Sai Leela-365-Baba helped in getting NOC
Jai Guru Sairam. I am Raagul from Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India. I have been a
staunch devotee of Shri Sai post the experience I am about to narrate to you
all. I thank my friend Aparna for introducing this forum to me. It's
heart-warming to see so many benefit from Shri Sai's grace. I too wish to share
the experience that convinces everyone in my household of the omnipotence of
Shri Sai.
The experience that I am about to narrate happened in 2007. This was the time
when my sister was pregnant and was abroad. My mom was working in judiciary
department of Tamil Nadu State government. My sister wanted my mom to travel
abroad to take care of her during pre and post-natal stages. Mom was mentally
prepared to make the travel. It was her first time. Everyone in the family took
the travel for granted and were focused on just ensuring proper packing and
planning for post-delivery needs, etc.
For any government employee to travel outside the country, they need something
called No-Objection-Certificate (NOC). Given mom was working in District Court,
as long as District Magistrate (DM) signed it, it should have been sufficient.
What we didn't know was a GO was passed in the past that NOCs have to be signed
by High Court justice too. If anyone has any run with the state judiciary
machine, then they would know that the legal system is super slow. Post signing
off from DM, the NOC left from high court. After two weeks, we hadn't received
any news of the document. Only after we received the document we could even
apply for Visa. There was hardly a month and a half left. We didn't know what to
do? My dad, who also was in judiciary, through this network figured out that the
document had reached high court justice office but was informed that it might
take another 3 months before it was signed. This basically meant that mom would
not be reaching US until after 4th month post-delivery. My sister was very
scared and here we were all super worried.
My mom was contemplating resigning the job, but she only had 5 more years of
service post which she would get retirement with pension benefits. We were all
in a dilemma. This was when the seed for the miracle was sown. My family deity
was Tirumala Venkatachalapathy. We used to read Vishnu Sahasranamam everyday. On
one Wednesday (auspicious day for Lakshmi and the Lord), post our recital, my
sister's friend, who also happens to be a good family friend, came to our house.
She was and is an ardent devotee of Shri Sai. When she came, my mom told her
about the situation. She recommended reading Satcharitra in Saptaha (7 days). As
Providence would have it, the very next day was Thursday and given the anxiety
we were in; Mom started the Saptaha the next day. We borrowed the book from a
Sai Mandir in our town with the help of our family friend. My mom did an ardent
study.
Though I and my dad believed in God, we didn't usually believe in miracles. We
let mom do what she wants, though we didn't believe in this 7-day reading. My
dad was trying to get the document signed through his channel, while I was
checking up to see if I could get my aunt to travel before mom and thus help my
sister. The 7 days passed. My mom completed her Saptaha on Wednesday and on
Thursday she wept like crazy in front of Shri Sai. She said, "Baba, I studied
Your life history as I had promised. You did so many miracles for all Your
devotees. Please shine Your grace upon me". She did Aarti (our version, not the
usual Sai Aarti), distributed Prasad and she left for office. At about 12 noon,
my Dad got a call through his channel, that on that particular day, the high
court justice walked into his cabin, sifted through many files and in the
process, opened my mom's file and signed that file and dispatched it. The very
shocking part was that my mom’s was the only file he dispatched before leaving
his cabin. When this news reached us, my mom returned back from office, I left
my college (in Chennai) and came to my home (in Hosur) and all three of us knelt
in front of Shri Sai fully accepting His omnipotence and fully ready for His
service. From that day forth, we realized, our family has not the three of us
but four (now it's six, with wife and daughter) including Shri Sai.
I request everyone of Sai devotees to have full trust in our Sai and not be
worried about anything in the least. He is omnipotent. If anything is happening
in our life, He wants it to happen. So, everything is working towards making us
stronger. Let's practice the two coins (qualities) that our Guru wants in us -
Shraddha and Saburi.
Jai Guru Sairam.
Source:
As Narrated by a devotee Raagul from Hosur, India . shirdisaiexperience.com