Om Sai Ram
Its been long time posting an article on this blog. I just finished posting one article on my recent coimbatore trip with my mother. As & when i posted this article, i remembered one more such encounter with Baba that happened to us during our visit to coimbatore.
As already said, we reached coimbatore on Saturday 01st May 2010 Night. On Sunday May 02 th we went out with our family, friends & some of our relatives to Water Falls & Dam near Pollachi & returned back the same night.
On May 03rd Monday, we were very eager to visit the Naga Sai Temple at Coimbatore. My mom had visited this temple almost before 10years or so & she was very eager & asking me to take to the temple during this visit to coimbatore.
The back ground being, my mom is from coimbatore & till 1970 i.e till her marriage she was in coimbatore in Sai Baba Colony which is near to the Naga Sai Temple. Both Mom & Grand Mom used to visit this temple every thursday & get the blessing of Sai baba. After her marriage is 1970 she got relocated to chennai & as time went by we got settled in karnataka. so she could not visit this temple as her visit to coimbatore got reduced & during certain visits she never got time or no one was there to take her to the temple.
So as soon as we planned our trip, my mom was keen on allocating one day to visit Naga Sai Temple. So as per plan we started for the temple by evening 3:30pm after our evening cup of tea from our relatives place. our relatives place is too far away from the temple & i was not sure of the actual distance. but as & when we proceeded it took almost 1hr to reach a total distance of 25 kms in the traffic hit roads of coimbatore. we managed to reach Sai Mandir by 5 pm.
We purchased some puja articles & went inside the Mandir. My mom was like looking around all the direction to see the complete glimpse of the temple. She told me that the total temple was looking different than what she had seen long time back. She enquired purohit about few old timers that were working for the temple those days. So of them had retired from work & some had retired from this life. we saw all the sanctum. she explained me lot of things & shared lot of info on how the temple came to existance & the short cuts they used to take to visit this temple during those days. We waiting for the aarti to commence.
She also narrated about Satya Sai baba visiting this temple during 1961 for the 25th year & also installing the Shirdi Sai Baba marble Statue at temple that is there at present. She was stunned to See Satya Sai in White Robe with pitch Black thick bushy like Hair. It seems they had got an oppurtunity to stand close to satya sai & also do Pada Pooja to Satya Sai.
She Also Narrated the famous Cobra snake Story of the Naga Sai Temple & thus the Name Nagasai Etc.
After visiting all the sanctum & sharing lot of info, she was too very tired. She was also feeling very hungry as we had our lunch by 11:30 in the morning hours & that we just had a cup of tea before coming to the temple. I was literally thinking of some near by hotel to feed her. but when we came out of the prakara, they were serving Sai prasadam.
We were able to get Tamarind Rice as Prasadam for tht day. After eating a mouth full, i told my mom that the prasadam was indeed very nice. hearing to this the Person serving the prasadam, called me & gave one extra cup of prasad.
Mom was saying that during those days in the 1960's - 1970's on thursday very rich people of coimbatore came to this temple in thier, chevrolet, Plymouth, Ambasaddor, & other old classic cars. would bring lot of food as pradadam to Sai baba & after puja would serve in big plate. having the night prasadam would be equal to a full meal & they never ate any thing after returning home it seems. those were the days then.
It filled out stomach & our hunger had gone. we were able to go home & till then the prasadam took care of our hunger.
In all it was a different experience seeing the temple in a completely reformed state. Mom's narration was wonderful & interesting & i could feel the glimse of the era gone by.
Baba is as usual Magnificant. He makes people grow from normal to some thing special & some times Unique.
Baba Says: It is all but Improvement till the time goes on. So don't stop time or don't stop improving in your life time. A Healthy Positive improvement is always what baba wants us to do.
Allah Malik.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Trip to Coimbatore with my Mother.
Aum Sai Ram.
It is been a very long time writing an article here. I was on constant trip for work & pleasure & could not get sufficient time to write down the points to make an article. I have been on Complete Run the Whole of 6 months from Jan 2010 till June 2010.
Recently one such incident happened during one of my trip to Coimbatore during May 2010. I took my mom along with me to Coimbatore for a family Re-Union & also a small trip to waterfalls & Dam near Coimbatore.
We left home early in the morning by bus. Then again took a bus to Coimbatore & the travel time was around 8 hrs from Bangalore. But the Bus Arrived 1 hour late to the final Destination. To save some time, I got down some 8 km before the Main Bus Stand hoping to catch a city bus at that point to reach home.
As it was already too late, there were no buses for a very long time. When the bus finally arrived it was over crowded. We had to Miss 2 buses. It was way past 9:30pm. One Bus arrived & I managed to board the bus. But after a minute I realized that my mom had not yet boarded the bus. Then I requested the Bus conductor to stop the bus & got down with two suitcases of luggage. I came back walking a couple of meters back to bus stop to find my mom.
I asked her as to why she did not board the bus. She told me that the stairs were too high & she could not manage to board the bus. I was completely tired & was out of my mind. I then Prayed to Baba as to why he was doing such thing & testing me when my mother is with me. I cursed baba, The Bus Driver as well as the Govt bus Corporation for building such a bus whose stairs were too high even for a normal person to board.
