Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

Kakasaheb Dixit once came to Shirdi to invite Sai Baba to his son’s

sacred-thread ceremony at Nagpur. Nanasheb Chandorkar too arrived there to

invite Baba to his son’s marriage at Gwalior. Sai Baba told both of them to

take Shama with them as his representative and assured them that after

visiting Banaras and Prayag he would be ‘ahead of Shama’.

Then Shama started and, after attending the two functions at Nagpur and

Gwalior, he visited the holy-places Banaras and Ayodhya. He spent twenty

one days at Ayodhya and two months in Banaras. Then he went to Gaya and

stayed in the house of a priest. When the Shirdi party arrived there, a big

photograph of Baba was there, fixed in the central hall. Shama was

overwhelmed by Baba’s love and his eyes were brimmed with tears. He was

told that, the priest visited Shirdi twelve years earlier. There at the

house of Shama, he saw a big photograph of Sai Baba which he loved to

possess. When shama asked Baba whether he should give the picture to the

visitor, Baba told Shama to do so. And thus it came to Gaya, years ahead of

Shama. And strangely enough Shama happened to stay at the same priest’s

house. And Baba knew of this far ahead. The devotee could realize the

literal truth of Baba’s assurance that he would be ahead of him. Till Shama

saw the picture, neither he nor the priest remembered anything of their

previous acquaintance with each other.

It is not as though Baba’s picture is a living force only to those who were

his staunch devotees. It is so even with others.

 

Kaka Maharaj of Dhopeswar was a famous saint. When he once visited Poona,

he was surrounded by a crowd of his devotees; every one of them requested

him to come to his house for dinner. Among them was Sai Baba’s devotee,

H.V. Sathe. The Maharaj told him that he could not oblige him. But by

evening the great saint had himself sent word to Sathe that he would visit

his house! Sathe who received the message to his office, at once returned

to his house and made the necessary arrangements. When finally Kaka Maharaj

visited his house, Sathe asked him why he changed his earlier resolve. Kaka

Maharaj pointed to the photograph of Baba in the house and said, “He would

not allow me to rest till I visited you!”

 

(To be contd...)

 

 

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