GO WHEREVER YOU LIKE, I AM WITH YOU

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GO WHEREVER YOU LIKE, I AM WITH YOU.

(This is in continuation to the previous article ‘Troubles Persist as long as

Body Persists’ posted on July 26, 2003)

Shri Kasinath Upasani Baba began to breathe. But he felt that his breathing

might stop at any moment. He was afraid to strain at stools or to go to sleep,

lest during these times the breathing should stop. He tried to get medicine.

But the doctors stated that he had got trouble in the course of his yogic

practice and they could not furnish with him a cure. Thinking that he should

resort to yogis only for a cure, he went (April 1911) to Rahuri where there was

a yogi Kulkarni by name. But that yogi, after listening to his account, stated

that he was not having any disease at all, that his breathing was one of the

accidents of yogic practice, that it would be come normal again, in due course

that his yogic condition was far advanced and advised him to go to Sai Baba.

Hearing the name ‘Sai Baba’ uttered by the Rahuri yogi, he said, "Sai Baba"

must naturally be a Mohammadan, and I am a Sastri'’ son and grandson, and so,

bowing to a Muslim is out of question"" Therefore,

Kasinath declined to go. But while staying with that yogi, he was walking in the

streets, and he met an old Mohamadan who questioned him about his trouble, and

then gave him the advice. This trouble is vatha and will be cured by your

avoiding cold drink and drinking water as hot as your mouth can bear." Dr.

Kasinath had no respect for this advice and treated it as worthless, and went

away to Jejuri on his way to meet a Hindu yogi Phatak by name at Moregaon. At

Jejuri he again sat up for yoga practice under a thick prickly pear bush, and

there, after some time, he felt a pange of thirst. To quench it, he went to a

stream and was about to drink its cold water. Suddenly the old man that

appeared at Rahuri, 156 miles away was seen at this stream, and he said, "What!

Are you trying to kill yourself? I told you to drink hot water and avoid cold

water." So, he went into the village and was taking hot drink only. With that,

i.e., with what he first thought to be a worthless recipe, health

was fairly restored, for he got good sleep, which he never had before. Then he

went to Narayan Maharaj of Kedgaonbet, Mumbai, a famous Datta Upasaka possessed

of marvellous powers. When he represented to Narayan Maharaj that he wanted help

for health, Narayan Maharaj made him chew betel and nut, and said that he was

finely painted inside and outside and asked him to go away. Kasinath could not

make out what he meant. When he went again and asked him, Narayan Maharaj said

that there was nothing more for him to do, and so he started back for Satara,

and, on the way called at the Rahuri yogi’s house, and on the instance of that

Rahuri yogi, went to Shirdi just to pay a brief formal visit to Sai Baba. This

was on 27th June 1911.

(Written by: HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji in Life of Sai Baba)