57. BABA SATISFIED THE WISHES OF SHRI G.G. NARKE AND MADE HIM AS HIS DEVOTEE

July 21, 2004

Shri G.G. Narke came first to Shirdi in 1910 to take Baba's darshan. He went

to Shri Sal Baba in Mosque and prostrated placing his head on Baba's feet.

Then baba said "what I do you worship a man?”At once he retreated to some

distance and st quiet. He recognised his past attitudes that men should not

be worshipped. After some time, Baba gently beckoned him to approach him.

Thus encouraged, he went and placed his head on Baba's feet. Baba at once

hugged him, made him sit close to Him and then addressed him "you are my

child. When others (i. e.) strangers are in the company, we keep the

children off". Then he felt the full face of Baba’s deep and intense love

for him and his heart responded to it and ascertained that Baba was his

saviour, his Guru and the man of his destiny found at last. He used to

reside with Radhakrishna Mai. In 1913, Baba told him that his father-in-law

would build a dagadi wada (stone-edifice) at Shirdi and that he would be

incharge of it. His father-in-law Shri Gopal Rao Buty has built the Dagadi

wad a in 1915-18 and he was made incharge of it in 1919 as Baba foretold in

1913. He was permanently settled in 1917 as Professor of Geology and

Chemistry in Poona. Baba used to get sweetmeet from a Halwayi shop for

Naivedya. One day in 1916 there lay a corpse, a plague stricken corpse.

Plague was raging at Shirdi. Baba asked him to go and get the sweetmeet from

his shop. He went and told (the wife who was weeping) about Baba's order.

She pointed to the corpse and asked him to take the sweetmeet from the

Almyrah. He took it with trembling and with fear that he might catch the

infection and others too. That sweetmeet given as Naivedya. Baba told him

you think that you will live if you away from Shirdi and that you would die

if you stay at Shirdi. That is not so. Whosoever destined to be struck will

be struck. Whosoever is to die will die, whosoever is to be caressed will be

careseed". Thus Baba encouraged him when plague enraged in Shirdi and thus

Baba infused faith in His devotee by bold defiance of sanitary precautions.

This shows Baba's words are the superme factor than any other things.

Surrender Shri Sat Completely ! Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be

there //

( Adopted from AMBROSIA IN SHIRDI by Ramalingaswamy, Life Member of Shri

Sai Baba Sansthan, Shirdi at Munja Baba Sthan, Shirdi)

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