DEVOTEES' EXPERIENCES OF SRI SAI BABA BY H.H. NARASIMHA SWAMIJI - PART II

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not eat anything then. He was breathing hard; I cried. Baba asked me "Why cry?"

I said "I cannot see this state of yours”. Baba said, "Don't fear. In two or

four days I will be alright, Allah has given Me this sickness and He will make

Me alright, within that period. You need not cry. I was remembering you the

last two or three days and told Kaka to write to you to come." Kaka did not

write. Sai Baba said "Do not write, he is coming himself. In fact, some how I

went up during his illness, not knowing he was ill. He never took medicines for

His illness as a rule. Even during His illness, He was supported and carried by

the devotees to His begging place. There He would beg and come back and yet not

eat the food. He carried on His usual routine of begging, lending, etc., even

during all that illness. One day, during His illness, He climbed up the terrace

of one house through a staircase, then went over to the next house terrace and

over Radhakrishna Ayi's. Then a man lifted Him up and

brought Him down to the ground and that man was paid by Baba, 3 or 4 rupees.

Baba then said. "We must not get the labour of anyone for nothing." I saw all

this. Ambulance-chair was then brought for Him, but He never used it.

Malegaonkar Fakir Baba (called Bade Baba. Bade Mia by Sai Baba) was getting

most moneys. In 1920 when my wife was seriously ill of influenza, she felt

sorry, she could not attend the Urs Ramanavami. That night Sai Baba appeared in

her dream and said "Do not cry. I will take you for the Urs." She got slightly

better

next morning and narrated this to me. Illness still continued and she expired on

Ramanavami Crying "Baba, Baba" to the last. On the Ramanavami flag processions:

10 A.M., 12 Noon: Hindi Kirtan of Ram Janma begins after procession ends and

flags are hoisted. Then Moslems begin reading their quran. They would take Sai

Baba's sandals and go round with it in procession. We, Hindus, would accompany

it. They would accompany our flag procession, so in the Arati it is recited

that Sai Baba has taken birth to obliterate difference between Hindus and

Mohammedans etc.. I saw He had a hole in His ear and when He bathed naked, He

had not been circumcised, so far as I could see. Megha worshipped Sai Baba as

"Shanker" standing on one leg. Sai Baba told him in a dream to draw the figure

of a Trisul on the wall of Sathe's Wada in which Megha lived. Megha did so. A

lingam was added soon after and is still there, with Sai Baba's permission and

was worshipped by Megha.

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Megha narrated an incident that he wanted to give Sai Baba a Gangasnan, i.e., a

bath in the water of Ganges (Go-davari). But Baba said, "Wet this head only.

Head is the chief. Put a little water on it." But Megha went to Godavari at

Kopergoan and brought a tubful of water and poured it all over Sai Baba's body.

However only the head was wett. Even the clothes were not wett. I did not see

this. I have heard Sai Baba sing a song once or twice. He would gladly hear

people sing to Him. Occasionally, what Sai Baba talked to us, would be found

when we went at once to hear Pothi, i.e., the reading of sacred works at

Sathe's Wada where Bapu Jog read Eknathi Bhagvat. I had several experiences of

the sort. I cannot remember details of even one instance. --to be

contdDevotees can read this book from the Book Section of

www.Saileelas.org/books/exppart2.htm

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