Saw a Taxi coming on its way. I stopped taxi & asked if he can drop us at our destination & he was asking almost 4 times the fare at 500Rs. Then i told baba, what is this? To earn 1 rupee we need to do a lot of thing but this guy here demands multiple times the actual cost.
After a Minute or so, I think Baba heard my Curses & send an Empty Bus & we were able to board the bus in time to reach home by 10:15pm.
It was the bus that started from the main bus stand at 9:30pm & if we had gone to the main bus stand instead of getting down in between, we could have boarded the same bus at the bus stand & come home comfortably.
Baba plans things properly & if we have full faith in him, he takes us in a proper path with less difficulty. I was the one who was in a hurry to go home early. so all these happened.
Pray to Sai Baba & allow him to do the things in his own way. Don’t force, panic or else you will end up like me in between of nothing!
One thing to remember, never board an Auto or Taxi in Coimbatore without fixing up the prices. They always charge more than the prescribed fare. Much more than any other cities. Bus fare from Bangalore to Coimbatore by Volvo is 500 Rupees + & the Taxi Fare he asked was 500Bucks for a 10 km ride.
Baba Says: “When you bow down to me & come to me with Shradha & Saburi, it is my duty to take care of you under all circumstances”.
Allah Malik
It is been a very long time writing an article here. I was on constant trip for work & pleasure & could not get sufficient time to write down the points to make an article. I have been on Complete Run the Whole of 6 months from Jan 2010 till June 2010.
Recently one such incident happened during one of my trip to Coimbatore during May 2010. I took my mom along with me to Coimbatore for a family Re-Union & also a small trip to waterfalls & Dam near Coimbatore.
We left home early in the morning by bus. Then again took a bus to Coimbatore & the travel time was around 8 hrs from Bangalore. But the Bus Arrived 1 hour late to the final Destination. To save some time, I got down some 8 km before the Main Bus Stand hoping to catch a city bus at that point to reach home.
As it was already too late, there were no buses for a very long time. When the bus finally arrived it was over crowded. We had to Miss 2 buses. It was way past 9:30pm. One Bus arrived & I managed to board the bus. But after a minute I realized that my mom had not yet boarded the bus. Then I requested the Bus conductor to stop the bus & got down with two suitcases of luggage. I came back walking a couple of meters back to bus stop to find my mom.
I asked her as to why she did not board the bus. She told me that the stairs were too high & she could not manage to board the bus. I was completely tired & was out of my mind. I then Prayed to Baba as to why he was doing such thing & testing me when my mother is with me. I cursed baba, The Bus Driver as well as the Govt bus Corporation for building such a bus whose stairs were too high even for a normal person to board.
Saw a Taxi coming on its way. I stopped taxi & asked if he can drop us at our destination & he was asking almost 4 times the fare at 500Rs. Then i told baba, what is this? To earn 1 rupee we need to do a lot of thing but this guy here demands multiple times the actual cost.
After a Minute or so, I think Baba heard my Curses & send an Empty Bus & we were able to board the bus in time to reach home by 10:15pm.
It was the bus that started from the main bus stand at 9:30pm & if we had gone to the main bus stand instead of getting down in between, we could have boarded the same bus at the bus stand & come home comfortably.
Baba plans things properly & if we have full faith in him, he takes us in a proper path with less difficulty. I was the one who was in a hurry to go home early. so all these happened.
Pray to Sai Baba & allow him to do the things in his own way. Don’t force, panic or else you will end up like me in between of nothing!
One thing to remember, never board an Auto or Taxi in Coimbatore without fixing up the prices. They always charge more than the prescribed fare. Much more than any other cities. Bus fare from Bangalore to Coimbatore by Volvo is 500 Rupees + & the Taxi Fare he asked was 500Bucks for a 10 km ride.
Baba Says: “When you bow down to me & come to me with Shradha & Saburi, it is my duty to take care of you under all circumstances”.
Allah Malik
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Visit to Sai Dham Mandir at Raipur. Chattisgarh
20th Feb 2010.
Sai Ram.
Today I got a chance to visit one more new temple of Shirdi Sai Baba while on my trip to Raipur. I was free for the day by around 3:30pm. So I decided to go out on a small trip around Raipur. As I like to spend more time seeing some spiritual place rather than a shopping mall or some other place, I decided to go to Sai Dham Mandir at Kumhari Village in the Raipur Nagpur High Way. It is around 28 kms from the Raipur city centre towards billai/Durg.
Decided to take a Taxi & finally ended up getting a Taxi & was happy to see sai baba’s statue installed in the dashboard of the taxi too. He was too handsome & was well dressed & even wore a beautiful garland. Hope that the owner of the taxi company a devotee of Sai Baba.
It took around 30 min to reach the temple & most of the journey to that place was in the main four lane high way & we even needed to pay the toll at the toll gate.
