66. BABA HELPED SHRI MADHU FASLE IN HIS PILGRIMATE TO KASHI IN 1910.

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Shri Madhu False was serving Baba and then Baba's Sansthan. He was incharge

of Shyamsunder. Baba used to call him as Godawala. He was the person who

broke Baba's brick when he was cleaning Baba's Dwarakamayee referred to in

Baba's Satcharitra Chapter 43-44 English. Once he was with pale eyes and

fell senseless due to weakness when he was residing in Narayan Tellis house

behind Dwarakamayee. His mother was wailing during night on account of her

non-belief of the survival of Madhu Fasle. Baba on hearing this gone to her

house and told her why do you weep ? I am by the side of you. Madhu False

will ask for roti in the morning, then given him roti. He will be alright

and returned to Dwarakamayee. In the morning Madhu False came into his

senses and ate roti recovered his health and felt joyful as predicted by

Baba. About two months after, he went to Dwarakamayee when Baba was smoking

chilim, on seeing Madhu Fasle, Baba told him "that he has to go to Kashi".

False told that he did not know the way. Baba told him from Shirdi he has to

go to Paithan, Jalna, Balaji, Deval-gaom, Omkar, Ajmeer, Neemuch and then to

Kashi. Afterwards he started to Kashi with Baba's blessings and Baba also

gave Rs. lO/- for his expenses along with His one old Kupni. He gone by walk

to Paithan without any trouble on the way. He gone to Jodu Pachude. There

one Nandu Patel near Hanuman Mandir met him and questioned him where he was

bound to. Madhu False told that he was a sevak to Shri Sai Baba, Shirdi

bound for Kashi as per Baba's wish. That Nandu Patel made him to stay in his

house for 4 days. During those four days, Fasle told to Nandu Patil and to

all about Baba's Leelas. Nandu Patil give him a lift in his tanga upto

Jalna. From Jalna he gone to Balaji Deval-gaom by walk. There he took

darshan of His Holiness Ranganath Maharaj. Then His Holiness told Fasle

"That he was no God and that Fasle was coming from highly elevated place".

>From there he gone to Chikali. When he was walking, an officer with his

pattewalah recognised Fasle and made him to sit in his tanga upto his

jurisdiction. From there Omkareshwar was 12 miles. He gone to Omkareshwar by

walk and from there to Mamaleshwaram and stayed there for six days. There

the temple people fed him. From Mamaleshwaram he came to Omkareshwaram and

stayed there for two days. From Omkareshwaram, he gone to Rathlam by rail

>From Rathlam he gone to Ajmer. On the way there were plenty of dates. He was

tired on the way remembered Baba by the side of a stream. A Fakir in green

dress came there and enquired where he was going ? Fasle told that he was

going to Ajmeer. Fakir told Fasle that in Ajmeer people were fighting with

each other. Fasle told the Fakir that he was very hungry. Fakir gave some

almonds, Kaju to eat and chilim to smoke and both returned to Batlam,

fetched a train ticket and made Fasle to travel by train, upto Bhopal and

told him if anybody gave roti eat it or else eat Margosa leaves. From

Bhopal, he gone to Jansi by walk. From Jansi, he gone to Agra by walk.

Ekadashi came in the middle. He slept in a railway station without any food

At 10 or 11 P.M., a man like a Bhill came and approached him and gave him

"CHATTU" (a kind of flour to eat by mixing it with water etc.) and also

buttermilk and requested him to eat Fasle suspected of his caste and refused

to eat it, but the Bhill like man recognised it and told Fasle that there

was no objection in eating as it was GORAS. Then Fasle ate it. The Bhill

gone away. Fasle came to Agra. He met the same Fakir who gave him Kaju on

his way to Ajmeer. Fakir told Fasle" Beta have you arrived? Go to Mathura

and Brindavan and have no acquiantance with anybody and fetched a ticket to

him for Mathura. He got down at Mathura and met a man who was collecting

people to work in his Tea Estate. Then Fasle told him that he would not eat

anything in one's hand. The Estate wala given money and requested him to eat

in the Hotel. The Estate wala given money for 7 or 8 days then he remembered

the Fakir's word and escaped from him and went to Dhavji (Balarampuram) and

from there to Kanpur by walk. On the way he was getting rotis to eat. On the

bridge of a river near Kanpur when he was very hungry the same Fakir met him

again and gave "CHATTU" to eat and asked him where he wanted to go. Fasle

replied that he wanted to go to Lucknow. Fakir told Fasle the place where

meals were , available in Lucknow and told to go to Ayodya from. Lucknow.

Accordingly Fasle went to Marwari temple at Lucknow. He was fed there and

was given Rs. 21-by the 'temple people. He went to Kashi from Luck-now. When

he was getting from the railway station at Kashi, Mohan pandya an unknown

person met Fasle and taken to his house and served him for five days. During

these days, he took darshan of Vishwanath and all other places to be seen in

Kashi. From Kashi, Fasle gone to Prayag in the train without a ticket and

took bath in TR1VENI. As he was hungry he sat on a bench there. There also

the Fakir met him and fed him and told Fasle to return to his house and

fetched a ticket for him upto Manmad from Prayag and gone away. From Manmad,

he came to Shirdi by walk and took darshan of Baba, He mixed ths Ganges

water in the bathing water and in the drinking water of Baba. Baba told

Fasle "that I was with you saved you in so many places for these three

months of your pilgrimage as the people were not good now a days". From this

we have to understand that though Baba was not bodily moved ; from Shirdi,

He was roaming in disguise in any form in any place to help His devotees.

Surrender Shri Sai 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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