SHIRDI BABA REMOVES HANKERING FOR DRINK

[Guest guest]

.. BABA REMOVES

HANKERING FOR DRINK

(1) Baba

to D V Sambare (who was getting addicted):

‘Boy, why do you behave like this? See, I give you this warning first, that you should give up drink. If you do not heed

this, I will not warn you again but leave you to your fate.’ DVS forswore

liquor. He was free of the hankering. One day his superior invited him to a

dinner, a big party and came up to see that the glassful kept before him was

not drunk by DVS. The latter offered excuses which were laughed at. In this perplexity DVS, all

the hall lights were extinguished suddenly. The host went to look at the cause.

Meanwhile an obliging neighbour drank up DVS’s glass. The host returned, saw the glass empty

and thanking his pleading was successfully went away. Baba performed a chamtkar to save DVS, - for none could discover how the

lights were extinguished and again lit up by themselves.

(2) Baba

to (a) Santaram and (b) a goldsmith boy who were

addicted to drink: “Stay six days here.” From that time love of

drink left them and they continued free from that vice even after they left

Shirdi.

(Source Sai Baba Charters and

Sayings)

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