Ambrosia in Shirdi Part-1-Baba's Leelas before 1918

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Leela 17

Baba. Lakshmibai and Janabai were grinding wheat with the hand mill, when a lady

from Bombay entered Dwarkamai. She sat beside them, and asked Baba if she too

could grind the wheat. Baba said that she would get tired. Nonetheless, she was

eager to grind as much as was possible. Baba asked Lakshmibai to let her grind

the wheat. The lady was full of questions, and was ea­ger to get answers from

Baba. She started asking Baba, why the wheat was ground? Why He threw it at the

village boundary?

Baba said, "Akkabai Maaribai, Marriamma (i.e. dieties of cholera and smallpox)

want to enter the village so I feed them on the other side of this village and

prevent them from entering Shirdi. As they are propitiated, they do not enter

Shirdi. Thus, I save My devotees."

Then she asked whether there was 'Jari', 'Mari' (durdevatha=evil forces). Baba

said, "Yes, there ex­ists durdevatha; but they will not do any thing to us."

She said that some people are dying because of durdevatha. To this, Baba said,

"Durdevatha was scold­ing Me and insisting that she be allowed to enter this

village so I requested the Almighty to give her the al­lotted person."

"Are there evil spirits, Baba? When I was in Naigaon, in Bombay, an evil spirit

would come from the side of the well and go to the room upstairs and

disappear." The Omnipresent, Omniscient, Baba re­plied, "Yes. But they will not

do anything to harm us." Then Baba told her that the spirit she saw, was that of

the owner of the house. "He comes and goes upstairs and disappears where you

delivered".

The lady was astonished to hear all these facts and asked Baba how He knew them.

"I know you from child­hood, you have forgotten Me, but I do not forget. I call

all My children to Me even if they are thousands of miles away. I look after

all equally, be they good or bad." After a while she felt tired and asked

Lakshmibai to resume the grind­ing. The lady returned to Bombay unafraid and

assured of Baba's love and protection for her and her family.

Sai Satcharitra Ch.J describes the leela of Baba grinding wheat. "Go at once, to

the village boundary and throw all the flour at the side of the brook there!"

said Baba to the four women. Thus Baba prevented Cholera from invading

Shirdi,Source-Ambrosia in Shirdi - Part I (Baba's Leelas Before 1918) by

Dr.Vinni Chittluri @ www.saileelas.org"Gurur Brahma Gurur VishnuGurur Devoh

Maheshwar;Gurur Shakshat ParambramhaTashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah"May the

Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove

our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and

happiness with

peace of mind.Sai bhakt,Deepa

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