Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

[Guest guest]

Mrs. And Mr. Pradhan were henceforth devoted to Sai Baba but a learned

Pandit Madhv Bhat who was attached to their family, and who did puja and

mantra japa for their benefit was at heart unhappy that the Hindu couple

should worship Sai Baba who, he thought, was a Moslem. When Babu, their

son, was once seriously ill, he attributed it to the wrath of the Hindu

gods for their error. Later one night he had a dream in which he saw Sai

Baba seated on the top of the stair case, holding his short staff (satka).

Baba said, “What do you mean? I am the lord of this house!” Madhav Bhat

kept the dream to himself. Later, when Babu’s condition worsened in spite

of Bhat’s japa, the latter ran to Baba’s photograph and loudly prayed, “If

the child should improve sufficiently by 4 p.m. today as to be brought

downstairs, then I will agree that you are Lord Dattatreya. Soon after,

the fever subsided and by 4 p.m. the boy wanted to be taken downstairs for

a change. Madhav Bhat was convinced that Sai Baba was Lord Dattatreya

himself and was henceforth devoted to him.

 

D.M. Mulgy of Gadag was an atheist and did not believe in Baba nor did he

care to see his picture which his brother worshipped. In 1916, he fell

seriously ill. One night, an old man wearing a long white kafni and a

white cloth tied round his head appeared in his dream and told him that

his fever would pass off soon if he premised to go for his (the old man’s)

darshan. Mulgy promised to do so and the old man disappeared. The dream so

frightened him that he cried out. His sister-in-law ran to his bedside,

woke him up and, on hearing of his dream, showed him the picture of Baba.

Mulgy was convinced that Sai Baba himself had appeared in his dream. The

fever subsided and he was all right in a short time. Later, when he

visited Shirdi, he was struck by Baba’s exact likeness to the old man that

had appeared in his dream.

 

(To be contd....)

 

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