SHREE SAI BABA had unique method of solving devotee’s problems; in fact the solutions were in his words and commands and not in steps or procedure he instructed devotees to carry out.
A devotee by name Bala Ganpat Shimpi suffered from a malignant type of malaria. He tried all sorts of cures but without effects the fever did not abate a bit. He went to Shirdi and fell at SHREE SAI BABA’s feet. SHREE SAI BABA told him “give a black dog some morsels of rice mixed with curds in front of the Lakshmi temple”. Shimpi returned home and he prepared the mixture of rice and curd as per prescription mentioned by SHREE SAI BABA and carried the same to the Lakshmi temple. Shimpi saw a black dog in front of Lakshmi temple wagging its tail as if waiting for him. Shimpi moved forward and kept the mixture of rice and curd in front of the black dog that ate it willingly, as he was posted there by the lord of the devotee to complete the procedure as prescribed. The devotee was cured of his malaria.
Is it not magnificent, a sickness was cured by making the patient, perform Anna daana.
My dear devotees the cure was not in rice and curd or in feeding, but it was in the words of our LORD SHREE SAI BABA.
ALLAH MALIK