Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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Mankewala was worried whether his son could travel alone to Shirdi safely

and, in case he dies, his son’s presence was necessary to perform his

obsequies. At last he decided to abide by Baba’s words and so sent his son

to Shirdi. At about 6 p.m., Baba again appeared to him and said, “Do not

fear! I am with your son. You will receive a telegram that he had reached

Shirdi safely by 12 noon tomorrow.”

 

A few minutes later the doctors again examined the patient and thought that

he was dying. They mocked at his accounts of Baba’s assurance. Indeed,

nothing happened to Mankewala and the next day they received a telegram from

Shirdi regarding his son’s safe arrival there. For 24 hours precisely from

the moment of the receipt of the telegram Mankewala passed excess of urine

and suffered a severe attack of diarrhoea. Soon his body weight came down to

75 pounds. His pulse and heart beat were normal. The doctors agreed that his

recovery was indeed a miracle of Sai Baba. Within the next two months

Mankewala regained his normal health. On 23rd of August 1954 Sai Baba again

appeared before him. Waving his baton(satka) playfully, he said, “I am

always in front of my devotees”.

 

Sri Seshachalam Pillay was a retired Tahsildar who lived at Tummalagunta

village near Tirupati (A.P.). On 1-11-1977 his wife Smt. Susilamma came to

my house and recounted her experience of Sai Baba’s grace.

 

In 1952 the family was staying at Narsingpur near Chandragiri Railway

station. Even several years after marriage they had no children and all

their relations were pressing Sri Pillay to marry a second time. One day her

elder brother gave Smt.Susilamma a small picture of Baba and told her to

worship it and said that Baba might bless her with an offspring. She started

doing accordingly and in 1954 she was blessed with a son whom they named

after Sai Baba.

 

When the child was eleven months old, it had fever and the mother suffered

from severe diarrhoea. All medical aid proved futile and even after living

on a diet of arrow-root powder for 21 days she had no relief. She was so

weak that she could not go out of her room to answer nature’s calls. On the

21st day at 4.30 a.m., she had an urge to pass stool, She got down from the

cot, sat down just by for the purpose and, reclining her head against the

cot, she prayed to Baba to help her. She at once saw Sai Baba entering the

room pushing open the main door! He came and sat on the cot just by her

head. She complained to him of her miserable plight. Baba said, “Why feel so

bad about it? I have kept a talisman in that shelf. You wear it and you will

be alright. Throw it off on the third day”, and he at once walked out of the

room. “Baba, in which shelf do you mean?” she was crying.

 

Her relations woke up at her cries and asked her what the matter was. When

she told them of Baba’s words, they brushed it aside as a mere delusion.

When she insisted, they searched in the shelf and they did find a talisman

with a yellow thread attached to it. They put it around her neck and at once

her diarrhoea subsided. On the third day she threw the talisman away in the

backyard in a corner. Sri Pillay blamed her for throwing away a thing given

by Sai Baba and searched for it in vain. Both Smt. And Sri Pillay sat

dejected at not finding it and they even went without lunch. By 6 p.m. her

elder brother came and said that she was right in following Baba’s

instruction to throw away the talisman and that even if she had not done so,

Baba could have taken it away as mysteriously as he had given it.

 

This miracle strengthened their faith and they worshipped Baba with great

fervour. But the younger brother and nephew of Smt. Susilamma used to

criticise her for worshipping a ‘moslem’ like Baba. One day when they sat in

the hall, something metallic fell from nowhere, with a noise and they found

it to be a picture of Baba printed on a metal strip. Smt. Susilamma picked

it up, thought that it was a gift from Baba to here child and, after

offering incense to it, put it round his neck. The same night her youngest

brother and nephew suffered from sudden and unbearable pain in stomach and

diarrhoea. Smt. Susilamma told Sri Pillay that both of them spoke light of

Baba as a Moslem and the illness might be a consequence of that. Sri Pillay

reprimanded them for their impertinence and told them to prostrate to Baba’s

picture in repentance and to promise that they were relieved of their

suffering and that they would name their first born after Baba. As soon as

they did so the pain at once vanished. Thus both of them became devotees of

Sai and later named their first born after Baba.

 

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