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

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poor girl offered her hand in marriage to me. I referred him to my mother. She

saw the girl and found it was the very girl she had seen in the above mentioned

dream. This settled the question and the latter girl was married to me in 1922,

and several children were born of this marriage and with Baba's blessings are

getting on well. "Baba's blessings" is no empty formal phrase. I will cite

several instances to show how He has guarded them and saved their lives as He

has saved mine (at least twice, as already mentioned by me). In 1926, my son,

Sainath alias Hareswar,

was eight or nine months old. Kaluram had crackers and Bengal matches. One of my

children threw away a lighted match. It fell on Sainath and his clothes caught

fire. He wore a cloth beneath his waist and a frock next to the skin. Both

these caught fire. The children did not realise the seriousness of the

situation and raised no alarm. My wife was outside the house engaged with

something. Suddenly a Fakir appeared before her and pointing his arm and

finger towards the terrace on which the children were playing, said "See what

is going on there." My wife at once went inside and noticed the fire on the

child's clothes. With great

presence of mind and resourcefulness, she ran to the child, seized the clothes

and rolled them be­tween her palms and thus boldly extinguished the fire. The

front half of the frock from bottom to the neck was burnt out and part of the

nether cloth also. But the child (Sainath) came off entirely scatheless.

Though the frock worn next to the .skin was burnt out. his skin had not been

burnt, nor was his nether nor was his nether portion burnt. This complete

safety was evidently due to the same cause as the sudden appearance of the

Fakir. The Fakir had also suddenly disap­peared. When she came out after

extinguishing the fire, there was no trace of the Fakir. Who could the Fakir

be, how had he known the fire accident the

very moment it happened and why should he -be at the trouble to watch over the

children and fetch their mother to save them at the nick of time? In 1928,

Sainath, then two years old, had an accident. As usual he was running about;

and one day he fell down the stairs. There was a heap of the debris at the

bottom, I ran up and was surprised to see him standing without any injury at

all. He told me "Do not fear. Baba bore me up." -- to be contdDevotees

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