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

April 8, 2006

and the villagers leagued together and used Nana Wali to molest me and drive me

away from Shirdi. Once as I was carrying the mace before Baba, Nana Wali came

up and scratched the back of my head with the sharp point of broken glass. In

self-defence, I had to seize him and press him down on a pile of logs tying on

the roadside. Sai Baba cried out "Saheb, do not do so". I noticed how the wind

was blowing at Shirdi and kept careful watch. One day, as I intended to go to

the Mosque to offer Naivedya to Baba very early (as I had to proceed on a

particular trip) my Father-in-law rushed in and adjured me to desist from going

to the Mosque, as Nana Wali was standing at the entrance, hatched in hand, with

deadly intention, and as he would make short work of me. So without taking any

leave, I went away and left Shirdi for good. Evidently Sai Baba did not want me

to reside there at Shirdi any longer. As Sai Baba did not protect me from the

attack of Nana Wali, some people

called upon me to give up my faith in Baba. But I pointed out that the same

argument could be used against Vittal of Pandharpur Gangadhar Shastri, the

lawyer of Gaekwad, was a Vittal Bhakta and sought help and refuge in the Temple

of Vithal. But there right in the Temple itself, before the face of Vittal he

was murdered by his enemy. I find that leaving Shirdi and settling here at

Poona ultimately have been for my good. Sai Baba is protecting me here as He

did at Shirdi.

TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;

mso-layout-grid-align: none">Once about 1916 or so, in pitching a tent for me,

at Kothrud (a suburb of Poona) certain Mangs (untouchables) went and put it up

under a sacred Audumbar tree, touching it and tying ropes to it. I did not know

it then. Finding that I was having mishaps thereafter I enquired into the cause

and learnt of that regrettable incident. I prayed to Sai Baba to help me and He

advised me in a dream to get a Brahmin first to perform the purification

ceremony of that tree and next to instal Datta Paduka there. I have done both

and I am maintaining a Pujari and conducting Pooja through him of the Paduka

(at Kothrud) twice every day.

0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> To Be contd

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