PURE DEVOTION CONQUERS

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PURE DEVOTION CONQUERS

 

With Baba's guidance, Nana developed so much of reverence for the

female form that even when alone in a sequestered chamber, within

closed doors with a young, beautiful person, he still would retain

reverence for the lady and not have thoughts of sex. This was

demonstrated in the case of Bannu Mayi.

 

Bannu Mayi (a young Muslim girl of 20) lived in a village, Bodegaom,

50 miles away from Ahmednagar, and she had the local reputation of

being a mad girl. She was possessed of great beauty. She behaved most

erratically and wandered anywhere and everywhere without dress amidst

bushed and thorns and did not show the least sign of observing the

rules of propriety demanded of women. Her mother thought she was

hopelessly mad. So also thought most of the villagers.

 

But a few had noted that her conduct showed that she was highly

inspired and that she was a saint. Nana wanted to take darsan of her

and asked Baba for permission. Baba, though he first objected,

finally granted the permission saying, ''Go, you will have darsan."

That darsan was no easy joke. Nana went with plenty of preparations,

taking a tent, bathing materials, ornaments, food, Sari (dress) etc.,

and setting these up, was waiting for her. He could not find out

where she was, and nobody could tell him anything about her. Some

people even got angry at Nana, a young officer questioning about

whereabouts of a lady who mostly went naked. Then finally, worried in

his mind, Nana thought of Baba and prayed to him. When he opened his

eyes, Bannu Mayi was right in front of him on the road. He made his

prostration (namaskar) with a feeling of reverence and without the

least touch of the sexual urge. He began to take out the thorns that

were found on her feet, but in a second, the saint, who did not care

for such good offices, got up and went away.

 

Again Nana was in great difficulties. He wanted that she should come,

have a bath, wear the cloth and the ornaments he had brought for her,

and should taste the naivedya which he had placed inside the tent. He

waited and waited and at last prayed to Baba. Suddenly Bannu Mayi

appeared, entered the tent, had her bath, put new cloths, the

ornaments and the tali or token of Saumangalya (as Goddess Parvati

must wear a tali) specially prepared for her, and ate some of the

naivedya. Nana fell at her feet, treating her as Mother Goddess, and

at once she disappeared.

 

Nana spent the night in a temple within closed doors, and early

morning, before starting to go away, he just thought that it would be

a special blessing if Bannu Mayi should give him one more darsan

before he departed. In a second, Bannu Mayi was somehow there within

closed doors right in front of him. Nana fell at her feet.

 

Obviously Bannu Mayi was a highly advanced Siddha and perfectly pure,

and Nana with perfect purity, through only of falling at her feet,

and had not the least touch of sex urge at the presence of young and

beautiful lady in solitude within closed doors. This, Bannu Mayi's

case is a fairly good proof that Nana had conquered his sex urge at

least to the extreme possible.

 

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

(Vasukimahal Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Trust, Coimbatore – 641025, India)