Baba's Acceptance as God

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GURU POORNIMA GREETINGS TO ALL OUR BELOVED SAIBANDHUS.

 

 

GURU BABA IS NOT AND IS GOD.

 

Baba never told that He is God, but acknowledged with a smile when

events forced Him. The following incident is one such incident.

 

Baba (in 1917) had with him Mrs. Tarkhad and her son Master Tarkhad.

 

Baba: Boy, give me eight Rupees Dakshina.

 

Boy (Master Tarkhad ): Baba, I have not got Rupees eight.

 

Baba: Go and get it from Bapu Sahib Jog.

 

(Master Tarkhad went to Jog and found him reading Dhruva Charitra and

commenting on it. Jog said "Saints, though not God, have some powers

derived from Him etc.," the boy angrily started back and came to Baba)

 

Master Tarkhad : Baba, why did you send me there?

 

Baba: What is the matter?

 

Master Tarkhad : They are vilifying you there, saying that you are

merely a man and not God.

 

Baba: Then what is the untruth in that? Hello! What am I? A petty

fakir! I am not God. How great is God! NO one can compare with him.

 

Master Tarkhad : You deceive us by speaking thus. We fully believe

you are God. If anyone belittles you, how can we endure it? Is it not

true that we should not stay even a second where saints are derided.

 

Baba: Yes.

 

Master Tarkhad : God is not angry, if He is spoken ill of. But He

will not endure it, if His devotees are spoken ill of. Is that not so.

 

Baba: Yes.

 

Master Tarkhad : Then what is the good of listening to a discussion

whether such and such a saint is great, and such other is not so?

 

Baba: You should not stop even one second at a place where anybody

talks ill of a saint.

 

Baba: (stroking the boy's head affectionately)" Read Pothi. have Nama

Japa.

 

Master Tarkhad: If I break off in the middle, I incur sin. So, I will

not.

 

Baba (to Mrs. Tarkhad): Mother, I have to take the entire

responsibility for your son.

 

Mrs. Tarkhad: For all of us, it is you that take care. (Both bowed to

Baba. Then some other came.)

 

Baba (to those): I have to take thought for my devotees. and if a

devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands, and by four, four

hands lift him and support him thus. I will not let him fall.

 

Master Tarkhad: Baba, just now you said you are not God but a petty

Fakir. How then can you have four hands?

 

(Baba did not reply, but smiled and looked at Master Tarkhad with

love and approval.)

 

(Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji)