BABA'S ANGER HAD A SPECIAL PURPOSE

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BABA’S ANGER HAD A SPECIAL PURPOSE

Baba’s outbursts of anger which had special purpose, and which were not

mystic processes. Sometimes they were cases of double entendre. One instance

may be immediately given. Shama, that is Madhav Rao Despande, was bitten by a

snake, and his life was in danger. People are accustomed to take such patients

immediately to a particular temple. In Shama’s case, however, Baba was

all the God he knew, and he wanted to go to the Masjid straightway, and he

accordingly went there. Baba, instead of treating him civilly, flew into a

furious rage, and said, "Do not climb, Get down. Hat Mage Hat Mage, Bamnia, Var

Mat Jav. Hat Mage, Hat Mane". Shama thought that his refuge was gone, that Baba

was not protecting, but driving him away. Just one minute later, Baba coolly

and quietly said, "Shama, come up, and gave him directions to be observed by

cobra bitten patients, and asked him to go home, and there observe the usual

directions of keeping awake and moving about and not going to sleep for 24

hours. Shama was thus saved, and he survived the cobra venom. Then what did the

words mean? ‘Hut Mage, Hat Mage’ did not mean that Shama was to go

down but only the poison should go down from the system. "Bamnia Var Mat Jav"

should not be construed as addressed to the Bamnia. (Brahmin) namely Shama, and

he as asking him not to come up. But they were addressed to the poison. The

poison was not to go up, but it should go down the Brahmin Shama.

Another instance of a similar sort was where Baba’s outburst of anger was

merely a device to enable a diarrhea patient to get groundnuts. Kaka Mahajani

had diarrhea, and he carried a (chombu) vessel of water with him, and was in

front of the Dwarakamayee. Baba was inside, and there were plenty of persons

outside. Suddenly Baba burst out into violent rage and people fled in all

directions. People took to their heels and cleared the premises. Kaka Mahajani

also was slowly moving towards his ‘chombu’ and wanted to go out.

Baba suddenly came and stopped him and sat next to him. There was a pocket of

ground nuts left by some one who was eating them and who in his hurry to escape

safe, left the ground nut behind. Baba took up the groundnut and shared it with

Kaka Mahajani saying, "Let us eat groundnuts " They both ate groundnuts, and

Baba asked Kaka Mahajani to drink water on the top of it. This is not exactly

the treatment for diarrhea, which any doctor would dare to give – for

that aggravates it. But Baba said, ‘Your anal sphincter is now tightly

closed’. This cured Kaka Mahajani of his diarrhea.

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

(Vasuki Mahal Shirdi Shri Sai Baba Trust, Coimbatore-641025, India)