Sai Baba the Master

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Sai Baba the Master

 

During the holy nine-day festival (Navaratri) one Hariseetharam Dixit came

to Shirdi from Nagpur. He saw everyone offering various fruits to Baba on

the holy day and was sad that he had not the sense to do so. Just at that

moment a devotee was distributing grapes that Baba had given him for the

purpose to all the devotees present. Dixit too was given one. He atonce

offered it to Baba and the latter ate it up. Dixit was immensely happy at

Baba’s gesture. For anyone else in Baba’s place would have found fault with

him for offering again what had already been offered once. But Baba

responded to Dixit’s yearning to offer something to him. Indeed, what is

involved in the gesture of offering something to god or guru ? One can only

offer what god had given him!

 

One day a certain devotee was pressing Baba’s feet. Sai Baba suddenly

ordered him to stop doing so. The devotee felt dejected and appealed to

Baba, with tears in his eyes, to accept his service. But it was of no

avail. At first he could not understand why Baba had so suddenly reacted

like that. But on cool introspection, he realized that some unworthy

thought had passed his mind just at that moment. Baba was only responding

to that!

 

Bhausaheb Pradhan was a devotee of saint Madhavanath, a contemporary of

Sai Baba. Pradhan was sent to Baba by his guru to secure his blessings for

the ear-holing ceremony of a boy. He also wanted to know whether only a

goldsmith should do the job.

 

Pradhan arrived at Dwarakamai and sat among the rest of the devotees. No

one had introduced him to Baba. Baba suddenly said, “Brother Madhavanath’s

(spiritual) son has come here today. We shall partake of Madhavanath’s

prasad…… I had a sack of gold on the back of an ass. But thieves had stolen

it away… A hole in the ear has to be pierced only by a goldsmith. It is very

difficult to pull on in this naughty world…. You have been sent here only

to know all this! Tell this much to my brother Madhavanath”

 

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org