DEVOTEES' EXPERIENCES OF SRI SAI BABA BY H.H. NARASIMHA SWAMIJI - PART II

February 13, 2006

Sairam,Devotees Experiences - C.G.NarkeSTERN JUSTICEA saint should

not be judged by the character of those that gathered round him.

Prostitutes, women hunters, avaricious people and sinners of various

sorts came to him with a view mostly to gain material advantage. But

when they failed to take advantage of his presence to improve

themselves but fell into sins, he let them suffer. His justice was

severe. "You have to cut your own child, if it falls athwart the

womb" He has said. Baba's boldness based on "Fore knowledge"

or "Perfect Vision" - Baba was bold in His dealings with persons,

with the forces of disease, etc. unknown to us but evidently well-

known to Him. He occasionally infused faith in His devotees by such

bold defiance of sanitary precautions. I will mention some instances

known to me.Baba used to get sweetmeat from a Halwayi for Naivedya.

One day in 1916, tere lay a corpse, a plague stricken corpse. Plague

was raging at Shirdi. Baba asked me to go and get the sweetmeat from

his shop. I went and told the wife (who was weeping) of Baba's order.

She pointed to the corpse and said that I might take the sweetmeat

from the almairah. I took it, trembling with the fear that by this I

might catch the infection and others too. That was given

as `Naivedya'. Baba told me, "You think you will live if you are away

from Shirdi, and that you would die, if you stay at Shirdi. That is

not so. Whosoever is (destined) to be struck, will be struck;

whosoever is to die will die; whosoever is to be caressed will be

caressed". He encouraged me similarly when cholera raged in Shirdi.

He had lepers around Him who massaged His legs. One of them got

cured. Baba made a leper take the udhi and gave it as prasad to the

devotees. The udhi is put into the mouth of sick people. And the

leper gave it to all by Baba's order! Yet no harm has resulted so far

as I know.

- to be contd

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