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

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Devotees Experiences – SANTARAM BALWANT NACHNE DAHANUKAR,

 

In 1935, i.Le., last year, milk was being boiled on my stove. Anand,

my two-year-old child, came running up, stumbled over a stick and

fell upon the milk and stove. Just fancy what should happen in such a

case. One would expect his skin to be scalded by the boiling milk and

clothes to catch fi Jtre. But here the milk was dashed down on one

side and the stove on the other side; and the child lay between the

two neither scalded, nor catching fire on his clothes. This year,

i.Le., 1936, Vasudev and his younger brother rummaged among

the contents of an almyrah and found a box full of what they thought

to be peppermint lozenges. Vasudev ate some and gave some to his

younger brother. The taste was unpleasent and they did not eat much.

But what little was eaten made Vasu smart. His tongue was protruding.

My wife inserted her finger into his mouth and extracted what she

believed to be chunam, i.e., lime. We were then shown by Vasu the

packet or box of "Sweetmeats" that he had been consuming. It

was "Pharoah's snakes" - the piece of fire works that burn out

forming ashes that lengthen and wind about in the form of snakes.

We then took him to the doctor who administered an emetic, which

did not act. Then I gave Baba's Udhi and Tirtha - which acted at once

and resulted in his vomitting out all the poisonous stuff he has

swaollowed. After all this was over, Vasudev mentioned that he had

given the Peppermint to his two year old younger brother.

Evidently the latter ate but little, as there was no trouble. But to

expel what little he might have swallowed, we administered our

emetic, i.e.,uiz., Udhi and water with Baba's name to him and he had

a good vomit.

A cashier in an office was in trouble last year about Rs.3,500 which

was not accounted for. A friend advised him to go to me and he

came. That cashier disliked Baba, as Baba was a 'Mahomedan' But

when he came to me, I told him that his sole sanctuary was the Sai

Mandir at Shirdi, and that he should go there and make a heartfelt

apology and appeal for help. He went there, got a photo of Baba and

with the help of Sagun Naik placed it at the Samadhi, prayed there

and came back with the photo. Things then began to brighten up. He

was allowed eight days time to pay up the Rs.3,500. He went up, got

money and paid it. The matter was closed. There was neither dismissal

nor prosecution. Similar help was rendered by Baba in another

case, Mr. V.C. Chitnis after his dismissal from service came to me.

I told him to cast his burden on Sai Baba and make an appeal at the

Shirdi Mandir for help. He went to Shirdi and later he was

reinstated in service.

I shall mention what help Baba gave to members of my family, for

Sadgati, i.Le., at or after death.

My parents were devotees of Sai Baba. My mother was aged seventy in

1926 when she died. She kept Sai Baba's photo to the last in front of

her. As the end was nearing, she asked me to read Vishnu Sahasranama

aloud by her side, and I did. Then with "Ram Ram" on her lips, she

passed away.

-- to be contd

 

 

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