At temple I was happy to see Sai Baba & he was well maintained. It looked like an expensive temple as there was Air Conditioner to keep him as fresh so that he can take care of all those devotees who come to visit him.
As it was a Saturday there was a moving population of people around the temple & it was really nice. Sai was warm & welcoming every one. There was a wonderful flower decoration done in front of him. Quite huge & very impressive.
There was a small Dwarkamai & Gurusthan next to temple in Room. Both together in the same room housing 2 different photo of Baba. The Fire place was not visible. The priest there told that people are not allowed to put anything directly in the Duni.
It is a usual custom that I carry coconut & some puja articles to the temple. But the strangest part was that they don’t break the coconut & keep it infront of him. Also they don’t allow us to light the incense stick/agarbathi in the temple premises.
They just collect the coconut & the articles & keep it aside. Break the Coconuts during the aarti & distribute the same to every devotee who visits the temple. The Incense stick is put into the duni directly at the stipulated time.
The strangest part of all was that I was not allowed to even take a snap of Sai Baba. The temple head priest was very particular that no one is allowed to take the snaps of Sai Baba Statue there.
I did not want to take any unnecessary risks but taking a snap of baba. So I am not able to publish the photos of the temple.
They also feed people free of charge every day during afternoon & evening after the aarti is performed.
Langer as it is called for the kitchen serving the devotees is filled by Sai Devotees every day. As I went at an odd time I was not fortunate enough to get the Prasad.
There is a small stores attached to temple complex selling puja articles & other stationary on Sai Baba. There was a good collection of Baba’s Photos there.
There is also a small hotel near by the temple entrance. They provide tea to all the sai devotees visiting temple at a subsidized rate of just 1 Rupee. Tea too was pretty good. It was a special Masala tea & I was tempted to drink more of it.
While returning back I visited a Jain temple by name Kaivalya Dham. It is really a wonderful temple. It is so huge that we need to walk a lot & there are steps to go up every now & then. There are a total of 24 temples & one Main Temple in between them. 24 temples represent 24 saints of Jain Community. This temple is maintained by the Swetanbar sect of Jain community.
Nearby there is another temple of the same community. The complete temple complex is built over s small hillock & made of Jaipur marble, pure white in colour. There is an un usual thing at this temple. They ask everyone to voluntarily fill their name & address before entering the temple. I don’t know for what reason this is being done. This temple is also between Raipur & Billai/Durg National Highway.
To complete the trip, we visited Iskcon Radhe Krishna Temple & Ram Mandir Near to Iskcon Temple. Iskcon is planning to build a huge temple complex similar to the one in Bangalore but that that big.
I Finally ended up at a hotel near Railway station to have the night dinner. Maharaja Hotel served a wonderful thali meal for 60 Rupees & there were more number of side dishes than the main course.
Came back to the hotel by an Auto . The only think I could notice where ever I go was that baba was with me. In the taxi he was sitting in the form of statue. In the hotel he was sitting inside the cash chest for the hotel owner. In the Auto he was in the form of a newspaper displaying some advertisement about some spiritual puja here in Raipur. At the place of stay he was in the form of calendar.
What shall I say now, I’m Really very lucky to have baba where ever I go.
Baba Says: Trust me & I’ll follow you where ever you go & protect you.
Om Sai Ram.
Allah Malik.
Sai Ram.
Today I got a chance to visit one more new temple of Shirdi Sai Baba while on my trip to Raipur. I was free for the day by around 3:30pm. So I decided to go out on a small trip around Raipur. As I like to spend more time seeing some spiritual place rather than a shopping mall or some other place, I decided to go to Sai Dham Mandir at Kumhari Village in the Raipur Nagpur High Way. It is around 28 kms from the Raipur city centre towards billai/Durg.
Decided to take a Taxi & finally ended up getting a Taxi & was happy to see sai baba’s statue installed in the dashboard of the taxi too. He was too handsome & was well dressed & even wore a beautiful garland. Hope that the owner of the taxi company a devotee of Sai Baba.
It took around 30 min to reach the temple & most of the journey to that place was in the main four lane high way & we even needed to pay the toll at the toll gate.
At temple I was happy to see Sai Baba & he was well maintained. It looked like an expensive temple as there was Air Conditioner to keep him as fresh so that he can take care of all those devotees who come to visit him.
As it was a Saturday there was a moving population of people around the temple & it was really nice. Sai was warm & welcoming every one. There was a wonderful flower decoration done in front of him. Quite huge & very impressive.
There was a small Dwarkamai & Gurusthan next to temple in Room. Both together in the same room housing 2 different photo of Baba. The Fire place was not visible. The priest there told that people are not allowed to put anything directly in the Duni.
It is a usual custom that I carry coconut & some puja articles to the temple. But the strangest part was that they don’t break the coconut & keep it infront of him. Also they don’t allow us to light the incense stick/agarbathi in the temple premises.
They just collect the coconut & the articles & keep it aside. Break the Coconuts during the aarti & distribute the same to every devotee who visits the temple. The Incense stick is put into the duni directly at the stipulated time.
