AMBROSIA IN SHIRDI (Contd)

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65. BABA'S INTIMACY WITH TATYA KOTE PATIL Baba used to wrestle with Ganpat Kote Patil on occasion. Tatya lifted Baba with his one hand. Baba would say leave me or else I would fall. Then Tatya would leave Baba smilingly. Tatya would take away his turban and tie it on Baba's head as a King's Turban. He would put his upper cloth on Baba's body and show a mirror to Baba to see himself in the mirror. After seeing in the mirror, Baba would act and imitate as to how Tatya used to do and would ask the mirror whether Tatya would do the same things. Afterwards Baba would remove all these things and hand over to Tatya. All of a sudden Baba would wake up and caught hold of Tatya's feet. As on account of this action of Baba, Tatya would get up and questioned Baba "what were all these Deva". Baba told "you did not know anything, keep quiet" and again he would bow to Tatya Kote with folded hands and saying "Jai Deva, Jai Deva" For this Tatya

used to tell "Salam Alekum" with salute. Once Baba gave Rs. 4/- to Tatya to purchase betel leaves and Jujube from Rahata Bazar. Tatya Kote bou­ght them from Rahata and gave to Baba. Baba gave the Jujube to Mhalasapathy and Tatya to eat. Tatya told to Baba "that he would not eat unless Baba ate". Baba told that he would not eat unless Tatya ate and requested Tatya to eat it. Tatya took away the entire Jujube to his house. Tatya as usual brought roti to Baba during night along with the Jugube. Baba again asked Tatya to eat it. Tatya repeated the same thing that he would not eat unless Baba ate. Baba repeated the same thing that Tatya should eat first. Having got vexed, Tatya threw away the Jujube and went to Chawadi angrily and attended Thamasa there. Baba sent Mha­lasapathy to fetch Tatya to Dwarakatmayee. Tatya came to Dwarakamayee and repeated the same thing to Baba. Baba refused. Again Tatya went to Chawadi. Baba sent Mhalasapathy to fetch Tatya. Mhalasapathy

went and told Tatya that Baba doesn’t allow him to sleep and that he should come and eat Jujube. Tatya came again to Dwarakamayee and told the same thing to Baba. Then Baba ate one or two Jujube and then Tatya ate some and slept in Dwarakamayee along with Baba. On another occasion, Baba gave to Tatya the Kolamba Prasad to eat. Tatya refused to eat it and told Baba that as the day was Sivarathri, he was obser­ving fast. Baba totd Tatya, "why were you observing fast on Sivarathri, Monday and Ekadashi". Eat the Kolamba prasad. Dada Kelkar who was with Baba told Tatya to adhere Baba's instructions. Tatya ate the Kolamba Prasad and thereupon left the observations of

fasting. Owing to such intimacy between Baba and Tatya, Baba gave His life to Tatya on 15-10-1918 and Baba Himself took Samadhi in lieu of Tatya. Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be there 66. BABA HELPED SHRI MADHU FASLE IN HIS PILGRIMATE TO KASHI IN 1910 Shri Madhu False was serving Baba and then Baba's Sansthan. He was incharge of Shyamsunder. Baba used to call him as Godawala. He was the person who broke Baba's

brick when he was cleaning Baba's Dwarakamayee referred to in Baba's Satcharitra Chapter 43-44 English. Once he was with pale eyes and fell senseless due to weakness when he was residing in Narayan Tellis house behind Dwarakamayee. His mother was wailing during night on account of her non-belief of the survival of Madhu Fasle. Baba on hear­ing this went to her house and told her why do you weep ? I am by the side of you. Madhu False will ask for roti in the morning, then given him roti. He will be alright and returned to Dwarakamayee. In the morning Madhu False came into his senses and ate roti recovered his health and felt joyful as predicted by Baba. About two months after, he went to Dwaraka­mayee when Baba was smoking chilim, on seeing Madhu Fasle, Baba told him "that he has to go to Kashi". False told that he did not know the way. Baba told him from Shirdi he has to go to Paithan, Jalna, Balaji, Deva-gaom, Omkar, Ajmeer, Neemuch and then to Kashi. Afterwards

he started to Kashi with Baba's blessings and Baba also gave Rs. lO/- for his expenses along with His one old Kupni. He went by walk to Paithan with­out any trouble on the way. He went to Jodu Pachude. There one Nandu Patil near Hanuman Mandir met him and questioned him where he was bound to. Madhu False told that he was a sevak to Shri Sai Baba, Shirdi bound for Kashi as per Baba's wish. That Nandu Patil made him to stay in his house for 4 days. During those four days, Fasle told to Nandu Patil and to all about Baba's Leelas. Nandu Patil gave him a lift in his tanga upto Jalna. From Jalna he went to Balaji Devalgaom by walk. There he took darshan of His Holiness Ranganath Maharaj. Then His Holiness told Fasle "That he was no God and that Fasle was coming from highly elevated place". From there he went to Chikali. When he was walking, an officer with his pattewalah recognised Fasle and made him to sit in his tanga upto his jurisdiction. From there Omkareshwar was 12

