Devotees Experiences by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimaha Swamiji, Baba and His Pictures

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Devotees Experiences by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji,

Dt: 1st December 1936

S.A. Patnakar, Kayastha, 42, Artist (cinema), Dadar, Bombay, says:

I was first told of Sai Baba by my friend Mr. Samant. I learnt about his

greatness and goodness and began the worship of his photo, which I hung up on a

wall in my house. Once my child had fever for many days. One night at 2 or 3

a.m. a fakir was touching the child. I came near and made namaskar with my

folded palms. He waved his hands at me bidding me not to approach him and said:

"The child will be alright." On a later occasion, two children were unwell. Then

noticing that the temperature of one child was continuing high for days. I

looked at Baba’s picture and prayed that he should save the child. I took the

thermometer in my hand and placed it on the photo and said, "If you are looking

after us, how is it that these children are suffering? I shall place the

thermometer on the child and take the temperature. "If it has come down, I

shall have faith in you and I shall bring the child to you for Ramanavami. If

not, how can I have faith?" So saying I removed the

thermometer from the picture and applied it to the child. Judge my surprise when

I found that the child’s temperature was normal!

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAI BABA AND HIS PICTURES

by Pujya Acharya E Bharadwaja in Sai Baba The Master

As we have not yet transcended the identification of ourselves with our bodies,

we cannot help associating our idea of Baba’s greatness with his physical form.

For, after all, we know him first and foremost in that form; and, without it, we

would never, know of him; and to love him with all our heart, to impress it

indelibly on our minds, it is very essential for our progress. For Jesus the

Christ too, like Baba, though he was ‘the word’ he was ‘Word made flesh’ in

order to be known to us.

Dr. Gawankar records in his book how once a few visitors requested Baba to

permit them to photograph him. At first Baba refused. However, on persuasion he

agreed to get only his feet photographed. But they tried to take an unfair

advantage of it by taking a full picture. To their astonishment only Baba’s

legs came off in the photograph. When yet another took a photograph without his

consent, the picture that came off was that of the photographer’s own guru and

not that of Sai Baba! Besides, Baba attended the dinner in Hemadpant’s house

only in the form of his picture. When Bapusaheb Tarkhad forgot to offer

naivedya to Baba’s picture in his shrine in Bandra, Sai Baba referred to the

matter at Shirdi to Mrs. Tarkhad and her son precisely at the same hour. That

is the relationship between Sai Baba and his picture. Thus, we should look upon

it as Baba himself who came to us in the form of the photograph. The remarkable

rewards of such an attitude on our part are its

ultimate justification.

 

 

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