‘Nana’

[SS91]

When N.G.Chandorkar or ‘Nana’ as Baba affectionately called him,

was halting at Kopergaon, Baba sent word to him repeatedly to come

to Shirdi for a visit.

 Nana after much hesitation came up to Shirdi and asked Baba why he

was sent for.

 Baba replied that for four previous births, Nana had been intimate

with Baba and that therefore in this life also, he should get into

similar close contact.

 Again Nana hesitated.  

But Baba, by the exercise of his wonderful powers and his kindness

especially, filled Nana’s heart with faith and gratitude for

numerous miraculous favours showered upon him.

 On one occasion when Chandorkar was stranded on a hot day on a

waterless hill (Harischndra Hill) unable to climb up or get down,

he suddenly exclaimed; ‘If Baba were here, he would give me water’.  

Baba who was then at Shirdi, forty miles away, mentioned to the

people there that Nana was thirsty and should be provided with a

palmful of water.

 At that time, a Bhil appeared on that hill and pointed out a

palmful of water to Chandorkar, under the very rock over which the

latter was seated.

  Later when Nana visited Shirdi, Baba informed him that it was ;

he who provided water on the waterless rock.

 Similarly, on another occasion, when the thirsty Chandorkar prayed

to Baba in the midst of a forest for tea being given him after he

should emerge from the forest, tea was suddenly provided in the

middle of the night in a forlorn place.  

Again when Nana’s daughter was undergoing the tortures of prolonged

parturition, Baba sent a gosavi from Shirdi with udhi to be used for

easing the parturition.  The gosavi wanted to know how he could go

to Jamnere, which was N.G.C’s camp, across thirty miles of country

road from the railway without funds, Baba simply answered that

everything would be provided.

 At the station, the gosavi found a tonga and a liveried peon

waiting for him, professing to have been sent by Sri Chandorkar.  

When the gosavi went up in that tonga and delivered the udhi,

 its use was quickly followed by safe and comfortable delivery.  

Then he mentioned the tonga, the horse and the liveried peon to

Chandorkar, who wondered, as he had not sent any of these and nobody

else could have sent these.  Both the gosavi and NGC wondered at

Baba’s power to provide everything he wanted at any place and at any

time and at the depth of Baba’s love for his devotees.




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.