Sairam.

Today being a thursday, I feel like sharing this incident with you all (I have posted this in saibaba.org some months back).When we moved to our new home, we did the house-warming ceremony. The priest had given us the good time between 6 and 8am. Since none of our relatives and friends were here with us, I prayed to Sai, "Sai, it is just the two of us doing the pooja with the priest. I have none to invite except You. You should come to our home in any form on the day of the pooja and accept food from us. But then, Sai, when You come, please let me realize it is You, for I have no wish to let go of You like Mr. B. V. Dev did." Though I know Him to be all-pervasive, yet this simple mind took delight in inviting Him.The pooja went on well, with just me and my husband there. At that time (so early in the morning), not even a postman would come to deliver mails. So I consoled myself saying it was stupid of me to look for Sai outside when He is the very reason for the beating of my heart. Shortly afterwards, the priest got a call from another devotee in the same area saying he is coming to pick up the priest from our home for some function in his house.

Initially it meant nothing to me except I was thinking it saved us a trip back to the temple to drop the priest. But just as I had prayed, the thought of me inviting Sai in any form flashed in my mind and my happiness was indescribable. The pooja was over and the prasadam was packed with all love for my Sai who was going to be there soon.The devotee came inside, stood in the middle of the hallway, looked around the house and said "The house looks nice. Congratulations on your new home." All of a sudden, he glanced at me and stood cross-legged just like our SaiNath (in a picture) and thanked us for the prasadam. I looked at him, then at his feet and was pleasantly surprised. It was as though Sai was telling me it was indeed He who had come.

I mentally placed my head at the feet of my Sai (the devotee who had come) and thanked Him for fulfilling an earnest desire of this simple devotee.

Thank you, Sai.Jai Sairam!-Nandini