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

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XIX

2nd December, 1936.

KASIBAI  HANSRAJ widow of Hansraj,  caste Vani,  age about 45, residence

Sakori.

I and my husband went to Shirdi 20 years ago. In Margasira about December,

1916, just after Radhakrishna Ayi died, we went and stayed for about 6

months. My husband had Asthma. Narasinga Baba Maharaj of Nasik had told him

that as an evil spirit was possessing his body, we got no issue and that we

should go to Shirdi Sai Baba who would give him two slaps and exorcize it.

That is why we came to Sai Baba.  Baba gave my husband two slaps saying

"Evil spirit be off."  From that time we lived there.  My husband's Asthma

abated.  It was operating during the day but did not trouble him at night.

Before we came to Shirdi it was troubling day and night.  Baba was coughing

away at night when we lived there.  At the end of our 6 months' stay Asthma

ceased to trouble my husband by day even.  Before I mention that, a

chamatkar on Baba's part in healing him has to be mentioned.  Soon after we

settled here, Baba told my husband that he should be strict about his diet

and avoid curds, and other acid and pungent articles of food.   When it came

to acting on this advice, my husband found it hard to follow it, as these

were what he liked most.   He did not relish his food without curds etc.  He

would sooner give up life than curds, he declared.   So every day for two

months we were trying to prepare curds at home, for in this village curds

are not easily to be had at noon.   We kept milk heated and cooled for

curdling every night and then we would go and attend the Noon-Arati of Baba

at the Mosque.  Everyday almost for two months a cat would steal into our

lodgings in our absence, jump up the sling in which the curd pot was kept

and drink it off.   As our meal had to be after Arathi my husband found that

there were no curds to take.    One day he resolved to catch the thief in

the very act and so stayed away from the Noon Arathi.   The cat came in, my

husband allowed it to get in, to watch how it could possibly reach the curd

pot which was kept so high in a sling.   But it did.   Anyhow the cat had

dipped its mouth into the curd pot and the curds were not fit for use.    He

quickly watched its drinking and when it got down he used his stick severely

on its back, by way of summary punishment for its larceny.    In the

afternoon, people resorted to Baba at the mosque and got udhi from his

hands.  We went there; Jog, Mahav Rao Despande, Kaka Dixit, Buty etc., were

there.   Baba addressing them referred to my husband and said “There is an

‘uptiya’  (i.e., one who does the reverse of what he is asked to do) who

wants to die by eating sour and pungent things.   But I would not allow him

to do that. Today I went to him in the form of a cat.   That fellow has

given me a caning on the back.   See here."  Then Baba exposed His back from

under the Kupni; and there we could see a weal or stripe such as caning

might cause. What a wonder!

Thereafter my husband wanted no more curds to be prepared and no more acids

etc., to take. This accelerated his improvement very probably. Baba was not

for giving him any medicines.  First I gave my husband daily some medicine

for the Asthma.  Baba then said that He also had Asthma and that as I was

giving medicine to my husband he had thousands of women who would give Him

medicine; "But what is the use?" He added "Allah Malik hai' God is the

Lord." So I stopped giving medicines. It is without resort to any medicine

that Baba got my husband's Asthma cured. That cure lasted for a year or so.

Then my husband had again his Asthma. That was in 1918 or 1919 and then he

was cured by Upasani Baba when the latter went to Sion.

 

Sai Baba used to say many things, I remember some. While he was all along

living at Shirdi alone he would suddenly declare "I have been to Kasi and

had a bath and just now I have returned. Why do I want a bath here?" or "I

have been to Kolhapur, or Audumbarwadi and I have just now returned". Jog

told me that Sai Baba gave him darsan of himself as Akkalkote Maharaj at his

(Jog's) request.

 

on behalf of Smt.Srivalli Garu

 

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