Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

At about 8 p.m., Baba commenced distribution of gifts of money. A large

retinue of people regularly received alms at his hands and all these

gathered in the frontyard of the mosque. Baba would thrust his hand into

his pockets very quickly and strangely, precisely the amount he regularly

paid to the particular recipient would come into his hands without the need

for any counting. If it was a new recipient the money he really needed

would come to Baba’s hand. Baba gave the money gratis and never expected

any work in return. Why he gave them no one knew.

 

One day Baba had nothing to give and he did not distribute money. One man

insisted that he wanted money then and there. At last Baba thrust his hand

into his empty pocket and picked out a few pieces of change and gave the

man. The man left the place immediately. To scrutinize the sources of Baba’s

income and to levy a tax, the British Government appointed an

intelligencer. A Christian officer was specially chosen for the purpose for

fear that a Hindu or a Moslem might very soon turn into a devotee of Baba

and favour him. But this officer too failed to understand whence Baba got

his amount. For even when the day’s collections of dakshina from his

devotees was not more than Rs.25/- he never gave away anything less than

Rs.300/-. Instances of the regular distribution of Baba’s money were as

follows:

 

Bade Baba Rs.55/-; Tatya Rs.35/-; Jamle Musalmanin Rs.7/-; Bhayyaji Patil

Kote Rs.4/-; Bhagoji – Rs.4/-; Ramachandra Patil – Rs.4/- and so on.

 

Besides, there were other sundry payments to others. Of the regular

recipients of money, Ramachandra Patil used to give Baba four pieces of

sugar candy in return for his payment. Whenever newly wedded couples of

Shirdi visited him for his blessing, Baba invariably gave them Rs.1/- each.

This distribution of money went on every day till his mahasamadhi.

 

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