The strangest part of all was that I was not allowed to even take a snap of Sai Baba. The temple head priest was very particular that no one is allowed to take the snaps of Sai Baba Statue there.
I did not want to take any unnecessary risks but taking a snap of baba. So I am not able to publish the photos of the temple.
They also feed people free of charge every day during afternoon & evening after the aarti is performed.
Langer as it is called for the kitchen serving the devotees is filled by Sai Devotees every day. As I went at an odd time I was not fortunate enough to get the Prasad.
There is a small stores attached to temple complex selling puja articles & other stationary on Sai Baba. There was a good collection of Baba’s Photos there.
There is also a small hotel near by the temple entrance. They provide tea to all the sai devotees visiting temple at a subsidized rate of just 1 Rupee. Tea too was pretty good. It was a special Masala tea & I was tempted to drink more of it.
While returning back I visited a Jain temple by name Kaivalya Dham. It is really a wonderful temple. It is so huge that we need to walk a lot & there are steps to go up every now & then. There are a total of 24 temples & one Main Temple in between them. 24 temples represent 24 saints of Jain Community. This temple is maintained by the Swetanbar sect of Jain community.
Nearby there is another temple of the same community. The complete temple complex is built over s small hillock & made of Jaipur marble, pure white in colour. There is an un usual thing at this temple. They ask everyone to voluntarily fill their name & address before entering the temple. I don’t know for what reason this is being done. This temple is also between Raipur & Billai/Durg National Highway.
To complete the trip, we visited Iskcon Radhe Krishna Temple & Ram Mandir Near to Iskcon Temple. Iskcon is planning to build a huge temple complex similar to the one in Bangalore but that that big.
I Finally ended up at a hotel near Railway station to have the night dinner. Maharaja Hotel served a wonderful thali meal for 60 Rupees & there were more number of side dishes than the main course.
Came back to the hotel by an Auto . The only think I could notice where ever I go was that baba was with me. In the taxi he was sitting in the form of statue. In the hotel he was sitting inside the cash chest for the hotel owner. In the Auto he was in the form of a newspaper displaying some advertisement about some spiritual puja here in Raipur. At the place of stay he was in the form of calendar.
What shall I say now, I’m Really very lucky to have baba where ever I go.
Baba Says: Trust me & I’ll follow you where ever you go & protect you.
Om Sai Ram.
Allah Malik.
Baba’s Journey to my Home
Sai Ram.
Today’s topic on Sai Baba’s Journey to my home is about Sai Baba’s Statue coming to me home on 30th November 2009.
I wanted to write about this topic for a very long time now. Whenever I jotted down a few lines, I would be made to go here or there on some work & writing this got postponed till now. Today as I’m travelling & no one can ask me to get down of the running train, I decide to write about his journey to my home now.
This initially happened in September 2009. I was keen on getting myself a Pure White Marble Statue of Sai Baba. It was rather my dream to get a Marble statue of baba & place him in my home mandir & see him every day. Do the Dhoop aarti. See him wear different dress that I like & want him to wear & fulfill my dream of dressing him like a King.
It will be a very big dream to get such an opportunity at Samadhi Mandir at Shirdi. Let me at least not dream for such a huge thing which may never be fulfilled due to many reasons & restrictions but rather go for a similar one where in I can have control over what I want.
I used to keep in contact with many dealers & vendors of Marble statue. Saw couple of statues at Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai & some other homes of sai devotees. But I was not very impressed or not happy with those statues.
I had something in my mind & getting the same on marble was looking very tough for me. After a very long time, one fine day I get a mail from a marble statue manufacturer in Jaipur with an experience of almost 3 generations/ 60 years.
Sayshmoorti Kala Kendra at jaipur promised to deliver me a statue similar to my thoughts. They were out of their way in doing the business. They even told me that if I’m not satisfied with the statue, I need not have to pay them at all which in these days is near to a dream. No one wants to lose his business or money.
They promised to send the statue by the third week of September 2009 & promptly did the same. I even received the way bill to take the delivery of the parcel here in Karnataka.
I was restless for a couple of days & used to wait for the statue to arrive home that day. But as the days passed statue never made it home. I was promised for a delivery of the statue within 3 - 5 working days. But It was almost 20 days & after many rounds to the parcel office, I finally found out the statue went missing & could not be traced. I made many phone calls to the head office of the freight forwarding company & even shouted at them for misplacing the parcel.
After October 2009 I lost hope that I will ever see the statue in my life time & mean while I was angry with the vendor that he did not send the parcel by some popular freight forwarders.
I did not want to speak to him about it later on. I decided that I’ll look for something else in the market directly & buy the same & install the statue at my home. I searched over & over again but I could not find any idol suitable. I just postponed for a couple of days more. Till finally I got a call from the company saying that the statue returned back to them after almost 2 months after it got misplaced & the idol stayed in a company godown in Indore for almost 2 months due to the address being misplaced.
By then it was November 25th 2009. I think same baba statue wanted to come to my home. So I was not able to make any further decisions in installing a different statue at my home.
