KUSA BHAV - ONION - SHIRDI SAI BABA

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KUSA BHAV – ONION

On an Ekadasi day Kusa Bhav (i.e., Krishnaji Kasinath Joshi of Mirzgaon) sat

by Baba’s side.

Baba: What do

you eat to-day?

Kusa:

Nothing. Today is Ekadasi.

Baba: What does

“Ekadasi” mean?

Kusa: A

day for “Upavasa”

Baba: What does Upavasa mean?

Kusa: It

is just like “Rojas”

Baba: What is

Rojas?

Kusa: We

fast, i.e., do not eat anything except Kanda Moola.

(Meaning sweet potatoes etc.,)

Baba: Oh, Kaanda (i.e., onion) you eat. Well, here you have onion.

Eat it.

Kusa:

(finding Baba forcing on him unorthodox food) Baba if you eat it, I will eat.

Baba ate some;

and Kusa Bhav ate some, and

then visitors arrived. Baba wished to have some fun.

Baba: Look at

this Bamniya (corrupt and contemptuous form of the

word Brahmin). He eats onion on Ekadasi.

Kusa:

Baba ate it and I ate it.

Baba: No. I ate

Kanda, i.e., sweet potatoes. See.

Baba then

vomited out sweet potatoes.

Kusa Bhav seeing the miracle, voraciously

swallowed the potato as prasad. Baba beat him and said:

“Rogue. why do you eat the vomit?

But Kusa Bhav did not mind the blows.

Baba’s heart melted.

Baba: (placing a

palm on Kusa’s head) I bless you. Think of me

and hold forth your Palms. You will have my prasad.

KUSA BHAV now

holds up his empty palms and WARM UDHI (BABA’S PRASAD) falls from it, and

this is given as BABA’S PRASADA UDHI by Kusa Bhav.

 

(Source Sai Baba Charters and Sayings)

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