Salutations. I went to Shirdi in 1989 and had Darshan of Sri Sainath in the Samadhi Mandir. The moment my eyes fell on the Divine idol of Sai , I realised that HE is my MASTER and I am HIS servant. I forgot myself momentarily in the Bliss of that realisation. I accepted Sri Sai Satcharitra ( Life History of Sri Sai Baba) as a daily devotional reading book on 07 June 1990. I had a desire to make my son take up daily devotional reading of the book Sri Sai Satcharitra from 06 Jan 1992. From that day I started writing my experiences with Sri Sai and my thoughts on Sri Sai Satcharitra in form of letters to my son. My efforts bore fruit and my son Chakrapani developed immense faith in Sri Sai. I humbly attribute this success of mine to HIS BLESSINGS & GRACE. I am requesting all those who know Telugu language to read these letters so that the fruits of my efforts through HIS GRACE & BLESSINGS are not restricted only to my son. If reading these letters transform those, who do not know about Sri Sai , into Sai Devotees. I will consider that my efforts have borne fruit through HIS GRACE.

In service of Sri Sai ,

Yours,

Sai - Ba - Ni - Sa

Hyderabad , 24 September 1995

PS . I request the readers to read first Sri Sai Satcharitra either in Telugu by Late Sri Prathi Narayana Rao or in English by Late Sri Nagesh Vasudev Gunaji , before reading these letters.

Translated from the Telugu Original into English by Sai Devotee Madhusudan Nori.