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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.

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

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.

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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