Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

[Guest guest]

“One Maddushah, a fakir at Meran, in Khandesh came to Shirdi about 1913

and entreated Baba to give him Rs.700/- for some urgent need of his. He

cried and cried. Baba directed Bapu Sahib Jog to give him the money. He

brought Rs.700/- all in silver coins, an placed them before Baba. Baba

told the two boys – Gulab, son of Kondaji, and Lakshman Baba Borker Shimpi

– to give the money to the fakir who was seated in the mandap before him.

The boys pocketed Rs. 200/- and delivered only Rs. 500/- to the visitor.

The fakir wept and was grumbling for two or three days. Baba did nothing.

So the man took udi and went away on foot. Near Neemgaon, a tonga came up

and stopped before him. One Irrus Shah, a Parsi working as a revenue

officer in the Nizam State, alighted from the tonga, gave him food and

then Rs.200/- saying, ‘Are you content?’ Then Irrus Shah came to Shirdi,

and told all present that he had a dream in which Baba told him to go by

tonga to Shirdi, and said that he would see a fakir near Neemagaon

carrying a tiger-skin, that he should feed the fakir (as he would be

hungry) and hand him over Rs.200/- which is the balance of money for which

he was pining. So he came in a tonga with food and money and gave the same

to the fakir!”

 

“A moslem from Lassor in Nizam’s state came to Baba and cried. Wanting

Rs.400/- or 500/- to meet some urgent need. Baba told him to go and sit

under the banyan tree for stool, that a vessel-full of coins will be found

there. Next morning he went there and stumbled upon a very heavy vessel,

evidently full of treasure. He could not lift it and so he came to Baba at

the chavadi. When he returned, it could not be traced and the man cried.

Baba said that one Ganu Kadu of Rui had carried it away and so nothing

could be done. That Ganu Kadu became a rich man. This Lasoori went back in

grief and poverty.

 

While most of the devotees were willing to trust their welfare completely

to Baba there were some who tried to get what they thought was the best

from him. And Baba had characteristic ways of teaching people that they

should deserve what they ask for even if it were to be the noblest end.

 

(To be contd....)

 

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