Posted on: Jun 18, '09
chapter 2..
CHAPTER 2.
Arrival at Shirdi
Sai Baba revealed himself on the banks of the Godavari river in Ahmednagar District as a child. There he served a saint with all his heart. That saint was permanently stationed at one spot.. After his death his samadhi built under the shade of a Neem Tree in Navaikar Wadi by Sai Baba. There in a cellar Sai Baba maintained silence for 12 years. Once he came out of his dug-out to bring water when he was first seen by the people around. They crowded round the young man who had grown his hair for 12 years.
Sai Baba practised penance during his life in the celler under a Neem tree, whose leaves were turned sweet and they are so to this day!
There stands the Samadhi of Baba's Guru [to my foreign friends-samadhi is
where the saints are buried]
around which Sai Baba has developed a park. He remained in cognito for a number of years thereafter and came out in the open at Aunrangabad in the house of one Chandbhai. His mare was intraceable but Sai Baba found it out. He struck his tongs against the ground and produced fire and water. Such were his impressive miracles...
This Chanbhai's nephew marriage was fixed with a bride from Shirdi and at the request of Chandbhai, Sai Baba joined this marriage party. The party stopped near the temple of KHndoba at shirdi. One Mhalsapati a goldsmith was in charge of the daily worship of this Khandoba. When he saw Sai Baba with his robe on he addressed him as Sai Baba and from then onwards this name stuck to him.
Once upon a time a thief stole diamonds ornaments and when arrested he said that he had kept them with Sai Baba. This was an utter falsehood. But Nanasaheb Joshi, First Class Magistrate of Dhulia went to Shirdi to make inquiries. He asked Sai Baba what his name was. Baba said that people call him SAI BABA. After the marriage ceremony was over Baba stayed in Shirdi till 1918 when he died.
There was only one exception. He used to visit a village about three miles from Shirdi where Chandrabhan Shet and Balalsaheb Dengle of Nimgoan stayed. But by his yogic powers he is said to have met his disciples in places far and near.
At Shirdi, Sai Baba used to wander about freely but at night he used to sleep in a dilapidated mosque. He started giving medical treatment to the ailing,but later on he gave them only holy ash. He called his mosque residence Dwarkamai. His devotees temporily repaired the mosque. Sai Baba hung up a bell there and kept constant fire burning. He sued to distribute ash from the fire among his devotees. Initially nobody took notice of him but later many admirers and devotees gathered around him. He used to go in the village a begging. Whatever food he collected he distributed among animals and people. as prasad. At shirdi, there lived a patidar family headed by one Ganpatrao, he was religiously minded person but his wife was even more spiritually minded and had discovered that Sai Baba was no ordinary faqir. Her name was Baijabhai. She never used to take food before feeding Sai Baba. She would find him out from wherever he was and sometimes she had to eat her noon lunch in the evening. But she did not mind. Sai Baba fully blessed her a son whose name was Tatya Ganpat Kote Patil.
Sai Baba went into samadhi in 1918,but for 42 years before that he suffered from asthama. When he decided to put an end to his life he requested Mhalsapati Sonar to take care of him for 3 days and remained on the ground like a corpse. Mhalsapati kept his vigil unfailingly by his side. People thought he was dead but that was not so. He came back to life, Hale and heasty.
Shirdi was avery small place ,but when too many people came to see and salute him, it became a crowded place. So one Hari Vinayak Sathe purchased the plot of land near the neem tree and erected a big house there. Sai Baba's Guru[means high post of a teacher]
Samadhi is also there. Baba's padukas were installed there. Later Solicitor Dikshit of Bombay built another house and these 2 houses accomodated visitors to Shirdi for a long time. A third house was built by the Nagpur wealthy person, Buti and called it Murlidhar Mandir[mandir means temple] but instead of installing the image of Murlidhar there, Sai Baba's Samadhi found habitation in that temple.
well the 3rd chapter will follow.......
kindly read all the chapters... if i hv not forwarded.... just check...
thank u
happy reading
bholo jay jay sai
Tags: arrival at shirdi
Recent posts
