Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

January 20, 2006

You will have no more difficulties”. She told the matter to her husband and

he told her that it was a powerful mantra. So Baba had in short bestowed on

her progeny, health, sustenance and spiritual instruction and had warded off

many difficulties such as illness and scandal.

Smt. and Sri S.N. Pradhan of Bombay (Santha Cruz) were devotees of Sai Baba.

Once they were financially hard-pressed and felt that Baba did not grace

them with any experience. After reading the life history of Baba they wanted

to visit Shirdi but Mr. Pradhan was ill. On 10-11-1953 before going to bed

he fervently prayed to Baba to take him to Shirdi. He felt the inner call

too. The next morning, while preparing chapathis, his wife noticed that

footprints of Sai Baba were present, mysteriously impressed on the lid of

the butter-can. Soon their neighbour who wasn’t a devotee of Baba told them

that he had a dream on the previous night: “That fakir in that photo in

Pradhan’s house” came to his house but he drove the fakir out; the fakir

then entered Pradhan’s house. This corroborated the fact that Baba did visit

Pradhan’s house in his subtle form. So, too Baba’s footprints appeared in

the house of a Sai devotee, Tejaswini Rele. Later Baba appeared to her in a

dream and told her that he had granted her wish to see his footprints.

We shall now note an instance which shows that when a devotee invokes the

name of Baba in distress, it could mean the invocation of some other saint.

One R.Morewallah, solicitor of Bombay was going to Thana by train. Owing to

crowding he could not board the train properly. The train moved and he

slipped and fell down. In fright he cried out ‘Sai’! An old man pulled the

chain and held him securely. The train stopped. The railway guard came to

enquire but the old man was nowhere to be seen. Later when Morewallah’s son

visited a saint, the latter said. “Had I not saved your father’s life in

1953?”

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