A PLACE TO MERGE WITH BABA

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SAI MANDIR - A PLACE TO MERGE WITH HIM

"You get up, build the dome of the temple, I will give you a hundred-fold of

what you spend." Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch.XLVII

Sri Gunaji Devji Mohite, now called Mohite Baba, was from a village called Khopi

in Ratnagiri district. He served in World War I and II. About 1948, he met

Panduranga Maharaj, a disciple of Sant Gadge Maharaj. Their acquaintance grew

further, and Sri Panduranga Maharaj initiated Mohite Baba into spiritual line

and gave him Gurumantra.

Once Sri Mohite Baba went to Shirdi along with Sai devotee. While Sri Mohite

Baba was taking a stroll alone in Lendi Bagh, he saw a saint in meditation

below a peepal tree. Sri Mohite Baba bowed down and the saint blessed him and

placed his hand on Mohite Baba’s head. Sri Mohite Baba, eager to introduce his

friend also to the saint, immediately rushed to where his friend was, and

brought him to Lendi Bagh. There was no saint! After some time, he saw the

saint again, in the same posture, below the same peepal tree.

Sri Mohite Baba’s devotion to Sai Baba increased and he decided to build a Sai

Mandir in Bombay. Sri Mohite Baba found a place between chawls 21 and 30 of BDD

Chawls, Worli. There was no Mandir in this area and the residents of this

locality decided to help Sri Mohite Baba to build a small Sai Baba Mandir. A

Mandir was built in 1962, and a marble idol of Sai Baba was installed in 1969.

Every evening at 7 p.m. Arti of Sai Baba is performed and it is worth seeing

and hearing the Arathi and bhajans, where the old and young mingle together in

devotion.

(Source: from the book ‘The Eternal Sai’)

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