FW: FW: SHIRDI DIARY' DADASAHEB KHAPARDE

March 1, 2007

SAI RAM Sister , I have been reading your mails on SHRIDI DAIRY. It is really great and i get lots of messages and answers to all my questions. I need a book by the name SHRI SAI SATCHARITA . ITS ALL ABOUT WOUNDERFUL TEACHINGS OF SAI. Please let me know where i can get a copyof this book.Please help me find this book. THANK YOU. LOVE Shelvi. Leeladhar <leedhar wrote: Third visit in December 1915: Dadasaheb

Khaparde went to Thane to meet hisfriend Baba Gupte and from there reached Shirdi via Manmad on 29th December.Mrs.Khaparde and other members of his family had also arrived directly inShirdi. Dadasaheb obtained permission on 31.12.1915 to return to Amraoti. Sohe left but Mrs. Khaparde and others remained behind. Khaparde was veryhappy to have visited Shirdi as will be seen from some excerpts reproducedin the biography in Marathi which are rendered here into English,Entry of 29th December: "I went to Shirdi from Kopargaon by tonga andreached there at 9 a.m. There were many dangers on the way. My wife and thechildren were already in Shirdi. I went to the Musjid and saluted SayinBaba. His health has greatly deteriorated. I held the Morchel during thepuja. The day passes off here easily, Gopalrao alias Bapusaheb Buti is here.Kakasaheb Dixit, Balasaheb Bhate and all other old friends too are here. Iam extremely

happy."Entry of 30 December: "Today I performed puja and offered Naivedya. About100 persons were present for the prasad. The meal was excellent and was oversomewhat late around 4 p.m. The construction work of Buti's wada isprogressing well. There was chavdi procession to-day and I stood with theMorchel in my hand."Entry of 31st DecemberAfter meals I went with Madhavrao Deshpande and obtained permission todepart without any difficulty. My wife, Manutai, Uma and the children willbe staying back.Fourth visit on 19th May, 1917This brief visit of half a day to Shirdi by Dadasaheb in the company ofLokamanya Tilak was designed with a view to taking Lokamanya to Sayin Babaand obtain his blessings, for his own leader. The account which appeared inShri Sai Leela is nearly complete.Fifth visit in March 1918No dates of this unscheduled visit of Dadasaheb to Shirdi are indicated inthe biography in

Marathi. However, this visit of an unspecified number ofdays was with a purpose. Dadasaheb was to proceed to England with theCongress deputation for pressing the demand for Home Rule and had come toDelhi in this connection. Before leaving Delhi, he called on Sir SankaranNair, who had presided over the annual session of the Congress held atAmraoti in 1897 when Dadasaheb Khaparde was the Chairman of the Receptioncommittee. In or about 1918 Sir Sankaran Nair had joined the ExecutiveCouncil of the Viceroy of India and he had some doubts about the prudence ofthe step he had taken. So he requested Khaparde to seek the opinion andguidance of SayinMaharaj about his own action as will be seen from thefollowing undated excerpt given in the biography."Saw Shankaran Nair.He was very glad to see me and sat talking for a longtime. He asked me to put the following questions to Sayin Maharaj of Shirdion his behalf. Whether it would

be well for him to continue in service.Whether he is going spiritually wrong. If so,would Sayin Maharaj put himright. I promised to put the questions and write to him what Sayin Maharajsays."The biographer of Dadasaheb Khaparde adds that Dadasaheb returned toAmraoti, via Shirdi after Sayin Baba's darshan and blessings. The biographerfurther comments that there is no mention in the diary of what transpired inthe talk with Sayin Baba about Sir Sankaran Nair's* queries. Possibly ii wasdecided to maintain secrecy about this and Dadsaheb must have honoured thecommit-meni. This is an example of a deliberate omission of secrets from thediary. Now that the original diaries of Dadasaheb Khaparde are with theNational Archives, any further research into these diaries must await asearch and inspection of these diaries.Mr. K.P.S. Menon. I.C.S. the son-in-low of Sir Sankaran Nair in thebiography of his father-in-law

published by Publications Division ofGovernment of India in November 1967 states that Sir Sankaran was appointedMember of the Viceroy's Executive Council in the middle of 1915 (p. 55) bmresigned in protest againsfthe massacre of Jallianwala Baug in 1919 (pp.104-105). Sir Sankaran was a confirmed believer in Yoga (p. 133) and hismind turned more and more to religion (p. 137). He passed away on22-4-1934-after a car accident in which he sustained a head injury (p. 138).(Source Shirdi Diary)http://www.saileelas.org/books/dairy.htm

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