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

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Sairam,Devotees Experiences - Rao Bahadur S.B.DhumalEmboldened by

His love, I used to write to Him and Sri Madhava Rao Deshpande would

read my letters to Him and communicate His replies to me. In some

cases, even during His lifetime and in all cases after His

Mahasamadhi (1918 October) I addressed my queries to Him mentally or

by prayerfully placing chits (or casting lots) before His portrait

and I invariably got His answer showing me what was the correct and

safe course for me to follow. I invariably followed His advice -

however much it might run counter to "common-sense", "medical

opinion", "rules of prudence" etc., and invariably discovered that

the path chosen for me by Baba was the safest and wisest.HYGIENE,

ETC.I have lived in this ancestral house of mine in the main road of

Nasik, all my life. When plague broke out and dead rats were found in

the house, I wrote to Shirdi for Baba's direction before moving out

and left the house as soon as I got His reply. As I am ever under His

protection and doing nothing without His guidance, I felt perfectly

safe in remaining in the house till I got His reply. He has said that

at every step He was guiding me. I knew He was guiding me - I had

implicit faith in the truth of His words. He knew everything that was

happening or was to happen at Nasik or in any other place and would

not allow any harm to befall me while I was placing this childlike

trust in and reliance on Him. During all these twenty nine years of

such reliance, there is not a single instance in which such

protection failed or such trust found misplaced.After receiving

Baba's reply, I moved to a bungalow at Nasik. But the same night a

dead rat was found near the bed of my brother's son at the

bungalow. Again I sought Baba's advice by letter whether I should

move away. The reply was in the negative. And contrary to the

rules of prudence and wisdom of medical experts and laymen, I kept on

living with my family at the bungalow. No harm befell us. Later,

dead rats were found in the servants' quarters, in the houses, in the

neighbourhood, and lastly, in the well from which alone we had drawn

all our supply of water for drinking, cooking etc. At this. I

wrote "at once to Baba for permission and in anticipation of its

arrival which I considered as certain, I packed up all our things and

carted them off to this our house in the Bazar Street. I went to

the house and was just trying to unlock the front door, when a postal

letter from Shirdi was delivered to me. That conveyed Baba's reply to

me, "why should we give up (i.e.,change) our residence?" I adopted

this advice without question or demur and went back immediately to

the infected bungalow and lived in it. (As for water. I took the

precaution of avoiding the well and getting all our water from the

river Godavari) This further apparently risky and foolhardy step of

reoccupation did not result in any harm to us. There were times

during the Plague Season when there were 14 or 15 deaths per day due

to plague in the town - and despite that fact Baba bade us stay in

the house in town and we were all

safe. - to be contd

 

Devotees can read this book from the Book Section

ofwww.Saileelas.org/books/exppart2.htm

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