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

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Sai Baba. C: Your Guru's name? B: Venkusa. C: Creed or Religion? B: Kabir.

C: Caste or race? B: Parvardigar (Le. God)

mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">C: Age, please? B: Lakhs of years. C: Will you

solemnly affirm that what you are going to say is the truth. B: Truth. C: Do

you know the accused so and so? B:

yes"> Yes, I know him and I know every one. C: The man says he is your

devotee and that he lived with you. Is that so? B: Yes, I live with every one.

All are mine.

TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none">C: Did you give him Jewels

as alleged by him? B: Yes I gave him. Who gives what to whom? C: If you

gave him the jewels, how did you get them and become possessed of them?. B:

Everything is mine. C: Baba, here is a serious charge of theft. That man says

that you delivered the jew­els to him. B : What is all this? What the devil

I have to do with all that? The commissioner was floored by such answers. He

did not know what to take down. Baba was mostly in a mood to say yes to every

question. Then it was suggested that the best course would be to sent for the

village diary. The arrival of every stranger and the dates of His stay in the

village are duly noted in it. If the accused who was of course a stranger to

the village was not there at or about the time of his alleged receipt from

Baba, that might be taken down. The diaries were sent for and they showed that

no such person like the accused was at Shirdi at the time in question. Of

course, it was well known that Baba never left Shirdi or its neighbor­hood.

Then the Commissioner put it to Baba, that

no such person was in the village of Shirdi and with Baba at Shirdi at the time

in question and that Baba gave him no jewels and Baba said that was so and this

was Baba's final statement. The examination was then over. Baba was not asked to

sign or put His mark. The commission's evidence was sent to Dhulia. The accused

was convicted and sentence to imprisonment. Baba's age is a thing one cannot

fix. Nor can His race and parentage be easily fixed. Forty years back I saw an

old lady

Salubai Shelke of Shirdi then aged 65 or 70. She told me that when she was

married and that was in her 8th or tenth year, Baba came to Shirdi looking as

He looked when we saw Him (1895) i.e., 40 or 50 years old. Another old lady Sai

Bai said ‘Baba came to Shirdi as' a lad". This seems to make Baba's age over 100

at His Mahasamadhi. Who dare ask Baba about His age ad antecedents? So nothing

definite is known. Baba however Himself spoke about His earlier years

occasionally. About, His Guru, Baba has several times said that Venkusa" found

in Bahktalilamrita Ch 31) was His Guru and that by the grace of Venkusa' Baba

had

at­tained to his position. Most things about Him were mysteri­ous. Some of His

miracles etc. were witnessed by me and some mentioned to me by others. Baba's

converting water into oil and burning His lamps for a whole night with water

alone was reported to me by numerous villagers who had seen it. Premchand

Marwadi was one of those who refused to supply Him that day with oil. I myself

saw Baba sleeping on a plank suspended from the ceiling by a few slender shreds

of torn cloth. The wonder was how He got up that plank sus­pended so high i.e.,

7 or 8 feet above of the floor and 1 or 1 I/ 2 cubits below the roof. Four

lamps were on it. People watched to see how He got up or climbed down but could

never discover either or how it supported Him.

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