[saibabadwarkamai] This is known as Annapurna Sidhi.........

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--- On Tue, 6/16/09, pandurangan s <vittal_05 wrote:

pandurangan s <vittal_05Re: This is known as ‘Annapurna Sidhi’. "........."swamy mahadevan" <mahadevanvnswamyTuesday, June 16, 2009, 2:19 PM

 

 

 

 

Jai Gurudev, Sai Ram Swamy Mahadevan Ji, This is Pandurangan.S. from Chennai I do not know from where you are any way the mail Annapurna Sidhi is very wonderful if possible you please send me lots about Swami Samarth as I want to know more about him. Expecting your favourable, With Love & Light, Pandurangan.S. --- On Sat, 5/23/09, swamy mahadevan <mahadevanvnswamy wrote:

swamy mahadevan <mahadevanvnswamy This is known as ‘Annapurna Sidhi’. "......... , saibabanews , , "Manisha" , "Priyanka" <Allahamalik, "Hetal Patil" <experienceswithshirdisaibaba, "Nimmi Hira" Cc: "" Saturday, May 23, 2009, 1:06 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

……“Prior to his settlement at Akkalkot, ‘Swami Samarth’ visited far and wide. While moving in the Himalayan region he visited China. Thereafter, he visited places like Puri, Banaras, Hardwar, Girnaz, Kathiawad and Rameswaram in the South . Because of his mobility and sudden appearance and disappearance from place to place he came to be known as ‘Chanchal Bharti’ i.e. a wandering Sadhu.

He also stayed at Mangalvedha, a town near Pandharpur in Solapur district, Maharashtra, which had been inhabited earlier by famous saints like Domojipant and Chokhamela. He came to Akkalkot in 1856 where he continued his physical existence for 22 years. He came to Akkalkot on the invitation of one Chintopant Tol and stayed at a place on the outskirts of the town.

What we call miracles are the normal ways of functioning of the God realised ones. The Risaldar of that area, a muslim person, wanted to test the Swami by offering him a chilum without tobacco and asked him to smoke. Swami Samartha started smoking the empty chilum after lighting it as if nothing had happened. Realising him to be an advanced spiritual person, the Risaldar apologised and made arrangements for his stay in the house of one Cholappa. It is in this small house that Swami Samarth lived upto his last.Soon, the name of Swami Samarth as a Spiritual Master spread all around and devotees came for taking his blessings. Many of his gestures and mystic statements which he used to make cryptically were not understood by the ordinary people although their meaning became apparent on later dates.

He treated Muslims, Christians and Parsees all alike. His kindness was always bestowed on the poor, needy and the people at the lowest rung of society. Both Hindu and Muslim festivals like Dussehra and Moharram etc. used to be celebrated by Him. Like Shri Shirdi Sai who was, at times, seen rubbing coins in his hand while taking names of some of his devotees, Swami Samarth used to toy with metallic rings frequently.

He used to give these to some devotees at random. The surprised receiver always used to find the picture of his Deity (Ishta) engraved on the ring. As in Shirdi, Thursday became a special day of celebration at Akkalkot. Like Shirdi Sai Baba, Swami Samarth of Akkalkot was fond of mass feeding. Once, on his visit to a place called Rampur, food was cooked for 50 people by a devotee named Rawaji, to celebrate his visit. However, hearing the news of Swami Samarth’s arrival, hundreds of people from the neighbouring villages started rushing to the village.

Seeing such a large number of people at his door step Rawaji became visibly panicky. Moved by his plight, Swami Samarth asked Rawaji to get some empty baskets. When the baskets were brought from the market, idols of all the dieties like Khandoba, Annapurna, etc were put in them and food materials like Chapatis etc. were piled over them. Rawaji and his wife were asked to carry these baskets and take three rounds around the Tulsi plant.

After that, they were asked to serve food from these baskets to the guests without looking into them. When food were being served, Rawaji and his wife were amazed to see that the food in the baskets did not get exhausted even after hundred people had been served. After all the people who had come, finished their meal, Swami Samarth took his meal. This is known as ‘Annapurna Sidhi’. ".........