Demystifying Sri Sathya Sai's Divine Magic Shows

Pranams to the lotus feet of Swami !

Swami , is the very personification of the Divine , Faultless , Selfless , Pure and Perennial Love . Those who have realized their association with Bhagwan , understand whatever he does , whatever he says . When a devotee reaches this state , it means, he/she is in the innermost orbit of Swami's grace and they are surrounded on all sides by Swami's presence.  To the rational mind, that is malformed with self taught  observations from an undeveloped society full of spiritually immature human beings ,who should make a gargantuan effort to embrace God & Divinity , one may be tormented with questions, doubts and fears about Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. A true Sathya Sai devotee is one of these poor children , who face the innocent yet ignorant questions of the Non Sathya Sai devotees about the explicit use of magic ( divine leela ) by Swami over all these years . 

It is a known fact , Swami manifested rings, chains  , pictures , udi , lingams and many more things in full public eye . In fact, even after Swami's passing , his photos still exhibit Udi , sandal powder , amrit , on them on random occassions, some devotees have even shared experiences where they have had lingas ,idols and rings out of nowhere in front of Swami's photo presence.   To the normal eye , this might look like some random sadhu , who is aware of some tricks of illusion , who uses it to attract people to him to mint money out of them . There I said it. This is the exact judgmental comments that the Non-Sathya Sai devotees have in their minds. Even as I write this , I seek swami's grace on me , to clarify this popular criticism on Swami , so , that it can be laid to rest once and for all .  

Yes, there are people on the internet , who have demonstrated materializing things out of thin air, getting objects out of their mouth and trying to defame the Pure Love of Bhagwan . What do they gain out of this ? We must ask a practical question here - these so called magicians who can mimic few of Swami's leelas , how many crowds have they attracted to themselves ? How often have they had repeat audience for the same trick that they show ? Yes, I may have been attracted once, seeing a man pull off illusion and I may pay a ticket to see his show . But will I go to him again , to see the same trick ? What's there for me , seeing him do these tricks ? I can see magic videos on the internet, I can see talent shows which various countries are telecasting online , I can watch a million other things apart from his trick show . But is this case with Swami ? The only answer is a profound "NO" . Ever since Swami proclaimed his reincarnation of Shiridi Sai Baba, Swami has been demonstrating his Love in various means . These miracles are just one of these channels which he opted, out of sympathy & pity on our ignorant minds. Another practical question here , If someone claims they are an agent of God, will our so-called educated or uneducated minds allow us to believe them just on their word ? Won't we want proof ? Some miracle , some prediction coming true ,some healing of disease etc ? He did all of these and much more. Swami , who is the very embodiment of the Paramathma , the ultimate source of everything we are and we are not, demonstrated in a way we can understand, we can tangibly feel and experience . We are human beings , who are bound by the 5 senses, the panchabhutas , and we can only connect with someone or something through these 5 senses . It is our inbuilt architecture to live our life harnessing these sense attributes . Swami ,had to do these things, to convince our innocent minds and hearts , that he is not just a normal human being . In fact, sincere devotees of Bhagwan will know , that Swami scolded us if we told we are just "human beings" , since he attributes the birth as a human being as one of his best creations . It is in our capacity , as a human being of 5 senses , that we can realise deeper interpretations of Love, respect, fear , discipline and care beyond animalistic boundaries . Even animals experience love, fear, respect for the herd's king and so on , but it is only as humans we actually understand the various dimensions of each emotion , each sense and it is only through this understanding that we begin to enquire how we are born , what is our purpose, what happens after death etc .

