Devotees Experiences: Dadaji Gopinath Joshi

August 30, 2005

DADAJI GOPINATH JOSHI, Ram Maruti Road, Dadar, Says:

I went to Shirdi in 1932. My son, aged 12 months, had

smallpox and fever. The illness was serious. Udhi and

Tirtha were applied. Without any medicine, the boy was

restored to health. I vowed, I would take him to

Shirdi. Somehow, I failed to perform my vow for a long

period. My boy got fits. I then remembered my vow and

the breach of my promise. I vowed this time that I

would positively and quickly take him to Shirdi and

perform various ceremonies if he should be cured. He

was cured. At once, ie in 1932, I took him to Shirdi.

There we performed Abhishek. We then started away.

When we were half way towards Kopergaon, the fits

revived. R.B.Purandhare, who was with us, asked us to

go back and see what performance of the vows we were

still defaulting in. Then we learnt that only Abhishek

had been done and the rest remained unperformed. So we

set about fulfilling all our vows. Then the boy, who

had been half unconscious and in fits till we reached

Shirdi climbed up the Samadhi of Baba and was clapping

his hands. We had no more trouble. Again in 1933, we

went to Shirdi. On the way at Kopergaon, we got on

foot into the Godavari, as some one told us it was

fordable at that time. But when I, bearing my son in

my arm, and my wife reached the middle of the stream,

the force of the current seemed very strong and it

seemed that we would be washed down by the current. I

felt giddy also. I closed my eyes and began to pray to

Sai Baba for help. Within five minutes, Bala Gurav, a

servant of Sai Samsthan, came into the middle of the

river and held me and helped me through. He held and

helped my wife also to cross the river.

Source:Devotees Experiences of Sai Baba

by Narasimhaswamiji

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