Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

IV

 

Though not a regular point of Baba’s daily life, there were quite a number

of interesting occasions on which he left Shirdi on foot to neighbouring

villages. At Nimgaon he used to visit one Mr.Dengle. Baba usually left

Shirdi pretending that he was going to the stream. When people noticed him,

they told Tatya that Baba was going away somewhere. Tatya used to run after

him and say, “You won’t come back if you go; we will not leave you; let us

go to Nimgaon tomorrow”.

 

Baba would assure him that he would surely return to Shirdi and then

proceeded on his way. At Nimgaon, Dengle used to receive him in all pomp

and reverence, worship him, and offer him milk.

 

Baba used to receive it in his can and drink it. After a little talk he

used to return to Shirdi.

 

Similarly, when Baba visited the village of Rahata, people used to flock

around him. His devotee of that village, Daulat Shah, used to receive Baba

with music and procession. Baba stayed there for a while, smoked chilim

with Daulat Shah and returned with the same pomp, followed by the

procession of devotees upto the outskirts of that village. On such occasions

Daulat Shah used to sprinkle small coins of money all along the way and

sometimes he even accompanied Baba to Shirdi on foot. To whichever of these

two villages he might go, Baba never stayed out of Shirdi even for a single

night.

 

 

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