Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

First is the case we have quoted at the very beginning of this chapter.

Again the day next to holy Vijayadasami (on which Baba laid down his body),

i.e., on Wednesday morning, Baba appeared to Laxman Mama Joshi in his dream

and, drawing him aside by his hand said, “Get up soon; Bapusaheb thinks

that I am dead and so he won’t come. You do the worship and the kakad

(morning) arti.”

 

Laxman daily worshipped Baba before worshipping the other village deities.

With much faith in Baba he came up with the puja materials and, not minding

the protests of moulvis, did the puja and offered the kakad arti to the

body and went away. Then, at noon Bapusaheb Jog came with all others and

went through the noon-arti as usual.

 

On the day following his mahasamadhi i.e., on 16th October, Baba appeared

to Das Ganu is his dream at Pandharpur and said, “The musjid has collapsed;

all the oil men and grocers of Shirdi have teased me a lot; so I left the

place. I therefore came to inform you here; go there quickly and cover me

with bhakkal flowers.” The information that Das Ganu got through a letter

from Shirdi only testified the truth of Baba’s statement. So he came to

Shirdi with all his disciples and started bhajan and kirtan and went on

singing throughout the day before Baba’s samadhi which he garlanded. Later

he fed a large number of people in Baba’s name.

 

A little later, Baba appeared in the dream of another lady and told her to

send the pitamber (light yellow silk dhoti) in her trunk to cover his

samadhi. So she did. When the thirtieth day after the samadhi neared, he

appeared in the dream of yet another devotee and told him to celebrate the

day. So the latter did feed many people on that day. Thus Baba rightly

declared, “I shall be alive and vigorous from the tomb also.” “Even after

my mahasamadhi, I shall be with you the moment you think of me, at any

place.”

 

 

And he stands by his word even today. And that is taking samadhi.

 

“It is Death that’s dead, not He!”

 

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org