SAI BABA DISAPPROVES OF FASTING (March 1986)

[Guest guest]

SAI BABA DISAPPROVES OF FASTING (March 1986)

It is well known and it is also mentioned in 'Shri Sai Satcharita' that Sri

Sai Baba of Shridi was not in favour of fasts. He had stated firmly that one

cannot concentrate on God by keeping oneself hungry.

That Sai Baba upholds what he said was proved to me by my own experience in

Shirdi in September 1980 when after our wedding we visited Shirdi for the

first time. It was a Thursday and I was in the habit of fasting on Thursdays

those days. I was keeping my fast and was hungry. The whole day I with my

wife passed below the holy neem tree below a number of times so that we

might get a leaf of it which might per chance fall. Plucking leaves of the

holy tree is strictly prohibited. We were disappointed that we could not get

that prasad of leaf the whole day.

At night, I took meals breaking my day long fast and we decided to go again

to that holy tree. While we were passing I loudly said, 'now Baba we are

going'. Soon my wife saw leaf falling on my left shoulder promptly! A leaf

actually fell from that holy neem tree only after we took meals proved to me

that Baba is not in favour of fasts.

GOPESH BEHARI

Jai Narain Road

Fatehgarh - 209 601 (U.P.)

 

 

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