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

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kindness". Then she re­moved the brick and began pressing Baba's sides with her

hands with great violence. I could not endure the sight, and I told her to be

more gentle as Baba would suffer. Baba at once ordered me to get away. I did.

That night, about 8 PM, I went to the Masjid and asked Baba to give me some

Anagraha. "What Japa shall I make?" I asked. Baba replied, "Go to Devpur (a

village 20 miles oif Kopergaon) and begin worshipping the stones there

which your ancestors worshipped." Later on, I returned to Dahanu and asked my

father what Baba's words might im­port. Then my father gave me an account of

our ancestral worship of images at Devpur. Baba Prayag, my ancestor, had no

issue till he was 60 years old. He learnt that issue was often obtained by

others by the grace of a saint then living, named Baba Bhagavat (who was a

disciple of Eknath Maharaj) and that B.Bhagavat could be seen at Trimbak on

those rare occasions when he would go to see the ;Nivritti Nath Shrine there.

B.P, went there and obtained his grace and blessings for issue with a coconut.

Thereafter, le., at

the age of 61, B.P. got a son, whom he named Krishna Rao. Baba Bhagawat took

that child, when it was but one year old to Devpur and gave it a handwritten

copy of Jnaneswari. (This identical copy is now produced. Note, Just as it is

produced, some music is heard passing in the street). Whenever this copy is

taken out some auspicious signs are always found attending. From that time

forward, every member of our family in his generation takes Upadesh from a

member of that Guru's line. This fact, it is, that made Sai Baba give me the

above answer. (At that time I did not know all these facts. But my father to

whom I com­municated the answer of Baba narrated these facts to me). In 1916,

by

Baba's grace, I was saved from a watery grave. There was Plague at Dahanu and I

had, daily to cross a creek between my house and my office. One day I returned

from the office very late and there was no ferry boat. I then took a Ton!

(Tamil Thoni" or Canoe) with a boy to paddle, and it got upset in the middle of

the creek, I had swerved just a bit but that was enough to make the little canoe

capsize. From the time it capsized I had my Dhyana of Sai Baba. The boy who was

rowing or paddling the canoe was a good swim­mer and a resourceful lad. He

asked me to hold on to a rope that was above water connecting a buoy with a

ship which was at a little distance from us. I caught it and with its help kept

my head above water. The body hallooed to the ship and the shipmen sent us a

boat and saved us. -- to be contdDevotees can read this book from the

Book Section ofwww.Saileelas.org/books/exppart2.htm

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