I WILL GO WITH YOU!

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I WILL GO WITH YOU!

Mrs. Chandrabai was an ardent devotee of Sai Baba. She visited Shirdi now and

then but her husband Borkar never did. But as he was his devotee’s

husband, Baba showered his grace on him too. In 1909 when Borkar was engaged in

a road construction at Pandharpur, Chandrabai visited Shirdi and stayed there

for some days. One day Sai Baba said to her, "You had better go to Pandharpur

at once, and I will go with you. I need no conveyance to travel."

When she reached Pandharpur she was shocked to learn her husband had left his

work and went away to Bombay. She had only a little money in her purse and she

had two companions with her. She just managed to go up to Kurdwadi and there

she sat in the railway station, brooding gloomily about her helpless state.

Suddenly a fakir appeared before her and asked her why she was gloomy. She gave

an evasive reply but was surprised when he told her that her husband was at

Dhond and that she should at once go there. But Chandrabai had not the needed

fare. Then the fakir at once handed over three tickets to Dhond and went away

before she could ask him anything. She then proceeded to Dhond.

Meanwhile, Borkar who was at Dhond railway station drank a little tea and was

dozing on a bench. He had a reverie or a dream in which a fakir appeared before

him and said, "Why do you neglect my mother? She is coming here by the next

train, and is in carriage number s0-and-so" and he mentioned even the number of

the carriage. Borkar got up wondering who that fakir could be. The train arrived

and Chandrabai stepped down from the railway carriage of the same number was

mentioned by the ‘visionary’ fakir. Borkar received her and told

her of his strange experience and asked her to show him the picture of Sai

Baba. It was the same fakir that had appeared to him! Did not Sai Baba assure

Chandrabai that he would go with her and that he needed no conveyance?

Sai Baba often manifested himself before his devotee in some other form. In such

cases Baba always confirmed it to the devotee.

Written by: HH Pujya Acharya Bharatwaja in Sai Baba the Master