Bhagwan , took birth as a human being, to be one among us, the species that have the best chance of realizing God, the supreme and merge with him , instead of aimlessly , recklessly serving sense objects leading us nowhere. People don't just stop their criticism there, they compare him with other God's , other enlightened avatars that took birth as human beings and try drawing parallels between the avatars. One must realize that each Avatar has a purpose and they exhibit characteristics as per their command. In reality , everytime God descended on earth , every single avatar could have done every single thing , take everyone and everything in control , but being the supreme incarnate, they disciplined themself to their own purposes and ensured that was achieved in a manner they deemed appropriate. Give some room , and these innocent non-believers and rational thinkers and logic maniacs will fill it with all baseless doubts, ignorant questions with the sole aim of not accepting Swami's divinehood. Faith requires Courage. If there is no Faith , then everything appears grey , no reasoning , no logic and no connection with our earthly signs of proven theories. If Swami did these things, it was out of pure selfless love and the people who repeatedly - I Repeat - repeatedly came for his discourses for his darshan were not just for getting objects out of thin air . Yes, that was an outward show of love, but the communication between the Lord and his devotees were through 1-1 channels . His leela is so magical that, you feel and experience that he is there only for you , just to attend to your needs , but he does it simultaneously with everyone in the crowd.

Swami's avatarhood had so many purposes, so many responsibilities .  Swami came for reinforcing the faithful with more faith and love, swami came for converting morally lost people into a path of justice, ethics and discipline , to convert some non-believers into thinking on the existence of God , to reinforce their existing faiths in their respective religions further ,  to train simple people to think like saints , and so on. Swami's leelas are so infinite in number, that If I begin to explain one aspect of his feature, I have to do justice to another and it goes on a loop.  People who came often to his live discourses, people who watch his discourses on youtube and other online avenues, again and again - were they merely attracted by his use of Siddhis ? Does anyone have any idea on what or how it feels to be the recipient of Swami's overflowing grace and love ? One will stumble for words , for, all we can think of , is conveying our thanks to swami for watching over us every second , every step and every breath of our life. He teaches us lessons through our varying degrees of punishments, he teaches us humility and gratitude through experiences - the trick is simple here . If one trains to see Swami's hand in everything , then the mind will not strain itself to grasp what he does, why he does . The heart, when it is full of love and faith , that alone gains complete authority to receive every single experience as Swami's sankalpa , Swami's will .  

Every SAI devotee would have faced tough periods, a loss , a failure ,but none of them are perturbed. It is because , Swami , though he is beyond time and space , gives way to Karma , to allow it to impart its unbiased effect on the doers , the good reap the good, the bad reap the karma of their bad actions, thoughts etc. In exceptional cases, Swami intercedes and either absorbs the karma on himself or dilutes the effects on his devotee , but come what may , every single second , or millisecond ,he is working for us , working with us , and all we need to do  is to maintain a constant unwavering faith , chanting God's names, like Rama Krishna Narayana , Allah , Jesus , constantly think of Swami , give him an opportunity to constantly keep in him engaged with our own remembrance and only then do we become an ideal devotee- a devotee who is completely immune to gain or loss , happiness or sorrow , pleasure or pain . If a person tunes into Sai frequency , then to maintain this spiritual mental equilibrium is an effortless task , and it is just a matter of time when Swami chooses to relieve us from this Bodily attachment, from this mortal ghostly body and releives the soul trapped in this body to be quickly sucked into Swami's enormous ocean of Sat Chit Anand , or Divine Cosmic Bliss. 

I urge , the devotees, to continue to obey Swami's instructions as applicable , what he has told for all of us and what he has specifically suggested for you , with single pointed faith , firm devotion and not expecting fruits of this sadhana.  For the non-believers , I just request one thing . It is  totally understandable , If you have not been summoned by Swami , may be you are meant to be with some other shakthi , may be you are the next batch of people to be liberated, may be you are never to be saved  , whatever it is , your current grade in this Karmic cycle of life and death , if you do not feel for swami , atleast don't pass comments like how you do on actors, politicians and sportsmen , even that is wrong ,then what to say of God himself . If someone asks you about Swami , just respond saying , I don't know about him, I am not informed enough to comment on him , but what I know is his , his devotees claim he is God incarnate. This way , not only are you protecting yourself from not committing the sin of defaming Swami but also you are sharing the Truth  , you are sharing what needs to be told to everyone. Let the other person decide his/her equation with Swami  .  

