Sai Baba’s Guidance For Dakshina Of Nine Coins This Dusshera

As we all know, this year’s Dussehra holds more importance compared to others as it falls on 15th October 2021, and Baba took Mahasamadhi on Dusshera October 15, 1918. This year the date and tithi are coinciding which makes it more special! We don’t know when again and after how many years we would be able to witness the same. With these thoughts running in my mind I felt very lucky to have come across such an event in my lifetime. I was thinking how to celebrate it in a very special way to mark its significance and what could we do for Baba?

Global Mahaparayan has always been very close to my soul and I feel really very blessed to be chosen by Baba to initiate the venture and designated as “So Called Founder”. I believe that Baba is the actual Founder and I along with the entire Global Mahaparayan team are His mere instruments. The members of MahaParayan must be aware that figure shown by Baba as count of the member of this global drive is 60466176 (and beyond). I am quoting again for the devotees who came here for the first time. For the last one and half year, the entire team of Mahaparayan’s blessed volunteers have been striving to achieve its first milestone with 559872 devotees, thus completing and offering N1 [sub university of Nandadeep (N1 to N108)] with 559872 devotees at Baba’s Lotus Feet. Many attempts were made but Baba has His own timings. Not a leaf will move without His consent and everything happens as per His will.

It was 19th September, 2021 when I was trying to meditate. Constant thoughts were popping like how nice it would be if we could offer N1 at Baba’s feet on this special Dussehra and announce the allocation of sub Universities N2, N3, N4 and N5 to the aspiring Deans! How nice and auspicious would it be for the Deans also to take up this new role or seva from Baba on Dussehra which is considered as the most auspicious time for starting up any new venture? Time is less than a month and I was asking Baba for guidance to achieve the milestone. Just then I felt as if Baba was reminding (actually guiding in disguise of reminding), that during 2017 Dussehra when Mahaparayan was getting established globally we required 5000 devotees. Then with Baba’s guidance of 2 paise dakhina (each one adds two devotees to MP) we could achieve that milestone in just 17 days which we were unable to do in the past two months in 2017. I felt that the things were repeating but the only difference was that we were short of around 50000 devotees and the days left were nearly the same. There was also a small difference of a big ‘0’ and it carries huge valuable. That time with a team of 350 devotees, extreme hard work, dedication and devotion Baba blessed us with 7500 devotees while we had actually prayed for just 5000 devotees. This happened only after complete surrender to Him on 23rd Aug 2017 as we had got just 350 registrations over a period of almost 2 months. Since now (2021) we have a huge team of almost 5 lakhs of MP devotees, 50000 devotees seems achievable.

I was trying hard to meditate, when suddenly a thought came, “On 15th October 1918 Dussehra, Baba had given Maa Laxmibai Shinde 9 coins representing the nine characteristics of a good disciple or Nava Vidha Bhakti, similarly this year 15th October 2021 Dussehra, if every MP devotee offers dakshina of 9 coins to Baba in the form of 9 members for the Global Mahaparayan, then we shall be blessed by Baba and also many new souls will be enlightened to Baba’s path of Mahaparayan in this Kaliyuga. This would not be less than any great seva and it would definitely please Baba. It would be one of the best offering at His feet on this special Dussehra of 15th October!” With this I gave up on my meditation and opened my eyes and tried to rush as it was Ganpati Visarjan day and there was also a Satyanarayan Puja at home. Although I was in a hurry and with full of tears of happiness or gratitude or due to Baba’s grace (whatever it was) I went to Baba’s big photo on the wall of our study room and bowed down to His feet. I said, “Baba I don’t know if this thought was inspired by You or it was my own thinking, please, please make this happen. I know it would be very difficult but not impossible with Your grace. You have been constantly asking me to read Gurucharitra for the past few days but I haven’t been able to read It. Today is a very busy day but still I would like to attempt to read It in a single day. I don’t know how but I will give my best; amidst fulfilling my family responsibilities. If I am able to complete It today (which seems impossible) then I will consider it as Your assurance for the successful execution of offering Dakshina of 9 coins in the form of 9 devotees to achieve the first milestone of Global Mahaparayan (559872 devotees).”

