Bhakta Leela Amrut by Das Ganu Maharaj

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Sai Maharaj was a great yogi. One cannot narrate all his leelas, which are

beyond human comprehension.

 

Here is a leela described to Chitambar by Dengale (the Sai devotee referred

to earlier). Baba's bed was a wooden plank measuring 15 cm by 150 cm. The

plank was suspended from the ceiling of the mosque (where Baba lived) by

means of old rags. The mosque itself was in ruins so that even the lizards

had deserted it. The plank hung so close to the ceiling that no one could

sit upright on it - one could sit on it only by bending one's body like an

arch. The plank was so fragile that it would give way if one just stepped on

it. On such a bed Baba used to sleep keeping oil lamps burning on either

side. Those who did not believe this went to the mosque to see for

themselves and found to their amazement that the report was true.

 

Word of the miracle went round and people began crowding near the mosque at

night to see it but of idle curiosity or just for fun. This annoyed Baba and

one day he broke the plank to pieces and got rid of the nuisance. Soon

Baba's fame spread far and wide and people came in hundreds to the mosque so

that he might bless them and fulfil their wordly desires. Shirdi became a

place of pilgrimage like Varanasi because of Baba and became known ail over.

As the soil derives its importance from the flower in bloom, the socket from

the diamond studded in it, a piece of cloth from the golden thread woven in

it. so Shirdi became an important holy place because of Sai Maharaj.

 

Once Narayan Govind Chandorkar, known as Nanasaheb went to Shirdi for

Baba's darshan. accompanied by Ramdas Haridas from Wai. Bapu Nagarkar and

Kangaonkar.

 

 

Source http://www.saileelas.org/books/4chap.htm