DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimah Swamiji

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DEVOTEES EXPERIENCES

by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimaha Swamiji

Sri M V Saharbuddhe, S/o. Vishnu, age 41, Brahmin, Civil Engineer, Paltan Sugar

Works, Paltan, Satara Dist, says:

I learnt of Sai Baba in 1931 when I went there taking up the contract (viz.)

Nimgaon-Shirdi irrigation and drainage scheme. I came to Shirdi and attended

arati. I was greatly impressed. I began to get help from Baba sometimes

miraculously. Here are some instances:

In 1932, I was digging up the earth and laying drainage pipes, with large number

of workmen. One noon I slept on the bund of the channel under a tree. I felt

that I was shaken and roused from sleep. Baba then in my sleep said "Get up. A

man is being buried, owing to the slipping of the earth. Go and remove him at

once." I woke up, called coolies and cycled up to the place of the accident

which was two miles off. I found that two sides of the trench had come down and

buried 20 men. We dug up the earth. All of the buried men escaped with very

little hurt. One man was seriously hurt. He was bleeding in the nose and mouth

and his eyes bulged out. He wanted to be taken his home in a cart. That was

done. He died there. But for Baba’s rousing me, he would have died in the works

and more would have hurt and I would have had great trouble to meet the inquiry.

In this case of accident, and inquiry was held by the Collector two months after

the event, and I was not taken to

task. This is very remarkable help from Baba.

The next help from Baba was in 1933. I was in Poona. Baba appeared in my dream

and said that the Shirdi Samsthan Committee wanted me at Shirdi. Out of

curiosity, I came to Shirdi, Mr. S.D. Navalkar of that committee (who knew I

was the Nimgaon contractor) was inquiring where I was. I met him and he asked

me to take up the contract for building the Sabha Mandap, I then put up the

iron work now standing here.

In 1936, in my mother’s illness, Baba gave help. She had to undergo a liver

operation. Poona is the best place but as there was plague there in 1936, we

decided to have the operation at Wai (Satara Dt.) where we were living. Baba

came to me in my dream and told me not to have the operation done at Wai but to

have it done at Poona. We, therefore, had it done by Dr. Gharpure at the Sassoon

Hospital at Poona. The operation was a success and my mother is safe and healthy

even now. I am an orthodox Brahmin and therefore averse to things being touched

by Moslems and untouchables. Baba told me in a dream not to care for this

untouchability so much.

I have recently been elected member of the Sai Samsthan Committee. Baba has

shown me in a recent vision that he is in all and is all gods. When I was at

Paltan, I had a vision one night of a Satya Narayana image and pandal being put

up and worshipped in the Shirdi Samadhi Mandap or front hall. The offering made

to the image, I found, were passing straight on into the tomb to the body of

Sai Baba, whom I saw to be seated into the tomb. The tomb had become

transparent. To verify the truth of this at least partially, I wrote at once to

Shirdi to see if Satya Naryana Pooja was conducted at the time and place

mentioned above. I got an answer in the affirmative. Baba has thus shown me

that he is Satya Narayana and that pooja to Satya Narayana is pooja to Sai

Baba.

"If you spread your palms with devotion before Me, I am immediately with you,

day and night. " (Baba said in Sri Sai Satcharitra Ch.XV)

 

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