Chapter 26 :Sri_Sai_Sat_Charitra_Concise(Version)

[Guest guest]

Om Shree Ganeshaya Namah

Om Sai Ram

Chapter 26:::

Pant, Pitale, Ambedkar

“We should wash the Lotus Feet of Baba with our tears of joy, apply Love the sandal paste, dress Him with truth and faith, offer eight-folded thoughts as eight lotus flowers, submit the fruit of single-minded attention, smear Him with aromatic powder of devotion and adorn His head with the cloth of affection”- so writes Hemad Panth.

v When Mr. Pant from Bombay came to Shirdi and prostrated before Baba, he fainted. He was raised by Baba’s udhi. Baba told him to stick firmly to his Guru at any cost.

v Harichandra Pitale came with his wife and son for darshan. The boy had fits in the presence of Baba and the mother loudly wailed citing allegories like ‘temple falling on the devotee’, ‘a cow escaping from tiger only to fell in to hands of a butcher’ etc. Baba assured her that the boy would be well soon and it was proved so. Before their depature, Baba gave Pitale three rupees and told him to worship them. He also said that He had earlier given him two rupees. On coming back home, Pitale was wondering when Baba could have given him two rupees. His aged mother recalled that when Pital’s father took him as a little boy to Akalkote Maharaj (a famous saint), the saint gave him two rupees and those two rupees, which were worshipped were later lost. Pitale was stunned at the omniscience of Baba.

v Having been buffeted by innumerable problems, Ambedkar, a devotee from Pune came to Shirdi. When he sat on the edge of a well with the intention to commit suicide, suddenly from the nearby hotel Mr. Sagun came to him with a biography on Akalkote Maharaj and asked him to read it. When Ambedkar opened the book at random, a leela of the saint was found to indicate that once a devotee of Maharaj unable to bear his physical aliment jumped into a well, but instantly Maharaj Himself appeared there, pulled him out and advised that results of past deed sould be atoned and suicide would not provide relief. Ambedkar was moved by Sai’s silent grace in saving him from suicide. Later he became a successful astrologer and amassed good wealth.

By A. Govindakrishnan

 

 

"Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu

 

Gurur Devoh Maheshwar;

 

Gurur Shakshat Parambramha

 

Tashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah"

 

May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and happiness with peace of mind.

Sai bhakt,

Deepa H

debu7366