Sai Satcharitra - Ovi to Ovi english Translation - Chp- VI

June 12, 2007

121. Just as he had thought of the Yatra and the Urus, Gopal Gund was inspired in the same manner, to give a new look to the old dilapidated Masjid. 122. As the devotee Gopal Gund decided to renovate the Masjid by his own hands, he got the stones ready. 123. But the renovation work was

not ordained for Gund. The occasion for this auspicious work arose later appropriately. 124. It appears that Baba wished that the renovation should be done by Nana (Chandorkar) and afterwards the paving of the floor should be done by Kaka (Dixit). 125. Accordingly, it happened later on. In the beginning, they had got tired of asking for the permission. Then they made Mhalsapati27 the mediator and Baba gave his permission. 126. So be it. When the paving of the floor of the Masjid was completed in one night, then the next day itself Baba came and sat on the ‘gadi’28. 127. It was in the year 1911 that the Sabha-mandap was constructed. It was a difficult and Herculean task. It involved a lot of hazards and people trembled with

fear29. 128. This work was also completed by the devotees working at nights, in the same way and under similar circumstances. 129. In the night, the pillars would be erected with great difficulty and in the morning Baba would start uprooting them. Again seizing the opportunity they would be re-erected. Thus, everybody got exhausted. 130. Everyone girded up their loins, turned night into day, to fulfil their objective, undergoing a lot of exertion. 131. Dixit thought that the site was a proper place to construct the Sabha-mandap30 where there was earlier an open ground and a small playground. 132. Putting in as much money as was needed, for iron columns and angle-brackets, the work was finished, as and when Baba was at the Chavadi31. 133. The devotees would turn night into day and erect the pillars with much effort. But as soon as Baba returned from the Chavadi, he would pull them out. 134. Highly incensed on one occasion, Baba caught Tatya32 by his neck with one hand and with the other shook a pillar and tried to uproot it. 135. He loosened it by shaking it; removed the head gear of Tatya; kindled it by lighting a matchstick, and threw it into the pit with anger.http://www.saileela s.org/books/ sss/index.

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