BABA'S EFFORTS TO SAVE A LIFE:

When the Nigoj Patil's wife was seriously ill of plague, that night
Baba was at the Chavadi with Mahlsapathi (Bhagat).

Baba: Bhagat, do not sleep to-night. Stand and keep watching I have
to remember God today. Because the rude Rohilla (death or plague)
wants to kill that woman, so I am praying to Allah.

Mahlsapathy kept watch to prevent any disturbance of or interruption
to Baba's prayers; but in the course of the night, the Nivas
Mamlatdar came with his peons who made a hubbub and shouted that
Mamlatdar wanted darshan. Their take with Mahlsapathy and Mamlatdar's
taking Udhi disturbed Baba, who got angry and threw away Mamlatdar's
cloth.

Baba: (After much abuse): You Bhagat! Are you a father of a family?
You do not note what is going on in the village, Nigoj (i.e., the
plague attack on the Patil's wife). In such circumstances why did you
admit people? Be it so. What has happened is good.

That night the Patil's wife died.

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji
(Shri Vasuki Mahal Shirdi Saibaba Trust, Coimbatore, India)