Sai Baba the Master

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3-3-1912 : “Abdullah, in trying to remove a hanging lamp, accidentally

dropped it to the ground and it got shattered. I thought that this might

anger Sayin Baba but it did not. He took no notice of it. He said that in a

former birth I was with him for two or three years and went into royal

service though there was enough at home to live in comfort. I wished to

learn further particulars but Sayin Saheb would not communicate them.”

 

6-3-1912 : “I sat serving him. He said he felt as if tied fast at the

waist, chest and near the neck, that he thought nagavely leaves were put on

his eyes and on opening them to find out what the matter was, he was

surprised to see something which he could not understand. He caught a leg

of it and then lay it down. He tried to light his fire but the fuel being

not quite dry would not ignite. He thought he saw four dead bodies being

removed and could not understand whose they were. Sayin Saheb kept on

speaking in the same strain saying that his upper and lower jaws were very

painful and that he could not even drink water.”

 

In the evening, Pilaji Gurave, the owner of a marvari shop, used to stand

in front of the mosque and play on his shehnai. Baba rushed at him in a

rage saying, ‘He is abusing me!’ Pilaji would dodge him and, standing at a

little distance, he would play on. Baba would cool down in a little while

and walk to and fro between the chavadi and the mosque on the road. Pilaji

never stopped playing on his shehnai each day at this hour. In the evening

there was arti again at 6 p.m. The daily activity of Baba about this time

can be seen from Khaparde’s notes in his ‘Dairy’ :-

 

30-12-1911 : We went to Sayin Maharaj a little before dusk. He treated me

very kindly, called me by name and narrated a small tale calculated to

impress the virtue of patience. He said he went to Aurangabad in one of his

wanderings and saw a fakir sitting in a musjid near which there was a very

tall tamarind tree. The fakir did not allow him to enter the musjid at

first but ultimately consented to his putting up in it. The fakir depended

entirely on a piece of cake which an old woman used to supply him with at

midday. Sayin Maharaj volunteered to beg for him and kept him supplied

amply with food for twelve years and then thought of leaving the place. The

old fakir shed tears at parting and had to be consoled with soft words.

Sayin Maharaj visited him four years later and found him there doing well.

The fakir then came here a few years ago and lodged at the chavadi. Mother

Baba, looked after him well. From what he said I gathered that Sayin Baba

stayed twelve years to instruct the Aurangabad fakir and set him up fully

in the spiritual world.”

 

 

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