FROM LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

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FROM " LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA " BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

 

……“Nana was under the delusion that he was the great supplier of Baba, and

that Baba had to depend upon him for money. Nana had to be disabused of that

idea. So, Baba made use of Sri M. B. Rege on one occasion, and exhausted all the

funds he had by taking them out as dakshina, and when M. B. Rege said that he

had no more money, Baba said, ‘Borrow’. ‘From whom’ asked Mr. Rege. Baba

sent him first to Shama who had no money at all, and who was a very poor man.

Shama’s explanation of Baba’s demand was that Baba wanted him and not his

cash, and, therefore, he (Baba) wanted him to feel the want of cash was nothing.

So saying, he sent his namaskars through Rege to Baba. Then Baba sent Mr. Rege

to H. S. Dixit who also had not the money with him at that time. He explained

Baba’s demand to Mr. Rege thus: ‘You must not feel begging at all to be a

shame, much less begging for the sake of your master’. Then Baba sent him to

Nana Chandorkar.

Nana Chandorkar then explained to M.B. Rege his policy. He used to leave one

half of his money at Kopergaon and come with the balance to Shirdi, and when

this was exhausted, he would send for the reserve at Kopergaon. When Mr. Rege

reported this, Baba sent for Nana Chandorkar and from him (by repeatedly asking

for dakshina) all the money he had in his possession. Then he again asked him

for dakshina, before the reserve from Kopergaron arrived. Nana felt humiliated.

His moha received a blow. The subjects of moha and dakshina are closely

connected with daana.â€â€¦â€¦