'Annapurna Siddhi'.

[Dipika]

'Annapurna Siddhi'


Thursday became a special day of celebration at Akkalkot. Shree Swami Samarth of Akkalkot was fond of mass feeding. Once, on his visit to a place called Rampur, a devotee named Rawaji, to celebrate his visit, cooked food for 50 people. However, hearing the news of Shree Swami Samarth's arrival hundreds of people from the neighbouring villages started rushing to the village. Seeing such a large number of people at his doorstep Rawaji became visibly panicky. Moved by his plight, Shree Swami Samarth asked Rawaji to get some empty baskets. When the baskets were brought from the market, idols of all the deities like Khandoba, Annapurna, etc were put in them and food materials like chapatis (bread) etc. were piled over them. Bawaji and his wife were asked to carry these baskets and take three rounds around the Tulsi plant. After that, they were asked to serve food from these baskets to the guest without looking into them. When food were being served, Rawaji and his wife were amazed to see that the baskets never exhausted even after a few hundred people had been served. After all the people who had come finished their meal, Shree Swami Samarth took his meal. This is known as 'Annapurna Siddhi'.
 
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Shree Swami Samarth had the capacity to read the minds of all the people coming to him and also was able to know about their past and future. Baba Saheb Jadhav, one of his great devotees one day came to meet the Master. Seeing him suddenly Shree Swami Samarth said "Oh Potter! There is a summon coming in your name". The potter being in the close circle of Swami Samarth understood the meaning of this sentence and begged of the Swami to save him from the approaching death so that he could continue to serve him (the Master). Moved by his devotion Shree Swami Samarth looked-up towards the sky and muttered something as if he was addressing to someone who was invisible. Suddenly, he pointed his hand towards a bull passing nearby and said in a loud voice "go to the bull". In the presence of a large number of devotees, the bull instantly fell dead. Jadhav, with a fresh lease of life, devoted himself totally to the service of Shree Swami Samarth thereafter. Similarly, A European engineer from Solapur visited the Swami with the earnest hope of having a son. As he approached Shree Swami Samarth, the latter just looked at him and told that he would have a son within a year. That is what exactly happened.
 
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The Sadgurus or the Spiritual Masters always endeavors to change the quality of men that encounter them. Besides bestowing material benefit, they try to uplift them spiritually. Once a Jewish doctor, who was working as an eye specialist in the J.J. Hospital, Bombay met Shree Swami Samarth. The doctor was very proud of his professional competence. Seeing him Shree Swami Samarth asked "tell me doctor, how many of the eye patients you have treated have lost their eye sights for ever"'. This sentence made a tremendous impact on the doctor. He realized that many people had lost their sights forever even if they had been treated by him. His ego immediately vanished and thereafter he became a devotee of Shree Swami Samarth. After retirement the doctor settled-down at Akkalkot and served the Master till his last.
 
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It is said that a touchstone can convert an ordinary metal to gold. The Spiritual Masters are such touchstones that they can convert any ordinary metal not to that of gold but to that of a touchstone. They are capable of giving spiritual life to any person in a fraction of a second by a touch, a look, a word or even by a mere thought. Many persons like Ramanand Bidkar, Haribhau, Gopalbuwa Kelkar, Balappa, Jamadar Of Maidargi, Chollapa, Kalbuwa, Vishnubuwa Bramhachari, Maharudra Deshpande, Vamanbuwa Vaidya(Vamborikar), Anandbharati alias Laxman Koli, Anandnath, Tatmaharaj, and many others ,the list is endless who  lived an ordinary life for a long period were converted to a Saint by the kind grace of Shree Swami Samarath, who by one grace i.e. Drishti Diksha evolved them spiritually. These persons were rose to spiritual eminence and contributed a lot to the society.

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After serving the poor and society, curing the sick and helping the spiritual seekers over a few decades, Shree Swami Samarth one day suddenly announced that the time had come for him to go out of his physical existence. By Hindu calendar It was Chaitra Sudha trayodasi, Shaka 1800 i.e. the year 1878 AD Tuesday at 4 PM. At this time he seated himself in Padmasana (Lotus Posture) and uttered his last words - "no one should weep I shall always be present at all places and I shall respond to every call of the devotees."

The divine game (leela) of Shree Swami Samarth did not end with his Maha Samadhi (shedding his mortal coil). His devotees continue to experience the miracles of his visible and invisible help even till today. Many people have authenticated his appearance in physical form before them. These people are not the faith-blind rural folk. Many of them are well educated people like doctors, educationists etc.  Hundreds of devotees continue to have miraculous experience about Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj today.

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