Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

[Guest guest]

One year passed during which a few more pilgrimages did nothing to console

the Sapatnekars. Finally, they decided to visit Banaras. The night before

they started, Mrs. Sapatnekar had a dream: she was going to a well with a

pitcher to fetch driniking water. She saw a fakir, with a cloth tied

around his head, seated under a neem tree. The fakir approached her and

said, “My child, I shall fetch water for you. ” She was frightened and

moved away and the fakir followed her. At that juncture she woke up and

narrated her dream to her husband. They took this to be an invitation from

Baba and they went to Shirdi. Mrs. Sapatnkar saw Sai Baba who was

returning to the mosque from lendi and was surprised to see that he was

the fakir that appeared in her dream. When Baba took his seat in the

mosque she bowed to him. Baba said, in his characteristic, veiled, manner,

“My arms, abdomen an waist have been paining for a long time. I tried many

medicines in vain. But to my utter surprise all the pains have just now

disappeared mysteriously.” Indeed it was Mrs. Sapatnekar’s story: she was

just at that moment cured of all the obstinate pains from which she had

been suffering for a long time. She was amazed at Baba’s ominiscience and

such powers as would cure ailments with a word!

 

Hoping that Baba was in a jolly mood, Sapatnekar went and bowed to Baba.

Baba shouted, “Get out!” This time Sapatnekar understood that he was angry

at his past misdeeds and decided to win his grace. He saw Baba when he was

alone and touched his feet with his head. Baba did not shout but put his

loving hand on the visitor’s head. Then a shepherdess came and sat

massaging Sai Baba’s waist. Baba narrated a story in his characteristic

vein, of a bania (a merchant), the trials and tribulations of his life. It

was indeed a veiled account of Sapatnekar’s life. Then Baba said to the

shepherdess, pointing at Sapatnekar, “This fellow says that I (i.e., God)

has killed his child. Do I kill anyone’s children? Why does this fellow

cry even after stepping into this musjid? Now I will again place that very

child in his wife’s womb” and he blessed Sapatnekar. Sapatnekar gratefully

bowed and touched Baba’s feet and Baba assured him, ”These feet are

ageless and holy. Place your entire faith in me and you will achieve your

object.”

 

(To be contd....)

 

Source http://www.saibharadwaja.org)