OM SAIRAM
JAI SAIRAM
JAI DATTATREYA
Dear All Shirdi Sai Devotees,
With great excitement, pleasure & happiness, am sharing with you all
my experience of shirdi sai baba and visit to Girnar mountains in
Junagadh , Saurastra , Gujarat for the DARSHAN OF THE PADUKAS OF SHRI
DATTATREYA. Before narrating the visit details, I would just like to
mention the connection of this visit with 2 dreams I had nearly 4
years back and how baba fulfilled my desires of having his Padukas and
rudraakhs maala for worship. THE ALL MERCIFUL Sainath maharaj always
gives anubhav and shows his leela’s in a very unique way and fullfill
the desires and wishes of his true devotees. All we need to have in
life is to follow the two divine words given to the world by our
perfect master, our samarth sadguru shri sainath maharaj of SHRADDHA &
SABURI. This visit to girnar was indeed a dream come true in all the
ways for me.
As mentioned above, in one of the dreams which I had early morning, I
saw the foot prints of baba in the sky and also the smiling face of
baba which is exactly like one of the very popular photographs of
baba. After some days in another dream, there is aarti of baba going
on and after the aarti im telling a couple of people about going to
guru ashram and meeting baba. A clear mention was made to reach
Ahmedabad by a morning flight and from there to go to guru ashram.
Till this last 2 weeks of October 2009, I had no clue about where is
guru ashram, whats the ahmedabad connection and what’s the meaning of
those dreams which I had. By the grace of Shri Saibaba and guidance of
Shri Saibanisa ji , I planned my visit and purchased silver padukas of
baba to touch it to the all divine and powerful padukas of lord
dattatreya & perform puja on the girnar mountains. Saibaba being the
avatar of lord dattatreya follows the guru parampara of Shripad
Vallabh , Narsimha Saraswati , Manik Prabhu , Swami Samarth of
Akkalkot and then Shirdi Sai samarth. Baba called me to Girnar
Mountains and fulfilled my dream completely and totally by giving the
all powerful padukas and darshan in the form of lord Dattatreya.
Now comes the connection between the dreams and Girnar Mountains. As
per the dreams the padukas seen in the dreams were in the sky and to
my and every one’s big surprise in my family we learned that the
dattatreya temple and padukas are on the last peak of the Girnar
Mountains & which can be REACHED ONLY BY CLIMBING 10000 (TEN THOUSAND)
STEPS on the Mountains. It is indeed in the sky. Though rajkot is the
nearest airport to reach junagadh for girnar , but I could not manage
to get a air ticket from Mumbai to Rajkot . Firstly, there are only 2
Airlines operating between these sector and flights were full. I tried
my best but what has to happen will happen. My programme was well
decided by baba in advance and then finally after many failed attempts
to reach junagadh from other places, I finally got a morning flight to
ahmedabad and was thrilled to understand the link and connection
Then came the day to start the journey. On the 25th October Sunday I
reached ahmedabad. The car was arranged on the airport by my friend
who also accompanied me for the girnar visit. Everything about this
travel and visit was divine and we could feel baba’s presence every
time and in every one. From the airport we first went to saibaba
temple in sardar colony and took baba’s blessings before starting.
Then after a short drive as we got down to have some refreshments , a
beggar approached me suddenly and said JAI SAINATH with a big smile on
his face and looking straight in to my eyes. I had goose bumps and
started talking to him don’t know why and how. After getting money
from us which for us was giving dakhshina to baba , he left the place
giving us all good wishes. The journey was indeed beautiful as we
crossed some nice cities of Morbi , and Chotila where the famous
Chamunda Mata temple is situated. Drive was very smooth and good and
so was the gujrati food on the way. Finally we reached Girnar in the
evening around 5 pm and after checking in the hotel went for a walk
towards the mountain to get all required details about the mountain
and the dattatreya temple so that we could plan accordingly about
climbing which we had decided to start early next morning.
Next morning we woke up early and after doing the Aarti of Saibaba
started marching towards the mountain. At one place from the ground
from where we could see the mountain and the temple on the top , we
first offered our PRANAAM to lord Dattatreya , lord Sainath to give us
strength and power to climb the otherwise difficult 10000 steps. In
the end we did NAMASKAAR to the Girnar Mountain to help, protect us
and to make the climb easy for us to reach to the temple. Exactly at 7
am we started to climb the steps chanting JAI SAI JAI JAI SAI
continuously. It was the power of this mantra that we succeeded in
reaching the temple and coming down safely. Devotees from all walks of
life had come for this divine pilgrimage of the Girnar mountains which
is the mountain of sadhu’s and saints and is widely believed and
prayed by lakhs of people as the mountain which has all the 36 crores
devi , devataas of Indian mythology. It’s a very very sacred and holy
place. I was so happy and excited as my dream had come true of
getting baba’s padukas. I was continuously thanking baba for showing
this leela and offered my koti koti pranaams to him from my heart for
calling me here and giving darshan.
