Significance of Udhi By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji

Significance of Udhi By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji

Significance of Udhi
By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji
Udhi, obtained from Dhuni and lit by Shri Sai Baba in Dwarakamai at Shirdi
during His life time, is not a mere by-product of wood (ash) but a life
saving drug. During His life time, Baba used this udhi for curing various
diseases of His devotees. Baba once sent this udhi along with Aarati song
through BapugirBua to Nana Saheb Chandorkar, a beloved devotee of Baba, when
his daughter Mainatai, about to deliver, was in a critical condition,
suffering from labour pains for three days at Jamner, a place 100 miles from
Shirdi. After taking udhi mixed with water, she had an easy delivery.

Baba applied udhi on the affected portion of a boy (nephew of a qualified
doctor), who was suffering from tubercular bone-abscess for a long time, and
after its constant application, the boy became quite well. Once, a doctor
devotee of Baba at Shirdi suffered from guinea worms and by the application
of udhi, by taking it with water and without taking any other medicine, the
disease was completely cured in ten days.

At another time, the wife of Bapaji (young brother of Shyam) was attacked
with Bubonic plague and high fever at Sawool, a village 3 miles from Shirdi.
Baba sent udhi through Bapaji and his wife was completely cured within
hours. Similarly, an Irani gentleman's daughter suffered from fits and all
medicines were tried, which gave her no relief. Her father obtained udhi
from Baba's devotee, Kaka Saheb Dixit, and gave it to his daughter mixed
with water daily for sometime and she recovered completely afterwards.

An old gentleman of Harda (Madhya Pradesh) was suffering from a stone in his
bladder. He was too old to withstand any surgical operation. His son, on the
advise of some friends, obtained udhi from Inamdar, a devotee of Baba and a
resident of the same town and mixing it with water gave it to his father for
drinking. The stone was dissolved and came out in urine and the old man was
soon relieved of the malady.

The above are only a few cases, where udhi was tried, used and applied, when
Baba was in flesh and blood at Shirdi. Even after Baba's samadhi, udhi is
now being used as a medicine in several diseases and is found out as the
most effective medicine and efficacious cure.

Baba's grace is as much active during the present days as before samadhi,
that udhi's power is far superior and greater and more reliable than
medicines of any system- Allopathy, Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy etc. In a
nutshell, Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi is as much alive today as when he was in
Dwarakamai in flesh and blood.

It is still more surprising and astonishing to note that Narayana Motirarn
Jani of Nasik, a staunch devotee of Baba, tried a pinch of the ashes of
joss-sticks burning in front of Baba's picture, and chanting Baba's name
applied it on the seat of the sting, in case of a scorpion-bite of a person
and the pain disappeared in no time. Jani had to resort to this course, when
he did not have ready stock of Baba's Udhi in his house.

Nana Saheb Chandorkar, another beloved devotee of Baba, when he had no stock
of udhi readily available with him, took some soil from the roadside and
applied it on the fore-head of his wife at Thana railway station; this
miraculously cured the lady. This mysterious and miraculous cure in the
above two cases can also be ascribed to the genuine faith, intense devotion
and earnest prayer of the two devotees.

Baba taught by His udhi that all the visible phenomena in the world are as
transient as the ash. After all, our bodies are composed of five elements
and are subject to decay after death. They will be reduced to ashes after
death. Baba wanted to din into the ears of His devotees, the sense of
discrimination between the Unreal and the Real and non-attachment for the
Unreal by udhi. Apart from this spiritual significance, it had also
conferred health, prosperity, freedom from anxiety and many other worldly
gains before, and even now it is yielding good results to the devotees, in
material and spiritual field. Undoubtedly, it is a Sanjeevani in Kaliyuga,
which was tried by devotees at various places and times both before and
after Baba's samadhi and found it an omnibus cure for all maladies-physical
as well as spiritual.

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