AMBROSIA AFTER MAHASAMADHI (Contd)

March 14, 2008

13. BABA HELPED DOCTOR MEHTA AND LESSENED THE DECREE AMOUNT Dr. Mehta a Parsi devotee used to come to Shirdi from 1920. He had given a promissory note to one for Rs. 300/- and had not actually received the amount for some reason or other. His counterpart filed a

suit against Doctor Mehta to return the amount in the promissory note. He told this fact to Shri Kakasaheb Dixit, then Ex-solicitor of Bombay. He gave a letter to his friend Shri Maniklal a solicitor to help doctor Mehta. Shri Maniklal read the letter and asked Doctor about the witness who knew this fact. The doctor told Shri Maniklal that nobody knew this fact. Then Maniklal told that as no witness was for the coming to support your case will not stand. But Doctor Mehta told Maniklal to file an affidavit in the Court and by the grace of Shri Sai Baba, he may succeed. Maniklal before filing the affidavit sent word to Mehta to meet him before two days prior of his filing of affidavit. But owing to his admission in the Parsi Sanitorium, Doctor Mehta could not able to meet Maniklal. Again Maniklal told Doctor Mehta to compromise

with his counterpart as he had to necessarily pay the said sum with interest including court cost etc. Doctor Mehta told that there is no question of compromise and that I had no money to repay the sum, which I had not actually received. Besides, I was blessed by Baba in my dream and hence to request you carry on with your duty in the aim of helping me. As per his request Maniklal prepared on affidavit till 8 P.M. on one Saturday and sent word to Doctor Mehta on Sunday. When Doctor Mehta was about to start, his friend came to him and told Doctor Mehta, your affair has been compromised and as such you should accept for the compromise or else ? Won't go from this place. His friend further added that on the whole of Rs. 3000/- with interest and court cost etc. Rs. 800/-has to be paid to your counterpart and that too not in one installment but in installments of Rs.

50/- each. Doctor Mehta accepted after a deep thought. Accordingly the court has given a decree for Rs. 800/- only and Doctor paid this amount in installments ordered by the Court. That is how doctor Mehta got Baba's blessings even after His Mahasamadhi. Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be there 14. BABA SAVED THE LIFE OF SHRI PYARE KISHANWALL SHIP CAPTAIN FROM DEATH As Baba performed many miracles and He is still continuing to do so, I wish to add one more miracle which I have experienced. First let me inform the readers that I came to know the name of Baba and His miracles performed at various stages through my wife (Veena) who is a great devotee of Sai Baba. Then, I read many books on Sai Baba. I have made this trip especially as I took a vow to come here personally and pay my respects to Him. The first I came to Shirdi was about a year back and that time. I visited all this places and found great peace at every place. It gave me a lot of peace (Shanti) when I used to look at his Photograph and sit by His side and pray. I can assure you that He has His own way to help the needy people and they are at times so strange that a man of my caliber is unable to understand them. I describe one of the most important things which happened to me in my

life. I had many offers of jobs in various capacities and as such I was confused as to which one I should choose. I definitely wanted to improve the status and the financial conditions. Hence my wife made twelve slips of paper and only on one, she wrote the name of the ship called "M.V. Dhanalakshmi" of which vessel I was offered to take the command and that was the highest post (i.e.) the captain of the ship. Prior to that all happening I had just returned from Shirdi after paying homage to "Sai Baba". My wife asked me to pick up one slip although out of 12 slips, eleven were blank and as I said earlier that only on one she

wrote the name of the ship as mentioned above. So, I prayed and shuffled them more and what a strange thing. I had my eyes closed and the first one I picked was the ship on which the name of the ship "M.V. Dhanalakshmi" was mentioned. That was the destiny and Shri Sai Baba wanted me to take the command of the said vessel. I undertook the journey to Calcutta. I used to go on board daily since the time she arrived. It was being my first command, I was taking special interest and precautions. The ship sailed from Calcutta to Anandamans on 17-5-1972. After that, I met with heavy weather, rough sea and wind force 61.1 I decided to return. I came back and anchored in Diamond Harbour. As usual, I prayed daily and used to

light two Agarbattis before a plastic statue. A plastic ring I am still wearing which was bought from Shirdi. It was so strange that one Agarbatti used to go off every time. I used to light it again. But again it used to go off. I used to place Sai Baba's plastic statue on my chair and I used to ask him to guide me protect the ship and men aboard. But the significance of Agarbatti going off could not be understood by me. Hence, I used to put my hand to my head and ask “Shri Sai Baba” to guide me or give me any indication as to what is ahead of me. But "No". Anyway, I took out the ship, out again but met still the game whether and I could not proceed out Hooghly River. The pilot was on board. She was a small vessel and after consultation with the pilot

