DIVINE GRACE - Restoring life of Devotee

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DIVINE GRACE – Baba Restoring Life of Dead Devotee

 

 

But the greatest of all great supernatural powers Baba had was the

one of restoring to life a dead persons He exercised this power in

the case of the late Mrs. Malanbai the late D. R. Joshi Devgaonkar's

daughter and a close relative of V.S. Ratanjanker. She suffered from

T.B. but all medicines having failed, she insisted on her being taken

to Shirdi. When brought to Shirdi Baba asked her to lie down on a

blanket and take nothing but water. She carefully followed these

instructions but after a week or so she died one early morning. Baba

was then in the Chowdi; and for the first time in Shirdi history Baba

did not leave Chowdi though it was past 8 A.M. The daughter's

parents, with heavy hearts were preparing for the funeral when

Malanbai appeared to breathe opened her eyes and looked round about,

as if much frightened. Then she said, "A black person had been

carrying me away; very much frightened, I cried out to Baba for help;

Baba took His staff and gave him good cudegelling, snatched me away

from his hand and carried me to Chowdi." Without seeing Chowdi she

gave a correct description of the Chowdi. Just at this time Baba left

His Chowdi bed bawling out, striking his staff against the ground and

came shouting to Dixit's Vada where the girl had put up. Seeing

Malanbai restored to life there was joy all round.

 

 

DIVINE GRACE – Fulfilling Last Desire of Buffalo

 

Another day at breakfast time Baba said to Mrs. Jog, "Mother prepare

to-day plenty of pulse puddings, apply plenty of clarified butter to

them, and after the noon arti (waving of lights) feed with them the

buffalo whom you will find at your back door." She was overjoyed at

this and fed the buffalo with those puddings. The buffalo heartily

enjoyed this meal and doing justice to them, rested there with ease.

Strangely enough however the buffalo soon died. This frightened the

lady devotee, who looked up all the vessels used in the preparation

of the puddings to assure herself that no poisonous substance had,

without he knowledge, found its way into the cooking utensils. She

stood aghast at the idea that she had been instrumental in bringing

about the buffalo's death and that not only she had committed a sin

this way but she had made herself liable to a prosecution by the

buffalo owner. Terrified at this idea she rushed to Baba and narrated

to Him how unhappy she was at what had happened. Baba emphatically

told her, "Mother, you have done no wrong; the only desire that the

buffalo had in that body was, this eating of the sweet pudding; in

satisfying this desire of hers you have earned religious merit, since

she has now obtained a released from the animal body. She has now

gone into a superior body; so do not worry and as to your fear of

prosecution, rest assured, no one is going to come to claim, this

buffalo at all. This was enough to set at rest the troubled mind of

that lady devotee Mrs. Jog.

 

(Courtesy: Shri Sai The Superman)