Devotees Experiences S.B.Dhumal part 3

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Regarding public work, I may first mention that I was

the first Non-Official President of the Nasik District

Local Board (nominated by Government) and that I

served in that capacity from 1-11-1917 to 13-5-25. I

had personally to sign thousands of papers myself

without the use of a facsimile seal - a proceeding

which took many hours of my day; and one consequence

of this heavy public work was to ruin my legal

practice and reduce my income-tax from 260 odd rupees

to zero - in recognition of which sacrifice, this

Sanad of Rao Bahadur was granted to me in 1927 - a

very poor and unsubstantial recognition you may say -

but it is still some form of recognition. Anyhow I

faced the work and went on trusting in Baba for the

proper execution of my office. A peon had to carry

these papers to me and blot each signature and after

some hours the work would be over and the papers sent

back to the office. One day, when the papers were

before me, a visitor for whom I had much regard came

in and stayed talking with me till midnight and so the

signatures had to be postponed till the next day. The

next morning, I found no time and as I was leaving the

town, I sent back the papers to the office. When I

returned to the town that night. I found only that

day's papers brought for my signature and when I

wanted the previous day's papers, I found that they

all bore my signature. The peon had been sent away for

his meal, the previous midnight and how the thousands

of signatures had been affixed to the papers I could

not guess. I have no other explanation for it, except

Baba and his superhuman powers.

 

 

In 1912, I underwent an operation in J.J. Hospital

under chloroform. It was a serious venture. But I saw

Baba seated on a chair at my head, close to the

operation table before the chloroform began to

operate. He was there to look after me and I felt

reassured. The operation was, in fact, safely

performed and was a success. In 1915, 1 was offered

the Public Prosecutorsnip at Nasik but I took two

days' time to consider and wrote at once to Baba.

Quickly came the reply "Your former work is good. Do

not accept the new" and I declined the offer.

 

 

In 1918, a few days before Baba passed away, influenza

was raging at Shirdi at Poona and many other places.

At Poona my brother's wife had a very serious attack

and he wired to me about it to Nasik. So I started at

once with Rs.80 in my pocket to cover expenses of the

journey and to meet all contingencies. I halted en

route at Shirdi to get Baba's blessings and Udhi for

the patient. When I went to him, Baba took from me

dakshina repeatedly and the Rs.80 or the balance

thereof was cleared off my hand in no time. This was

no good augury of my trip to Poona being achieved or

made useful to the patient. When I craved leave to go,

Baba said in his characteristic fashion (reminding one

of the form of the Regal Veto "The King will

consider") — i.e., we shall see (what to do) tomorrow.

He stopped me for three days. Meanwhile, a wire from

Poona announced that the patient had expired. After

that Baba gave me leave to go away. It was clear that

Baba saw what was happening and to happen to my

sister-in-law and judged it best for her to depart

from the world and me to reach Poona some days after

her departure. His reasons for such judgement, I could

not discover. But surely he was in a position to judge

and I was not. So I meekly accepted his decision as

final, as usual. This was shortly before he himself

passed away and he gave me on the above occasion the

last opportunity of spending a few days with him while

he was in the flesh.

 

 

source:devotees experiences by shri h h

narasimhaswamiji

www.saileelas.org

 

 

 

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