Shirdi Sai Baba

Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda

If a man utters my name with love, I shall fulfill all his wishes and increase his devotion. If he sings earnestly of my life and my deeds, I shall surround him in front and back and on all sides. Those devotees who are attached to me heart and soul will naturally feel happiness when they hear these stories. Believe me, if anybody sings my leelas I will give him infinite joy and everlasting happiness. ~ Shirdi Sai Baba

From this episode:

It was sometime after 1910 when one fine morning I went to the masjid in Shirdi for darshan (seeing Divinity) of Sai Baba. I was wonderstruck to see the following phenomenon. After washing his mouth and face, Sai Baba began to make preparations for grinding wheat. He spread a sack on the floor then placed a hand-mill there. He drew up the sleeves of his kafni (robe) and put a few handfuls of wheat in the mill and started grinding it. I thought, ‘What business does Baba have with grinding wheat when he possesses nothing, stores nothing and lives on alms?’

Others had thought the same thing but none had the courage to ask Baba what he was doing. Immediately, as the news of Baba’s grinding wheat spread into the village men and women began to run to the masjid to watch Baba. Four bold women forced their way up from the crowd and pushed Baba aside, forcibly taking the handle in their hands, and started grinding and singing about Baba’s leelas (divine plays).

At first Baba was enraged, but then seeing the women’s love and devotion, he was much pleased and began to smile...

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