Mohammedans maintaining themselves by exhibiting bears,
monkeys etc.) brought before Baba a tiger suffering from
some pain or agony on approaching Baba the tiger breathed
his last and the Darveshis were filled with dejection and
sorrow at the loss of their only means of maintenance.
Thereupon, while consoling them we find Baba referring to
the theory of re-birth :
"The tiger was your debtor from previous birth. He paid
off the debts by serving you in this life and when his debt
was paid off, he was free and met the death and My feet."
In Ch. 27, one noon Dadasaheb Khaparde's wife brought
a dish containing sanza (wheat pudding), purees, rice, soup
and kheer (sweet rice) and other sundry articles to the
Masjid. Baba, who usually waited for hours, got up at
once, went up to His dining seat and removing the outer
covering from the dish, began to partake of the things
zealously. Shama then asked Him, ''Why this partiality?
You throw away dishes of others and do not care to
look at them, but this You draw to You earnestly and
do justicc to it thoroughly. Is the dish of this woman so
sweet?" Baba then replied,
"This food is really extraordinary. In former birth, this
lady was a merchant's fat cow yielding much milk. Then
she disappeared and took birth in a gardener's family,
then in a kshatriya family and married a merchant. Then
she was born in a Brahmin's family. I saw her after a
very long time, let Me take some sweet morsels of love
from her dish." (P. 148)
Thus, Baba by narrating the lady's tale of many previous
births, probably, explained to His devotees, how a soul
can progressively rise from an animal form to a human
form and then to a Brahmin birth on account of virtuous
deeds.
Sai Baba was omniscient, i.e., before Him the past,
present and future were open to view. Hence, once, by
giving the details of previous births and foretelling the
places of future births of a boy called 'Babu', He
convinced everybody, that a soul is born again and
again. This story is narrated in H. H. Narasimhaswamiji's
'Devotees' Experiences of Shri Sai Baba', P. 114, in the
statement of Rao Bahadur H. V. Sathe :
Lt. Col. M.B. Nimbalkar (Retd.)
PUNE411 001.
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