THURSDAY SPECIAL .........Devotees Experiences Nachne Part 5

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Dear Devotees

Happy thursday to u.

Todays story is extremely special.Please read it nd

see how kind Sai is.

 

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A cashier in an office was in trouble last year about

Rs.3,500 which was not accounted for. A friend

advised him to go to me and he came. That cashier

disliked Baba, as Baba was a 'Mahomedan' But when he

came to me, I told him that his sole sanctuary was the

Sai Mandir at Shirdi, and that he should go there and

make a heartfelt apology and appeal for help. He

went there, got a photo of Baba and with the help of

Sagun Naik placed it at the Samadhi, prayed there and

came back with the photo. Things then began to

brighten up. He was allowed eight days time to pay up

the Rs.3,500. He went up, got money and paid it. The

matter was closed. There was neither dismissal nor

prosecution. Similar help was rendered by Baba in

another case, Mr. V.C. Chitnis after his dismissal

from service came to me. I told him to cast his

burden on Sai Baba and make an appeal at the Shirdi

Mandir for help. He went to Shirdi and later he was

reinstated in service.

 

My parents were devotees of Sai Baba. My mother was

aged seventy in 1926 when she died. She kept Sai

Baba's photo to the last in front of her. As the end

was nearing, she asked me to read Vishnu Sahasranama

aloud by her side, and I did. Then with "Ram Ram" on

her lips, she passed away.

 

 

 

My second wife passed away in 1929 and I was anxious

to do everything necessary to secure Sadgati for her

soul. So I wished to take her bones and ashes to Nasik

and dispose of them there with proper ceremonies. But

I was beset with difficulties. My father was ill. I

had, amidst my feeling of bitter loss at her

departure, to make sure of the funds needed and the

steps necessary, of which I had no idea. I took a sum

of Rs.80 and leaving a child of years at home, started

by train for Nasik. At Victoria Terminus, I found I

had a fellow passenger who took enormous trouble for

me and extended his sympathy and help even before the

train started.

 

 

He Where are you going ?

I Nasik

He Why do you carry no bed ? The nights are

chill.

I I find no necessity. I am in no mood to mind these

things. It is eight days since my wife died leaving a

three-year old son to be taken care of by me.

 

He asked me to wait. He called out ot a friend and got

a blanket and a bedsheet for me.

I : How can you get these things so quickly ?

He : Our quarters are very near. It is the

Bombay Arts School. Have this cigar please.

 

I (accepting the cigar): What is your name ? May I

know who you are ?

He : I am a peon in that school. My name is

Ganapathy Shankar - you may go to sleep now.Have no

anxiety. I am also going to Nasik, I shall wake

you up when we reach

I : What takes you to Nasik ?

G.S. : Simply to see Nasik. My Saheb is gone to Simla

and I get this chance of seeing Nasik.

Then I lay down.

 

G.S. : "Do take good care of your money; or if you

like, I will keep it for you, if you give it to me, in

this steel trunk of mine.

Then I handed over my 80 rupees to him and went to

sleep. At Ghoti Station, near Nasik, he woke me up. We

washed ourselves and took tea. He paid for me also. At

Nasik Road Station, we got into the bus. Then,

G.S. : Do not go to Bhatji, Le., a priest

yourself. I will settle everything for you. Do not

trouble yourself. Then he attended on me and attended

to everything as a peon would do, till the end of the

twelfth day ceremony. Throughout the proceedings he

showed his special knowledge of the ceremonies, i.e.,

he told the priest to take pinda first to Ramkund. He

told me to retain in my grip the bones I brought,

immersed in the waters of the Godavari at Ramkund till

the close of the ceremony. The bones should be left

in a particular hollow there and kept in position by

pressure of the hand to prevent their being washed

away by force of the current. My surprise was that

even as I kept them they were quickly dissolving as

though they ware sugarcandy. On the twelfth day, he

got a wire requiring his presence back at Bombay. He

accounted to me for every pie he had received from me.

He took me to the chief temples at Nasik. A

Sanyasi teacher at one of the temples recognized him

and to him he showed the wire. My priest said the

G.S. was a man of extraordinary cleverness, e.g. when

the priest started ceremonies without the worship of

Ganesha (considering it unnecessary for inauspicious

ceremonies), G.S. interposed and bade him start it and

when the priest still entertained doubts, made him

refer the matter to a learned authority who agreed

with G.S. He parted from me at Nasik that day and

promised to call at my place, i.e. Andheri. He gave me

his name and address. After my return home, seeing

that my beneficent friend did not turn up I went to

the address given viz., "G.S., peon. Bombay Art

School" and made inquiries and asked his fellow peon

about him. They all said there was no such person

at all known to them. The principal (the "Saheb") also

said the same. Who was this 'man' that took such

enormous pains (without any remuneration or prospect

of it) and gave me such splendid help in securing

Sadgati for my wife at Nasik by proper performance of

all the ceremonies ? Who can it be - but Sai Baba ?

 

 

 

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source: devotees experience of sai baba

by shri narasimhaswamiji