Chapter 33 :Sri_Sai_Sat_Charitra_Concise(Version)

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Om Sai Ram

Chapter 33:::

Greatness of Udhi

Baba profusely gave udhi to all. Some times, while sitting in front of Dhuni. He used to swing sweetly: “Playful Rama! Playful Rama! Come! Bring udhi sacks-full!” {Ramathe Ram, Ramathe Ram, Aavoji Avoji, Udhiyen ke Goniya, Lavoji, Lavoji}. While spiritually udhi is an indication that everything would end up in ashes, in real life it was conferring the devotees, health, prosperity, riddance from sorrow and worry.

Once a scorpion stung a friend of Narayan Jani. Since there was no udhi of Baba at that time, he applied that ashes from incense stick kept before Baba’s photo and uttered then name of Baba, pain immediately subsided.

Nana Chandodkar once hear on his way to Thane railway station that his friend’s daughter at a far away place was suffering from bubonic plague. He had no udhi of Sai at that time. He immediately picked up the from the dust from the road, uttered the holy name of Baba and applied it on his wife by his side. Later it came to know that at that same instant the plague bulbs on the body of his friend’s daughter subsided.

One day Sai Baba summoned one Ramgir Bua, who was his way to Kandesh, gave him a pocket of Udhi and copy of His famous arathi song by Akthar and told him to give them to Nana Chandodkar at Jamner. Ramgir asked as to how could he go beyond Jalagaon to Jamner as he was haaving just two rupees only. Baba merely said that God would make all arrangements. When a worried Ramgir got down at Jalagon station wondering how to go to Jamner, a trimly dressed peon came shouting, “Who is Ramgir Bua of Shirdi?” and took Ramgir to a superb coach. On the way he gave Ramgir nice Tiffin and told him not to bother abou this caste as he was a Hindu Garwal Kshatria. At dawn at the outskirt of Jamner, Ramgir got down to answer calls of nature. When he returned he found the coach, horses and the coach-driver vanished without a trace. By inquiring around he came to Nana’s home and gave the Udhi etc. given by Baba. At that moment Nana’s daughter in labout was in a critical condition. When the

udhi was given to her and Arathi was sung, there was a safe delivery. WhenRamgir thanked Nana for a coach and food, Nana stood ahast, because neither he knew of Ramgir’s visit nor he had sent any one of the station.

Narayan Rao fell sick after Baba’s mahasamadhi. In his dream Baba came out of a cellar and assured him that gradually he would improve and would be cured completely in a week’s time. It happened so.

In 1917 Appa Saheb Kulkarni started worshiping Baba’s picture. Worshipping Baba’s picture is as good as having His physical darshan. When a saint named Bala bua Sudhar came to Shirdi in 1917, Baba told that He knew that person for the last four years. Sudhar remembered prostrating before Baba’s portrait in Bombay four years.

Once when Kulkarni was not in town a fakir resembling Baba came to his house and his family gave that fakir one rupee. Kulkarni, who had to return back from Bhindwandi canceling his journey as his horse fell ill, remarked that the fakir should have been Sai and had he been there he would have given him ten rupees. Though he was hungry he searched for the fakir though out the town in vain. Later when he took his lunch and came out in the street the fakir himself came in front (chapter 32 – one should not search God with hunger). The fakir repeatedly insisted on dakshina and took rupees ten (excluding the one rupee received already from the family) from Kulkarni and left.

In 1917 one Hari Bhav karnik gave one rupee as dakshina to Baba in the masjid and when he climbed again the steps to give one more rupee to Baba, Shama gestured him to leave. When on his way to Bombay Karnik went to Kala Rama temple at Nasik, Narsingh Maharaj, a saint who resided in that temple, suddenly sprang up, caught hold of the wrist of Karnik and said “Give me my one rupee”. Thus we know that Baba is the indweller of all and all saints are one.

Those who are fortunate to get the udhi of Baba should, after bath, apply it on the forehead and eat a little in a tumbler of water.

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

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