Sai Baba is unique

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Sai Baba is unique

Ramlal was a Punjabi who lived in Mumbai. He had not seen or heard of Baba. A saint came in his dream and said 'come, visit me'. He got up and began to think, "who could be the saint who had come in the dream, what was his name and where to find him?" He who has called a person for darshan knows how to get things done. In the afternoon while walking down the road he saw to his surprise a photo in a shop where the figure in the photo was the same as the figure in his dream. On enquiry he came to know that the photo is that of Sai Baba of Shirdi. The details about the location of Shirdi, he soon found out and went to Shirdi for Sai Baba's darshan.

Two persons from Goa came to Shirdi for Sai's darshan. One of them had earlier lost Rs. 30,000 which had been stolen by his own employee. When he was sitting dejected in the verandah of his house, a fakir came into his street loudly putting. Confront­ing this person and gesticulating his hand, the fakir said that there in Kopergoan taluka in a village in Shirdi lives Sai Aulia and if he prayed to that Sai and made a vow to give up some particular food of which he was fond of, his lost money would be restored. As instructed by the fakir the prayer was made and the money was restored. He had not heard of Sai Baba or of Shirdi before.

These are two examples of instances where persons who have not known or heard of Baba got help from him during his life­time. The instance which now follows happened long after his Mahasamadhi. Readers may note that being alive or being in samadhi makes no difference to Sai Baba.

Arthur Osborne the author of The Incredible Sai Baba was staying in Calcutta in the year about 1967. His neighbour was another foreigner and a Christian, a lady by name Miss. Dutton. When they came to know each other the lady told him about an extraordinary spiritual experience that she had.

That she was a nun in a convent and had spent most of her working life in that capacity. That she being impulsive, a common thing with redheads, found the discipline of the convent life more and more irksome which lead to constant conflicts with the other nuns. One day she decided to put in her papers and applied to the Pope for absolution from her vows. The permission was granted without delay. When she was about to leave the convent, it then dawned on her how helpless her position was, that she was well passed the middle age without any other skill or experience, that her only relative was her nephew who lived in far off Calcutta. One day while she was sitting in her cell immersed in her gloom, sud­denly a fakir appeared before her. How he got in she could not tell as it was next to impossible for any Muslim fakir to gain entrance into the convent of nuns. He looked at her in compassion and said "why do you worry so much, everything will be alright when you go to Calcutta" He then asked her for money, (dakshina). She said she has no money, she being a nun. "Oh yes, you have Rs. 35 in the bore of that wall" he said. Miss Dutton had completely forgotten about the money which she had kept long ago. She went in search of it and there it was and when she turned back to give the dakshina the fakir had disappeared. He had gone in the same way as he had come. Immediately after this she felt at peace.

Arthur Osborne feeling convinced that the fakir could be no other than Sai Baba, said he would show her the picture of the fakir. He produced the photo of Sai Baba from his flat. The moment she saw the photo she exclaimed "Oh yes, he is the same fakir, when he appeared in the cell he even had the same white handkerchief on his head"

Miss. Dutton had never heard of Sai Baba before.

S.MANEEY

Bangalore - 560 011.



OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI!!!
Let us pray at the feet of Sai Baba who is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him.