Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

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Baba replied, “Shama, you are too young to understand these things. If the

fakir does not allow, what can I do? Without His grace, who can even enter

the mosque?” Shama still pleaded for consideration for Sidik Falke. Baba

finally said, “Well, go to the Haji and ask him whether he will come to

the narrow foot-path near the Barvi well.” Shama went, and conveyed the

same to the old man. The old man said that he was ready to do so. Baba

said, “Ask him whether he is willing to pay me the sum of Rs. 40,000/- in

four installments”. Again the Haji conveyed his willingness to pay even

for lakhs. Baba again said, We are going to cut goat in the musjid; so ask

him whether he would like to have mutton, haunch or testicles of the

goat.” The Haji replied that he would be happy to receive even a crumb

from Baba’s earthen pot. On hearing the Haji’s reply Baba flared up and

with his own hands threw out all the pots in the mosque, walked towards

the Haji and, shouted at him, “Why do you brag and fancy yourself great

and parade yourself as a Haji? Do you read the holy Koran like this? You

are proud of your pilgrimage to Mecca but you do not know Me!" Leaving the

Haji amazed at his behavior, Baba went back to the mosque purchased a

basketful of mangoes and sent them to the Haji. Then Baba took out Rs. 55

from his pocket and gave him the money. Henceforth the Haji could visit

the mosque freely.

 

Saguna Meru Naik lived in Goa when he was 10 or 12 years old. Every day he

used to take the cattle for grazing . On one such occasion he saw a sadhu

who beckoned to him. The boy was frightened and ran home and told his

mother of what had happened. The pious lady looked on all sadhus as the

forms of Lord Daattatreya. She accompanied her son to the place where the

sadhu was. The sadhu asked her for food. The lady gave him sida (a kind of

gram) and fire-wood for cooking it. Then he signed to young Saguna Meru

and asked him, “When are you coming?” Sagun did not reply. The sadhu

smiled and left the place.

 

(To be contd....)

 

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