om sai ram.
Those who read satcharitra their life changes .
Oh BABA please bless me to share the story. Dear Hemanthpanth ji please bless me and allow me to share your scripts.
Three years ago ,when i read satchritra chapter - 15 - "Mr. Cholkar's Sugarless Tea" (given at end), I prayed (with doubt) to baba
"Won't add sugar in my tea until you call me shirdi ,also wish to have tea as you offered to MR.Cholkar".
Baba did call me after a month .
Below thoughts arose in my ruthless mind , when i reached shirdi.
You know no one at shirdi but baba,who will buy a tea ?
Do you believe baba will come and give you tea or ask some one to buy?
Don't test baba you always fail .
Later i went darshan then console my self
"you already reached shirdi ,don't test baba and his love ,help yourself ". i bought tea with sugar and finished my vow.
"you already reached shirdi ,don't test baba and his love ,help yourself ". i bought tea with sugar and finished my vow.
Same day ,after 11 PM (shej) aarthi , i left to dwrakami ,where local devotees ,shop owners,servants usually clean and wipe the mosque and do decoration using flowers.i do get opportunity to do service .i was happy, also became a friend of few shopkeepers , after finishing service, some of them read "Sainath - Stavan Manjari" and baba stories as well.
One of them invite me to his shop and offered "milk sweet in small cup". i was wonderstruck , certainly believe baba is the one who provoked , who resides every one heart ,but sometimes later i have weird thought "anyway shop owner just invite you first time to his shop , offering drinks or snacks to guests is our custom ,it might be coincidence.
baba i asked cup of tea , but you give me milk sweet in a cup, where is my tea ?" .
how silly and greedy i am . please forgive me .
Next day also i went to dwarakmai for seva , later sit in dwrakamai near "SATKA" ( kept with in steel grill) . also one more guy read stavan manjari next to me. i kept praying baba to bless and show me the love. it was around 12 AM, the little brother finished his reading and turned , smiled at me, and we have chit-chat, suddenly he asked me in hindi " baiya , chai pioyge ?" (Brother,will have tea ? ).
I said "YES " with tears, literally .
we came out, now the little brother give instruction to the person who make tea opposite to dwarakami, "baiya , make one special tea and add right amount of sugar ".
I was blank that moment .
Baba cares every one and everything.
Dear readers, please forgive me for my mistake , pray for me to become a better devotee of sai. i will try to share miracles which happened in my life ,hope baba will bless me to do so.
om sai ram :)
Mr. Cholkar's Sugarless Tea
Initially, Baba was known in Poona and Ahmednagar Districts, but Nanasaheb Chandorkar, by his personal talks and by Dasganu, by his splendid Kirtans, spread the fame of Baba in the Konkan (Bombay Presidency). In fact, it was Dasganu - May God bless him-who, by his beautiful and inimitable Kirtans, made Baba available to so many people there. The audience, who come to hear the Kirtans have different tastes. Some like the erudition of the Haridas; some his gestures, some his singing, some his wit and humour, some his preliminary dissertation on Vedanta, and some others, his main stories and so on; but among them, there are very few, who by hearing the Kirtan get faith and devotion or love for God or saints. The effect of hearing Dasganu's kirtan on the minds of audience was however electric, as it were. We give an instance here
Dasganu was once performing his Kirtan and singing the glory of Sai Baba, in the Koupineshwar temple in Thana. One Mr. Cholkar, a poor man serving as a candidate in the Civil Courts in Thana, was amongst the audience. He heard Dasganu's Kirtan most attentively and was much moved. He there and then mentally bowed and vowed to Baba saying - "Baba, I am a poor man, unable to support my family. If by your grace, I pass the departmental examination, and get a permanent post, I shall go to Shirdi, fall at Your Feet and distribute sugar-candy in Your name." As good luck would have it, Mr.Cholkar did pass te examination and did get the permanent post and now it remained for him to fulfil his vow, the sooner the better. Mr. Cholkar was a poor man with a large family to support; and he could not afford to pay for the expenses of a Shirdi trip. As is well said, one can easily cross over Nahne ghat in Thana District or even the Sahyadri Range; but it is very difficult for a poor man to cross Umbareghat, i.e., the threshold of his house. As Mr. Cholkar was anxious to fulfill his vow as early as possible, he resolved to economize, cut down his expenses, and save money. He determined not to use sugar in his diet; and began to take his tea without it. After he was able to save some money in this way, he came to Shirdi, took Baba's darshan, fell at His Feet, offered a coconut, distributed it with a clean conscience along with sugar-candy as per his vow and said to Baba that he was much pleased with His darshan and that his desires were fulfilled that day. Mr. Cholkar was in the Masjid with his host Bapusaheb Jog. When the host and the guest both got up and were about to leave the Masjid, Baba spoke to Jog as follows:- "Give him (your guest) cups of tea, fully saturated with Sugar." Hearing these significant words, Mr. Cholkar was much moved, he was wonderstruck, his eyes were bedewed with tears, and he fell at Baba's Feet again. Mr. Jog was also curious about this direction, regarding the tea-cups to be given to his guest. Baba wanted by His words to create faith and devotion in Cholkar's mind. He hinted as it were, that He got the sugar-candy as per his vow and that He knew full well his secret determination not to use sugar in his diet. Baba meant to say, "If you spread your palms with devotion before Me, I am immediately with you, day and night. Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the saven seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me, Who is seated in your heart, as well as, in the hearts of all beings, Blessed and fortunate, indeed, is he who knows Me thus."
What a beautiful and important lesson was thus imparted by Baba to Mr. Chokar !"
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