FEW INFORMATION FROM M. B. REGE'S LETTER

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FEW INFORMATION FROM M. B. REGE’S LETTER

Let me first say that if you got the impression that I personally witnessed the

miracle of Baba going up a plank to sleep, it is incorrect. As far as I

recollect, I told you that my Revered brother Shri Dasganu Maharaj had told me

about it. There was no question of peeping through because Baba slept in the

open Masjid and Shri Dasganu told me that he had stood in the open space in

front of the Masjid to find how Baba went up; and that he saw Baba either on

the floor or on the plank. I told you that Shri Dasganu would not invent a

story and that I believed him as though I had been with him myself.

My information about the criminal case in which Baba gave evidence is that a

person from Shirdi committed theft of gold ornaments. He was put up for trial

and his defense was that Baba had given him the ornaments. A summon was issued

to Baba and later a warrant was also ordered. On a petition by some devotees

and others, the magistrate agreed to His examination on commission. Baba said

people called him Sai, His father was Allah, and his residence everywhere and

asked about the ornaments, it is said that He replied, "who else gives things".

The magistrate accepted his statement as of a person who was one with God but

held that the accused was guilty and sentenced him to imprisonment. When the

people told Baba about the sentence, He said, "Who gave the sentence, He who

gave the ornaments also gave the sentence".

Shri Radhakrishna Ayee once told me that she was three years senior to me. I met

her in 1910, when I was 22. She came from Ahmednagar to Shirdi according to her

statement in 1907. She did not cook food for Baba until about 1911 when

devotees celebrated some occasion like Guru Poornima when her room was used for

her and the devotees cooking food. Otherwise as far as I know she did not cook

even for herself because she used to get her food out of Baba’s Bhiksha.

After 1912 a part of the Bhiksha was sent to her and for me when I was there

since I was also asked not to take food elsewhere.

To my knowledge she did not go in front of Baba nor sing bhajan in front of him.

Whenever I visited Shirdi she and I with occasionally one or two others used to

wash the floor of the Masjid when Baba went to the Lendi and just, two months

before she passed away in 1917, she came out after washing the Masjid, put her

head on the open verandah where Baba used to wash himself in mornings and

apparently went into a trance. Baba returned from the Lendi and patting her on

the back said, "Ramkrishni, why are you worry when I am there". She started and

ran away to her house. That was the only occasion when I saw Baba saying

anything to her personally but on a number of occasions I found Baba having a

sort of telepathic communication with her.

(Our grateful thanks to Sri. K. Ramaswami, Past President, All India Sai Samaj,

Chennai for supplying this information from Sai Sudha)