WHO IS SRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI?

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17. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that it was the blessings for issue more than anything else that made the educated, especially from towns, to go to Baba. One Gopal Rao Gundu, A Revenue Inspector, who had two wives but no issue, sought and obtained Baba’s

blessings and the fruit of those blessings, a son. He broadcast the kindness of Baba and his wonderful powers abroad, and a large number of educated people including Deputy Collectors, Collectors, and political leaders like Lokamanya Tilak, flocked to Shirdi. 18. In 1886, Baba died his first death. One day when sitting along with his devotee Mahisapathy in the Dwaraka Mayi (as his mosque was named by him), Baba

said that he was going to Allah and that consequently for three days his body was to be looked after for, after that period, he might return to the body, and that in case he did not do so, the body should be interred near the mosque. Presently Baba’s body became a corpse. An inquest was held over the same and the officer holding the inquest insisted on Mahlsapathy burying the body. But Mahlsapathy vehemently opposed the proposal and succeeded in preventing the internment. On the fourth day, Baba’s body revived and for thirty-two years thereafter, Baba worked through that living fleshy case and finally left it on the 15th October, 1981, with the same prescience and clear control over all the circumstances which he showed in 1886. This leaving of the body at will and returning to it at pleasure is an art, a siddhi, described in the Yoga Sastras; and Baba’s exercise of such powers convinced and would convince many of the truth of the Sastras. ‘Dharmasamsthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge’ (i.e. ‘I am born in each age for establishing Dharma’) said Krishna of Dwapara Yuga to Arjuna. And this divinity of the twentieth century A.D. in Kaliyuga, like other men of God (Devatmas) of the same period, has frequently by his conduct proved the truth of, and confirmed, the belief in Dharma and Sastras. WHO IS SRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI?By Shri H.H.NARASIMHASWAMIJI (Founder)All India Sai Samaj (Regd.), Madras - 600

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