi and spend his summer vacation there but the son was unwilling to go as he thought that in case he left his home in Bandra, the worship of Baba at home would not be properly attended as his father would not care. However, on his father giving an assurance under oath that, he would perform the worship exactly as his son was doing, the mother and the son left for Shirdi on a Friday night.
Next day Mr. Ramachandra got up early, took his bath and before proceeding with the pooja prostrated himself before the shrine and said, " Baba, I am going to perform the pooja exactly as my son has been doing but please let it not be a formal drill." saying so, he performed the pooja and offered a few pieces of lump sugar as offering. The sugar was distributed at lunch time.
That evening and next day Sunday, everything went on well. Mr. Ramachandra who had never performed pooja like this in all his life, felt great confidence within himself that everything was passing on quite satisfactorily as per the promise given to the son. Next day, he preformed the usual morning pooja and left for work. Coming home at noon, he found that there was no sugar to partake of when the meal was served. He asked the servant cook, who told him that there was no offering made that morning and that he had completely forgotten to perform that part of the puja ( offering Naivadya). At this, he left his seat and prostrated himself before the shrine, expressed his regret at the same time chiding Baba for the want of guidance in making the whole affair a matter of mere drill. Then he wrote a letter to his son, stating the facts and requested him to lay it at Baba'a feet and ask his pardon for his neglect. This happened in Bandra at about Tuesday noon.
At about the same time, when the noon Aarthi was about to commence in Shirdi , Baba said to Mrs. Ramachandra, " Mother, I had been to your house in Bandra, with a view to have something to eat. I found the door locked. I, somehow got an entry and found to my regret that Ramachandra had left nothing for me to eat. So I have returned with my hunger unappeased.
The lady did not understand this but the son, who was close by understood the whole thing that there was something wrong with the pooja in Bandra and he therefore requested Baba to permit him to go home. Baba refused this, but allowed him to perform puja there. Then the son wrote a letter to his father stating all that took place at Shirdi and implored his father not to neglect the pooja at home.
Om Sai Ram
❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤
"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"
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