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SHRI SAI BABA AND THEORY OF REBIRTHS -2

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In Ch. 31, some Derveshis (strolling mendicants among Mohammedans

maintaining themselves by exhibiting bears, monkeys etc.) brought before

Baba a tiger suffering from some pain or agony on approaching Baba the tiger

breathed his last and the Darveshis were filled with dejection and sorrow at

the loss of their only means of maintenance. Thereupon, while consoling them

we find Baba referring to the theory of re-birth :

 

"The tiger was your debtor from previous birth. He paid off the debts by

serving you in this life and when his debt was paid off, he was free and met

the death and My feet."

 

In Ch. 27, one noon Dadasaheb Khaparde's wife brought a dish containing

sanza (wheat pudding), purees, rice, soup and kheer (sweet rice) and other

sundry articles to the Masjid. Baba, who usually waited for hours, got up at

once, went up to His dining seat and removing the outer covering from the

dish, began to partake of the things zealously. Shama then asked Him,

''Why this partiality? You throw away dishes of others and do not care to

look at them, but this You draw to You earnestly and do justicc to it

thoroughly. Is the dish of this woman so sweet?"

Baba then replied,

 

"This food is really extraordinary. In former birth, this lady was a

merchant's fat cow yielding much milk. Then she disappeared and took birth

in a gardener's family, then in a kshatriya family and married a merchant.

Then she was born in a Brahmin's family. I saw her after a very long time,

let Me take some sweet morsels of love from her dish." (P. 148)

 

Thus, Baba by narrating the lady's tale of many previous births, probably,

explained to His devotees, how a soul can progressively rise from an animal

form to a human form and then to a Brahmin birth on account of virtuous

deeds.

 

Sai Baba was omniscient, i.e., before Him the past, present and future were

open to view. Hence,

once, by giving the details of previous births and foretelling the places of

future births of a boy called 'Babu', He convinced everybody, that a soul is

born again and again. This story is narrated in H. H. Narasimhaswamiji's

'Devotees' Experiences of Shri Sai Baba', P. 114, in the statement of Rao

Bahadur H. V. Sathe :

 

Lt. Col. M.B. Nimbalkar (Retd.)

PUNE411 001.

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