Om Shree Ganeshaya Namah
Om Sai Ram
Chapter 21:::
Story of three persons
* Once H. V. Thakur saw near Belagam a Kannada
saint named Appa. He told Thakur to read the holy book
Vichara sagar and predicted that later he would be
transferred to North and would come across a great
saint. After some time when Thakur was transferred
to Junnar he had to cross the Nanighat hills riding a
buffalo. That gave him immense pain. Shortly he was
promoted and posted to Kalyan. There he acquainted
with Nana Chandodkar and on his advice came to
Shirdi. Baba told him: 'The path here is not at easy
as Kannada saint's preaching or Nanighat Buffalo
ride.' Thus He demonstrated that He was omniscient.
*When Mr. Anandarao Patankar from Pune prostrated
before Baba, He told a story: 'A fisherman came here.
A horse also came in front of him and defecated nine
balls of excreta. The fisherman eagerly spread his cloth
and collected them.' Patankar was at a loss to know
the meaning, Dhadha Kelkar who was nearby told
him that Baba seems to have meant nine methods of
devotion. When next day Patankar came to masjid, Baba
asked him whether he collected the nine balls.
*A lawyer from Pandharpur came, prostrated before
Sai and offered dakshina. Baba remarked: 'How conceited
people are? Elsewhere they abuse us but come here and
offer dakshina.' When earlier Noolkar, the magistrate
of Pandharpur used to come to Shirdi for cure from
diseases, the lawyers used to meet in the Bar room and
ridicule him. This lawyer accepted that he was one among
them.
By A. Govindakrishnan
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