On November 26th 2009 the same statue was repacked again & this time sent through a different freight forwarder specializing in air freight. I received a call from a freight forwarder company by name Carex Freight Forwarders in Bangalore on November 29th 2009 & they confirmed that they got a parcel for me & that I need to take the delivery from their office immediately are wait for the next working day for them to deliver it to me.
I was so curious & was so Happy that I went myself to the company & took the delivery of the same statue.
On November 30th 2009, I installed Baba at my home & from then onwards there is daily puja & dhoop aarti to baba.
Even now it s a sort of mystery…..why did baba go to Indore instead of coming down to Bangalore. If so why did he stay for 2 months & more.
Any ways Baba is Omni Present, Omni Potent & may be he wanted to be there to bless someone instead of coming home directly.
Any ways I’m happy that baba reached home at last & happily settled here with me & taking care of me very well.
Baba Says: I Appear to you & Give you Darshan when I decide to do so. It is not you who decides when I need to come to you!
Also never search too much behind certain limits as there are plenty of aspects we may not be familiar with in this Worldly Existence.
Allah Malik
Today’s topic on Sai Baba’s Journey to my home is about Sai Baba’s Statue coming to me home on 30th November 2009.
I wanted to write about this topic for a very long time now. Whenever I jotted down a few lines, I would be made to go here or there on some work & writing this got postponed till now. Today as I’m travelling & no one can ask me to get down of the running train, I decide to write about his journey to my home now.
This initially happened in September 2009. I was keen on getting myself a Pure White Marble Statue of Sai Baba. It was rather my dream to get a Marble statue of baba & place him in my home mandir & see him every day. Do the Dhoop aarti. See him wear different dress that I like & want him to wear & fulfill my dream of dressing him like a King.
It will be a very big dream to get such an opportunity at Samadhi Mandir at Shirdi. Let me at least not dream for such a huge thing which may never be fulfilled due to many reasons & restrictions but rather go for a similar one where in I can have control over what I want.
I used to keep in contact with many dealers & vendors of Marble statue. Saw couple of statues at Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai & some other homes of sai devotees. But I was not very impressed or not happy with those statues.
I had something in my mind & getting the same on marble was looking very tough for me. After a very long time, one fine day I get a mail from a marble statue manufacturer in Jaipur with an experience of almost 3 generations/ 60 years.
Sayshmoorti Kala Kendra at jaipur promised to deliver me a statue similar to my thoughts. They were out of their way in doing the business. They even told me that if I’m not satisfied with the statue, I need not have to pay them at all which in these days is near to a dream. No one wants to lose his business or money.
They promised to send the statue by the third week of September 2009 & promptly did the same. I even received the way bill to take the delivery of the parcel here in Karnataka.
I was restless for a couple of days & used to wait for the statue to arrive home that day. But as the days passed statue never made it home. I was promised for a delivery of the statue within 3 - 5 working days. But It was almost 20 days & after many rounds to the parcel office, I finally found out the statue went missing & could not be traced. I made many phone calls to the head office of the freight forwarding company & even shouted at them for misplacing the parcel.
After October 2009 I lost hope that I will ever see the statue in my life time & mean while I was angry with the vendor that he did not send the parcel by some popular freight forwarders.
I did not want to speak to him about it later on. I decided that I’ll look for something else in the market directly & buy the same & install the statue at my home. I searched over & over again but I could not find any idol suitable. I just postponed for a couple of days more. Till finally I got a call from the company saying that the statue returned back to them after almost 2 months after it got misplaced & the idol stayed in a company godown in Indore for almost 2 months due to the address being misplaced.
By then it was November 25th 2009. I think same baba statue wanted to come to my home. So I was not able to make any further decisions in installing a different statue at my home.
On November 26th 2009 the same statue was repacked again & this time sent through a different freight forwarder specializing in air freight. I received a call from a freight forwarder company by name Carex Freight Forwarders in Bangalore on November 29th 2009 & they confirmed that they got a parcel for me & that I need to take the delivery from their office immediately are wait for the next working day for them to deliver it to me.
I was so curious & was so Happy that I went myself to the company & took the delivery of the same statue.
On November 30th 2009, I installed Baba at my home & from then onwards there is daily puja & dhoop aarti to baba.
Even now it s a sort of mystery…..why did baba go to Indore instead of coming down to Bangalore. If so why did he stay for 2 months & more.
Any ways Baba is Omni Present, Omni Potent & may be he wanted to be there to bless someone instead of coming home directly.
Any ways I’m happy that baba reached home at last & happily settled here with me & taking care of me very well.
Baba Says: I Appear to you & Give you Darshan when I decide to do so. It is not you who decides when I need to come to you!
Also never search too much behind certain limits as there are plenty of aspects we may not be familiar with in this Worldly Existence.
Allah Malik
Saturday, February 20, 2010
One Night at Bangalore Airport
Sai Ram.
One Night At Bangalore International Airport is based on my experience at the Airport Departure where i spend almost 5 hours out side as i was too early to check in for my designated trip.
On 19th Feb 2010 i had to catch an early morning flight out of bangalore international airport & the destination this time was Raipur.
