Satsang Chapter 24 :Sri_Sai_Sat_Charitra_Concise(Version)

Om Shree Ganeshaya Namah

Om Sai Ram

Chapter 24:::
Baba and humour

We will not succeed in our endeavors unless we surrender our

ego at the lotus feet of our Guru. We get comfort in this life and

after by worshipping Sai.

* Once when Hemad Panth was massaging the feet of Baba, He

showed some grains in the folds of his coat and said playfully

that he was in the habit of eating edibles alone. ( Hemad Panth

feels that it would not have been impossible for Baba to have

materialized the grains). Hemad Panth vigorously denied Baba's

charge. Baba immediately remarked that if no one was around

when one ate one should remember Baba. The import of the

advice was that we cannot control the demand of the senses.

But if we submit them first to Baba, He will remove the evil

tendencies. Hemand Panth narrates, incidentally, how Sudama

(Kuchla) ate groundnuts along without offering to Lord Krishna

and in his later years became extremely poor.
* Once a very old lady named Mavisi Bai and elder devotee called

Anna Cinsanikar were massaging together Baba's back and

hands respectively and Baba was moving His body left and right.

In this process, at one point the face of Anna came very near the

old lady and she lightly commented 'Oh ! This Anna wants to

kiss me'. An outraged Anna started a vigorous quarrel. Baba

said sweetly, 'Anna ! What wrong a child does in kissing its

mother?' and all beautiful peaceful.
* This lady was once massaging Baba's stomach vigorously and

some devotees cried to her that such action would hurt Baba.

Immediately an angry Baba got up, fixed one end of HIS chatka

in HIS navel and the other end on the pillar and started violently

embracing the pillar with both hands. It appeared that the stick

would pierce His stomach and entirely get in to Him. Then He

became peaceful. Baba appeared to indicate that nothing can

hurt Him and also to advice that one should not interfere in the

service of the other devotee to Him.
By A. Govindakrishnan

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