Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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Mr.K.D.Matrey once visited Shirdi. The samadhi mandir was under repair, his

child who was two and a half years old stood on the first floor, looking at

children playing on the road below. Suddenly she leaned forward, slipped and

fell down from the terrace. Several devotees rushed to her but the child

stood up smiling and said, “As I fell down, the old man in that picture

leaped up, held me in his hands and kept me down”!

 

An advocate from Boribandar, once started for Shirdi with Rs.100/- in his

pocket. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) his pocket was picked and he had

lost the money and his railway ticket. Later the ticket examiner came up and

did not relent even after hearing about the theft. Just then an old

gentleman gave the lawyer a ticket and said that his man did not join him as

promised. He introduced himself as a devotee of Sai Baba and bore all the

expenses of the advocate. At Shirdi the old man presented him with a copy of

a book on Sai Baba and also gave him his address in Bombay. Later on,

opening the book the advocate found Rs.100/- in it. When he returned home he

found his purse before Baba’s picture in his family shrine! He soon went to

Bombay but the old man’s address could not be traced. The advocate kept the

money he found in the book in his shrine for worship. Thereafter his

financial condition improved considerably.

In 1930 Dr. Rustomji was laid up with pneumonia and was admitted in the

Parsi general hospital in Bombay. The doctors gave up hope and he was in

coma. A fakir appeared to him in a vision and said, “Let your health recover

first; later you will come to know me!” He then went round Rustomji’s cot

and disappeared. Soon after, the doctors were surprised to find that his

condition was quite normal. Ever since, Rustomji yearned to see the fakir.

After six months a passenger who sat next to him in the bus was reading a

book on Sai Baba. Rustomji saw Baba’s picture in it and realized that he was

the fakir that had saved him and started reading about Sai. Shortly he was

appointed as a doctor in the Sai Samsthan dispensary at Shirdi in 1949.

 

Once his wife suffered from severe pain in her eyes. Doctors examined her

and declared that even doctors abroad will not be able to help her. At last

Sri Rustomji brought her to Shirdi and every day he used to take her round

Baba’s samadhi. She vowed to offer an embroidered cloth to Baba’s palanquin

if she was cured. In the course of an year she was well and she fulfilled

her vow.

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org