DIVINE PROTECTION AGAINST OFFICIAL TROUBLES

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DIVINE GRACE – PROTECTION AGAINST OFFICIAL TROUBLES

Benefits conferred on Purandhare were innumerable and they varied in their

character. All of them were founded upon Baba’s wonderful, unseen

guardianship and the exercise of superhuman powers of guarding his dear ward or

devotee from all trouble. We should just give an instance of some of these other

benefits and stop.

Purandhare was anxious always to be with his object of love. That is the

characteristic of love. So, he tried to go to Shirdi as often as possible. Baba

objected to that and told him that he need not go to Shirdi so often. Baba told

him to work in company with H. S. Dixit, and the two generally went together.

Dixit was at the top of the ladder, rich, influential, famous, highly learned

and commanding respect from every one. Purandhare was the exact opposite of all

this and yet Purandhare in his anxiety, would try to go along with Dixit every

time the latter went. This of course exposed him to some risks on some

occasions. Baba detained him at Shirdi far beyond the extent of his leave. On

one such occasion, the Foreman of his office asked him for an explanation and

threatened him. Purandhare’s defiant reply was, ‘Here is my

resignation. Take it’. Purandhare was so sensitive. His superior Mr.

Wilson knew all about his relations with Baba and asked him where he was

overstaying his leave. Purandhare’s reply was, ‘With Baba’.

Wilson knew at once that without Baba’s permission neither Purandhare nor

anybody else should leave Shirdi and so he tore up his resignation and told the

Foreman that Purandhare was not his subordinate, much to the chagrin of that

Foreman.

On one occasion, Purandhare was anxious to run to Shirdi. But during the night

Baba appeared in a dream and told him, ‘Beware, if you come I will hit

you. Do not come. Why should you come so often? I am not away from you. I am

with you. Do not play the fools.’ He was wondering why Baba forbids his

visit. But he obeyed the order. The next morning there was a strike among the

labourers in his mill, and he discovered that Baba was right for, had he gone

away, the superior officials would think that Purandhare was at the bottom of

the strike and had got away to hide the fact. But as he remained at the

station, he was not suspected and he was obviously innocent of any sympathy

with the strikers. Instances of this sort in which Baba conveyed advice and

warning are too numerous to be fully described. They all tended to confirm

Purandhare’s idea that his living God was this Shirdi Baba and he was

perfectly safe in following his advice and directions.

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

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