The next Thursday evening meeting, following the news of Baba’s passing, he found himself again overwhelmed with sorrow for himself and wept once more. “Now,” he thought gloomily, “I shall never know the medicine’s name and must go on suffering.” He was very distressed about this and decided to go to Shirdi as soon as possible and get the name from Baba’s lips.īut before he could go he heard the news Baba had passed away. That night he had a dream in which Shirdi Baba came to him and chided him for “weeping like a girl.” Then the old saint told him what to use as a cure for his ailment.Īfter waking, Dixit could remember everything except the name of the medicine that Baba had prescribed. Although a young man of 20, he broke down and cried like a child. Dixit was somehow overcome by the devotional atmosphere combined with his own misery. At one of the regular Thursday evening gatherings of Shirdi Baba’s Bombay devotees, M.S. He felt very miserable about his condition. Yet he was suffering a lot and there was much bleeding. The medical men of Bombay where he was living said he must undergo an operation, but he felt very nervous about having surgery and did not want it.
Dixit found himself ill again, this time with bad hemorrhoids and an anal fistula.
The strange and terrible headaches never came back after that day, and young Dixit understood that Baba had been in His enigmatic way ordering, not the boy, but the headache to go away. Hari Dixit replied, “Are you a fool? The slap means that your headache will not recur.” Young Dixit felt that he had been slapped on the head as well as ordered to go away, so he told his uncle that he would not visit Baba anymore. Baba held the udhi for a moment and then applied it to the lad’s forehead with some force. It was the custom when leaving to take some ash from the fireplace and put it in Baba’s hand, so that He might with it give His parting blessing. Young Dixit replied that he had a bad headache and the heat of the fire near which he was sitting brought him some relief. Dixit recalls vividly how he was sitting near Sai Baba one day when Baba suddenly said to him, “Why are you sitting here, go home!” His uncle took him to Sai Baba hoping for a cure of the strange headaches. This would go on each day for about two months at a stretch it was very distressing. Before this second visit he had been suffering what he called “half-headaches.”Īt sunrise half his head would start to ache agonizingly then a little before sunset it would stop. Dixit told me, he made his earliest visits to Shirdi first in the year 1909, and again in 1912. Hari Dixit became a close devotee of Shirdi Baba. Dixit, was a solicitor in Bombay and a member of the Legislative Council. Dixit was born in 1897 to Sadashiv Dixit, an advocate who was at one time Diwan (Prime Minister) of the royal state of Kutch. Here’s how he realized that both the Sais are, in fact, the same, as related by Howard Murphet in his book, “Sai Baba: Man of Miracles.” Dixit had the unique privilege of seeing Shirdi Sai Baba when he visited Shirdi in 1909 as a young lad and later Sri Sathya Sai Baba in 1961 when he was past sixty. Dixit that He is same Shirdi Sai come again. In fact, He tells them, “I have known you for ten years,” or “Though this is the first time you see this sariram (body), I had seen you 20 years ago, when you came to Shirdi.” The person will find that he had been to Shirdi exactly 20 years previously! Here are some instances where devotees have had experiences that have convinced them of the identity of the two Sais. He recognizes all devotees of Shirdi Baba as His own. When someone asks Him a question today, He starts His reply sometimes with the remark, “The same doubt was raised by a man who had come to Shirdi” and He will continue the conversation with the reply He gave that other man long ago in Maharashtra! While telling people about Shirdi Baba, He may be heard saying, “Just as you have seen Me do now” or “Just as I do while in a trance,” to make the point clear. He often describes to His devotees how He ‘in His previous body’ dealt with people and situations, what illustrations He gave to clarify a certain point, what questions were asked, etc. Bhagavan invariably refers to Shirdi Sai Baba as ‘my previous body’ when He speaks about Him.
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