(Below Is the reply to Shri Pujari’s questions, published on page 31, in Shree S

[JR]

To
The Editor,
Shree Sai Leela

1.   As Baba Himself often said and also all saints of all religi¬ons in all ages have said, all must undergo the Prarabdha earned by them due to their Karmas in this or last life.  But the Saints and Sadgurus like our Lord Sai, can file away the sharp edges, compress the punishments (as was done in the case of Dr. Pillai by Baba) and give mental courage and upliftment to bear the fruit of the sins.  So, I feel it was Baba’s strange way to wear off   HIS Close Devotees sins punishment by rubbing coins and giving them different  names.

2.   Baba saved a rabid dog  from  death at the hands of the evil villagers.   He gave   Moksha  to a tiger, saved a bull from the butcher’s knife, gave up his gadi  to one (who could not sit on it much longer) and did many such other things.  So there is nothing strange in His courtsey to Bade Baba.  In this way HE showed practically to all devotees that the sun gives light to poor and rich, high and low, wicked and  pious, theists and atheists, etc., etc.   None should  expect Baba to behave the way other human beings did or do.

V. B. Nandwani
Bombay, 16