Galwankar part 1

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RAO SAHEB YESHWANT JANARDAN GALWANKAR says

 

I visited Sai Baba in 1911 first. I went because my

father-in-law. Mr. Dabholkar and other relations, went

to Baba. I had heard of his saintliness but was not

very serious personally to benefit by the visit either

temporally or spiritually. I went thus four or five

times. But gradually my interest increased. He

appeared in my dream and asked for Rs. 2 dakshina.

When I woke up, I resolved to send it and I sent Rs. 2

M.O to Baba at Shirdi. In that dream, he gave me two

valuable directions, first,i.e., behave with probity

and integrity: secondly, be chaste, be sexually pure.

I have followed these directions with great care and

zeal. Then on one occasion, it was perhaps 1917, when

I went to Shirdi, he placed his palm over my head and

that had a strange effect on me. I forgot myself and

all surroundings and passed into as ecstatic

condition. Then, it seems, Baba was telling others

present (as I was told afterwards) that I was a soul

characterized by integrity and purity, that I went

through certain forms, states and conditions in my

previous births (which he described), that he placed

me in my present mother's womb in this birth and that

I had still retained my integrity and purity.

 

 

 

I went to him during my Christmas or other vacations.

He never made me overstay my leave. I have full faith

in him. He has, however, given me neither Adwaitic

self-realisation nor any other teaching on ethical or

religious matters- except what I have stated already.

I have, however, heard him say at one of my visits to

Shirdi, i.e., I am not (confined) within this body of

3 1/2 cubits- height, I am everywhere. See me in every

place." I believe that all my studies are directed by

him, and I go on studying Gita, Bhagavata, Le.,

Eka-dashaskandha of Ekanath. But I was not directed by

him to study them, in the way in which he directed

Jog, H.S.Dixit, etc., I am sorry I made so little use

of him, to get into contact with him before he

attained Mahasamadhi. I was much younger and,

therefore, not so serious-minded then as I am now. I

found also few among those who approached him, fit

enough to take to self-realisation. Hardly any soared

so high. Even up to other spiritual and levels few soared.

 

 

 

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