Baba's attempt to leave the world (1916)

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1916

In 1916 Vijayadasami Day (October) Baba was in a rage. He tore off

all his clothes and threw them into the fire (Djuni)

before him and stood there stark naked. Baba with red eyes shouted:

“Fellows, decide for yourselves now If I am

Moslem or Hindu.” After two hours of this rage, Bagoji

Scindhe, His leper companion tied a langoti to Him and said: “Why all this? To day is the

festival of Simolanagan”. Baba striking the

ground with his baton: This is My Simolangan (My

going beyond the boundary of life.)

People could not

understand his meaning then, but it was on the Vijayadasami

day of 1918 that Baba crossed the boundary of life.

!n 1916 before Vijayadasami, Baba had been seriously unwell and the rumour got abroad that he was about to die. And the

devotees conducted a sapta at Shirdi with mass

feeding for the recovery of his health. thereafter he

recovered; but when Nana Saheb Nimonkar

came there, on his way to Poona”

Baba: Nana, you

stay here, bury me and then go.

Baba would not

allow Nana either to go back to Nimon or proceed on

to Poona.

Shama

intervened on behalf of Nimonkar and asked Baba for

leave for his going away.

Baba: Shama, do you want to kill my people. Is Kaka (Nana Nimaonkar) eating your father’s property?

Shama:

But his daughter-in-law is pregnant and requires help.

Baba:

(Addressing Nimonkar): Hallo Kaka, why are you

anxious? God will help. Bury me and then go.

His

daughter-in-law had no help. Suddenly at 10 p.m. one night, she felt that pains

were coming and was at once taken in a tonga to the

Poona Municipal Maternity hospital and left on a bed. The nurse went away to

some other room at 11 p.m. and

in the nurse’s absence, she was delivered of a male child without any help. Baba

said to Nana Nimonkar at that time at Shirdi:

“There was a woman. She was taken to a place. There she was delivered

safe of a male child.”

(Source Sai Baba Charters and Sayings)

http://www.saileelas.org/books/babasayings