Sai Satcharitra - Ovi to Ovi english Translation - Chp- X I

August 18, 2007

46. Some waved the whisks – some fanned – some played shehnai or drums and auspicious musical instruments and some offered puja. 47. Some would lave his hands and feet (to drink the water as tirth) – some annointed him with attar and sandalwood paste – some offered him betelnuts made out of thirteen ingredients2 – some offered mahanaivedya3. 48. Some applied gandh paste, with two fingers, horizontally across the forehead, as it is done for Shiva linga, without a break – some applied kasturi mixed with perfume – and also, applied sandalwood. 49. On one occasion Tatyasaheb Noolkar’s friend, by the name of Dr. Pandit came to Shirdi only once to take Sai Baba’s darshan. 50. No sooner than he arrived at Shirdi, he went first to the Masjid and after doing obeisance to Baba, sat quietly for a moment. 51. Baba then said to him: “Go to Dada Bhat’s. Go, go this way”, showing the way with the fingers of his hand. 52. Pandit went to Dada’s. Dada gave him a

suitable welcome. Then when Dada set out for Baba’s worship, he asked him if he would come along. 53. Pandit accompanied Dada. Dada worshipped Baba. Till then no one had dared apply fragrant paste (gandh) “tilak” (circular, auspicious mark on the forehead) to Baba. 54. Whosoever may be the devotee, he would not allow him to apply the fragrant paste to his forehead. Only Mhalsapati smeared it on his throat; others applied it to his feet. 55. But this Pandit was simple and full of devotion. He took away Dada’s “puja thali”, and holding Sree Sai’s head, he annointed him with the three fingered parallel lines; (tripundra). 56. Seeing his daring, Dada’s heart began to beat hard. He thought that Baba would be enraged. What a rash act this was! 57.

Thus the impossible had happened! Baba did not utter a word. On the contrary he seemed quite pleased and did not get angry with him at all. 58. So be it. He let that moment pass. But Dada felt a disquietude. Then, that same day’s end he asked Baba about it. 59. “When we try to apply a small tilak of paste to your forehead, you do not allow us to touch your forehead – but what happened this morning? 60. You dislike our tilak. Yet Pandit’s tripundara was found favourable! Why this unusual behaviour? There seems to be some inconsistency”.http://www.saileela s.org/books/ sss/index.

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