Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

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Mrs. Chadrabai was an ardent devotee of Sai Baba. She visited Shirdi now

and then but her husband Borkar never did. But as he was his devotee’s

husband, Baba showered his grace on him too. In 1909 when Borkar was

engaged in a road construction at Pandharpur, Chandrabai visited Shirdi

and stayed there for some days. One day Sai Baba said to her, “You had

better go to Pandharpur at once, and I will go with you. I need no

conveyance to travel”.

 

When she reached Pandharpur she was shocked to learn that her husband had

left his work and went away to Bombay. She had only a little money in her

purse and she had two companions with her. She just managed to go up to

Kurdwadi and there she sat in the railway station, brooding gloomily about

her helpless state. Suddenly a fakir appeared before her and asked her why

she was gloomy. She gave an evasive reply but was surprised when he told

her that her husband was at Dhond and that she should at once go there.

But Chandrabai had not the needed fare. Then the fakir at once handed her

three tickets to Dhond and went away before she could ask him anything.

She then proceeded to Dhond.

 

Meanwhile, Bokar who was at the Dhond railway Station drank a little tea

and was dozing on a bench. He had a reverie or a dream in which a fakir

appeared before him and said, “Why do you neglect my mother? She is coming

here by the next train, and is in carriage number so-and-so" and he

mentioned even the number of the carriage. Borkar got up wondering who

that fakir could be. The train arrived and Chandrabai stepped down from

the railway carriage of the same number as was mentioned by the visionary

fakir. Bokar received her and told her of his strange experience and asked

her to show him the picture of Sai Baba. It was the same fakir that had

appeared to him! Did not Sai Baba assure Chandrabai that he would go with

her and that he needed no conveyance?

 

Sai Baba often manifested himself before his devotee in some other form.

In such cases Baba always confirmed it to the devotee.

 

 

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