DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Sawmiji, Dt: 01-12-1936

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Devotees Experiences by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji,

Dt: 1st December 1936

Ramgir Bua (styled by Sai Baba Babugir), disciple of Gangagir of Sada (4 miles

off Shirdi), age 76, Shirdi says:

As a young boy, I studied in the school at Shirdi. (This house is which I have

been and am residing is the house of my mother’s grandmother). I was a student

when Sai Baba came first to Shirdi. He was then accompanied by on Patel of

Dhupkheda, who came to settle the marriage of a girl with Hamid, the son of

Aminbhai of Shirdi. Baba appeared to be 25 or 30 years old, at that time. He

stayed then as a guest of Aminbhai. Ina very short time (i.e.) after a few

days, Baba and Patel went back. Two months latter, he returned to Shirdi. He

returned alone and since that made Shirdi his permanent residence.

That Dhupkeda Patel was giving an account of his missing horse and how Baba

helped him in tracing it. I heard the account myself. This is the account –

Patel went about in search of his missing animal, and then he came across Sai

Baba. Baba asked him what he was searching for? ‘My horse’ was Patel’s reply.

Then Baba, pointing in one direction, said, "See there, near the streamlet, is

your horse." Patel went as directed and found his horse. Patel told us that he

found Baba with a dhuni or fire in front of him. Ramgir Bua does not recollect

if there any other miracle except the tracing of the lost horse.

When Baba came, he had long hair flowing down to his buttocks. He wore a green

kupni, a skull cap next his hair and over it a Bagawi (i.e. ochre-coloured)

topi with a chilm and match box. He did not wrestle. He got his bread by

begging. Yamunabhai’s mother-in-law (i.e. the Teli Narayan’s wife), next door

to the Mosque give him a roti. He was giving medicines to people.

Moidinbhai’s son-in-law was mantrika (i.e. a magician) living at Belapur. That

man came to Shirdi. Baba and he had a quarrel. Then Baba left the village and

lived in the jungles 1 or 2 miles away from Shirdi. He frequently starved

there. If people went to him he would beat them.

Gangagir Bua of Vanjargaon came to Shirdi. He spoke to Nana Saheb Dengle of

Nimgaon and to other in high praise of Sai Baba, and said, "This (Baba) is a

Chintamani". Therefore, nana Saheb Dengle went to Sai Baba and bowed at his

feet, while he was seated at the foot of a Babul tree. Later on, Baba came to

Shirdi and was living at the foot of a Margosa tree. Once, Baba himself spoke

of that tree, that under it (i.e. its shade) was a tomb. Baba was living under

that tree for 4 or 5 years. From the neem tree foot, he moved to the Mosque and

made that his residence ever afterwards. Baba lived about 50 years here after

his arrival.

Baba did not do any wrestling. But Gangagir was first a wrestler, and he

wrestled with Dandalgaon Patel, a Mahratta. In that engagement, he came off

second best. He then gave up wrestling and became a Bua (i.e.) an ascetic. This

was approximately about the time of Baba’s first arrival at Shirdi. Baba and

Gangagir recognized each other.

I was throughout my life a wanderer. But every now and then I would return to

Shirdi. So I know much of what I said above by hearing from others and

verifying myself. I know a few remarkable facts about Baba. When Baba got

inflammation of his eyes, and they were looking red, he pounded pepper into

paste and applied that pepper poultice over his eyelids and he was cured.

One a Moslem boy, who was up on neem tree behind the Mosque, fell down and died.

At that very instant, Baba from within the Mosque was sounding a note of

distress and cried out ‘mulla jore marila’ and blowing Shanka vadyam (i.e.) on

the back of his palm. The Margosa tree is not visible from inside the Mosque.

As he spoke these words, the boy fell down and died. I was seated at no great

distance and I heard his words and went up to see the fallen boy and people

crowding there.

I know the fire in the village stacks. Baba asked Bagchand Marvadi to run up

there as a stack had caught fire. It was his stack that was on fire. Baba came

up and made some signs. The fire cooled down.

One day, Baba called me to him and gave a packet of udhi and a copy of Baba’s

arati. I had to go to Khandesh at that time. Baba directed me to go to Jamnare

(which is 36 miles off by cart route from the station of Bhusaval) and told me

to deliver the udhi and arati to Nana Saheb Chandorkar, Deputy Collector at

Jamnare. I said to Baba that all I had was Rs.2 and asked how that could take

me by train from Kopergaon to Jalgaon and next by cart from Jalgaon to Jamnare.

Baba said, "God will give". That was a Friday and I started at once. I reached

Manmad at 7.30 p.m. and Jalgaon at 2.45 a.m. At that station, plague

regulations were enforced and I had much trouble. I was to discover what I

should do to get to Jamnare. At about 3 a.m. a peon in boots, turban well

equipped with other details of good dress, came to me and took me to a Tonga

and drove me on. I was in terror. On the way at Baghoor, I took refreshments.

We reached Jamnare early morning and by the time, I

attended my call of nature, the Tonga and its driver disappeared.

 

 

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