DIVINE EXPERIENCES - Mrs. M.W. Pradhan (5)

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DIVINE EXPERIENCES – Mrs. M. W. Pradhan (5)

Mrs. M. W. Pradhan’s account of experience is found in Sai Lila Masik :

321 (1) All my children took ill of measles. The doctor despaired of young Baba.

All were hopeless. I prayed to Sri Sai Baba. He appeared and said, "Why weep?"

The child is alright. Give him at 6 or 6.30 a.m. a good feed." The child began

to play in the morning. The doctor came and saw it with surprise and said "Give

him no food." But the child ate everything and digested it.

342 (2) One night at 11 p.m. Baba appeared to me as I slept and said: "Are you

sleeping? Get up. Your boy will have convulsions". I got up, I looked at the

boy. He had no fever or convulsions. But "Forewarned is forearmed!" So, I got

ready hot water, fire, eaude cologne etc., About 2 a.m. the boy woke up and had

convulsions -–all our children have convulsions occasionally. I got everything

ready. In half an hour, the fit passed off. Baba saved us from sorrow and

danger by his forewarning. He did so often.

324 (3) Baba appeared in my dream and told me to place turmeric and saffron on

his foot. I worshipped them in the dream. I told N G Chandorkar of the dream

and he said, take silver padukas to Shirdi, place them before Baba and get them

worship. So I did, Baba himself stretched out both legs and asked me to place

each paduka on each foot and worship. I did so. He handed them over to me,

telling N G Chandorkar: "Nanahine maje pay paha kapun nele".

325. I feared once Baba would shout and get angry at the Masjid. That day Baba

did no such thing and said "See, I did not shout against anyone, is it not so?"

Once, at pooja at the Mosque, Baba knew of my baby crying in our Wada, and in

the middle of the pooja sent me away saying "Go home", I went and pacified the

child and returned. "Now", said Baba "do your pooja."

Once the doctor said that typhoid convalescent baby should not be taken to

Shirdi. But we did take him. He was ill in the train. I feared that people

would laugh at me for my madness. The child had to lie down and could not even

sit up. As soon as we went to Baba, the child stood up before Baba; and Baba

said: "People will not laugh now" He knew of course our thoughts in the train.

328. On 16-10-1918, i.e., the night after Baba’s departure, I saw his body in a

dying condition in my dream and said ‘Baba is dying’. Baba replied, "People do

not talk of saints as dying, but as taking samadhi." His body was still. People

were mourning. Such was the dream I felt sad. I woke at 12.30 midnight. In the

morning we got from Anna Chinchinikar, a card that Baba passed away at 3 p.m.

on Dusserah 15-10-1918.

329. On the 19th night I dreamed that Baba came and gave me 3 rupees, and that I

felt distressed, as dream receipts of rupees are not auspicious. Baba said

‘Receive, receive it and give me all the money you have stored up in your box."

I woke up and sent up all that money for ceremonies. The same night, Baba

appeared in my sister-in-law’s dream and asked her to send up a yellow

‘pitambar’ to be placed on the samadhi. That also was done.

S.L.M. III (4) 535. I was in an advanced stage of pregnancy at Santa Cruz. A

midwife and nurse attended on me. Four days of difficult labour made the nurse

despair of my case and she went and told my sister that Mr. Pradhan must send

for a doctor at once. But my sister began at once to pray before Baba portrait

with the nurse by her side. As she prayed, the child was delivered at once

without any one'’ help. I wondered and the nurse wondered how great were Baba’s

power and mercy.

(Written by HH Pujyasri B.V. Narasimha Swamiji on 19th October 1936 in Devotees Experiences Vol.3)

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

The love of God is brighter than the sun, cooler than the moon and sweeter and

more fragrant by far than honey and musk.

Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya.......

Question: Which is the greatest illusion of the world?

Answer: The greatest illusion is to believe in what I am not and not to believe

in what I am. I am not this body and this body is not, mine: to realise this

reality is the way to get rid of the illusion. You are wearing a shirt and a

watch but you are NOT the shirt or the watch. So also you say my hand, my feet,

my body, and so on. The ‘I’ is different than all these. By change in

appearances, the reality does not change. It is so obvious but we are unable to

appreciate it. Our entire behaviour centres round the body. To realise the

reality requires prolonged sadhana.

Now the strange thing is that you have no control or authority over the body

which you call your own. In the case of your shirt, your watch, you can give

those to somebody, sell them, throw them, destroy them. Please think, whether

you have the same authority on your body? You do not want your head to ache,

your body to grow old, or die. But you can’t stop it. Even the wealthiest man

cannot put off death. The body therefore is not yours. But not only you call

your body as your own, you regard other bodies and things as your own. There

can be no greater illusion than this.

(-Swami Premanandaji Saraswati )

 

 

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