Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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In 1965 Mr.Chitnis suffered from a severe pain in the stomach and could not

take even a spoonful of water. The doctor decided to try surgery on the next

Thursday. Chitnis prayed that he should be spared the ordeal. That night in

his dream four terrible persons were pulling him out of the bed. Sai Baba

felled some of them and saved Chitnis. By morning Sri Chitnis was alright to

the surprise of the doctor.

 

On a certain Thursday in 1966 he completed a reading of the life of Baba.

Mr.Chitnis was to go to Agra by car. He prayed to Baba for his darshan. Next

morning, after covering about sixty miles the car stopped at a place for no

apparent reason. A fakir who resembled Sai Baba was found standing by. The

fakir blessed them and received dakshina and disappeared. Mr.Chitnis was

surprised to know later that only his youngest son, he and the driver saw

the fakir and others didn’t see anyone.

 

Sri P.V.Satyanarayana Sastri records, in an article, the strange

transformation of a famous atheist of Andhra into an ardent devotee of Baba.

Late Sri Gopichand, a famous writer and a prominent atheist, was working as

an employee of the Government at Kurnool. His wife was in the hospital,

suffering from labour pains for three days and her condition was critical.

On the third day, as he walked past the Sai Mandir towards hospital, he

thought : “Baba, if you could bless my wife with a safe delivery, I shall

believe that your power is divine.”

 

At the hospital his wife delivered a male child. She told him that an old

fakir in a vision, sat on her cot and said, “Don’t fear. I shall save you.”

He then put a little vibhuti on her forehead, put a little of it in water

and gave her to drink. She at once delivered. And the time of her vision

coincided precisely with the time of his silent prayer to Baba! Gopichand

named his son as Sai Baba, causing quite a stir among his atheist friends.

 

Though Mr. Veerendra Pandya had no faith in Baba, he visited Shirdi with his

brother. Later he lived at Kalyan near Bombay and his parents lived in

Bihar. Once when his family had to face many difficulties, he took out the

picture of Baba which was lying in his trunk, kept it in the shrine and

prayed fervently that he should find a solution to his problem by evening.

At once peace descended on him and by evening he hit upon a solution to his

problem. Strangely, he learned from a letter that the same solution occurred

to his mother too, precisely at the same hour. He decided to dedicate all

his life, henceforth to the service of Baba, giving up all worldly activity

but his mother insisted that he should marry. Again he prayed for a written

solution to the problem. Next day, quite casually, his eyes fell on a book

entitled, Sri Sai Baba Upasana. He opened it at random and the chapter

Bhavasudha came up. The message contained therein was that a householder’s

life is preferable. Yet he doubted whether it was mere coincidence.

 

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org