Devotees Experiences Mrs,Manager part 2

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To take another instance. We used to go and sit near

Sai Baba at his Mosque. Any one could go up at the

usual time, without permission asked of or

introduction taken to Sai Baba and bow before him and

all there. On one occasion, as I was seated at a short

distance from Sai Baba. there came a leper to the

Mosque. His disease was far advanced. He was stinking

and he had little strength left in him, so that it was

with much difficulty and very slowly, he clambered up

the three steps of the Mosque, moved on to the Dhuni

(fire) and then to Sai Baba and placed his head on

Baba's feet. It took so much time for him to take his

Darshan. and I feeling the strench from him intensely,

hoped he would clear off. At last when he got down

slowly carrying a small parcel wrapped up in a dirty

cloth, I felt relief and said within myself, Thank

God. He is off." Sai Baba at once darted a piercing

glance at me, and I knew that he read my thought

Before the leper had gone far, Sai Baba called out and

sent some one to fetch him back. The man came. It was

again the slow process of his clambering up, emitting

foul strench all the time; and as the man bowed to

Baba, Baba picked up that parcel saying "What is

this7*and opened it. It contained some "pedas," (Le,

milk sweets) and Sai Baba took up a piece and gave it

to me alone of all present-and asked me to eat it.

What horror! To eat up a thing brought by the stinking

leper! But it was Sai Baba's order, and there was no

option but to obey. So I ate it up. Sai Baba took

another piece and himself swallowed it and then sent

the man away with the remainder. Why he was recalled

and I alone was the chosen recipient of his peda. none

then understood. But I knew full well that Sai Baba

had read my heart and was teaching me valuable

lessons, (e.g.,in humility, fraternity, sympathy,

endurance and trust in His Supreme wisdom rather than

in my own notions of hygiene and sanitation for saving

me from disease).

 

 

source:devotees experiences of sai baba

by narasimhaswamiji

www.saileelas.org

 

 

 

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