miles. He went to Omkareshwar by walk and from there to Mamaleshwaram and stayed there for six days. There the temple people fed him. From Mamaleshwa­ram he came to Omkareshwaram and stayed there for two days. From Omkareshwaram, he went to Rathlam by rail From Rathlam he went to Ajmer. On the way there were plenty of dates. He was tired on the way remembered Baba by the side of a stream. A Fakir in green dress came there and enquired where he was going? False told that he was going to Ajmeer. Fakir told Fasle that in Ajmeer people were fighting with each other. Fasle told the Fakir that he was very hungry. Fakir gave some almonds, Kaju to eat and chilim to smoke and both returned to Batlam, fetched a train ticket and made Fasle to travel by train, upto Bhopal and

told him if anybody gave roti eat it or else eat Margosa leaves. From Bhopal, he went to Jansi by walk. From Jansi, he went to Agra by walk. Ekadashi came in the middle. He slept in a railway station without any food At 10 or 11 P.M., a man like a Bhill came and approached him and gave him "CHATTU" (a kind of flour to eat by mixing it with water etc.) and also buttermilk and requested him to eat. Fasle suspected of his caste and refused to eat it, but the Bhill like man recognised it and told Fasle that there was no objection in eating as it was GORAS. Then Fasle ate it. The Bhill gone away. False came to Agra. He met the same Fakir who gave him Kaju on his way to Ajmeer. Fakir told Fasle “Beta have you arrived? Go to Mathura and Brindavan and have no

acquiantance with anybody and fetched a ticket for him to Mathura. He got down at Mathura and met a man who was colle­cting people to work in his Tea Estate. Then False told him that he would not eat anything in one's hand. The Estate wala gave money and requested him to eat in the Hotel. The Estate wala gave him money for 7 or 8 days then he remembered the Fakir's word and escaped from him and went to Dhavji (Balarampuram) and from there to Kanpur by walk. On the way he was getting rotis to eat. On the bridge of a river near Kanpur when he was very hungry the same Fakir met him again and gave "CHATTU" to eat and asked him where he wanted to go. False replied that he wanted to go to Lucknow. Fakir told False the place where meals were available in Lucknow and told to go to Ayodya from Lucknow. Accordingly False went to Marwari temple at Lucknow. He was fed there and was given Rs. 21 by the temple people. He went to Kashi from Lucknow. When he was getting from the railway station at Kashi, Mohan pandya an unknown person met False and took him to his house and served him for five days. Dur­ing these days, he took darshan of Vishwanath and all other places to be seen in Kashi. From Kashi, False went to Prayag in the train without a ticket and took bath in TRIVENI. As he was hungry he sat on a bench there. There also the Fakir met him and fed him and told Fasle to return to his house and fetched a

ticket for him upto Manmad from Prayag and went away. From Manmad, he came to Shirdi by walk and took darshan of Baba. He mixed ths Ganges water in the bathing water and in the drinking water of Baba. Baba told False "that I was with you saved you in so many places for these three months of your pilgrimage as the people were not good now a days". From this we have to understand that though Baba did not bodily moved ; from Shirdi, He was roaming in disguise in any form in any place to help His devotees. Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and

Deliverance be there 67. BABA HELPED TRIAMBAK VISHWANATH IN HIS RETURN JOURNEY TO BOMBAY FROM SHIRDI AS GANU MARWARI Shri Triambak Vittal Somnath, Basen Road Bom­bay happened to meet Baba in 1915 and took His darshan and paid Re. 11 as dakshina. Baba again deman­ded Re. 1/-. As he got only Rs. 5/- with him, he hesitated first and then paid Re. 1/- Then Baba said to him after a while that "Ganu Mar will do good". He came to the road and found that no tanga was there to go to Kopergaom. Then a Tanga from Rahata came with a Gujarati devotee in it. He made him to sit in his tanga and said to him "Are you coming from Baba? What Baba He is? If we give Re.11 He was deman­ding again Re. 1/- and made His devotees to drink the water drunk by Him". Triambak was astonished on hearing these words. On reaching Kopergaom, he

paid tanga wala hire charges for two persons and bought two railway tickets upto Dadar. In Dadar railway Sta­tion he fed him with meals. Triambak asked his add­ress. He gave his address as "Ganu Marwari". Chawl I plot, Behind the Masjid, Bunder" and went away. On the next day he went to Masjid Bunder and searched Ganu Marwari but in vain he realised Baba's words that "Ganu Mar will do good" and that "Ganu Mar­wari" was none other than Baba and thought Baba was Ganpat as he was Ganapathy Devotee. Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be

there 68. EXPERIENCE OF SHRI GOVINDASWAMY ALIAS BHAU SWAMY, MADRAS Shri Govindaswamy alias Bhau Swamy was an em­ployee in the Madras Electricity Tramways. He took leave and started with his wife and children for alround pilgrimage in 1916. Because his Guru's name was Rambhau of South Kaara, he was called as Bhau Swamy. He went to Shirdi on 23-8-1915 and took Baba's darshan on Sunday. He did bhajan with his family. Baba gave him eight annas. He used to get Rs. 2/- in cash and burfi worth Rs. 2/- from Baba daily, He sold off the burfi at once for Rs. 1-12-0 to the shop­keepers. He kept a dairy for all of these. This is the entire diary. On 3-9-1915 he got a

wonderful dream and thereby became Baba's devotee. Dr.Pillai told him to give in writing the details of the dream. He wrote it out at Shirdi and gave it to Dr. Pillai. He used to per­form bhajan daily before Baba and sometimes before Radhakrishnamai. He was highly appreciated. He was given a Marathi Book containing life of Baba by Radhakrishnamai. Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be thereAnant Koti Brahmand Nayak Raja

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