It was a very beautiful sight as there was greenery all over and to
entertain you there are lot of monkeys on the way. At 5500 steps first
comes the famous AMBAJI temple. This temple of the goddess is very
popular and thousands throng to the hill to have darshan of the
goddess Ambaji to get their desires fulfilled. Ambaji temple comes
after crossing the digambar jain temple. from jain temple to ambaji
it’s a very steep and vertical climb. After having darshan of ambaji ,
we started for dattatreya temple. this climb was not that easy but for
every sai devotee no marg or way is difficult to reach him as he helps
you reach him. Once you are on his bhakti marg , he takes complete
care of you and helps , guides and protects you all the time. Baba
gave me the courage & strength to reach to his temple climbing the
sacred & holy 10000 steps. I had a big surgery of abdomen at Hinduja
hospital in Mumbai on the 7th of august 2009 , but still I managed to
climb the mountain just by believing on my master sainath maharaj. It
was baba’s power and strength that made me successfully complete my
darshan.
On reaching Lord Dattatreya temple , we worshiped the padukas and lord
dattatreya. The padukas carried by me were kept on the padukas of god
and with all the rituals and customs the puja was performed and the
padukas were handed over to me back. As I kept the padukas on my head
for some time I was totally in a different world. Completely divine
and powerful. I had lots of vibrations and the feeling cannot be
expressed in words. Without asking , the priest gave me a rudraakhs
after touching it to the feet of lord baba . I was astonished and
thanked sainath maharaj for fulfilling my desires to have his
rudraakhs maala along with the padukaas. The place there on the top of
the mountain is so divine and one can feel baba’s presence there. We
started the return journey and by the time we could reach ambaji
temple again, it was 7-30 pm and already dark. We managed to come down
another 1500 steps to reach Gaumukhi. My friend wanted to come down
that night itself but I wanted to do meditation under a Audumbar tree
for some time as per the divine instructions. Audumbar tree is the
tree of Lord dattatreya where he resides and under which he use to
meditate and do his dhyaan sadhna. Since morning we did not eat
anything except few biscuits and tea at the halts that we took. By
this time we were hungry and tired. Now look the Leela of the all
MERCIFUL SAIBABA, at gaumukhi , in the night, in the jungle baba
arranged food and shelter for us to stay overnight. Some sanyasis who
reside there came to us , spoked so nicely and invited us for dinner.
After the dinner we were given a room to sleep with mattresses ,
pillows etc. I cannot express my feelings in words. We were in tears
of happiness and kept thanking baba for arranging everything for us in
the jungle on the hill top. To my surprise there were three audambar
trees there and in the early morning between 4 & 4-30 I sat under the
tree for meditation for an hour. Baba wanted me to do the meditation
in the bhrama muhurat and it so happened. Then after, the return
journey started and we touched the ground around 11 am. Baba kept us
on the holy girnar mountain for more than 24 hours and blessed.
Special mention has to be made of a incident that happened while
coming down the steps. All of a sudden, a women typically dressed in
maharastrian style approached me with a great smile on her face. I
don’t know what happened to me and we both started chatting. I did not
see her group or anybody with her at all. She looked exactly like
Bayaji bai , the famous , blessed and true devotee who use to feed
baba daily in shirdi. She herself asked me that “oh so you have come
down after the darshan of dattatreya so I offer you my pranaam and
namaskaar.” I was getting positive vibrations. She was looking so
concerned for me exactly like how a mother is for her child. Then she
informed me that she was from ahmednagar district. On hearing this I
was speechless for a while and then I told her that you are from my
baba’s village so I should touch your feet for which she agreed and
blessed me. Then in the end she asked me that you have come back down
after the darshan , will I be able to climb ? then I removed a small
photo of sainath maharaj from my pocket and gave it to her and said
just keep this in your hands and keep chanting JAI SAI JAI SAI then
baba will himself take you up there and bring back. She again blessed
me and we left the place. Now , to think over it , who was this lady?
Why did she stopped only me and talking to me ? why did I had the feel
of attachment with her? The answer is simple. IT WAS SAIBABA who gave
me darshan in that form and blessed me. Finally the journey completed
and we touched the grounds after some time around 11 am.
Baba once again proved that when he calls , he makes all the
arrangements. We were very happy and feeling great after reaching
down. Thanked lord saibaba & lord dattatreya . Maa Ambaji and Maruti
bhagwaan and left for our hotel. This is the best memory of my life so
far as my dreams came true, I got baba’s padukas from him and felt his
presence all the time.
My sincere request to all SHIRDI SAI devotees specially those who live
in saurastra , gujrat or any where in the western India to surely
visit the dattatreya temple on the girnar mountains and feel baba ‘s
bliss and presence and get his blessings. He will come in any form and
bless you.
SHRI SACCHHIDANAND SAMARTH SADGURU SAINATH MAHARAJ KI JAI
BABA BLESS,
ANAND JOSHI
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