I wish to write more and more , but , I don't want to dilute the core crux of this piece ,that is to imperatively drive home the message - that Swami is not just the Miracles he did , he is beyond that , he is absolutely everything and he is the very Consciousness itself, and one must not simply judge something by the cover . 

May Good spirits guide you , your mind and give you the courage to practice the Art of Faith. 

Samasthalokah Sukhino Bhavanthu

Effects of Sai Worship

                                                                        Jai Sai Ram

Sai ram to the reader. As the twin powers of the Lord's two avatars , from his bodies from Shiridi and Parthi keep oscillating in my mind , blessing me with a variety of poses, emotions , deep realizations ,one of those days it dawned upon me how the power of the parthi avatar of Swami has greatly transformed me so invisibly yet so emphatically. The Sai avatar may not have been exposed to the entire Earth, but to those who Swami decided to expose his luminous glow , only those who have been in its presence physically or spiritually know what a blessed shower of munificence it is , of the Gods , or perhaps God, the ultimate Paramathma . The same athmic power which swami repeatedly emphasized is in all of us, when he addressed us as "Divyathmaswaroopulara" . The love he bore for us, was so personalized, yet collective. It is only in the capacity of  the level of Swami , a power of his caliber, that can make us all relate to him in one-on-one contexts, yet gather our united spiritual antennae when we hear the magic word Sathya sai or Swami , because the same electricity flowed through our flawed existences.  He gives us visions, indications, gentle nudges that remind us how to connect with swami. He is there around us, over us, yet he is there with us holding our hands. Like a hand of hands. 

This omkara swaroopa, ever since he knocked on the ignorant confines of my malformed intellect , has been working tirelessly in cleaning up the mess I had accumulated over my existence in these formative years of mine. Had I lived a better Life, a life of better decisions , I would have been granted a direct interview with him in his physical body but the force of the dirt I had relished putting all over me like a pig in mud, has made him bless me from a distance. I could sense someone or some power constantly looking out for me, in every step, every breath but I could rarely experience the Light with it's real intensity . I have no pride in saying I had made bad decisions over these years, decisions that gave me temporal sense of worthless transitory happiness . Sometimes, somebody was put in my life to partner with me in a bad decision, sometimes I voluntarily piled sand over my head. Yet , somehow, through the force of some good Karma on my charts, I kept in touch with God, Sai Baba , that time with his previous body as Shiridi Sai . My bhakthi was inconsistent . I used to have deep love some days , some days I used to switch of the vision of my Guru looking at me and engage in a vile act like he never existed. What shameless guts I had, to come and stand in front of his picture the next day , when I had taken a bad decision. You might wonder , what is this "bad decision"  that I keep referring. To put it in simple terms, any decision that one takes, that makes him forget or not think of his Guru aka God, any decision that a person takes with the intention of seeking some gains out of it, which is not selfless, which does not remind him/ her of their blessings , every time you get immeresed in the illusionary sense of "ego" , or the "I"  principle, not realizing that through thick and thin ,God or Guru is mixed with our Life force is a poor decision. 

