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 – Shri

Rao Bahadur S.B.Dhumal I was holding the office of Revenue Member of the

Dewar State from 1-9-1930 to 9-4-1932 and I was the Karbhari of the

Surgana State from end of 1932 to August 1933. Each time I returned to Nasik,

I resumed my practice and got 011 as well as I did before, without having to

wait idly even for a

day. Baba's kind help on the financial side was manifested in a peculiar

incident while I was in the latter State. One day I was seated at my meal and

the Chief of the that State walked into my room. I apologized for my inability

to leave the table and accord him a proper reception or even to offer him a

fitting chair or seat. But he quickly walked into the next room, gazed a while

at the portrait of Sai Baba that was hanging on the wall and returned to my

dining room. He at once announced to me that from that time, I should have an

increase of Rs.50 in my salary. I had never asked for this increase. This

grant of an increase in salary within a

fortnight of my appointment and without any motion on my part can only be

explained by having been with Baba in my Pooja room. I had not asked for the

increase. Baba evidently had, the child's welfare is the mother's

care. As for my pooja, I may mention that I had first the

photos of Baba and later the coloured or painted portraits of Baba for worship.

I carried these pictures whenever I went. When I was tossing between Dewar and

Nasik several times, first my cook at Dewar and later my nephew at Nasik wanted

them or some of them to be left behind. Each time I cast lots before Baba, to

ascertain his wish and each time came the answer that I should carry them with

me. The middle portrait which I constrained Radhakrishna Ayi to part with I

specially like. In it, Baba is standing in a pensive or meditative mood. It

reminds me of that important occasion when he made the disclosure "Bhav, I had

no sleep all night due to thinking and thinking of you", I was passing by the

side of the Masjid with that picture in my hands from Ayi's residence. Baba

called me and I went

into the Masjid. Pointing to the portrait, he asked. Baba : What is this?

I : You are here. Baba : Give it to me. I gave it to Him. He kept it a

while, gazed at its front side and back side and returned it to me, saying

"keep it". This is the very thing my heart was desiring, to get Baba's

portrait, touched by Him and given to me for purposes of worship. This now a

personal gift by Baba to me and I regard it with

great veneration. Baba gave me other articles to be kept safe and sacred. On the

first occasion He took Rs.2 from me as a dakshina and returned it saying,

"Preserve this carefully. Do not part with it to any one - nor spend it". With

the same direction, He gave me again Rs.2 on another occasion, Rs.20, Rs. 15

and Rs.30 on other occasions - making a sum of Rs.69 which I preserve very

carefully, not merely as momentos of Baba's loving care for me but as charmed

coins that carry luck with them. Each of these gifts was characteristic of

Baba. When I and G.Buty were present, Baba asked the latter for Rs.20 dakshina

and when he gave it, Baba transferred

it to me. On other occasions He gave me sums totalling Rs.30. On another

occasion He asked for and got Rs.30 from Buty and sharing it between His palms

sud­denly divided it into two parts and held each in one hand. He gave the

contents of one hand to Buti and one to me. We went to our quarters and counted

our sums. To our surprise, we found each got exactly Rs. 15. The true lover

gives and re-ceives Baba's love took moneys from me. I gave them gladly. These

dakshinas are often found to con­vey an allegorical esoteric meaning which the

circumstances or accompanying remarks throw light upon.

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