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

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One night I was tired and tried to sleep, holding my palms in front of me to

rest my drowsy head. Then Baba said "Are you trying to see the moon?" That

night I fell asleep and fell upon Baba and His gadi in that sleeping

condition. Baba gently stroked my feet and I awoke. Next day, strange to

say, when I took water in my palms and looked, there was a big moon in that

water. It was 2 p.m. This was what Baba had spoken of. I used to look after

the Lendi place and its light te the ever burning light maintained by Baba

there. It was in those days placed in a hollow in the earth scooped out to

the depth of about 2 feet and protected with a cover to save the light from

being blown out. There was a pandal. A zinc sheet was the top of the

pandal. Some 20 curtains of cloth were tied all round, to form something

like a tent. I remained in it and looked after the lamp in the centre of it.

That light has been shifted from its place now very slightly, and is put in

a raised pillar of bricks and mortar containing an enclosed chamber for the

lamp. When Baba sat near to lendi He would sit close to the light. I filled

two buckets with water and placed them near him. This waste He would scatter

alround that lamp. He would get up from the lendi and walk a few yards in

each direction and go on gazing at the direction.

My service to Sai Baba was service to Him and to all. I washed Baba's cloths

in the streamlet (odai) flowing at the village boundary. I swept the mosque,

the chavadi and surrounding places and lit the lamp in these places and fed

them and the lendi lamp with oil. I not merely swept the village streets but

also removed the night soil. Baba called me Hal-alkoorf-Scavenger) and "my

miriambi". I fetched water and did sundry services. Ayi during the early

years of her stay did part of the street sweeping work. Even then, my work

supplemented hers. Baba protected me and protects me by giving me the needed

food and ensuring my safety and progress.

About 1927 i.e., after Ayi and Baba passed away. I was in Ayi's sala,

reciting Quran. The three walls of that dilapidated mud building suddenly

collapsed and I was buried waist deep in the debris. But Baba saved rne from

any hurt. Baba has given me his blessings and kept me with him. First my

Guru himself directed me to be with and serve Baba, and I did so. But later

my Guru came to Shirdi and wanted me to go away with him. I replied that I

could do so, if Baba so ordered. But no such order having been issued I

stayed on with Baba and my former Guru went way from Shirdi. Baba's

blessings to me were strange and sometimes concealed in abuse and violence.

He has beaten me and Jog many times. He said to me.

 

Like this, He uttered blessings and prophecies, seated before me in the

morning at the chavadi and then started for the mosque.

Baba was constantly saying many things about Avatars etc. These have been

written down in this note book.

(Here Abdul takes out and shows an old book parts of which are written in

Devanagari character, parts in Modi and parts in Urdu. He does not wish to

say who wrote out these pages. His own knowledge of these scripts, according

to some of his fellow-devotees is too poor to enable him to write these

well. But he went on, at the request of this writer to read our Baba's

utterances from the book).

on behalf of Smt.Srivalli Garu

 

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