Baba's first attempt to leave the world (1886)

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Baba’s

first attempt to leave the world (1886)

In 1886 Baba

said to Mahalsapathy: I am going to Allah. Take care

of this body for three days. If I return, I will look after it myself

thereafter. If I do not, inter this body thereafter in that open land (pointing

to an open land) and place two standards there to mark the place, where my body

is placed.

Then

Baba’s breathing, pulse, circulation, all stopped and the body became a

corpse. The village officers and police held an inquest and ordered Mahalsapathy to bury the body; but he prevented it, thus

averting catastrophe which befell Sankaracharya’s

body – a catastrophe that was in Sankaracharya’s

case remedied by a Goddess. On the third day consciousness returned to Baba.

Breathing began and the abdomen was seen moving. then

Baba’s opened and his life was restored.

(Source Sai Baba Charters and Sayings)

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