SMT. PARVATIBAI SAPATNEKAR

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SMT. PARVATIBAI SAPATNEKAR

 

      Wednesday the 13th September 1983 was a lucky day in my life. Some months

back I had learnt that somebody from the Sapatnekar Family from Akkalkot

mentioned in Chapter 48 of Shri Sai Satcharita was staying at Shivaji Nagar

in Pune and I had thought of looking them up. I did not have the exact

address. So I looked up the telephone directory and hit upon Shri D.M.

Sapatnekar 25/1, Shivaji Nagar, Pune-5 (55485). The initial 'D' I thought

might stand for 'Dinkar' — the name of one of the sons mentioned in Ch. 48.

 

      I rang up and Shri D.M. Sapatnekar himself came on the line. I told him

that I was a devotee of Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi and was keen to meet the

family — having read about them in Shri Sai Satcharita. Shri Sapatnekar was

highly pleased and invited me to visit them with pleasure. To my surprise,

he added that he himself was 'Dinkar' mentioned in the book and that his

elder brother 'Murlidhar', who was born on account of Shri Sai Baba's

blessing, was also staying in Pune. Before I could disconnect he gave me

another pleasant shock. He told me that his mother Shrimati Parvatibai (aged

88 yrs.) who had personally met Shri Sai Baba and got His blessings, was

also staying with him — not very well and confined to bed only.

 

      I was overjoyed and went to them on the same day at 5.30 P.M. Shri Dinker

Sapatnekar is a retired judge from Maharashtra State Service. He is about 68

years old and hardly moves out having had an attack of paralysis on his left

leg. Immediately he took me to his mother's room. The old lady was sitting

on the bed. It suddenly flashed to my mind that this was the most lucky and

blessed lady to whom Baba appeared in a dream, whose pain in abdomen and

waist Baba cured on His own and whose barren womb Baba blessed with a son as

per her wishes. I felt very happy to be in front of such a pure and noble

person and my head bent down in reverence and my hands stretched to touch

her feet. After preliminary querries about my family, she narrated to me in

detail her experiences with Baba. Even at that ripe age and frail condition

of her body, when she started the description in her clear and sonorous

voice with extreme enthousiasm and gesticulations of hand, I was stunned to

see a pleasant shine of devotion and joy on her fair face. I started

listening in rapt attention.

 

(to be contd....)

Lt  Col. M. B. Nimbalkar (Retd)

Pune

 

Sri Satchidananda Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki Jai !!!

 

Baba Bless us all