DIVINE VISIT TO JAMNER

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DIVINE GRACE – JAMNER MIRACLE

 

Baba's interest is in every one in whom a devotee is interested. Nana

was deeply interested in the fate, health, and life of his daughter

Minatai. About 1904 or so, Nana Chandorkar was Deputy Collector at

Jamner (then unconnected by train with Jalgaon). He was at Jamner

along with his pregnant daughter, whose pregnancy was in a very

advanced state. Unexpectedly the delivery, being the first delivery,

proved trouble some and risky. The pains were prolonged for many long

hours, and the poor young lady suffered torture.

 

What could poor Nana do? He knew that Baba was aware of everything,

and that there was no necessity to send a telegram or letter to him.

So, he must do what he could in his own place. Being a very orthodox

and pious Brahmin, he started a Kastanivarana Homa with the help of

his Sastri. Still no relief was obtained. All the while, Baba was

fully aware of what was going on at Jamner.

 

At evening time, he called Ramgir Bua, a Gosavi, whom he used to call

`Babugir'. That Babugir was about to start away from there but Baba

commissioned him to go to Jamner first in order to deliver to Nana

Chandorkar a packet of udhi and a set of papers containing Bhisama's

Aratis for the puja of Baba, modelled on the Pandharpur Aratis. Some

one present handed over Rs.2/- to the Gosavi to enable him to perform

this journey. That Gosavi complained that the rail portion of his

journey, namely, Kopergaon to Jalgaon, itself would take up Rs. 1-14-

0 leaving only a balance of 2 annas to cover the ordinary road

journey of 30 miles. Baba simply told him, "Babugir, Go, everything

will be provided." Accordingly the Gosavi started.

 

He got down at Jalgaon and was in a quandary. Railway officials were

troubling visitors coming by train from infected areas, with a view

to enforce quarantine rules, and there was no method by which he

could escape them and go to Jamner. Suddenly he found a liveried peon

bawling out, `Who is Babugir from Shirdi?' Then this Bua said. "I am

Ramgir Bua whom Baba used to call `Babugir, and I am from Shirdi."

Then that peon said that he had been sent by his `master' with a

tonga and a horse to fetch him to Jamner. He gave him a meal also.

Babugir fancied that Baba had sent word or wired to Chandorkar, and

thus provided conveyance and meal for him. The distance of 30 miles

was soon covered up by the tonga, and when very near Nana's quarters,

the carriage stopped. The peon told Bua, "There is the master's

house; you had better go".

 

Babugir got down for a natural purpose and when he turned back and

looked, there was no peon, no horse, no carriage, nothing at all. How

they could disappear on a clearly visible road, he could not

understand. But anyhow right in front of him was the Deputy

Collector's house. So he went there and found the Deputy Collector

and his wife waiting. They had heard the rumble of a horse and

carriage and were anxiously waiting. Babugir handed over to Nana the

udhi saying, "This is Baba's udhi sent to you for your daughter's

sake."

 

At once the udhi was applied to Minatai, and thereafter it was no

longer Minatai that was crying but her new born child, for she had

easy delivery. The arati paper also was handed over to Nana for his

approval, so that it might be used at Baba's puja at Shirdi. When Bua

thanked the Deputy Collector for his timely sending of the cart and

food, Nana was taken aback. He said he was not aware of anybody

coming from Shirdi and so had not sent anything. Then it was both Bua

and the Deputy Collector understood what Baba meant when he said,

"Go, Babugir, everything will be provided".

 

It was Baba's extraordinary powers that provided the carriage, the

horse, the liveried peon and the meal, without Chandorkar knowing

anything about them. This shows how deeply Baba was interested in the

welfare of Nana's family, and how he took upon himself and used his

mysterious powers to help him in such extremities as a difficult

parturition in a far off place like Jamner at a time when no proper

medical aid was available. Thus Baba saved not merely Chandorkar's

life but also the life of those connected with or dependent on him,

by the use of all his supernatural powers.

 

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

(Vasuki Mahal Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Trust, Coimbatore-641025, India)