Raipur?????????
What am i doing at Raipur? Meet Some one Related to Sai Baba & it was Sai Baba's wish that i meet this person. From June 2009 my trip to raipur was postponed several times due to bad health condition & then later on there was a self imposed restriction that i'm not going to fly during the months of November & December due to some bad spell & my Astrologer was too keen on me avoiding any overseas trip or any trip involving an Air Journey or Train Journey.
As i beleive certain things i postponed the trips & later fixed it to Jan 1st week 2010. Every thing was good. i wanted to start the new year with some thing really useful & nothing more useful than visiting Raipur.
But unfortunately there were lot of problems after the ticket were procured & one of the main reasons were that i had to travel back by train which would completely cover Andhra Pradesh & during 1st week of Jan 2010 Andhra Pradesh was burning up due to the Telengana & other political Issues.
Now finally fixed my program instantly & decided to fly out of bangalore international Airport to Raipur Mana Airport via Hyderabad.
Let me now come to the main Story. As i had to give a minimum description of why i had to travel, i could not cut short the briefing about Raipur & my purpose to visit it. Also the Importance of visiting Raipur.
As i'm not the early to bed & early to wake kind of guy, it is really tough for me to get up early in the morning, get ready & start for the airport. Also that there is no proper transport facility early in the morning by around 2 am. as i'm 100kms away from airport, i either need to make my own travel arrangement or start the previous evening & stay the whole night at airport to catch the early morning flight.
I decided i would start the previous night as there was no need to burn up funds un necessarily to come to the airport by Taxi.
I went to my regular Sai Baba Temple at tumkur at around 7:20pm. it was a thursday, 18th Feb 2010 & the bhajan session was progressing. i did not want to disturb & just put my attendence to baba & came out as early as possible as i had to catch a bus by 8pm. went home & had light snacks & started by 8:20pm. luckily i got a bus to bangalore by 8:30pm & the bus reached bangalore by around 10:25pm. a distance of around 70kms covered successfully.
Got down at the bus stand & just then there was a local Airport bus waiting to start for the destination. i just ran around with the luggage & boarded the same. it was a decent ride. for 125Rs, they cover a distance of around 40kms by volvo AC bus. as the road was clear, we reached the airport by 11:20pm.
Oh god, 11:20pm. I just thought what am i supposed to do till morning 4:30am. i'll be allowed to check in only after 4:30am.
I roamed around for some time. i had curd rice & black tea at a Eat out called Nutkut. Pricing was fine. i think that was the only food joint to serve food & beverages at a cheaper rates compared to cafe coffee day, sub way, barista inside the departure terminal & some international juice shop.
I searched for an Empty chair & ended up sitting just in front of the departure hall.
It was 12:10am now. only 50 mins had passed & that 50 mins was like almost a big time. it was very tough to pass on time.
After i finally got seated. i was looking at the departure table in a big 42 Inch LCD screen.
There were international flights to Singapore, Bangkok, Paris, Frankfurt, Dubai, Sharjah, & Muscat.
Could see that most of them travelling to singapore or bangkok were casual visitors. they usually came all alone or in a small group of say 2-3 people. then came the people travelling to USA/ UK via Paris & Frankfurt. they were looking like students, professionals going on a short term project & some were USA, UK & other European nationals travelling back after a vacation in India.
Even there were some travelling to USA via Dubai.
The Airport was totally crowded at around 1:30 am as most of the flights were scheduled to take off after 2:30am. there were loads of people coming to see off there near & dear ones.
I think i found one thing in common, Every one cries for a min before leaving their near & dear ones.
I was so emotional depressed seeing lot of families cry & depart their folks at the airport. it was really painful. there were few whom i spoke to. one had come to see off her nephew who was traveling for the first time to USA & she was giving him inch by inch procedure till he boarded the plane.
Another one had come to see of her daughter who was in Some gulf country. she had her part of the story & her problems shared.
There was this guy who was flying first time to states. these so called highly educated guys who are going for their PGs courses to United states, i think they never spend one minute to read the instructions on the weight to be carried or no of luggages to be carried etc.
He was again & again coming out to give back certain things to adjust the weight & finally ended up giving back 2 sets of shoes, clothes & lot of other things which he carried as a memory.
Here the parents who had come to send him off never anticipated this situation & they were keeping every thing here & there as they did not have a proper bag to carry it back.
Boy flew off safely but i pity his parents who were totally in a state of shock after their son went away & also they where not knowing what to do with all those things as they did not have a bag. I usually have a habit of carrying extra plastic covers & i gave them 2 really big covers & helped them to put some of their things.
The lady was so moved that she cried for a minute after seeing the plastic cover. she had no words to describe. i too told her to just put the things & go away as i can't see any one cry & i too will cry back. it was really heart moving.
I told them to come prepared the next time they come to drop their son to the airport & asked them to pass on the same message to any one who is going out of country to carry extra bag to dump any thing that can't be taken on board & also to get the bags checked in hand at home before & make sure that you are carrying minimum of 500 gms less than the total prescribed weight.
