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.htm>

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