Month: February 2022

Sai always teaches us that whatever work we are doing, we must do it with concentration and dedication. If we are not used to paying proper attention to our work, then we will not be able to do anything properly and attentively. Sai says, whether it is our usual day to day work or related to spiritual matters, we must pay proper attention and do it. If you can perform your worldly duties conscientiously, only then you will be able to perform your spiritual duties properly!

In 1999, when Sai visited Europe alongwith His devotees, their main mode of travel there was by train. The surprising thing was that always while alighting, Sai would give perfect directions of how to exit from the station or on which platform to go for catching a connecting train, etc. It just didn’t seem that Sai had come to Europe for the first time!
One devotee asked Sai, “How is it that you know everything about all the directions of how and where to go? It seems that you have been here before!” Sai replied, “It is very important to pay proper attention. The reason I know all this is because I am always alert and attentive!”

Every incident with Sai which we recollect, we realise there is lesson in it. In 2006 during the London visit, when Sai were eating pizza at Pizza Hut with all of us, we knew that He does not like pizza, yet for everyone’s happiness, He had agreed and were enjoying the same. When someone asked Sai as to how He was enjoying something which really speaking He does not prefer, Sai said, “When the Lord has sent us to such a nice air-conditioned place with such good service, what more can we desire or ask from Him?”
While talking to Sai or going around with Him, everything that He says has a deep-rooted message for us, He is always teaching us the Art of Living!

In 1998, when Sai went to Sri Lanka, it so happened once that while going around it became so late that it surpassed the lunch time and meals were not available anywhere. An extremely devoted disciple, Shri Ramesh Bhambhani tried his level best to organize something in a decent place, but couldn’t find any. Finally he found a very simple udipi restaurant, where he took Sai reluctantly, as there was no other option. The place was not at all clean, the simple wooden furniture was old and pieces of newspaper were given for wiping hands etc. The surprising thing was that even in such a place, Sai were having His meal so happily with everyone without any sign of unease, unwillingness or dislike!
One devotee mustered up the courage to ask Sai as to how He could enjoy his meal so happily even in such an atmosphere?
Sai replied, “Wherever the Lord sends us, we must accept and be blissfully happy there, whether it’s a 5 star hotel or a simple dharamshala! We should always be grateful and happy in all situations!”