Shri G. S. Khaparde Diary

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6th December 1911

As my tonga come near the house newly built by Mr. Dixit the first person I met

was Mr. Madhao Rao Despande. Before I got out of the tonga Mr. Dixit asked me

to dine with him today.Then I went with Madhavrao to pay respects to Sayin

Maharaj and saluted him from a distance. He was washing hands and feet at the

time. As I got busy washing and praying I could not salute him when he went

out. Later on we went to him in company and sat near him in the Musjid. He told

a story about having been with a Fakir who was fond of good food. This Fakir was

invited to dinner party and went with Sayin Maharaj. At the time of starting,

the Fakir wife's asked Sayin Maharaj to bring some food from the feast and gave

a pot for the purpose. The Fakir fes so well that he decided to sleep at the

place. Sayin Maharaj returned with the food tying the cakes to his back and

carrying the liquid in the pot placed on his

head. He found the way very long, lost his way, sat near a mangwada to rest a

while. The dogs began to bark and he got up and rerutned to his village and

made over the cakes and liquid to the Fakir's wife. By that time the Fakir also

returned and they had a very good feed together. He added, it is very difficult

to find a good fakir. Mr. Sathe, who built the Wada in which I lived last year,

is here, and I saw him first in the Musjid and then at dinner, Mr. Dixit fed a

large number. Among them is Mr. Thosar who is the sister's son of the late

Madhavrao Govind Ranade. Thoser is employed in the customs office, Bombay. He

is a very nice man and we sat talking. There is a gentalman from Nasik and

there are many others. Among them one Tipnis who came with his wife and the

latter was brought to bed of a son. Bapusaheb Jog is here, and his wife is

doing well. Mr. Nulkar is dead and I miss him very much. None of his family are

here. Balasaheb Bhate is here, and his wife gave birth to a

son on Datta-jayanti-day. We are staying in Dixit's Wada which is very convenient.

 

7th December 1911

I slept well last night. My son and wife are doing well with Bhishma. Vishnu is

also here. We fed a good many people today and I fell into the proper routine

of the place. I saluted Baba Sayin Maharaj as he went out; then after he

returned to the Musjid, and again in the evening, and later on again, when he

went to sleep in the chawdi. The Bhajanpujan was a little less. After we

returned from sheja-arti, Bhishma had his usual Bhajan and Mr. Thosar also song

some verse, a few, of his own composition and others, of Kabirs, Das Gunu, and

others. Das Ganu's wife Baya who was here last year, is now at her father's

house. We set talking till late at night. Madhaorao Deshpande told us at night

at Dada Kelkar had a nephew by name Babu. Sayin Maharaj was very kind to him.

This Babu died and Maharaj remembers him to this day. Mr. Moreshwar Vishwanath

Pradhan a Pleader practicing at Bombay, came to

see Sayin Maharaj. On seeing his wife, Sayin Maharaj said that she was the

mother of Babu. She got in the family way later on, and on the day of her

delivery in Bombay, Sayin Maharaj here said he had pains and that twins would

be born and that one of them would die. So it happened, and when Mrs. Pradhan

came here on his lap and asked if he would come to the place, and the child of

two months distinctly answered "Hoon".

 

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