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

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about fifty, though I was no doubt anxious to have son to continue my line. But

what guarantee or probability was there of one getting a son so late in life?

So I told my importunate friends that I would wed if and only if a great Saint

should so advise me. On or about April 1904 I went with Mr. Brave to see Sai

Baba at the Mosque. Then after a short time, I took leave of Baba and had got

down the steps of the Mosque. The Mr. Brave told Baba "Saheb (that is how Baba

called me or referred to me always) has no son". Then Baba replied:- If he

marries then God will give him a son". I heard these words myself and Brave and

other began to press me again to marry. But the question of the choice of a

bride would take time. I went back to Ahmednagar which was then my

head­quarters. About the end of that year, I learnt that an able astrologer had

arrived at Poona. I consulted that man and found that his reading of the facts

about my past and my daughter's past were really correct. He said that my

horo­scope showed that I was to have male progeny after my fifti­eth year. That

further

strengthened my idea of marrying. In a few months, I was transferred to

Ahmedabad. When I was there. Dada Kelkar (i.e.,Ganesh Damodar Kelkar) wrote to

me that he had a daughter of marriageable age and wanted to know if a

bridegroom could be found there. As none could be found there, perhaps the

writer of the letter might have sent it as a feeler to sound my views and see

if I would offer myself as the bridegroom. I thought that the letter might be

prompted by Sai Baba's unseen influence and I wrote to O.K. that no bridegroom

could be found or expected at that distant place and that if he meant the offer

to be for myself he should consider my

age, my prospects etc. He wrote that he had considered the pros and cons and

would be glad to have me for his son-in-law. Then I wrote to him that in that

case, he should take the girl with him from his village and go to Shirdi and

request Baba to say if he approved of the match as unless Baba approved of the

choice, I would not marry her. D.K. was then hostile to Baba in his views and

suggested other alternatives viz: consulting a Brahmin Saint at Wye (who was

his brother-in-law); he was afraid that Baba might not approve of the proposal

of my marriage with his daughter and it would have to be dropped. But I

insisted that he should go and find if Baba approved. So, after all d:k. had to

go to Shiridi with his girl and await with Madhav Rao's aid, Baba's orders. When

D.K. went to Baba, Baba at once told him "Send the girl to Ahmedabad" i.e., to

me. Baba's ap­proval was communicated to me and then I married D.K's

daughter in 1905 i.e. in my fiftieth year. I have a son and some daughters by

that marriage. To Be contd ---DEVOTEES CAN READ THIS BOOK FROM THE BOOK

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