I realized , how gently yet persuasively Swami had taken control of my ignorant existence as he couldn't see someone throw away their Life, when by his own grace they had the name of 'Sai' on their Lips. To reiterate, I sometimes feel , I went through what I went through , the bad phase, the poor decision phase, as a result of my own bad karma yet by the power of my own good karma and his grace , my lips bothered to chant 'Sai ram , Sai ram.'  One of those days when I began to realize the presence of Swami in my life, I was down in the cafeteria of the Hotel where I was staying in the USA . They served drinks every monday though wednesday every week as a Hotel tradition. Drinking is as normal as swimming there, in their way of life, unlike the way it is Hyped here in India. Anyway, I was strolling through that day's menu , when my eyes caught the bottles kept in ice racks and people nonchalantly grabbing a bottle or two once in a while. I went near - this was the power of my bad karma. I was about to take make a bad decision. Yet, through some invisible force, I was stopped midway . Like some kind of Internal me inside me, that pulled me back - this was my conscience, my good karma . In other words, swami himself. It was not a vehement rejection of wine. It was an informed decision taken in a state of good mental equilibrium, with no regrets or force. Just how gently but cautiously a mighty elephant avoids trampling over a sleeping house cat.  I was reminded of Swami's word play in some of his discourses where he talks about "divine, deep wine" . Things continued to control me like this. What gave me delight was , every time I corrected my impulse from making a poor decision, I was able to relate to one of Swami's many discourses , some strong statements or popular jokes he cracked with the intention of making us get the message in a way we ignorant creatures understood.  

Some nights, I used to get a glimpse of Swami in my dreams, I used to try to understand the meaning of the vision , but I soon give up the attempt when I get distracted into thinking with joy that "swami came in my dream". As days passed , through his own grace, Swami made me to be in touch with him through his private personalized instructions for me. The light of Swami grew in me. I increasingly became conscious of my imperfections. The light dawned in me , inside me, on me, that made me realize how misshapen things where there in my mansion, which I thought were perfect. Every word , before I uttered, went through a filter in my conscience "Will this please swami, Is this Sai Approved, Will Swami approve off this" . My mind did this filtering in the few milliseconds before my proud tongue started tickling my throat to conjure up words out of my being.  Every action I was about to do,  went through a similar screening. One of the important changes in me, among other personal ones was in the way how I began to see my parents, the way I treated them , the manner in which I spoke to them . Not that I was a bad child , but beyond my belief that I was a good son to my parents , Swami brought to light the areas of improvements that began to improve my relationship with my parents. See, that's the beauty of being a Sai devotee. It is not just correction of bad to good that happens, but good to better as well ,and so on. You tend to be a better version of yourself and it is an evolving continuous ceaseless process.  

I used to hopelessly yet earnestly look at the various swami pictures, wall hangings that I artfully created out of Love for seeing Swami , to see if there was some Udi manifestation. I am still such a child, but the desire to validate if Swami still loved me, If swami is still there around me unfortunately looks up for tangible proofs like these, when the actual magic is happening within me in an intangible manner, without me noticing.  One of these days, it is going to happen. Swami will manifest and materialize things that will make me understand how much he loves me, how I should love him even more . But that's not the goal . So what happens next ? One day udi comes in one of the pictures. Does that mean, I reached the mountain top as a Sai devotee?  Does that mean ,I am liberated ?  I leave it to your judgement . Swami's love for me, you and all of us is an ever happening process, and when Swami feels that we have served our time and purpose, he absorbs us into his energy like air mixes with air , like water molecules mix with each other . Until then, we have to consciously make an effort to singularly point all our actions, thoughts, words, all of our prana towards the avataric shakthi , the sarva shakthi rupa , the bhaktha hrudayavasa , Sai Narayana and allow him to do his work on us as he wills. In simple words , like one of those videos where one Sai brother puts it, we must simply Surrender and Shut up.

