DEVOTEES' EXPERIENCES OF SRI SAI BABA BY H.H.NARASIMHASWAMIJI - PARTS II

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mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center">4th june, 1936. In 1914 or

thereabouts, a rich old gentleman of Harda came with a lady to Shirdi. He was

suffering from T.B, le., consumption. During the space of one month, there was

no­ticeable improvements in his health. So he made Shirdi his residence. At the

end of the second month, he grew worse and his end seemed to be approaching. One

day the ladies of his house and their friends told me that his condition was

critical and there

was no senior male to go and ask Baba for help - and sent me to ask Baba for his

Udhi. I went up. Baba told me that the man would be better for quitting this

earth. "What can the Udhi do? Anyhow take the Udhi and give it as it is wanted"

he said. So I took and gave the Udhi but, of course, refrained from intimating

Baba's words to anyone. The condition grew worse. Then Shama, (Le., Madhavarao

Deshpande) arrived and went to Baba and told him of the imminent death. Baba

appears to have said "How can he die? In the morning he will come to life".

This was taken to mean that the old man would not quit the earth. So they

placed lamps all round the corpse and waited till noon. Life was not restored

to the corpse. Funeral ceremonies followed. The Harda gentleman's relations

thought that Baba had given false hopes and went away from Shirdi. For three

years they did not return to Shirdi. Then one day, a relative of the deceased

saw Baba in a dream, with the deceased's head over

his own (i.e., Baba's) and Baba disclosed the lungs - in a rotten state, and

said "From the torture of all this, I have saved him". Thereafter, he and his

relations renewed their visits to Shirdi. Baba's words "How can he die? He will

come to life" evidently referred to survival of human personality and taking up

new forms of life. Baba was frequently talking of his travels with a"n

In­visible body across great distances of space (and time). In the mornings,

sitting near his dhuni (fire) with several devotees, he would say to what

distant place he went overnight

and what he had done. Those who had slept by his side the whole night at the

Masjid or Chavadi knew that his physical body was at Shirdi all the night. But

his statements were literally true and were occasionally verified and found to

be true. He had travelled to distant places in an invisible, i.e., spirit form

and rendered help there. Again he would fre­quently talk of post mortem

experiences.

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mso-layout-grid-align: none">A Shirdi Marwadi's boy fell ill and died. People

re­turned from the funeral to the Masjid with 'gloomy faces. Sai Baba then said

of that boy "He must be nearing the river now, just crossing if. I felt that the

reference could only be to Vectoring. He told several people of the post lives

and the events therein. He told me the facts of four previous lives of mine. He

spoke this in the presence of others. But others did not and could not

understand that it referred to me. He had the peculiar art of giving

information to particular individuals in the midst of a group, in a way that

they (those concerned) alone could understand, and not the other members of the

group. Strangely enough, at one sitting by a few acts, words, etc., he could and

did benefit numerous persons. This power to travel in invisible body to distant

parts of this world, to traverse other realms than the earth life and note or

control what takes place there and to see the past and future alike revealed

one great fact about His nature. Some of his own observations also brought that

out clearly.

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occasionally asked (I heard it myself) "Where are you? Where am I? Where is

this world? Occasionally he declared, pointing to his body or touching it and

referring to it as "this is my house", "I am not here. My Guru Mowrshad has

taken me away". As even in the flesh - in this earth life, he was not confined

to his physical body, it may be truly said of him "Sai Baba is alive. He is

where he was then. Even then he was where he is now". He also made occasional

reference to what his function is and was in the terrestrial sphere and other

worlds. He several times referred to his control of destinies of departed souls

- indicating thereby his function in the Cosmic order. Sai Baba never spoke

untruth, never spoke meaningless jargon. But only those who were familiar with

his ways could make out the meaning of what he said or did - when they were

intended for

their under­standing.

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