Devotees Experiences by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji, Sri Jayker continues..

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Devotee’s Experiences by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji,

Dt: 17-10-1936

Shama Rao Jayker, aged 70, painter, Ville Parle, continues:

1n 1917, we were living at Poona in a dilapidated house, the ceiling and walls

of which were crumbling. To prevent the falling of dust from the ceiling, cloth

had been struck up under the ceiling. One night, in such a room, there was a

picture of Baba with a kerosene lamp burning in front of it, and my

one-year-old child also sleeping close by. At dead of night, there was a sudden

thud, the ceiling cloth had fallen, loose bricks from some of the walls had

fallen on the cloth and the debris came with the cloth on the floor. As the

ceiling cloth covered the whole ceiling, it might be expected to fall with the

bricks on it, on the child and the lamp if not on Baba’s picture. But Baba’s

providence willed it otherwise. The debris and the cloth fell within a foot of

the child and the lamp and did not touch either the child or the lamp. If they

fallen on the child, it would have been crushed; it on the lamp, there would

have been a choking fire on the child and other parts

of the house might have been endangered. In 1917, we went and stayed for 10

months at Shirdi. We put up at Baba Bhav’s (i.e.,) Sharadabai’s house. A snake

was living in a hole in the small portion in which we lived and we were in

danger. One night, my son and others saw the reptile emerge from its hole and

made short work of it.

In 1923, my son Surendra, then aged ten, had typhoid. In the course of his

illness, he cried out one day, that gas was rising upward from his belly and

pressing hard evidently against the diaphragm and heart etc., And he shouted

‘Save me, Save me.’ He had become extremely weak from the typhoid and I feared

even to touch him, much more to press or massage him. I merely cried in a very

loud voice, "Baba". The upward pressure at once abated.

Baba’s help to me spiritually consisted of direct oral advice or symbology in

matters of dakshina etc. Once he told me "Jaise karale tai sa BhogeAs you

sow as you will reap". On another occasion, he said looking at me, "guru seva

karove" i.e.) ‘we must serve the Guru". He did not, however, give me any

mantropadesa. I had already in my twentieth year received that from a guru, and

had uttered it for the prescribed period of 12 years and more. Baba’s teachings

were mostly on moral questions and conduct. He once said amidst a group of

listeners’’ "Aapala aapan hovun paha jnala tyala vicharnayat kaya artha aahe"

‘we must see (things) for ourselves. What good is there is going about

inquiring of his man and that man for his views and experiences? At the time

this was Sai, there was a man amongst us who was going about asking people. "Is

Baba a siddha? Is he an avatar purusha etc.’ Baba evidently depreciated such

inquiries when the inquirer had the

opportunity of directly facing Baba, getting into contact with him and then

deciding on every question for himself with more certainty than could be

obtained from reports of others’ experiences and views.

Once even about H. S. Dixit who was noted for his obedience to Baba. Baba made a

remark. Baba called Dixit, asked him for dakshina of Rs. 30 when he had no money

and sent him to Baba Saheb Jog to get the money. Even before H. S. Dixit left

the compound of the Masjid, Baba referring to him said, "He is unsteady". At

that time Dixit had still his former habit of making inquiries and

investigations about Baba instead of directly contacting Baba on every matter

and taking his decision upon the results of such contacts. This was, of course,

sometime prior to Baba’s Samadhi. Things changed later on undoubtedly.

 

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