Samasthalokah Sukhino Bhavanthu

Life - Through the eyes of Sai

Jai Sai Ram 

A garden , that grew out of nowhere , with resources that are insufficient even for a weed to sprout , Sai Rama , your life is a Jyothi , a prema Agni , that merely came out of a spark of Divinity . A spark  is all what it took , as the Gods,  manifested themselves on earth through your body . Watching the story of your life, though the superb videos put together by the Radio Sai team , presented by Blessed Brothers Arvind and Prem , I don't know where to begin , realizing you . Where shall I start looking at you , are my two eyes powered enough to consume the vision you granted ,to cover the gigantic frame of Prema Agni you are . As these two brothers pointed out , more and more as we listen to his stories , they act as pellets of remedy for the soul , that requires so much healing and shaping . We ,as humans don't even realize that we need a healing , at an athmic level  and listening to your stories, are the antibiotics for the soul . I am not suggesting that the athma within is having illness or is impure , as Swami repeatedly emphasized with such noble humility and steeped love, that we are all also Gods, we are also sparks of the same divine aura that he is . It is just that, we don't know these things as sheaths and sheaths of Sanskara and Earthly illusion has clouded our Intellect , giving us delusions and false imagery of the so called  Human Intelligence, and we forgot, to see within , where he is seated from within . Being filled to the brim , by Pure Selfless , Divine Love, I deeply empathize the Uncontrollable , Enormous Pressure you might have been in , Oh Sai Rama . 

How much Self Control , Restraint , Self Discipline , Rules and Laws you were adhering , even as a super dominant portion of you wanted to Love us more and more . For God himself, in his full capacity , to come down to Bhooloka , Earth , live among us trapped souls , what might have been the level of Dharma in you , that might have been present , to prevent you from granting us Instant Moksha , Instant Liberation , Instant Pardon and take us all back into the Athma, the God , the high mountain you often refer . I am so shaken , oh Swami , when you loved us with so much magnitude, yet , the pressure you might have been going through all through your life in that body , trying to not step over the Karmic Timetable we , as your devotees need to endure. Your situation is so similar to how a Head Professor , who knew all the answers to all the questions to a very difficult Exam , stood beside a student , who's hands start sweating after seeing the Question paper . How much urge you might have had to control , to not tell the devotee ( student) the answers, with you standing so close by , yet, ensuring , we go through the Karma, the Deed of experiencing what's meant to be, though you had full power to take it up all on you ? Oh sai rama ,your face illumined with that divine Smile, your hands, playing the divine Veena every time you were signalling something with your fingers, every time you wrote something in the Air, changing the Fate of the devotees, the children in front of you . And after all this, all you ask is , Prema, Love , Love, Love and nothing else , from us . Everytime, one of us, experience a divine Leela of yours, a personalized attention , as much as we are happy and blessed to get that, we can't help but wonder, what if somebody else needed your love, your presence, your attention , only to hear you laugh out of love , signifying how you can distribute yourself with all of us , like sugar dissolves in milk , where you are the Sugar and the humanity is the ocean of milk . How much energy , you had in you , to dish out love after love , pointed at anyone who came in your way , oh Sai Rama ,may we forever stay close to you at heart , mind and soul ,if not that the body . For , ever since you took us in your arms, the moment we feel the slightest distance from you , we start gasping for air like a fish out of water , and we can't bear the pain when this happens . Before your advent into our lives, we hopelessly just swam in a river of life and death , like dead but alive fishes, but the moment you stepped into the whirlpool of samsara ,powered by Maya herself , the moment you stepped and walked further and further deep into these powerful currents only to handpick us up , from that river and drop us into the Ocean of Sai Prema, we can't afford to swim anywhere further away from you , but simply around you till the last moment of awareness of being different from you disappears . Oh Sai Rama, when the day comes, when the moment comes in my life, when I have earned that level of Bhakthi in me, when it's time for me to merge with you , I sincerely plead with you , I should have completely forgotten myself , I should have no awareness of the 'I' in me, as 'I' become 'You' and I never be away from you ever again .

Samasthalokah Sukhino Bhavanthu

Enter Sri Sathya Sai

Jai Sai Ram .

