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