Gyani Baile & Dolly Baile

How Divinity entered into our life
It all started with a simple phone conversation with a friend M
(we have attempted to keep the names anonymous and used initials
throughout the book). She and her family were part of our close
friends circle. Our families had mutual liking and few things in
common, one difference however was that she was considered
religious and we were not. We had been to their house at several
occasions including the one time when she had arranged Sathya Sai
Baba’s Bhajans. Prior to this occasion Dolly has no idea who Sathya
Sai Baba was. After this occasion she was able to put the name and
face together and that was all.
Couple of years later, in 1996, Dolly’s mother visited us from
India. At the time of her return, due to luggage space limitation, she
left a few things behind with us. Among those items, there was one
book titled ‘Sai Sacharita’ in Hindi. For a bookmark this book
contained a packet size picture of ‘Sai Baba of Shirdi’. Prior to getting
this book Dolly had only heard the name Shirdi Baba but she did not
have any clue about Baba or this book. In general Dolly was not a big
reader, she could make time for only that reading which was
necessary to keep up the knowledge at work and keep up the general
knowledge for the social life. She used to try hard to finish up most of
her required reading at work. Being a working woman, mother of two
young children the only reading time she found at home was in the
morning in the bathroom. One morning she read a few pages from this
that her mom had left with her, and to her own surprised she found the
book unusually captivating. Every morning with great interest she
continued to read a few pages at a time.
Around this time she experienced, what we called a couple of
‘unexplainable incidents’. Around those days, one day the above
mentioned friend (M) made a usual friendly phone call to Dolly.
During the conversation Dolly asked, “I know you believe in Sathya
Sai Baba but do you also believe in Shirdi Sai Baba?” M said “Well,
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