As Destiny would have it, through Swami's blessings, I had a chance to function from the United States of America, in the year of  2019-2020 . The year of 2019 was coming to an end and the desire to spend the New Year's Eve with someone from family in a special way kept lingering in my mind and I planned a trip to one of my elder cousin's place in Florida . This blessed soul had the opportunity to study in Sri Sathya Sai's Institutes and as a result developed sense of Love and Consciousness for Sathya Sai . Whenever she used to come to Mylapore , back when I used to live in my rental home, she would visit Sundaram, the place where swami was blessing the devotees and public alike in all his glory .  I still remember how she would head out early , before I got up , and come back much later in the evening after all the service was done , all the bhajans were over and she was filled with Bliss , having spent time in the presence of Swami . She is insanely Blessed , to have seen Swami , in his physical form, which again I missed. But I have  a deep rooted confidence that one day I will get my turn . I have to earn it. So ,fast forward, I went to her place , a beautiful blessed home , with many portraits and pictures of Swami in his different poses . I could sense his presence throughout  . After all , how difficult is it to detect Love . Swami is all about Love. He was , even in his physical form, an embodiment of Love,  or in his own words, PremaSwaroopulara as he always addressed all of us in his in numerous discourses.   

So, we had made plans to go one day to a Beach there in Florida, after all ,who would miss the beaches of Tampa, Florida and Miami . We were standing in the waters ,all of us , when suddenly I was in pain . I couldn't understand what it was, but it pained instantly, like a needle was inserted in my leg and I somehow could fathom strength in me to identify something blue in color , a water balloon like thing with long dark blue ropes. I retired to the sand, even as the others were playing in the waters. After some time, I felt very uneasy in the lower back and the pain and irritation increased and I was internally deeply worried about my health. Then it struck me. It might have been one of these poisonous Jelly Fishes that float around in these beaches . Sadly, it was indeed a kind of Jelly Fish. It was a Portuguese Man of War . I flew all the way from Southern India ,to Southern USA , Florida to be stung by a Portuguese Man of war. As Swami would have it, I wasn't injured much . I Developed some scars and had to endure some lingering pain , but thankfully not much itching. Much after this episode, when I used to think , why did Swami even punish me this way . Like any devotee would ask the lord , when they face a bad situation. Then , after many many days it dawned upon me. This was Sathya Sai's entrance into my being. Until then ,and even during the Florida trip I was devoted to Shiridi Sai baba , regarded him as my Sadhguru , my all in all , my only Guru . Though Sathya Sai was very much alive , during all my adult years, somehow my ignorant mind never took to recognize the very same Shiridi Sai in Sri Sathya Sai. 

Now, in 2019 , 8 years after Swami left his physical body , he couldn't bear no more, to see how Ignorant I was and when the time was opportune, when I was metaphorically and factually standing in the same waters of my Cousin , who is a Swami  devotee , he stung me and the work had begun.  My florida trip was filled with happy memories, and when the day of me leaving their place came, I requested my cousin and her blessed husband to give me 2 of Swami photos . One , in which , he was directly looking at me and in another, in his Double Hand Abhayahastha Pose, with both hands raised , blessing us all copiously. Even then, I wasn't aware of his oneness with Shiridi Sai and I merely asked her these photos , with the intention of staying in touch with something positive from the place. My ignorant intellect, can't be described in words . I had also attended a Bhajan with my cousin on new year's eve and I began my 2020 with Swami's Bhajans and satsang. 

I came back to Chicago where I was staying and placed these two photos along with other photos which included Shiridi Sai as well. Somehow, over the days, through unique experiences which I don't wish to divulge here in a public forum, I started developing a deep deep craving for Sri Sathya Sai . Indeed, at one point of time, unaware , Swami  resumed his rightful place in my heart , where all this while , he had been guiding me in the form of Shiridi sai. I am so grateful , for Swami's grace, as he took pity on me and reached out to me, when I was aimlessly strolling in this world, making mistakes, accumulating deeds that should not be accrued . His love for me, his focus on me, has cut through generations, births , as he has lifted me from my ignorant sleep , as he gently rains down lovely showers of love and blessing and knowledge on me every single day every single step and every single breath. Sai Rama , may myself forever hold your presence, your divine aura fixedly in my mind , word ,deed and spirit . I also used to think , I wouldn't have progressed into his next avatar of Sri Sathya Sai if not for this leela. The energy was not enough , the environment was not enough and I was getting ignorant by the day . Somehow, he conjured and choreographed a plan to wake me from slumber, drop me in America , taking me over the oceans, all the way from a place that meant everything to me. I am by myself here, in my solitude, now madly in Love and ecstasy , thinking of my Swami . He brought me all the way here , to slap the ignorance out of me and now there is no going back. I am fully his own and he is fully my own. We are there for each other . My Sai Rama. 