This complete 5 hours was the most heart moving of all experiences in my life time. there were Hindus, Muslims, Christians & people from differents regions speaking kannada, telugu, tamil, malayalam, urdu, hindi, bengali & many more. but when it come to crying every one cries the same. when some one feels the pain the tears are the same.
Why is the country getting divided due to language, creed, Religion. Recently there was a bomb blast in Pune at German Bakery & around 11 of them dead & couple of them injured & some muslim jihadi group taking resposibility for the blast.
It is really Shameful. They need to be punished first. God needs to punish them first for all the trouble they are bringing around.
Allah Never asked any one to bring blood of the opposite religion. they why are these terrorist out fits doing such things. to be honest, if one such blast takes place, there will be some innocent muslims too dieing due to it.
Our Country's economy is in big trouble due to frequent bombing here and there in Different Parts of India.
The Main Reason to Write this Article on One Night at Bangalore International Airport is to tell the world that when it pains every one cries & there is no exception of Any Religion, Language or Caste/Creed.
Be Human. If you hear any one trying to do such bad things to the people. stop him. fix him. or punish him.
I pray Sai to Bless Us all & to keep every one safe. we need to go around here & there for our daily bread & we can't sit at one place. so we need a Safer Place to live.
This Article is a Tribute to all those who lost their lives in the Recent German Bakery Blast. A Complete family of Five who had gone to celeberate their recent promotion at work place lost their life for trying to be happy & enjoy.
Here the Right Decision Indicates between good or bad. Wake Up folks we need to fight back the evil & cut their tails & hammer them to death to have a peaceful life.
First we need to Dry Clean our Political system & Corrupt politicians. We too need to adopt tough punishments as given in Saudi Arabia.
Behead any one trying to disturb our country. 100 Lashes for any one who doesn't follow rules & regulations & very strict punishments to all those idiots who destroy govt property like buses. brake glasses in the shopping mall. Idiots it is our hard earned money that we pay as taxes that you are all braking. if you really want to show your anger. break glasses in your home, burn your car or bike, hit your mom or dad with stones. you are all un fit to be here in this world. get lost some where. we don't want you here. with in a years time every one will turn around & become good to survive if such tough punishments are imposed.
Just have a Thought on this before going to Sleep & Act Fast.
At 4:30 Am i went inside & checked in my Luggage & flew to by Destination :)
Allah Malik.
One Night At Bangalore International Airport is based on my experience at the Airport Departure where i spend almost 5 hours out side as i was too early to check in for my designated trip.
On 19th Feb 2010 i had to catch an early morning flight out of bangalore international airport & the destination this time was Raipur.
Raipur?????????
What am i doing at Raipur? Meet Some one Related to Sai Baba & it was Sai Baba's wish that i meet this person. From June 2009 my trip to raipur was postponed several times due to bad health condition & then later on there was a self imposed restriction that i'm not going to fly during the months of November & December due to some bad spell & my Astrologer was too keen on me avoiding any overseas trip or any trip involving an Air Journey or Train Journey.
As i beleive certain things i postponed the trips & later fixed it to Jan 1st week 2010. Every thing was good. i wanted to start the new year with some thing really useful & nothing more useful than visiting Raipur.
But unfortunately there were lot of problems after the ticket were procured & one of the main reasons were that i had to travel back by train which would completely cover Andhra Pradesh & during 1st week of Jan 2010 Andhra Pradesh was burning up due to the Telengana & other political Issues.
Now finally fixed my program instantly & decided to fly out of bangalore international Airport to Raipur Mana Airport via Hyderabad.
Let me now come to the main Story. As i had to give a minimum description of why i had to travel, i could not cut short the briefing about Raipur & my purpose to visit it. Also the Importance of visiting Raipur.
As i'm not the early to bed & early to wake kind of guy, it is really tough for me to get up early in the morning, get ready & start for the airport. Also that there is no proper transport facility early in the morning by around 2 am. as i'm 100kms away from airport, i either need to make my own travel arrangement or start the previous evening & stay the whole night at airport to catch the early morning flight.
I decided i would start the previous night as there was no need to burn up funds un necessarily to come to the airport by Taxi.
I went to my regular Sai Baba Temple at tumkur at around 7:20pm. it was a thursday, 18th Feb 2010 & the bhajan session was progressing. i did not want to disturb & just put my attendence to baba & came out as early as possible as i had to catch a bus by 8pm. went home & had light snacks & started by 8:20pm. luckily i got a bus to bangalore by 8:30pm & the bus reached bangalore by around 10:25pm. a distance of around 70kms covered successfully.
Got down at the bus stand & just then there was a local Airport bus waiting to start for the destination. i just ran around with the luggage & boarded the same. it was a decent ride. for 125Rs, they cover a distance of around 40kms by volvo AC bus. as the road was clear, we reached the airport by 11:20pm.
Oh god, 11:20pm. I just thought what am i supposed to do till morning 4:30am. i'll be allowed to check in only after 4:30am.
