Baba's first attempt to leave the world (1886)

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Baba's first attempt to leave the world (1886)

In 1886 Baba said to Mahalsapathy: I am going to Allah. Take care of

this body for three days. If I return, I will look after it myself

thereafter. If I do not, inter this body thereafter in that open land

(pointing to an open land) and place two standards there to mark the

place, where my body is placed.

Then Baba's breathing, pulse, circulation, all stopped and the body

became a corpse. The village officers and police held an inquest and

ordered Mahalsapathy to bury the body; but he prevented it, thus

averting catastrophe which befell Sankaracharya's body - a catastrophe

that was in Sankaracharya's case remedied by a Goddess. On the third day

consciousness returned to Baba. Breathing began and the abdomen was seen

moving. then Baba's opened and his life was restored.

(Source Sai Baba Charters and Sayings)

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