![]() Verily, the touch of a sat-purusha unlocks the storehouse of the Goddess Annapoorna’s unlimited resources. The food that Baba made seemed to grow in abudncance and there was always enough for everyone. Sai Baba often cooked a hotch-potch of vegetables, rice and spices all mixed together in this ‘magic’ earthern pot. At times Baba would scold a grudging housewife by saying – “Mother you have so many Chapaties, so much rice and this or that vegetable in your pots, why refuse a bit of food to a fakir”! This gentle chastisement and the accuracy of the strange fakir’s prouncement would remove the veil of maya from these women who would then rush to put their all at his feet, as an as an offering of love. In the very beginning, Sai Baba was in the habit of going to a few houses in the neighbourhood to beg for food. The Guru has his needs and longings too, and this is an alluring facet of the Guru Bhakta relationship. Baba raises his hand in a gesture of blessing and his eyes light up with gratitude. Baijabai daily sought out Baba in the forest where he lived in the early days, in order to bring him food which she lovingly prepared for him. Here is one such instance of a devotee’s burning love for the master. The hunger of a Guru’s heart for the love of his bhaktas is not sufficiently recognized. ![]() Thus, in a moment was resurrected the immortal Saint of Shirdi – Shri Sai Baba, the great apostle of love. ![]() These simple folk also hailed him as an Avatar of the age. Within a very short time of Sai Baba’s arrival at Shirdi, the villagers pointing ot him called him ‘Sa’ – which being interpreted in ‘God with us”. The rider witnessing the miracle, realizes and recongnises Baba’s divinestature and kneels to the Saint in humble gratitude. Baba had no matches, but just for thrusting the tongs nearly, he produced a flame. Seeing Sai Baba seated under a tree, the rider approached him for a match. To his great dismay he found that he did not have the wherewithal to ignite a fire to light his Chelum with. Chandpatil was once riding through the forest when suddenly he felt an acute urge to smoke. There is an interesting story of one of Baba’s many miracles.
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