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

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TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none">On one occassion Baba, who was

ever watchful over his childrens’ actions in sight or out of sight, saved me

from plunging headlong into passion and headstrong cruelty. The facts are

these. My father-in-law wanted me to buy some 20 acres of agricultural land at

or near Shirdi and I sent him 1200 Rupees and the land was purchased. One day

when I was there, I desired to go and see the land. My father-in-law would not

accompany me and was placing obstacles in the way of my visiting the land. His

reason was that his brother's son (Babu) had left a widow, who was living with

him and she would come to know of the land and claim a share therein. I

however insisted that we should go and ordered Tatya Patel's cart to be brought

up and wanted my wife to go with me. She had first consented to go but finally

under Instructions from her father, she declined to accompany me. I was wroth.

I seized the whip from the cartman and was intending to chas­tise her for her

disobedience to my orders. Lo! suddenly; Megha rushed into my Wada and said

that Baba wanted me urgently to proceed at once to the Mosque to see him. I

went up. Baba asked me "What is the matter? What is it that has happened?

I saw that he knew everything and felt ashamed of myself. Then Baba added

evidently to explain and justify the conduct and attitude of

my wife and father-in-law. “Tour land is there. Where is the necessity to go and

see it?" How watchful He was over my conduct and welfare ! Another instance of

His watchfulness over my con­science and morals was this. I was once proposing

to visit for the first time the residence of a female devotee of Baba out of

mere curiosity. Just before the visit, Baba asked me if I had gone to such and

a place. I did not understand the names of places and missed the point of His

question. Baba then dropped the subject. I then went to her lodgings and

was engaged in some conversation. Very soon evil thoughts be­gan to invade my

brain. Suddenly Baba appeared in front of that house and pushed open the door

which had been

closed but not bolted. He made some ironical signs to me to convey the idea,

"What an excellent thing you are now launching into!" and disappeared. His

timely interference before any evil was definitely lodged in my mind or could

take shape in action saved the situation. Consciences asserted itself;

ten­dencies to evil were definitely checked and I retreated from the place at

once and never visited it again. Some time thereafter I learnt that the place I

visited was locally known by the very name mentioned by Baba in His question

that day. Baba's help to me came in family

affairs, official mat­ters, dealings with Saints, other spiritual matters etc.

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