Shri Sai Blesses Those Who Surrender to Him

In the present days, when the people are being more materialistic in natureand are having little or no faith in the existence of God, Shri Sai LeelaMagazine is doing the best of the service for the propagation of Shri ShirdiSai Baba's divinity to various people of different mentalities. Though ShriSai Baba had left the body in 1918, His devotees are experiencing His leelaseven now in times of need and necessity.


My entire family is devoted to ShriSai Baba for more than three decades. With confidence that this simpleexperience would intensify the existing faith in Sai devotees, I amnarrating this in the name of Shri Sai Baba.My daughter Kum. Niveditha after passing her X Class, discontinued herstudies. After a lapse of two years, I got her admitted in Intermediatecourse. She appeared for the first year Inter Annual examination in March,1980 along with her dear friend Kum. Sri Devi. The results were publishedand Lo ! Kum. Niveditha failed in all the five subjects while her friendpassed in all the subjects. My daughter with grief and disappointment askedme to allow her to discontinue her studies as she could not face her friendswith such a total failure in all subjects.I consoled her and convinced her not to give up studies on the cause of herfailure. I encouraged her to go ahead with immense devoted faith in Shri SaiBaba.


I assured her of her success in the ensuing examination in September,1980, in case she cast her burden on the shoulders of Shri Sai Baba withcomplete surrender coupled with Nishtha and Saburi, I also advised her todo parayana for seven days as prescribed in the sacred book "Shri Sai Babas,Jeevitha Charitha" in Telugu, readily available in our house.

I also assuredher that Baba is there to look after the needs and comforts of those whosurrender even now.Kum. Niveditha too is an ardent and sincere devotee of Shri Sai. She made avow to visit Shirdi in case she passed in the ensuing examinations inSeptember, 1980. Completely surrendering herself to Baba, and with firmbelief and confidence in Him, she completed the parayana of the sacred bookin seven days as prescribed. She was regularly studying the lessons of allthe five subjects in which she failed, in addition to the regular classlessons of the current year.In September, 1980 on the first day of the examination, casting her burdenon Shri Sai, and with sacred Udhi on forehead, she answered the questionpaper to her satisfaction. This gave her enough of courage to answer thepapers on other days.In was a surprise for her to know that she passed in all the five subjectswhen the results were published, while many of her friends passed in one ortwo subjects only, After the Marks list was received, it was noticed thatKum. Niveditha got appreciable marks and in fact more marks than her friendKum. Sri Devi, who passed in March itself. Our joy knew no bounds and ourfaith in Baba created abundantly.

To fulfil the promised vow of Kum. Nivedetha, we all the family membersmade pilgrimage to Shirdi and offered our humble pranaras to Shri Sai Babafor His kindness. Eversince that dayKum. Nivedithas faith in Shri Sai hasbeen boundlessly increased. She is observing a complete fast on Thursdays toher own satisfaction and she is not experiencing any weariness on that daythough she is attending the college for a continuous period of five to sixhours. Has not Shri Sai come to her rescue and blessed her with a completesuccess? The consequences of her disappointed failure would have been fataland quite unexpected. But Baba did not wish that. He never deserts the onewho surrenders to Him.

He with His ever blessing hands favoured her with acomplete success and not only intensified her deep devotion and faith in Himbut also made many a devotee of Him to be assured of safe and sure successif one ever casts his entire burden on Him with complete surrender.Shri Sai is ready to shower His blessings on the trusted even nowwithout any discrimination provided the appeal is sincere andfaithful.D.L- Kanta Rao,Nandyal TalukKurnool District.(Andhra Pradesh)