Fwd: Glory of the Divine Names of Sri Sathya Sai – OM SRI SAI SHIRDI SAI MOORTAYÉ NAMAH - (31)
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Subject: Glory of the Divine Names of Sri Sathya Sai – OM SRI SAI SHIRDI SAI MOORTAYÉ NAMAH - (31)
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OM SRI SAI SHIRDI SAI MOORTAYÉ NAMAH - (31) Salutations to Sri Sai, who is the incarnation of Shirdi Sai.
This is a story that dates back sixty years. An educated young man came to Vasai (near Mumbai) from the Village of Vareri in Konkan, Maharashtra. He came with the intention of securing a job in the field of education. At the time, Vasai was a mere village.
This young man was Shri Mahadeo Mangesh Pinge. He took up a job as a school teacher. In those days the salary of a teacher was very low. In such a situation, the entire family, including himself , contracted malaria. Their health suffered a great deal. So they left Vasai and moved to Dadar. They managed to get a two-room tenament. But their financial condition remained unstable. The earlier tenant had left behind two photographs on the wall, one of Gurudeo Dattatreya and the other one of Shirdi Sai Baba. Shri Pinge started garlanding and worshipping both the photographs, although he did not know much about Shri Shirdi Sai Baba.
One day unexpectedly a fakir came to his door and asked him for 'dakshina', amounting to a rupee and a quarter. At that time Shri Pinge was not in a position to pay the amount so he kept two annas on the fakir's palm. In those days even two annas was a considerable amount.
The fakir took the coins and he touched them to Shri Pinge's forehead and then to his own forehead. Then he closed his fist tightly and asked Shri Pinge to cup his palm.
Water trickled from the fakir's closed fist and it fell into Shri Pinge's palm. Mrs Pinge was observing everything from the house and as the fakir asked Shri Pinge to drink up the water, she came out and said, "What are you doing ? Don't drink that water!" But by then, Shri Pinge had already gulped it down.
Suddenly the fakir did something most unexpected. He took out his intestines from the mouth and kept those warm intestines on Shri Pinge's hand. Instantly, he restored them back in his body through his mouth. On seeing this Shri and Smt Pinge were really frightened. By the time they recovered their wits the fakir had gone away.
The fakir left and Shri Pinge noticed the similarity between the fakir and the photograph of Shirdi Sai and he realized that He was Sainath! He set out in search of Him but could not trace Him anywhere.
However, one thing happened. From that day, they were cured of malaria and their financial condition started improving. Shri Pinge started tutorial classes and in a short time Pinge's Tutorials became well-known all over Maharashtra and they prospered greatly.
Shirdi Sainath used to say, "Just like one ties a string on a sparrow's feet and pulls her to oneself, I search out and select the people whom I like and pull them towards Me."
Shri Pinge was a noble soul. So Sainath blessed him by giving darshan in the Shirdi Sai form and improved his health and helped him prosper. In 1964, Sri Sathya Sai also blessed Shri Pinge. He granted him the honour to perform the 'bhoomi poojan' (ceremony for laying the foundation stone) of His ashram in Mumbai. Swami also graced the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Pinge's classes with His divine Presence and showered His love and grace on this noble devotee and his endeavours.
OM SRI SATHYA SAINATH ARPANAM ASTU
With pranams at the lotus feet of our dear Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai baba,
Devotional Wing, SSSGC USA