Samasthalokah Sukhino Bhavanthu

Mera Sai Prayan

Jai Sai Ram 

I actually don't particularly remember when, how I was inducted to Sai Baba worship , but as Luck and Destiny would have it , Sai Baba mixed into my Life without me noticing him entering . But ever since he has never ever left me . I lived in a simple rented home in Mylapore for a good 20 plus years and as you may or may not be aware, there is a famous Shiridi Sai temple . They provide really tasty prasad there, which is one my fondest memories of the place , apart from the main attraction , Swami himself , seated there in his trademark pose . With a smile , that defeats you the very instant you lock your eyes with him , one can only experience this if they are meant to be. Otherwise, what lies in front of you would be just another Deity's statue . My blessed parents , and my sibling , are all Sai devotees . We may be one family , but we have our own personal connections with Swami for ,we are all not one and the same. The Sai prema binds us even more . I am indebted to my blessed parents , as they had the habit of taking me to temples and this temple/mandir in particular often , when i was a kid. See , what one gets to see and hear often somehow penetrates the internal psyche and that's how, the thought of worshiping Swami somehow won me over. The temple used to be very simple , in contrast to how well and prosperous it has become now and it will become. There were no other big chambers, except Swami's concentrated gaze on his devotee , the revered Dhuni ( sacrifical Fire ) , a Krishna idol , Some hundis and a meditation place . In fact, even as I am trying to recollect now , I have lost the vision of the Old Mandir's Layout. It has changed so much now, as devotees, come and contribute out of their own will and desire for improving the mandir. 

The Mandir grew and grew , with many facilities, lighting and water arrangements, sound systems, decorations, newer chambers , prayer hall , anna daan hall and much more. It is as though, the old devotees kept watering this Love Tree, for the future devotees who will be coming to the mandir seeking comfort in the presence of his Lotus Feet .  For a keen eye , one might notice that people who have taken to sai prema, or the act of worshipping swami Sai ram wholeheartedly bear this peaceful contented look in their face. Their face would not give away any sign of human desire, discontentment with one's lot. Another characteristic feature since old days is the presence of the poor people who sit in front of the temple in lines, with their begging bowl , wearing torn clothes, asking people for food, money , resources. The devotees would sometimes acknowledge by offering some cash, coin or food to them , sometimes they pray to the swami himself for their welfare. The whole temple is a beautiful adaptation of Swami's Shiridi Home , where he enacted all the Leelas in his mortal form . Blessed are those , who got to experience Swami's physical love , for people like me, can only experience his invisible love, enveloping me every second , every step and every breath . I sometimes used to wonder , if I was intelligent enough to recognize Swami , if he walked in front of me, whether the so called human intelligence would permit me to believe his Divine aura . 

But I leave it to him , in the hope, he drags me by the ear and makes me realize he has been looking at me all this while, while I was looking elsewhere , lost in my own thoughts. Then we moved on to a new home in Chromepet , a place near Tambaram ,where by our sheer luck and Blessings of Swami , right behind our home , in the parallel street , there is both a Shiridi Sai Mandir and Sathya Sai Bhajan Hall . What more do I ask, than this persistent Love of Swami , his constant attention on me . Words can only describe as much,  what I feel for him . But I will try , and conjure our my Hridaya Bhava through my god gifted craft of Creative Writing  .

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