the second time, we decided to go back to Diamond Harbour. As usual I used to pray, but at the time I started feeling very much depressed in my heart the causes of which was still hidden from me, at the third attempt, the pilot was charged and out. Other pilot Anand boarded, I asked him about weather condition and accordingly to him weather outside Hoogly was not abnormal, but I told the second pilot that I already returned twice and that I did not feel right to go out and I shall have to come back. But this time, all things had to happen and Shri Sai Baba was to perform another miracle. After I had already passed lower Gasper Light vessel, she started listing to star board. I wanted to ascertain the cause. I called the pilot who was collecting some

papers in the room and the Chief Engineer to check up if any engine room valves were open. I and pilot were still trying to find the cause of the list and in meantime; she was taking heavy list to starboard. I told the pilot to return to Calcutta as I did not wish to proceed out, so that we could confirm the reason of her list. The pilot turned the ship back to Calcutta and the Chief Engineer told me that there was nothing wrong in the engine room. There was no water entering into the Engine room.

The list was becoming dangerous so I called the people on board's deck with life Jackets. Just then somebody informed me that my cabin was flooded with sea water as the port holes of my cabin were broke open which was confirmed by my writer and deck sarang and hence my life jacket could not be brought. All persons on board had their life Jackets except me. In the meantime, I was calling S. O. S. (Save our Soul) on the whistle. Although we were in the intermediate light vessel, no help was received. I had lost all hopes of saving my ship. My duty was to save the lives on board the vessel. I ordered the Chief Engineer to stop the engine and all hands including the pilot to abandon the ship. The ship was stopped and all abandoned. As the sea fared tradition goes, that master of the ship is to be the last I complied with it and I jumped without life jacket. As I jumped into the sea, the time then was about 10:00 on 21-5-1972. It was pitch dark, the swell was about

10/12 feet high and wind force was over 8. I felt I was being sucked in any way. I pulled myself out of it. Then I caught the chicken crate to which I clung after thrusting my fingers inside it as there was no place to hold. Then I met more people of my ship (crew) who were also cling to that crate and in this way we were tossed over more than 30 hours in water, during which period I prayed to Sai Baba, I said "Sai Baba you have put me into this and now you must give courage to go through this body". It might have taken a minute or so to say all that, I had very little fear in my heart. I was consciously alert, but my body was eaten away by salt water and there was neither food nor water for over 30 hours, I was getting exhausted. Death was facing me very closely. But now Shri Sai Baba gave me the courage to go through this. After 30 hours, our cries were heard by a ship called "M. V. Jalakhanda". My other two members were picked up by that ship, but how I could be as

I was falling into waters from a height of 15/20 feet as I was totally exhausted. Later after making three attempts, I became unconscious and when I woke up, I found myself in pilot vessel. I was running a temparature of 130° and my body was full of bandages all over. Later I was put in a hospital. After that the Government case started (the fact finding of this mishap). Now dear readers although the court of enquiry was equally treacherous, Shri Sai Baba helped me to go through this by His leela. now I am a free man. As I said before Shri Sai Baba has His own ways of helping. So He helped me to save my life and others lives. The He helped me to go through the court of enquiry successfully and now I am sitting in Shirdi and writing His leela. I am proud to say that it is He who has granted me the privilege to do so, otherwise I could have been gone dead long. My request to the dear reader is that they should not lose

trust and faith in Him and when you are in trouble, seek His guidance. I am hundred percent sure that He will show you the way but this prayer has to be from your inner self "Say Shri Sai Ram". Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be there 15. BABA FULFILLED THE DESIRE OF SHRI M. M. AMINGAD GULANCHE Shri Sai Baba came to my house, to the surprise of all just seventeen years before in the year 1956, in the form of a calendar, through a student of mine by name Kumar Gowri Mathur, when I was working as an Assistant master at Shri M. V. Pathare High School, Rabkari District Bijapur, Mysore State now known as Karnataka. Since that day, I have been an ardent devotee of Shri Sai Baba. I had a great desire to visit His Shrine at Shirdi, but I neither had an opportunity nor did permission of Shri Sai Baba till October, 1968 in conformity with the belief that nothing on the earth happens without His will With the blessings of Shri Sai Baba, I used to get money whenever I was in need. Even when I was badly in a need of a big sum, I started from home in the morning simply uttering his name and by evening before I returned home, I had the amount that I needed and cleared off my dues. I never knew how, but somehow somebody came forward to offer the money and helped me to get out of the

