Sai Baba the Master

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We have already noted how, during the chavadi procession, Baba used to

pause for a little while opposite the Maruthi temple and mutter something

and make gestures to Maruthi, the deity in it. Again, on certain occasions,

Baba was seen intensely gazing at the four cardinal directions by turns and

muttering something and even waving his staff as though commanding some

invisible entities. One devotee records that one day he found Baba, alone

in the mosque, picking up a stone from the ground and threatening to throw

it at some invisible entity without actually doing so.

 

G. G. Narke writes : “At an arti on my early visit, Sai Baba was in a

towering passion. He fumed, cursed and threatened for no visible cause. I

doubted if he was a madman. That was a passing thought. The arti was

completed in the usual way. In the afternoon I went and massaged his legs.

Then he stroked my head and said. ‘I am not mad’. Lo! He was seeing my

heart”!.

 

Some of these gestures and words were indeed used by Baba for commanding

the forces of nature. One Jaiker writes, for instance, “Once when I was in

the musjid with him, there was a severe storm, howling; the wind and rain

were fierce. After a few minutes Baba stepped on to the edge of the premises

and cried out (evidently to the storm) as did Christ in his time, ‘Jara

dhav’ i.e., ‘Stop little.’ Then the storm abated very quickly”.

 

M. W. Pradhan, the then High Court lawyer too says. “At my first visit

there was severe storm and rain for a quarter of an hour, when I was with

Baba at the musjid. I then thought that if the rain continued a little

longer like that streams would swell, and getting back to my place at

Bombay would be difficult and Baba would not grant me early leave to go

away. Baba then looked at the sky and said, “Are Allah! Abhi barasat purakar

! Mere balbache ghar Janewale hain. Unko sukhse janede” which means, ‘Oh

God! Enough, stop the rain, my children have to return home. Let them go

back in comfort.’ As he spoke, the rain became gentler and feebler. I felt

that Baba knew my innermost thoughts. Then he gave me leave to go.”

 

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org