Satsang Chapter 43 & 44 :Sri_Sai_Sat_Charitra_Concise(Version)

Om Shree Ganeshaya Namah
Om Sai Ram


Chapter 43 & 44:::
Baba’s Mahasamadhi (continued)
The news of Baba’s mahasamadhi spread like wild fire.
People assembled in large numbers and cried. Some
rolled uncontrollably in the streets, while others fainted.
Later a disagreement arose between Hindus and Muslems
on the modu operandi of disposing His mortal remains. In
the meantime Baba appreared in the dream of Lakshman
Mama and said :’Jog thinks I am dead. He will not come
to do my Kakad Arathi. You come and do it.’ Mama came
with requisite items for worship and performed the Kakad
Arathi despite protests from Muslem priests. Then on Jog
started performing the arathi regularly.
After 72 hours of debate, there was a sudden change
of heart among Moslems and all joined together, carried
Baba in procession to Buty Wada and laid Him to rest
there. This was a Wednesday. Though such a long time
had passed off the body did not show rigor mortis,
remained supple and the kafni was removed easily.
Some days before the mahasamadhi a boy broke the
brick that Baba was assiduously guarding. When it broke,
He wept like an ignorant man saying ‘What was broken is
not a brick but my fate itself.’ Thirty two years before the
actual mahasamadhi, Baba once told Mahalsapaathi
thus; ‘I am going to Allah. If I do not come back after three
days, bury me and plant a flag in commemoration.’ Saying
so, He became dead. Despite the strong protest by villagers
and the village headman, Mahalsapathi kept vigil His body
for three days and nights, keeping Him on his laps. On the
completion of the third day, Baba woke up as if from sleep!
After the mahasamadhi of Baba, Jog took sanyas. Baba
had told him thus: “At the appropriate time the results of
your good as well as bad karmas would be burnt to ashes.
Only when you renounce all attachments, sexual pleasure,
desire for palate, take to begging bowl and serve God, then
only I will consider you as pure.’
With the Baba’s saying ‘He who bears all tribulations with
equanimity, he pleases Me immensely,’ Hemad Panth
closes this chapter.