Shri Sai Sat Charitra - Chapter 14 - Part II ...Contd

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Then after taking Baba's leave, Ruttonji returned to Nanded and told Dasganu everything that took place at Shirdi, He said that everything went on well there, that he got Baba's darshan and blessing with Prasad, but there was one thing which he could not understand. Baba said to him that he had got Rs.3-14-0 before. "Please explain as to what Baba meant by this remark," he said to Dasganu, "I never went to Shirdi before, and how cold I give Him the sum to which Baba referred?"

Dasganu was also puzzled and he pondered much over it for a long time. Some time afterwards it struck him that Ruttonji had received some days ago a Mahomedan Saint, by name Moulisaheb, in his house and had spent some money for his reception.

Moulisaheb was a coolie-saint well-known to the people of Nanded. When Ruttonji decided to go the Shirdi, this Moulisaheb accidentally came to Ruttonji's house. Ruttonji knew him and loved him. So he gave a small party in his honour. Dasganu got from Ruttonji the yadi or memo of expenses of this reception, and everybody was wonder-struck to see, that the expenses amounted to exactly Rs.3-14-0, nothing more, nothing less.

Everybody came to know, that Baba was omniscient, that though He lived in Shirdi, He knew what happened outside far away from Shirdi. In fact He knew the past, present and future, and could identify Himself heart and soul with anybody. In this particular instance how could He know the reception given to Moulisaheb, and the amount spent therefore, unless He could identify Himself with him, and be One with him?