THINK BABA AND GET HIS BLESSING.

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DIVINE GRACE – THINK BABA AND GET HIS BLESSING.

However, Dhumal sought and obtained Baba’s help frequently, mostly for

temporal and professional matters. Several of them are interesting and so they

may be set forth here. About his own profession, the Public Prosecutorship at

Nasik was offered to him when he was quite prosperous. Dhumal wrote to Shama to

consult Baba. The reply came from Baba saying, "Why accept the new? The old is

quite good." So, he did not accept it. His practice was flourishing and he was

not a loser by not accepting the Public Prosecutorship.

He appealed to Baba in professional matters also and followed the directions of

Baba in such matters. There was a case of grievous hurt in which three brothers

were convicted. An opponent of theirs had a bone broken and the injured man had

been attended to by a medical man who was not a qualified or certified doctor,

being kept in his private nursing home for over 20 days. When Dhumal went up

with his appeal memo and bail application, the Sessions Judge, a senior

European Officer remarked, "The case looks strong. I am not going to allow

bail." At once Dhumal thought of Baba and turned to the Judge. He told the

Judge, "The evidence of a bone having been broken is that of an unqualified

person, a quack and the prosecution evidence is interested and unreliable. The

appellants are all agriculturists and the only workers in their homes. If they

are all in jail, their farms would perish." At once the Judge allowed bail.

When the case came up for argument, the Public Prosecutor wanted S. B. Dhumal

not to argue on merits but to simply ask for clemency, in which case he would

not oppose. But S. B. Dhumal made up his mind to argue on merits, and finally

wound up by asking for a reduction of the sentence. The Judge said, "For

reduction of sentence, so much time need not have been taken." When Public

Prosecutor argued, the Judge asked how the grievous hurt could be made, as the

opinion about the breakage of the bone was that of a quack and not that of a

qualified doctor. The Public Prosecutor replied, "The injured man had been in

the hospital for about 20 days". The Judge sharply answered, "You can argue

that before a Third Class Magistrate and not before me." The Public Prosecutor

collapsed with that remark and did not argue any further. The appellants were

acquitted.

We shall give another instance, Sri Gopal Rao Buty of Nagpur, a mill owner, was

anxious to help Dhumal and wanted to send him to England. He said that he would

provide for the expenses of Dhumal’s journey and the support of

Dhumal’s family during his absence in England. All these had been settled

between them, and when Shama went to ask Baba whether Bhav, that is Dhumal, was

to be sent to Bilayat, Baba asked, "What for?" Shama said, "To study for the

Bar." Baba said, "No." His Hayat and Vilayat are not in Bilayat but in this

country". Therefore, Dhumal did not go to England, but his practice was not the

worst for it.

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

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