DIVINE GRACE - Baba Removes Hankering for Drink

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BABA REMOVES HANKERING FOR DRINK

 

Baba to D. V. Sambare (who was getting addicted): `Boy, why do you

behave like this? See, I give you this warning first, that you should

give up drink. If you do not heed this, I will not warn you again but

leave you to your fate.'

 

D. V. Sambare forswore liquor. He was free of the hankering.

 

One day his superior invited him to a dinner, a big party and came up

to see that the glassful kept before him was not drunk by D. V.

Sambare . The latter offered excuses, which were laughed at.

 

In this perplexity of D. V. Sambare, all the hall lights were

extinguished suddenly. The host went to look at the cause. Meanwhile

an obliging neighbour drank up D. V. Sambare's glass.

 

The host returned, saw the glass empty and thanking his pleading was

successfully went away.

 

Baba performed a chamatkar to save D. V. Sambare, - for none could

discover how the lights were extinguished and again lit up by

themselves.

 

In another occasion:

 

Baba to (a) Santaram and (b) a goldsmith boy who were addicted to

drink: "Stay six days here." From that time love of drink left them

and they continued free from that vice even after they left Shirdi.

 

 

(Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji)