sai baba palkhi

30 th june 2009 was a day on which shri saibaba showered his blessings on swami avadhootananda as on that day he was made to sit in the "rath" -chariot- having saibaba's palkhi containing baba's "padukas" (holy shoes made in silver}. This palkhi was accompanied by 3000 people who received swamiji's blessings and they were on their way to SHIRDI to reach there on gurupoornima.

आज का दिन

इंटरनेशनल timings

sai baba's original photograph

This is the picture taken 3 years before baba took samadhi.You can see a date written 1915 in gujarati language .If you look into the most compassionate eyes of shri sai baba ,you will feel him looking directly at you! may you all be blessed by him!
Swami Avadhootananda

SAIBABA TAKES ME TO SHIRDI

i shall never forget yesterday ,the 1st of march2009,because this was the day Shri Sai Baba of shirdi gave me his Darshan .Yeterday at 5 pm while i was sittiing in a satsanga at my home/ashram at pune with few sai devotees namely mr.patel and others ,i went into samadhi and saw saibaba dressed in a pink colored shawl with silver colored stars on it and i told everyone about it. All of them left for home at 6pm. At 7 pm mr.patel called and excitedly told me that they saw shrdi temple on line on tata sky (dish cable service) and Saibaba WAS dressed in a pink shawl!
.I was in tears as Sai baba took me to shirdi in a split second gave me darshan and brought me back while ,i was in samadhi in front of everyone! Om sai ram! This is a miracle!Saibaba is living for every devotee who loves and surrenders to him!
Swami Rishi Avadhootananda

samadhi -a state of consciousness

Sai baba used to sleep on a small wooden plank tied up with thin rags high up and almost touching the roof of dwarkamai(baba's residence). People used to wonder that how he would climb up and get down from that small swing and nobody saw him doing that ,they coluld only see him sleeping on it! One day baba got annoyed due to public attention and threw away his swing . The devotees asked him about it and he replied " i was worried about mahalsapati because i did not want him to sleep on floor without me being there ! " so people asked him that we would put up another swing for mahalsapati and baba gave this most wonderful answer " mahalsapati can not sleep up because in order to do that one should be fully awake while sleeping!".
Sai baba was probably referring to a state of samadhi -super consciouness where you appear to be asleep while you are fully awake !
om sai ram
swami avadhootananda(rishi)

visit to saibaba temple at shirdi

i was fortunate to visit shirdi Sai baba's temple on 10th and 11th feb09 with our friends Mahendraji and nandaji -what a blessing it was for me and Rajul!There were about 45000 people on that day. All i wanted was to stand in front of saibaba and pray and pray and pray! May sai baba bless all !May saibaba heal all !

Swami Rishi Avadhootananda.