100. HIS HOLINESS SHRI SAI SHARAN ANAND WAS BORN BY BABA'S GRACE AND BABA GIVEN HIM SANYASA AND THEREBY SADGATI

[Guest guest]

Shri Prangondji and his wife Manigowri came to Baba for His darshan. Baba

blessed them. Afterwards his Holiness Shri Sai Sharan Anand was born to them

on 5-4-1889 at Mota village, Bardoli Taluka in Surat District, and named by

them as Shri Vaman Rao Prana Govind Patel. When he was three years of age,

he fell sick and the parents have faith about his survival as it was beyond

medical treatment. At that time Baba as a Fakir gone to his house and given

His UDI and asked his mother to give it to her son mixing it with water and

told her as there was a scat in his right side back, he would become a

"SATPURUSHA". The UDl was administered to him and the child was

miraculously saved by Baba. He had his primary education at Surat and

Ahmedabad. In hia age of 13, he gone to Somanath Mandir. There Baba given

him darshan as a Fakir. He has finished his B.A. Education in 1910 in

Elphistone College, Bombay and he passad his LL.B. in 1912. He used to

question his college Professors whether the God is Phenomina or Neomina".

The Professors were net able to reply. The Vaman Rao gone to Bombay

along with his father to take darshan of Sri Balakrishna Maharaj a

follower of Shri Akkalkot Maharaj. Vaman Rao put the same question to the

Maharaj also. The Maharaj got angry with him and given him two books,

one the Saritra of Shri Akkalkot Maharaj and the other Ekanath Bhagawat and

asked him to read them. He read them and questioned his father whether there

was any such Maharaj. His father replied that there was Shri Sai Baba

Shirdi. Vaman Rao came to Baba's darshan first in 1911. At the very first

instance on seeing Vaman Rao, Baba told him "why are you worrying that there

is God or not God". There is God. Vaman Rao joined the Solicitors firm

in 1913. He came to Shirdi in 1913 when there was vacation holidays for

the Court. On the expiry of leave, he requested Baba for permission to go

to Bombay, but Baba has not permitted him to go nearly for one year on one

plea or other. As he was not gone to his house, his parents worried

about his whereabouts and consulted astrologers, "They have told them he was

in God's place (SHIRDI) without any fear, if not it was danger to

him. Afterwards Baba given him permission to go. He came to Shirdi again

in 1916 all on a sudden when he came to the railway station to send off

his friend for Shirdi Baba told Vaman Rao that he was expected him

at Shirdi. After twenty one days Baba allowed him to go to Bombay.

During this period one day a big stone was fallen on his head bleeding

when the building of Buty's wada was going one. Baba sent medicines

for this. By baba's grace no wound was visible on his head. Vaman Rao

told that at that time of bleeding he was fully emerged in Divine joy.

Only after this incident he became a staunch devotee of Baba. After

three years, he was made Head Master., Model High School, Ahmedabad. He

came to Bombay in 1921 and became Managing Clerk in Messrs Ganga And Sayani

Co. Bombay. He wrote books on Baba (viz.) Gurusmriti in 1932 in

Gujarathi language and in 1946 about Baba's life in Gujarathi by name Sai

baba. Baba has given him Sanyasa in 1952 in Dakor as a Fakir, and

thereby he was named as Shri Sai Sharan Anand. In the

year 1961, He wrote a book in English Called "Sai Baba

the Superman". A devotee has given Baba's padukas telling that

Baba wants to handover them to Him. At first He refused and then accepted

and installed it in a place in Ahmedabad wherein a pucka Sai Baba Mandir was

errected and named as "Vishnu Dharamalaya'' where so many devotees

are now flocking there to get Baba's darshan. He told "That from 1952 Baba

was with-Him and getting His service to the devotees through Hi'-n After

many years of Baba's service to the devotees as His Holiness Shri Sai

Sharan Anand, He merged with Baba on 25-8-1982. Such a blessed soul by

Baba has given foreward to this book.

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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