Baba's attempt to leave the world (1916)

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1916

 

In 1916 Vijayadasami Day (October) Baba was in a rage. He tore off all

his clothes and threw them into the fire (Djuni) before him and stood

there stark naked. Baba with red eyes shouted: " Fellows, decide for

yourselves now If I am Moslem or Hindu. " After two hours of this rage,

Bagoji Scindhe, His leper companion tied a langoti to Him and said: " Why

all this? To day is the festival of Simolanagan " . Baba striking the

ground with his baton: This is My Simolangan (My going beyond the

boundary of life.)

People could not understand his meaning then, but it was on the

Vijayadasami day of 1918 that Baba crossed the boundary of life.

!n 1916 before Vijayadasami, Baba had been seriously unwell and the

rumour got abroad that he was about to die. And the devotees conducted a

sapta at Shirdi with mass feeding for the recovery of his health.

thereafter he recovered; but when Nana Saheb Nimonkar came there, on his

way to Poona "

Baba: Nana, you stay here, bury me and then go.

Baba would not allow Nana either to go back to Nimon or proceed on to

Poona.

Shama intervened on behalf of Nimonkar and asked Baba for leave for his

going away.

Baba: Shama, do you want to kill my people. Is Kaka (Nana Nimaonkar)

eating your father's property?

Shama: But his daughter-in-law is pregnant and requires help.

Baba: (Addressing Nimonkar): Hallo Kaka, why are you anxious? God will

help. Bury me and then go.

His daughter-in-law had no help. Suddenly at 10 p.m. one night, she felt

that pains were coming and was at once taken in a tonga to the Poona

Municipal Maternity hospital and left on a bed. The nurse went away to

some other room at 11 p.m. and in the nurse's absence, she was delivered

of a male child without any help. Baba said to Nana Nimonkar at that

time at Shirdi: " There was a woman. She was taken to a place. There she

was delivered safe of a male child. "

(Source Sai Baba Charters and Sayings)

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