Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

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However, as the village was near, he enquired and arrived at Nanasaheb’s

house. There he learned about Mainthai’s critical condition and realized

why Baba had asked him to go first to Jamner to deliver the udi packet.

 

Nanasaheb received the udi and the song. Udi was given to Mainthai and the

arti song was sung before Baba’s picture . Immediately Mainthai delivered

a child and the danger was past. And Nanasaheb wondered how Baba knew that

Mainthai’s life was in danger. When Ramgir Bua thanked Nanasaheb for

having sent a tonga and a peon to Jalgaon, Nana was amazed. For he had no

tonga and no peon to send to Jalgaon! Nor did he know that anyone was

coming to him from Shirdi. Who could the tonga man, the peon and the

horses be? The truth flashed in Ramgir Bua’s mind in a trice. Only Baba

addressed him as ‘Bapugir Bua’ and precisely that was how the peon called

out to him at Jalgaon railway station. Add had not Baba assured him that

all that was needed would provided for? But why not he (Baba) himself go

as mysteriously to deliver the udi to Nana? Only because Baba wanted

everyone that witnessed the miracle to see for himself how he could go to

any length to protect his devotee.

 

Indeed, there are cases of Baba going to people in distant towns and

cities in his own form, in his ‘double’. In 1917 Appasaheb Kulkarni was

posted at Thana. He used to worship a picture of Baba in his house. One

day he went to Bhivandi on a proposed camp of seven days. On the third day

after his departure, a fakir who resembled Sai Baba turned up at his

house. Mrs. Kulkarni and her children asked him whether he was Sai Baba.

He said that he was not Sai Baba but his obedient servant. Then he asked

for dakshina. Mrs. Kulkarni gave him Re.1/-. The fakir received it, gave

her a packet of udi to be kept in her worship and went away.

 

 

 

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