Om Sai Ram
Chapter 26:::
Pant, Pitale, Ambedkar
"We should wash the Lotus Feet of Baba with our tears of joy,
apply Love the sandal paste, dress Him with truth and faith, offer
eight-folded thoughts as eight lotus flowers, submit the fruit of
single-minded attention, smear Him with aromatic powder of
devotion and adorn His head with the cloth of affection"
- so writes Hemad Panth.
v When Mr. Pant from Bombay came to Shirdi and prostrated
before Baba, he fainted. He was raised by Baba's udhi. Baba told
him to stick firmly to his Guru at any cost.
v Harichandra Pitale came with his wife and son for darshan. The
boy had fits in the presence of Baba and the mother loudly wailed
citing allegories like 'temple falling on the devotee', 'a cow escaping
from tiger only to fell in to hands of a butcher' etc. Baba assured her
that the boy would be well soon and it was proved so. Before their
depature, Baba gave Pitale three rupees and told him to worship them.
He also said that He had earlier given him two rupees. On coming back
home, Pitale was wondering when Baba could have given him two
rupees. His aged mother recalled that when Pital's father took him as
a little boy to Akalkote Maharaj (a famous saint), the saint gave him
two rupees and those two rupees, which were worshipped were later
lost. Pitale was stunned at the omniscience of Baba.
v Having been buffeted by innumerable problems, Ambedkar, a
devotee from Pune came to Shirdi. When he sat on the edge of a well
with the intention to commit suicide, suddenly from the nearby hotel
Mr. Sagun came to him with a biography on Akalkote Maharaj and
asked him to read it. When Ambedkar opened the book at random,
a leela of the saint was found to indicate that once a devotee of
Maharaj unable to bear his physical aliment jumped into a well, but
instantly Maharaj Himself appeared there, pulled him out and advised
that results of past deed sould be atoned and suicide would not
provide relief. Ambedkar was moved by Sai's silent grace in saving
him from suicide. Later he became a successful astrologer and
amassed good wealth.
By A. Govindakrishnan
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