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

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TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Devotees Experiences - Rao

Bahadur S.B.Dhumal

none">I had some public activities also which I took up with Baba's permission

and in which His miraculous intervention and help were occasionally seen. Some

instances appear so incredible that I first hesitated to reveal them. But it

matters nothing to me whether they command other people's belief or not. As you

want the truth, here is the truth as known to or experienced by me. I will give

instances of Baba's help in professional matters first and then proceed to His

help in public matters. Some 20 or 25

years ago, there was a Criminal Case from Shirdi. There have always been party

feeling and factions at Shirdi as in most villages. One Raghu, a servitor of

Baba and five others were arrested on a charge of outraging the mod­esty of a

Mar wadi woman and on the direct evidence of "num­ber of eye-witnesses", were

convicted and sentenced to six months of imprisonment. Tatya Patel Khote's

sympa­thies and help were on the side of the accused. He took up a copy of the

judgement and papers to emminent lawyers like the Hon.G.S.Khaparde and

H.S.Dixit and retired Magistrates like Rao Bahadur H.V.Sathe, who were at

Shirdi. These found the judgement was strong and gave little hope of success in

case an appeal should be filed. Tatya Patel was keen on an acquit­tal and went

to Baba, who simply told him, "Go to Bhau with the papers". He accordingly came

to Nasik and showed me the papers. After going through the judgement and finding

hardly any hope of success on appeal, I told Tatya to employ emminent Counsel

from Bombay or prominent lawyers at Ahmadnagar where the appeal had to be

filed. But he told me that Baba's order was to go to me and so I felt I had

neither option nor responsibility on my shoulders. I wrote out an appeal memo,

after studying the papers and took it to the District Magistrate at his

residence. He asked me - without receiving or reading the judgement or appeal

memo what the matter was about and I very briefly recited that it was a

conviction of six appellants for outraging the modesty of a woman based on the

testimony of a number of witnesses, who professed to have seen it and that the

case had now come up in appeal to him. Then he said it looked like a strong

case and asked me what I thought of it. I said that the

case and its number of witnesses were due to faction in the village. "Do you

think so?" he asked and I replied “Think! I am more than sure of it". He

pronounced judgement at once, orally acquitting all the appellants and

immediately took up my appeal memo and wrote on it his judgement mentioning the

facts I relied upon. As soon as this was over he asked me "How is your Sai Baba

of Shirdi? Is He a Moslem or a Hindu? What does He teach you?" I answered

that Sai Baba was neither a Hindu nor a Moslem but above both and that I

could not state what His teachings were - to know which, he must go in person

to Baba at Shirdi. The Magistrate prom­ised to go and in fact tried one

summer day to visit Shirdi but gave up the idea at

Kopergaon, on account of the excessive heat. The prompt oral judgement without

reading or receiv­ing any papers (of course without sending for the records of

the First Court or giving notice to the Police or Public Prose­cutor) followed

up by questions about Sai Baba were clear indications of the power that brought

about the acquittal. What followed would confirm this view. I returned from

Ahmadnagar to Shirdi. There, on that day, the residents were sadly going to

attend the cremation of H.S.Dixit's daughter. But Baba called some of them to

Him at the Masjid and said, "Do not go away, I will show you some Chamatkar,

(i.e., miracle). They did not see any miracle and went away to attend the

funeral. Shortly,

thereafter, I returned from Ahmadnagar with news of the acquittal by the

District Magis­trate in the above fashion. Then they found what the Chamatkar

referred to by Baba was. - to be contdDevotees can read this book from the

Book Sectionof www.Saileelas.org/books/exppart2.htm

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