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

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Devotees Experiences - W.Pradhan

III

MRS. M.W. PRADHAN'S account of experience is found in 321. (1) All my

children took ill of measles. The doctor despaired of young Babu. All

were hopeless. I prayed to Sri Sai Baba. He appeared and said "Why

weep? The child is alright. Give him at 6 or 6.30 a.m. a good feed."

The child began to play in the morning. The doctor came and saw it

with surprise and said "Give him no food". But the child ate

everything and digested it.

322. (2) One night at 11 p.m. Baba appeared to me as I slept and

said 'Are you sleeping? Get up. Your boy will have convulsions'. I

got up. I looked at the boy. He had no fever or convulsions.

But 'Forewarned is forearmed!' So, I got ready hot-water, fire, eaude

cologne etc. About 2 a.m. the boy woke up and had convulsions- all

our children have convulsions occasionally. I got everything ready.

In half an hour, the fit passed off. Baba saved us from sorrow and

danger by his forewarning. He did so often.

323 (3) Baba appeared in my dream and told me to place turmeric and

saffron on His foot. I worshipped them in the dream. I told N.G.C. of

the dream and he said, take silver padukas to Shirdi, place them

before Baba and get them for worship. So I did, Baba Himself

stretched out both legs and asked me to place each Paduka on each

foot and worship. I did so. He handed them over to me, telling N.G.C:

324. I feared once Baba would shout and get angry at the Masjid. That

day Baba did no such thing and said "See, I did not shout against

anyone, is it not so?" Once, at pooja at the Mosque, Baba knew of my

baby crying in our wada, and In the middle of the pooja sent me away

saying "Go home". I went and pacified the child and returned. "Now";

said Baba "do your pooja".

Once the doctor said that typhoid convalescent baby should not be

taken to Shirdi. But we did take him. He was ill in the train. I

feared that people would laugh at me for my madness. The child had to

lie down and could not even sit up. As soon as we went to Baba, the

child stood up before Baba: and Baba said, 'People will not laugh

now' He knew of course our thoughts in the train.

328. On 16-10-1918, i.e., the night after Baba's departure, I saw His

body in a dying condition in my dream and said 'Baba is dying'. Baba

replied 'People do not talk of saints as dying, but as taking

Samadhi.' His body was still. People were mourning. Such was the

dream I felt sad. I woke at 12.30 midnight. In the morning we got

from Anna Chinch-inikar a card that Baba passed away at 3 p.m. on

Dusserah 15-10-1918.

329. On the 19th night I dreamed that Baba came and gave me 3 rupees,

and that I felt distressed, as dream receipts of rupees are not

auspicious. Baba said "Receive. Receive it and give me all the money

you have stored up in your box". I woke up and sent up all that money

for the ceremonies. The same night, Baba appeared in my sister-in-

law's dream and asked her to send a yellow 'Pitambar' to be placed on

the Samadhi. That also was done.

S.L.M. III (4) 353;-I was in an advanced stage of pregnancy at Santa

cruz. A mid-wife and nurse attended on me. Four days of difficult

labour made the nurse despair of my case and she went and told my

sister that Mr. Pradhan must send for a doctor at once. But my sister

began at once to pray before Baba's portrait with the nurse by her

side. As she prayed, the child was delivered at once without anyone's

help. I wondered and the nurse wondered how great were Baba's power

and mercy.

UI (5) 381-384 Pradhan's account of experiences about the change in

Telungi Sastri.

We had a Telungi Sastri, Madhav Bhatji of advanced age, a Karmata,

worshipping Sankara night and day with 'Rudrabisheka* etc..' In 1912

or so, our child Babu was one year old and got ill. Bhatji thought it

might be due to worshipping a Mussalman at home and thus rousing the

ire of Shiva. One night Babu was very ill and we wanted to rouse up

the Bhatji. But just then he himself came up and sat before Baba's

picture and he prayed "If the dream or vision I got be true, let the

child's temperature go down In 5 minutes and let him pay from

tomorrow and let the doctor declare that he is alright; then I will

agree that you are a Siddha, I will bow down and in 15 days go to

Shirdi and pay Rs. 108 Dakshina." His dream, he said was this "A

Moslem clad as in Baba's picture, with Sota (i.e.,a small club) in

hand, came near my cot and roused me and then went up the steps of

the storey saying What do you know? This house is mine. This child I

have given. You think you make the child Improve. The boy mine and

so at once. I will show it to you. He went up, I woke up and so at

once came up and prayed. If he cures Babu at once, I will take

Baba for a Shiddha Purusha and worship Him." In one hour Babu's

fever stopped and he became active. His coughing etc, also

ceased. So the Brahmin fell prostrated before Baba and later went

to Shirdi. Then Baba looking at him said. `This man calls me dog, cat

and Moslem.' At once Bhatji recognised His Antarsakshitwa and bowed

at His feet. Baba said to Shama, 'How often does this Bhat worship me

everyday! Then Bhat prayed (1) that he should be blessed with a son

and that he would pay Rs. 108 (2) that if his master should attain

his ambition he would pay ten times more. When he went in the

afternoon Baba asked him dakshina. Shama said he had paid it In the

morning. Baba said " He gave me very little in the morning. He Is

to give ample dakshina.* Bhatji said that Baba knew his inmost

thoughts. In one year Bhat got a son and he paid Rs. 108 to Baba.

Then he put up Baba's picture for worship in Datta temple, which his

brother constructed in his own village.

 

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