Baba's Help - Saving people from Epidemic and accidents

Baba's Help:

Baba's saving people from epidemic is best illustrated under heading of `Modern Markandeya' in the Gospel of Sai Baba. A Bandra boy, with his mother, had come to see Baba, Baba told to the boy at noon arati to come to him exactly at 2 o'clock. When he came, he was asked to hold Baba's foot firmly. Within an hour, a huge female figure withdisheveled hair and shot out tongue, came from the side of the Dwaraka Mai wall, and tried to approach the boy. Being afraid to go near Baba, the figure said, `I want this boy'. Baba said, I will not give' and held him firmly. Then that figure came closer to pull theboy away from Baba. Baba rose and gave her a kick. The figure ran away howling, left the Mosque, and disappeared. Then Baba told the boy that figure was the Cholera goddess, and she wanted to take him away, but that he had saved him. Baba told him and his mother to leave next morning. They went back to Bombay safe. But from the nextday, cholera was raging at Shirdi, and Baba's statement was fully corroborated, that Baba could see the exact moment when Cholera was about to attack a boy, and then save him, reminds one of Markandeya being saved by Shiva when Markandeya gripped fast the lingam which he was worshipping, being absorbed in Siva in the form of linga. Similarly this boy gripping Baba, in whom he had firm faith, was saved by Baba from death.

Baba's saving people from accidents:

Nana Chandorkar and his friend Lele Sastri were in a tonga near Poona on a road about 120 miles away from Shirdi. Their cart capsized, and their lives were in imminent peril. But just at this moment, Baba made the Sankh sign and sound saying, `Nana is about to die. But will I let him die?' Then what happened? By Baba's wonderful power of protection, the two fat bodies of Chandorkar and Lele Sastri were saved from injury, and when next Nana came to Shirdi, people informed him of Baba's declarations at the crucial moment and nana learnt that Baba had given him new lease of life.

Baba prevented the death of Nandram Marwadi at Shirdi when plague was raging there. When Nandram had high fever and wanted to leave the village Baba told him, `Stay on, I will not let you die till I die'. Nandram was safe, and he survived for many decades.