Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

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I am ever with you

God, in all religions is the Omnipresent Spirit, the essence of all

existence. Accordingly, the Perfect Master is he who like Sai Baba can

not only say “I am at Shirdi and every where" but also demonstrate it to

his devotees.

 

About 1904 Nanasaheb Chandorkar was working as a mamlatdar at Jamner,

nearly a hundred miles from Shirdi. His daughter Mainthai was pregnant and

suffered labor pains for three days. Her condition was very serious.

Having exhausted all other avenues of help, he finally prayed to Baba to

save his daughter. Precisely at that time, at Shirdi, a devotee by name

Ramgir Bua sought Baba’s permission to return to his home in Khandesh.

Baba then gave him permission but asked him to proceed first to Jamner.

There, he was to deliver a packet of udi and a devotional song written

down on a piece of paper, at Nanasaheb Chandorkar’s place and then go

home. Ramgir bua was willing to do as Baba said but, he said, he had only

Rs.2/- with him which was just sufficient to take him upto Jalgaon which

was thirty miles this side of Jamner. He had not the money to proceed from

Jalgaon to Jamner. Baba gave him no money but assured him that all that

was needed would be provided for. Then Baba gave Ramgir an arti song

written by Shama on a piece of paper and udi. We have to note that Baba

used to address Ramgir as ‘Bapugir Bua’.

 

Ramgir Bua promptly started by train and reached Jalgaon at 2-45 a.m. He

had only two annas (or twelve paise) with him. He saw all other passengers

engaging tongas for other places and was wondering whether Baba wanted him

to walk the distance of thirty miles. Just at that moment a peon arrived

there calling out, “Who is Bapugir Bua of Shirdi?” When Ramgir Bua

introduced himself, the peon said that he was sent by Nanasaheb with a

tonga to receive him.

 

The peon and Ramgir Bua got into the tonga and proceeded fast towards

Jamner. On the way, when they came to a brook, the coachman took the

horses to the stream for drinking water. The peon then offered breakfast

to Ramgir Bua. But as he had a beard and mustache Bapugir took him for a

Moslem and so was unwilling to eat it. The peon assured him that he was a

Hindu of Kshatriya (or warrior) caste and the breakfast was prepared and

sent for him(i.e Ramgir Bua) by Nana. Ramgir took the breakfast. Soon the

tonga reached the outskirts of Jamner. Ramgir alighted at a spot to answer

the calls of nature. When he again returned to the road, he was puzzled to

see that the coach and the peon had left.

 

 

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