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……“Dixit had such perfect reliance on Baba that before

taking any step in any important matter, he would go

to Baba and get His orders and follow the same to the

very letter, even though the course was running

counter to his own judgment and feelings or those of

his friends and relations. Baba once tested and proved

his implicit obedience while enjoying the fun of the

test. B.C.S. 619 gives the account which shows that

Bade Baba, Shama, and Ayi all shrank from assisting

Baba or carrying out His order that a goat thoroughly

weak and about to die should be slaughtered with a

knife at the mosque - while Kaka Dixit alone stood the

test and was bringing down a knife over the neck of

the creature ¬in implicit obedience to an apparently

horrid command B.C.S.619 gives the account thus.

 

619. Once a goat entered the mosque, old, famished and

just about to die.

 

Baba (to Bade Baba):-Cut that goat with one stroke.

 

Bade Baba-(Looking at it with pity) How are we to kill

this? So saying, he went away from the mosque.

 

Baba:-Shama, you cut it. Fetch a knife from

Radhakrishna Ayi.

 

(Ayi sent a knife; but learning the purpose, recalled

it)

 

Shama:-l will go home to fetch a knife.

 

Shama went home and stayed away there.

 

Then Baba to H.S.D: - ‘You fetch a knife and kill it’.

 

H.S.D. went and fetched a knife.

 

H.S.D:-Baba, shall I kill it?

 

Baba :- Yes.

 

H.S.D. lifted up the knife and held it up in

hesitation.

 

Baba :-What are you thinking of? Strike.

 

Dixit obeyed and was bringing the knife down.

 

Baba:-Stop. Let the creature remain. I will kill it

myself but not at the mosque.

 

Then Baba carried the creature a few yards, after

which it fell dead.

 

Some might suppose that such intimate relation and

dependence of the disciple might snap if the Guru left

the body. But that was not so. After Baba left the

body, Dixit, like several other staunch devotees,

intently concentrated on Sai Baba, and after prayer

cast chits before Baba, and asked some child to pick

up a chit at random, and the directions of the chit

were Baba’s orders and were safe to follow always.

 

One instance may be cited of Dixit’s trust in

consulting Baba through chits and its proving a

reliable method and Baba's proving a reliable helper

of himself and his relations. After Baba's samadhi

Dixit tried to revive his practice especially for the

sake of others. His brother Sadashiv Dixit, BA, LLB.,

tried to practice at Nagpur, etc., and failed to

secure any practice or appointment. Dixit then

consulted Baba through chits and acting on the

chit-accrued order brought Sadashiv over to Bombay.

But even at Bombay, Sadashiv failed to secure any

success. Kaka wondered how Baba's order of advice

should prove so useless.

 

He was thinking of sending his brother away from

Bombay, but as Deepawali festival came in, the brother

was detained for that festival. Just at that time,

leading persons from the Cutch Samsthan came to

consult Kaka Dixit as to which person should be

selected as a sufficiently reliable officer on a high

pay of Rs. 1000. When Kaka suggested Sadasiva's name,

that was readily accepted, and he became Dewan of that

State.

 

Baba springs his surprise at the last moment when he

gives His blessing and justifies the fullest

confidence reposed in him by Dixit, etc. Damodar

Rasane employed a similar practice, and says in his

experiences (Vide Devotees' Experiences, Volume II)

that Baba's answer on chits to him were always found

to be correct (N. B.-Powerful faith alone can elicit a

reply).”

 

Source:- Sri sai satcharitra