Actually a few days prior to this I had a dream where I saw a very old book (the pages had turned yellowish). It was as big as two feet and seemed to have thousands of pages. In dream, I saw my mother in the form of Sai Baba. Sai Baba was having my mom’s face and S(He) was telling me, “Pooja, this is Gurucharitra!” I replied something like, “I know” and the dream ended. When I woke up I thought that Baba was asking me to read GuruCharitra again. I had already read it a few days back, I read it at least once in a year during the Guru Pournima week. So after the dream I got other hints from Baba through the allocated chapters like 18-19 etc. to read Gurucharitra, or my two different neighbours suddenly asking me about Gurucharitra on the same day. I also started reading It but couldn’t complete it in a week’s time and so I gave up on It and decided to restart which I couldn’t until it was the Ganesh Visarjan day (19th September, 2021).

Coming back to the Visarjan Day, after bowing before Baba’s big photo on the wall in our study room, I was worried about what I had said? I was thinking that it is very hectic day and I was little occupied with happenings around me like Satyanarayan Pooja, Visarjan, kids, family responsibilities and above all these my mother-in-law had asked me and my husband to sit for the pooja. I said, “Baba I don’t know how but with You on our side anything is possible! I will give my best and You help me to live my today’s day with the best version of myself.”

The day started, Satyanarayan puja and visarjan rituals etc. were done. In between whenever I got time I managed to read a few pages of Gurucharitra. Luckily it was an off day for my husband as Maharashtra was closed that day and he took care of the kids and helped me at his best. After 4 pm I was free and started reading Gurucharitra. With few breaks for other responsibilities I completed the entire Gurucharitra reading by 12.10 am of 20th September. I felt bad that despite trying hard I fell short by 10 minutes. I was still very happy that I was able to read It again this year as per Baba’s wish and that for the first time I could manage to read It in a single day (approximately in 5 hours) that too with such a busy day which I had never done before. But that 10 minutes delay was putting doubts in my mind for the execution and success of the project ‘Dakshina of 9 coins’.

Next day 20th September, I was still thinking about “Dakshina of 9 coins” but did not actually start working on it due to the delay of those 10 minutes. In the evening it was 7 and I took up Satcharitra to read my allocated chapter 42 for daily reading (365 Days Sai). I thought, “How nice it would have been, if today I would have had the daily reading chapter as 43-44 where Baba gave 9 coins to Laxmibai on 15th October! If so, then I could have considered this as another hint from Baba for this project of Dakshina of 9 coins. But alas today I have chapter 42 and not 43-44.” I knew that chapter 42 was about Baba’s Mahasamadhi but somewhere I had presumed that chapter 43-44 had the Laxmibai Shinde story of 9 coins. When I started reading chapter 42, a different kind of thrill set in my body to read the contents of the chapter at the very beginning itself. Yes, the contents had the words ‘Charity to Laxmibai Shinde!’ Then further to confirm, my monkey mind said, “Baba if I complete this chapter in 9 minutes then I will be convinced that it’s You behind all this and these are not my random thoughts”. So I started reading Chapter 42 at 7.15 pm and by the time I completed my reading; I again had a goosebump moment to see the time in my digital watch as exactly 7.24 pm! I was amazed to see that exactly in 9 minutes the reading was satisfactorily and soulfully completed. Neither a minute less nor more! It was enough for me to understand that this project of Dakshina of 9 Coins was purely and purely Baba’s inspiration only! But Baba did not stop here. I was randomly scrolling my whatsapp messages and out of thousands of messages I opened up a message from an Unknown number (later on saved the number).

Here is the screenshot, please do read the contents, as I haven’t repeated in the post below.

Usually with lot many messages from known and unknown numbers, as a normal human with limitations; I leave it to Baba to decide when and which message He will make me read. Living in various spheres of family, social, spiritual, professional and personal responsibilities, many times I miss replying to messages in Whatsapp which are even six months old or more.

See Baba’s leela now, the name Lakshmi was again put into the context and somewhere through this message Baba was inspiring for this project with the success story of Mahaparayan one more time! Why out of so many messages I happened to open that message, which Divyaji had actually sent on September 15th? Why did Baba not make me open it before 20th September or after six months as it usually happens? The answer is simple that these were ‘Sai incidences and not coincidences.’ I had met Divyaji in February 2019, at a Reiki Healing Workshop conducted by Jaya Wahi Di Jaan at Pune. We had exchanged our numbers and I had asked her if she would like to be a member of Mahaparayan. But Baba has His own timings to pull His devotees in MP and so it happened with Divyaji.

This week I offered my dakshina of 9 coins to Baba for this Dussehra, when are you offering? Baba is waiting for your dakshina of 9 coins for Mahaparayan by 15th Oct 2021…!