Graceful miracle to DAs Ganuji by SAIDEVA..

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The main purpose

of this brief article is to bring out how on one occasion Das Ganu was moved to

tears by a miracle which Shri Baba worked on him. On one of his several

pilgrimages to Shirdi, Das Ganu sought Baba's permission to go to Prayag for a

holy dip in the Ganga waters, at their confluence with Jamna and Saraswati at

Prayag. The time when he intended to go there was very auspicious; but Shri

Baba would not give the permission. Shri Baba told him that such a long and

costly journey was unnecessary, as Prayag was where he stood if only he had

firm faith in Shri Baba. On this assurance from Shri Baba, Das Ganu instantly

prostrated himself on Shri Baba's feet and lo and behold, a trickle of water

began to drip from Shri Baba's toes !

 

Overwhelmed

by this graceful miracle, Das Ganu, there and then, spontaneously, composed a

song to immortalise this experience. This song shows the high degree of honour

and devotion that Shri Das Ganu had for Shri Baba.

An

English rendering of this Marathi song is given below for the benefit of those

Sai devotees, who do not understand or speak Marathi. The song occurs in

Chapter 4 of Shri Sai Satcharita written by Shri Annasaheb Dabnolkar, a sincere devotee of Shri Sai Baba.

 

1. " O

King of Sadgurus, Your prowess and Leelas are inscru­table. You are the mercy

boat by which the Jada Jeevas would cross the ocean of samsar.

 

2. You

became for me Lord Krishna and took me to Prayag to bathe me in the

Ganga-Jamuna waters dripping from Your two toes.

 

3. You

Yourself have become Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh and stride the wide earth.

 

4. Your

lips utter deep wisdom like Brahman personified and at times ascending Tamo

Guna, You assume the fierce aspect of Rudra.

 

5. Sometimes

You play childish pranks like Shri Krishna and converting the devotees' minds

into pools of water, sport in them like the swan.

 

6. If

one were to take You to be a Yavana (i.e., non-Hindu), You delight in sandal-paste;

if one were to regard You to be a Hindu, you always reside in a Masjid.

 

7. If

one were to take You to be a wealthy person, You beg Your livelihood. If You

were to be taken as a mere Fakir, You shame Kubera (Croesus) by Your liberal

gifts.

 

8. If

Your abode is taken for a Masjid, a Fire burns there perpetually in a Dhuni

from which You give Udi (holy ash) to all and sundry.

 

9. From

early morning Your humble devotees worship You and at mid-day they perform Your

Aarati.

 

10. On

all Your four sides, Your devotees gather like multitudes of insentient things

and wave the chowries and chamaras to keep You cool and comforted.

 

11. There

is then a din of the sounds of horns, sanais and other musical instruments and

the gong sounds the loudest and orderlies pace to and fro yelling out to keep

order.

 

12. When

the Aarati is being performed, You look like Vishnu sitting on His shining

throne. In the evening, sitting near the Dhuni, You burn your worldly likes and

desires.

 

13. Such

Leelas of the three Gods You show every day and thus project to us the image of

Baba Sai.

 

14. Though

a witness to such Leelas, my mind restlessly wanders all around. Now, I pray,

You please still and steady it.

15. I

am the meanest of the mean sinners and prostrate at Your feet. Now, Guru Raj,

relieve Ganu Das of the triad of afflictions, adhyatmic, adhidaivic and

adhibhautic to which he is heir.--

OM GURU NATHASAI GURU NATHA