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

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Baba. He told me and other devotees "Baba is a mad man. Why do you all

lionise him?" I, however, persuaded V.M. to go with me to see Baba at Shirdi.

When we saw Baba. he was washing pots and placing them on the floor, mouth down

and bottom upside. V.M. asked Baba, "What is all this?" Baba said "Every pot

coming to me comes with mouth downwards" i.e., not to receive what could be put

into them but in an unreceptive fashion like pots with their mouths downwards.

There was at about 1898 or 1899 a notorious dacoit named Kana Bhil who was

robbing British and Native States, in parts of

Ahmednagar and Bid districts. For three years the police were on his track,

but could not catch him. I was only a havildar (Co) at the time. But I and

three others were put on special detective duty and directed to watch and

report his movements. K.Bhil was so cunning and desperate and his C.I.D was

so perfect that he spotted the three men and killed them one after another. I

had done little work and my Inspector reported that I was useless and I had to

put forward strenuous efforts. All that time I was passing for a Ramadasi and

doing Kirtans in the Ram Temple at Loni Varni, the headman (Patil) of, which was

a friend and receiving visits from K.Bhil. KBhil found out all

about me, my name, number (727) station, etc., and came one day to shoot me.

I went and bowed to Sri Ram and prayed for life. The dacoit left the place with

a warning to me that I was watched. I was really watched by his men and I

could not leave the place. Again I got information from the village boys as

to the programme and movements of K.Bhil and communicated it to the police.

The police came and put a cordon round the hill in which K.Bhil was hiding but

he escaped after a severe battle with guns etc. in which a num­ber of police

were shot down. I got a certificate of heart disease and escaped further

detective duty. Then Rale, Mamlatdar, tried the villages of Loni Varni for

harbouring a dacoit. I gave

evidence in favour of the Patil that he helped me with information and he was

acquitted. To Be contd ---DEVOTEES CAN READ THIS BOOK FROM THE BOOK SECTION

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