Om Sai Ram
Chapter 23 :::
Yoga and Onion
*Once when a yoga practitioner came with Nana to masjid,
Baba was eating bread and onion. The practitioner
thought that how could a person eating onion and stale
bread, guide him in yoga methods. Immediately Baba looked
at Nana and asked: 'Nana. Only they should eat onion who
can digest it'(i.e. the tamasic qualities of onion).
The stunned practitioner of yoga fell at Baba's feet.
*One day a poisonous snake bit Shama in his little finger
and he ran to masjid to seek Baba's abhaya, his sole
refuge. Baba on seeing him shouted: 'Oh wretched Brahmin.
Do not climb up. Get down. Get down. Go off. Shama was
crestfallen and gave up all hopes of survival. In a short
time. Baba called him up and said: 'Do not be afraid. Do
not have an iota of worry. The merciful fakir will
protect you. Be courageous. Do not be afraid. Believe me.'
Shama was completely cured. It turned out that the initial
out burst was an order to the cobra's poison not to get
mixed with blood and climb up but to get down and go off!
(A cobra is believed to be a cursed Brahmin)'
*Once when cholera was prevalent at Shirdi, superstitious
people did not allow carts carrying firewood. Baba went
ahead and Himself brought a cart load of firewood to
masjid.
*0ne day some one brought an emaciated old goat to the
masjid, Baba directed Bade Baba and Shama respectively
to kill it. Both refused. Then He asked Kaka Dhikxit
to do the job. Kaka, a Brahmin to the core who could
not harm even insets, got ready to kill the goat
with a sickle raised. Baba asked him how a Brahmin
in him agreed to kill the goat when Bade Baba, a Moslem
refused, Kaka said: 'Your nectar like words are law
unto us. We do not want to debate or scrutinize your
orders. We obey only you, day and night.' Then Baba
said that He would do the killing and asked goat
to be taken out. Instantly it dropped down dead.
By A. Govindakrishnan
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