Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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In 1955, Sri Jayaram Raje was a lawyer at Thana. Once he finished a

devotional reading of the Life of Sai Baba. On the next day, Thursday, he

offered sweet meats to Baba’s picture. Precisely at lunch time a fakir came

to him for food. He was dressed like a Moslem. Raje being an orthodox

Brahmin offered him food in a leaf plate and requested him to eat it

elsewhere. The fakir insisted that he would eat it there itself. Raje fed

him accordingly, considering him as Baba himself.

 

After lunch the fakir demanded dakshina. Raje said that if a client paid

him Rs.50/- he would have given him his due. The fakir said that the client

would pay him the dues at 3-15 p.m. that day and that he himself would turn

up at 5 p.m. to receive the dakshina. The client who lived far away did turn

up at 3-15 p.m. and cleared the dues. The fakir too came up at 5p.m.and

received Rs.10/- In return the latter offered Raje a little vibhuti which,

by the time it fell into his hand, got mysteriously transformed into a rose.

Raje looked up in surprise and the fakir was not to be seen anywhere!

 

Sivashankar Dixit a devotee of Lord Dattatreya, despaired when he knew that

he was suffering from tuberculosis. One day he had a dream, he saw a picture

of a Moslem saint and bowed to it; at the same moment, a moslem fakir came

and applied vibhuti on his forehead and assured him that he would soon be

well.

 

When his condition improved without any treatment, Dixit realized that it

was a visitation. One of his friends suggested that the fakir might be Sai

Baba himself. Four days after, a group of children who played there, left a

small picture of Baba’s samadhi in his house. Dixit found that the fakir of

his dream precisely resembled the photograph of Sai Baba on the samadhi,

found in that picture. Later he visited Shirdi and saw that there was the

marble statue on Baba’s samadhi and not a photograph of Sai Baba. On enquiry

he was told that till 1956 a photograph of Sai Baba was indeed kept on Baba’

s samadhi and that the statue was installed only in that year. The picture

of the Moslem fakir which he saw in his dream was indeed the photograph of

Baba which was earlier kept on the samadhi! Henceforth Dixit worshipped Sai

Baba as Lord Dattatreya.

 

 

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