BABA'S UDHI FOR UNIVERSAL CURE

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UDHI FOR UNIVERSAL CURE

Baba said to Kusa Bhav, "I shall give you now my varam. Henceforth you will have

the power to produce the udhi, that is, udhi from the dhunimayi of Shirdi, by

merely remembering me and holding forth your hands. Give this udhi freely. It

will help all people and you will get punya. This was said to contrast

Baba’s boon with Kusa Bhav’s previously distributing stolen pedas,

which if eaten would result in sin.

As Kusa Bhav was giving this statement, he was seated on a bed at Poona on a

cold day and suddenly he stretched our his hand with closed eyes and uplifted

face, and in a minute he said, "Here is udhi." His palms were full of udhi.

"Hold your hands and receive the udhi" he said. Mr. Avaste, who was with Mr. B.

V. N. Swami, stretched out a piece of paper as the udhi was falling from Kusa

Bhav’s hands, and it was found to be warm, coming fresh from the

Dhunimayi on a cold day.

Kusa Bhav used this power of producing udhi with great effect. There was an

aristocratic family in Poona where a patient had a longstanding illness,

paralysis probably, and Kusa Bhav, by the use of this udhi, cured him. "This

production of udhi", Kusa Bhav says, "is a power vested in him by Baba once and

for all and does not require any japa on his part, but only prayer. This udhi

removes various ills and might even cure barreness." He said that he had

practically given up the production of pedas; but the temptation of producing

them was sometimes irresistible. Once at Shirdi itself, this Kusa Bhav produced

pedas. He also used his old power of exorcising Abhicharan in the case of

Rajmachikar’s grandson, who was suffering from mysterious biba marks,

that is, marks of the marking nut on his body, on his cloths, even his bed

clothes and cured him.

During one visit, Baba told Kusa Bhav, "Next time you come, come two of you."

His father was with him at the time and Baba’s order meant, "Come

married." Shortly thereafter he got married, but he went to Shirdi alone

without his wife, at first. Then his wife came to Shirdi and took him away to

lead a married life. In consequence of this, he had children and grandchildren.

 

On one occasion, Baba told him, "Why do you take the trouble to come all this

distance to see me? I am there." Kusa Bhav could not understand this. Then Baba

described a specific plot of land in Mirzgaon and Kusa Bhav went there and after

clearing the prickly pear on it, found a samadhi there. That samadhi he began to

worship. There he got darsan of Baba, that is, Datta Baba, whose samadhi it was,

and that Datta Baba always appears once a year on Datta Jayanthi. That saint,

however, was called Pakir Shah. He lived 200 years ago and held the land on

which the tomb now exists as an inam from the jagirdar. That Pakir Shah or

Datta as he is called, occasionally talks of Sai Baba, though he talks very

little. People can see him only once a year. This Pakir Shah does not give any

help either for jnana marga or bhakti marga. His appearance merely inspires

faith. he is to be seen and worshipped or bowed to, and he says, "Sai Baba is

alive", but whether as a spirit or as some Avadar, he does not say. Pakir Shah

says that he and Sai Baba are inter-related as persons of the same order. Baba

received Kusa Bhav from one Datta Maharaj and left him under the care of Datta

Pakir. Kusa Bhav passed away and his tomb near the foot of Shivaji Hills is

worshipped by his devotees.

Author: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

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