difficulties that I was in trouble. In the year 1959, I took the M.Ed. Examinations of Karnataka University, Dharwar. Just before the examinations for about 15 or 20 days, I strained every nerve and left no stone unturned by burning mid-night oil during the course of studying. But as ill luck would have it, on the day of examination, a severe half headache began to trouble me from the very morning. I was in a fix. I did not know what to do. I was on the hours of dilemma. All through the morning till 10:00 clock, I was vacillating whether to go to the examination hall and whether to take or not to take the examination. But 10:00 clock for about 5 minutes, I kept quiet and began to see the inward mind

through the inward eye. This five minutes meditation spared me on to offer prayers to Shri Sai Baba and to go to the examination hall with his unseen blessings. This inspiration made me burn the incense in the form of Agarbatti before the photo of Shri Sai Baba presented to me by a class mate of mine during one of the sessions of M.Ed., classes. After burning the incense, I smeared the UDI to my forehead with a prayer to Shri Sai Baba to help me in my venture. Thus throwing all the responsibility and faith in Baba. I entered the examination hall. When the question papers and answer books were distributed, I uttered Baba's name and began to answer the paper. I finished the paper within a two and quarter hours. I never knew what I wrote. So all my friends asked me with surprise whether I had really finished the paper or not. They were also in doubt regarding my success. The only answer I gave them was that I had done my job with full faith in Baba and then it was left to Him

to bring me success or failure. My headache continued till the last paper and when I completed it my headache suddenly stopped. If this is not a miracle, then what it is? To the surprise of all, I was declared successful at the M Ed. examination no doubt due to the miracle wrought by Shri Sai Baba. In the year 1960, when I was in the central institute of Engineering, for the course in the teaching of Engineering, one co-trainee persuaded me to switch over to Maharashtta as Head Master and promised that he would try for that. He kept up his promise and in 1961, I switched over to Maharashtra as Head Master of a secondary school from Karnataka. Since June, 1961, till this day, I have been in the services of Maharashtra State. Thus Baba dragged me to Maharashtra the province of His shrine. Very recently when I was at Poona, to take the M.A. Examination in November 1972, Shri Sai Baba visited my residence in my absence at Gulunche in the form of a Fakir. On enquiry, he told that he had come from Shirdi. He was offered groundnuts but He demanded rice in lieu of groundnut. He accepted the little bit of rice that was offered to Him and blessed all the members of my family saying "Allah Bhala Karega" and within in a moment he disappeared. On my return from examination, I started reading Sai Satcharitra in English with a request to Baba to make my result known to me before I completed the Satcharitra. To my great surprise that 10 to

12 days before the date of result I received a message invitation card bearing the words M.A.,M.Ed. after my name. This suggested to me that I was going to be successful in the M.A, Examination. And so it happened. Twice in the year 1968, I had the good luck to pay homage to His Shrine at Shirdi. During my stay there, my inner voice suggested to me to become a Life Member and to be in the service of Shri Sai Baba till last breath. A peculiar experience that I had was that the Fakirs of Shirdi never demanded anything from anybody and were satisfied with what they got. This sort of complete satisfaction and surrender to the will of Shri Sai Baba is not found in any other place. I have still some ambition to be filled and I hope that a firm faith in Him will help me towards the attainment of my goal. I pray for His choicest blessing to all His devotees. Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be there 16. BABA SAVED THE FAMILY OF SHRI RAGHUNATH BABU RAO SANDBHOR GONDESWALA OF POONA He was Baba's devotee from 10 years age. Once Panshet and Khadakvasla dams in Mula river were broken and water flew furiously and filled Poona. As usual he had gone to his office in Khadak. He came to know of the floods in the city.

He worried about his children aged 3, 6, 9 years and about his wife who were alone in his house. As the water in the river did not lessen he was not able to go to his house upto 7-30 P.M. Afterwards he could go to his house. He saw his house was with full of water. He saw Baba's photo was drenched with water up to his leg, but was not spoiled like other articles. On enquiry he was told by the adjacent house owners that his wife and children were safely gone to the house of Shri Barakada (His son-in-law). His daughter on knowing that his house may be flooded with water and her father also would not be in his house as he might have gone to his office, came in time and took all his children and his wife to her house. All were saved by Baba's grace.Surrender Shri Sai Completely Stupendous Delectation and Deliverance be there Anant Koti Brahmand Nayak Raja Dhi Raj Yogi Raj Para Brahma Shri Sachidanand Sadguru Sai Nath Maharaj Ki Jai!!! Hetal Patil hetal_patilhetalpatil

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