I roamed around for some time. i had curd rice & black tea at a Eat out called Nutkut. Pricing was fine. i think that was the only food joint to serve food & beverages at a cheaper rates compared to cafe coffee day, sub way, barista inside the departure terminal & some international juice shop.
I searched for an Empty chair & ended up sitting just in front of the departure hall.
It was 12:10am now. only 50 mins had passed & that 50 mins was like almost a big time. it was very tough to pass on time.
After i finally got seated. i was looking at the departure table in a big 42 Inch LCD screen.
There were international flights to Singapore, Bangkok, Paris, Frankfurt, Dubai, Sharjah, & Muscat.
Could see that most of them travelling to singapore or bangkok were casual visitors. they usually came all alone or in a small group of say 2-3 people. then came the people travelling to USA/ UK via Paris & Frankfurt. they were looking like students, professionals going on a short term project & some were USA, UK & other European nationals travelling back after a vacation in India.
Even there were some travelling to USA via Dubai.
The Airport was totally crowded at around 1:30 am as most of the flights were scheduled to take off after 2:30am. there were loads of people coming to see off there near & dear ones.
I think i found one thing in common, Every one cries for a min before leaving their near & dear ones.
I was so emotional depressed seeing lot of families cry & depart their folks at the airport. it was really painful. there were few whom i spoke to. one had come to see off her nephew who was traveling for the first time to USA & she was giving him inch by inch procedure till he boarded the plane.
Another one had come to see of her daughter who was in Some gulf country. she had her part of the story & her problems shared.
There was this guy who was flying first time to states. these so called highly educated guys who are going for their PGs courses to United states, i think they never spend one minute to read the instructions on the weight to be carried or no of luggages to be carried etc.
He was again & again coming out to give back certain things to adjust the weight & finally ended up giving back 2 sets of shoes, clothes & lot of other things which he carried as a memory.
Here the parents who had come to send him off never anticipated this situation & they were keeping every thing here & there as they did not have a proper bag to carry it back.
Boy flew off safely but i pity his parents who were totally in a state of shock after their son went away & also they where not knowing what to do with all those things as they did not have a bag. I usually have a habit of carrying extra plastic covers & i gave them 2 really big covers & helped them to put some of their things.
The lady was so moved that she cried for a minute after seeing the plastic cover. she had no words to describe. i too told her to just put the things & go away as i can't see any one cry & i too will cry back. it was really heart moving.
I told them to come prepared the next time they come to drop their son to the airport & asked them to pass on the same message to any one who is going out of country to carry extra bag to dump any thing that can't be taken on board & also to get the bags checked in hand at home before & make sure that you are carrying minimum of 500 gms less than the total prescribed weight.
This complete 5 hours was the most heart moving of all experiences in my life time. there were Hindus, Muslims, Christians & people from differents regions speaking kannada, telugu, tamil, malayalam, urdu, hindi, bengali & many more. but when it come to crying every one cries the same. when some one feels the pain the tears are the same.
Why is the country getting divided due to language, creed, Religion. Recently there was a bomb blast in Pune at German Bakery & around 11 of them dead & couple of them injured & some muslim jihadi group taking resposibility for the blast.
It is really Shameful. They need to be punished first. God needs to punish them first for all the trouble they are bringing around.
Allah Never asked any one to bring blood of the opposite religion. they why are these terrorist out fits doing such things. to be honest, if one such blast takes place, there will be some innocent muslims too dieing due to it.
Our Country's economy is in big trouble due to frequent bombing here and there in Different Parts of India.
The Main Reason to Write this Article on One Night at Bangalore International Airport is to tell the world that when it pains every one cries & there is no exception of Any Religion, Language or Caste/Creed.
Be Human. If you hear any one trying to do such bad things to the people. stop him. fix him. or punish him.
I pray Sai to Bless Us all & to keep every one safe. we need to go around here & there for our daily bread & we can't sit at one place. so we need a Safer Place to live.
This Article is a Tribute to all those who lost their lives in the Recent German Bakery Blast. A Complete family of Five who had gone to celeberate their recent promotion at work place lost their life for trying to be happy & enjoy.
Baba Says: Right Decision at the Right Time Saves a Million.
Here the Right Decision Indicates between good or bad. Wake Up folks we need to fight back the evil & cut their tails & hammer them to death to have a peaceful life.
First we need to Dry Clean our Political system & Corrupt politicians. We too need to adopt tough punishments as given in Saudi Arabia.
Behead any one trying to disturb our country. 100 Lashes for any one who doesn't follow rules & regulations & very strict punishments to all those idiots who destroy govt property like buses. brake glasses in the shopping mall. Idiots it is our hard earned money that we pay as taxes that you are all braking. if you really want to show your anger. break glasses in your home, burn your car or bike, hit your mom or dad with stones. you are all un fit to be here in this world. get lost some where. we don't want you here. with in a years time every one will turn around & become good to survive if such tough punishments are imposed.
Just have a Thought on this before going to Sleep & Act Fast.
At 4:30 Am i went inside & checked in my Luggage & flew to by Destination :)
Allah Malik.
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