Because of Baba’s grace, I celebrated daughter’s marriage with rich person

Who that Beggar was? I had been to Shirdi for Dasara festival.

It was on the Vijayadasami day, when the Lord Dattatreya incarnate Shri Sai Baba left off mortal coil.

That was my twenty third visit to Shirdi. Though I am a regular subscriber to ‘Shri Sai Leela’, yet I purchased the Punyatithi number of Oct. ’81 and read it in full at Shirdi itself.

The ‘leela’ contained in the two articles published therein impressed me much because both of them are parallel to my own life’s happenings.

The first article is by Devata Subba Rao and the second one is by Gokul Gopal.

Here I wish to narrate my own parallel experience with reference to the marriage episode of Mr. Krishnamoorty’s daughter published in the above magazine on page 14 to 16.

My eldest daughter Kum Indu Tripathi, aged 23, passed her M.A. in Economics in II nd Div, and then again M.A, in Hindi in the 1st Division.

I was much worried about her marriage. I simply went on writing letters to my friends in this connection, but it was of no avail.

My wife continually and critically nagged me for not stirring out in search of a suitable groom.

I always told her not to worry for our Lord Sai Baba will facilitate and marriage.

Each and every thing at the time He thinks fit, but she persisted and made me sad.

Our Lord was so kind and gracious to Indu as to grant her darshan time and again in her dreams.

I had taken her to Puttaparthi for Vjjayadasami festival in Oct. ’79 with a firm belief that Baba knows my problems well and He will solve them at the appropriate time.

Only a few months after that journey, the Govt. of M. P. selected my College to organize a workshop on Re-orientation of Teaching Methods in English in the Colleges, One of my best friends, Prof. Dinesh Chandra Tripathi, Asst. Professor of English at MANDLA (M. P.) participated therein. We both had been colleagues formerly at T. R. S. College, Rewa for a few years.

When I met him at Betul, I found the same sweetness and light in his behavior as ever.

I put my problem number one before him about the marriage of my daughter.

He very graciously gave me then and there the name and address of Shri Kamalakar Mishra, A.D.I.S, MANDLA and asked me to contact him by post.

Shri Kamalakar Mishra’s eldest son Shrikant Mishra, Advocate was an eminently eligible young man.

Naturally so many rich and ambitious parents were already in contact with Shri Kamalakar Mishraji with attractive proposals for his son.

A poor teacher in the College, I had little to offer except sweetness and light.

But as this match was suggested by my sincere friend and well-wisher, I began to visualize, this boy as a fit ‘groom’ to my daughter without even caring to see him once.

But Shri Kamalakar Mishra insisted that it was my ‘FIRST RIGHT’ to visit Mandla and see his son before further talks could go on. So I had to go and see the boy at Mandla and approved of him.

But the father of the boy had many other attractive proposals to choose from.

There were some staggering offers. My offer compared most unfavorably with them.

Persons told me that it was a very good and prosperous family and I will have to spend at least forty thousand to win over this groom.

But my BABA was helping me in His own way. A very pious Sai devotee, mother of the ‘groom’s fast friend Shri Ramesh Shukla (Advocate) joined hands with another Sai devotee Principal B.H. Pandey and came to my rescue.

Here I may mention that then the Mishra family was not believer of SAI BABA as was the case with Krishnamoorty’s prospective inlaw’s.

This is how BABA tilted the scales in favor of my daughter and me.

One night Shri Shrikant Mishra, Advocate was sleeping. He saw in his dream a big photo of BABA hanging on the wall.

Baba unmistakably and emphatically told him that if he married the girl from BETUL, only then his life would be happy and prosperous.

The happy outcome was that though I had a paltry sum to offer, be changed his mind, accepted our offer and approved of my daughter and thus the marriage was settled.

I could not give the customary rich gifts to ray Samdhee Shri Kamalakar Mishra and nothing except a golden ring and a wrist watch to the groom.

Still they were all very pleased and well-satisfied. At the time of ‘DwarChar’ I had put Shri Sai Baba’s  photo sanctified with garland and agarbathi in the ‘Mandap’ and they presided over the nuptial ceremony.

Neither my ‘Samdhee’ Shri Kamalakar Mishra demanded anything in the form of ‘dowry’ nor my son-in-law Shri Shrikant Misra pressed for any gift.

I could not help shedding big tears of joy and gratitude for I could not give them anything worthwhile, befitting their status as Ex-Zamindar.

But Shri Kamalakar Mishra, now a ‘devata’ to me wrote from Mandla that all the ‘baraatees’ during the return journey expressed their satisfaction again and again and commended my hospitable treatment.

At Mandla, the ladies were also very happy and satisfied. When I received that letter,

I wept in joy and gratitude before BABA, because really speaking, I had done but little, spent ever so little, instead of incurring forty thousand rupees as predicted by my well-wisher S.D.M. Shri K. S. Chauhan Saheb and his wife,

I had spent in all only Twenty five thousand rupees and still received such appreciation from my ‘devopam’ Samdhee Shri Kamalakar Mishra. Indeed our BABA motivated all this.

My daughter Indu Tripathi has now become Smt. Indu Mishra. When my son-in-law Shrikant Mishra came to BETUL a second time to fetch her with him to Mandla, he himself asked for BABA’s Udi (Vibhooti) in a good quantity for his daily use. By the grace of Shri BABA my daughter is happy in her new environment and is also thankful to BABA and to us for giving her such an angelic ‘Shwasur’ like Shri Kamalakar Mishra.

Whenever I remember Shri Kamalakarji tears wail up in my eyes in gratitude. So merciful is our Lord Shri SAI BABA.

Immediately after marriage I rushed to Shirdi to offer my heart-felt gratitude and thanks to Lord Sai Baba on 19th May, 1981. The date of marriage was 13th May, ’81 .

It is noteworthy that soon after my daughter’s Vidai (farewell) on 14-5-81 a poor man is tattered and dirty clothes came direct to me while I was weeping in sweet memory of my daughter and tears were rolling down incessantly and He asked for only one ‘ROTT (bread) to eat.

I provided him with a sumptuous meal. He took it and went away.

Suddenly it struck us who he could be. But where he came from and where he went away, none could find out.

All attempts to trace him out were in vain. WHO that beggar was? My Sai-brother Shri T, A. Ramanathan will vouch that themendicant was none else but my God-father the Lord of Lords Shri Sainath and how can anyone refute it ?

A. P. Tripathi Head of Hindi Department , Betel. M.P.

(Source Shri Sai Leela June 1982)

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