BABA’S ANGER MEANT TO DRIVE AWAY ADVERSE EVIL FORCES

December 11, 2002

On one occasion, when he was uttering words in a towering rage, he uttered in

the middle, ‘Let blessing be to all’. "Sarve janah sukhino

bhavantu". This blessing cannot co-exist with anger. It is characteristic of a

peaceful and loving frame of mind. Baba, therefore, might be considered during

his towering rage to be driving away spells of thought or other ethereal waves

which might be coming to harm his devotees or the public and the anger might be

necessary to quench and beat back those waves.

Two such instances of useful anger may be pointed out here. When B. V. Dev

wanted Baba to overcome some wretched force of destiny which prevented him from

completing his study or pothi or parayan of Jnaneswari whenever he started it,

Baba first repeatedly took large dakshinas from him, finally fell foul of him,

got suddenly angry, and used these words, ‘Why are you stealing my rag?

Is it your way to steal and that despite your grey hairs? I will kill you with

a hatchet’ . This might be a special shock treatment needed for

Dev’s mental state. Dev wondered what this wonder thunder meant. Then

Baba cooled down and said, ‘Does not matter. Give me Rs. 12

dakshina’. Dev gave the dakshina. Then Baba said, ‘Go on reading

pothi’. Dev then started reading pothi, namely, Jnaneswari. Till that

time, his pothi reading was ending in failure. After Baba’s anger

directed evidently against adverse forces, there were no more obstacles.

A very similar incident took place when Gadgi Bua (who was building a big

dharmasala at Nasik for which funds first came in lakhs and later no money was

forthcoming) approached Baba in order to overcome the unseen unlucky

(duradrishta) forces. As soon as he came near, Baba used angry and bad words

and curses and abused him. The Bua laughed out. Baba also laughed out, Gadgi

Bua went away. Baba had driven away the adverse forces, and Gadgi Bua again got

plenty of funds, and the dharmasala was completed. Thus Baba’s anger is

not to be understood literally. It is evidently directed against unseen forces.

Similarly when Baba came as a young fakir and stayed in some lonely place, he

used to shout with anger, laugh or do other things. He was evidently always

dealing from the beginning with unseen forces and directing his anger, laugher,

etc., at them. G. S. Khapharde noted several times in his diary that Baba used

‘hard words’ meaning foul and angry abuse, the cause of which the

persons present could not understand.

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

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

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