SUBMIT BENEFITS OF MIRACLES TO HIM

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SUBMIT BENEFITS OF MIRACLES TO HIM

Baba’s servant Reghu and five others were convicted and imprisoned on a

charge of outraging the modesty of a Marwadi woman and Raghu was crying out in

jail at Ahmednagar. Baba appeared to him and said. ‘I will see you

freed’. Next day Tatya Patil brought the appeal papers to Baba after

shown having them to some senior lawyers, who found that the conviction was

based upon six eye witnesses. They considered it hopeless. Tatya took the

papers to Bhav, Bhav means S. B. Dhumal at Nasik. When Tatya brought papers,

Dhumal looked them up and told him, "there are so many seniors above me. Why

don’t you take to Ahmednagar’. But Tatya replied, ‘Baba said

that you should present the appeal’, and that settled the course.

At once Dhumal drew up an appeal memo and went to the District Magistrate of

Ahmednagar at his bungalow. The District Magistrate asked him, ‘What is

it about?’ Then Dhumal mentioned that it was a conviction for outraging a

Marwadi woman’s modesty on the testimony of six eye witnesses. The

Magistrate remarked, ‘It seems a very strong case’. At once

Baba’s modus operandi was seen. Dhumal said, ‘Why six eye

witnesses, Your Honour? You can get sixty eye witnesses in a fraction ridden

village like Shirdi’. the Magistrate said, ‘Do you think so?’

Dhumal replied, ‘Think! Why, I am more than sure of it.’ When the

words were being uttered through the mouth of Dhumal, the mind of Magistrate

was being operated upon, and so he said, ‘If so, I acquit all your

appellants’. The Magistrate had not called for the papers from the lower

court, nor read the judgement nor appeal memo, but simply said, ‘Hand

over the appeal memo to me and tell me the facts you are relying upon’.

Dhumal practically dictated the appellate court judgement. The magistrate, a

senior European officer simply wrote it out, and at once acquitted the

appellants.

The Magistrate then asked Dhumal, ‘Is Sai Baba of yours a Hindu or

Muslim?’, showing that all the while it was Sai Baba who was operating on

his mind. Dhumal answered, ‘Neither the one nor the other. He is above

both’. What does he teach was the next question of the Magistrate. Dhumal

was up to the occasion. He said, ‘You must go to him yourself to know

that’. ‘Can I go?’ asked the Magistrate. Dhumal replied,

‘Yes, you can certainly go’. The Magistrate had an idea of going to

Shirdi some time later, but subsequently dropped the matter. So it was only for

the nonce he felt interested in Shirdi. Meanwhile, Dhumal without any surety

was taken Raghu and other five with him to Shirdi. That was the time when poor

Dixit’s daughter died there and people were going to attend the

cremation. Baba called some of them and said, ‘Don’t go, I will

show you some chamatkar’. Shortly thereafter the appellants arrived. Then

the people learnt how the senior District Magistrate acquitted the appellants

straightway without hearing the other side or without sending for the papers

and realised that this was the chamatkar. This is Manasthambam. Baba had

gripped the mind of District Magistrate and made him deal out summary justice

for the weird and great saint’s servants.

When Dhumal had gone to Ahmednagar to Reghu’s appeal, the parties paid him

Rs. 300. When Dhumal came before Baba, Baba asked him for dakshina over and over

again till his Rs. 300 was completely paid out because, the whole thing was due

to Baba’s chamatkar, and so, he must not receive or, at any rate, retain

any fee given for that.

Written by: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

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