BABA REMOVES HANKERING FOR DRINK

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BABA REMOVES

HANKERING FOR DRINK

(1) Baba to D V Sambare

(who was getting addicted): ‘Boy, why do you behave like this? See, I

give you this warning first, that you should give up

drink. If you do not heed this, I will not warn you again but leave you to your

fate.’ DVS forswore liquor. He was free of the hankering. One day his

superior invited him to a dinner, a big party and came up to see that the

glassful kept before him was not drunk by DVS. The latter offered excuses which

were laughed at. In this perplexity od

DVS, all the hall lights were extinguished suddenly. The host went to look at

the cause. Meanwhile an obliging neighbour drank up DVS’s glass. The host returned, saw the glass empty

and thanking his pleading was successfully went away. Baba performed a chamtkar to save DVS, - for none could discover how the

lights were extinguished and again lit up by themselves.

(2) Baba to (a) Santaram

and (b) a goldsmith boy who were addicted to drink: “Stay six days

here.” From that time love of drink left them and they continued free

from that vice even after they left Shirdi.

(Source Sai Baba Charters and

Sayings)

http://www.saileelas.org/books/babasayings.