BABA'S CURE - SIMPLY DEPEND HIS GRACE
Sometimes Baba's method of effecting cures were less direct. Perhaps he sometimes felt it necessary for his kiddies to toughen through a process of suffering which he could well gauge to be neither too serious not too painful. Especially, he seems to have taken care to see that the suffering raised the mental grit or courage of the patient. To this end he often ordered the patient to go away from him so that psychologically, he might get used to depend on Baba's grace and not on Baba's proximity.
Kakasaheb was laid up at Shirdi with high fever and sent a word to Baba through Shama. Baba curtly replied, "I am not a doctor; let him go to his house in Vile Parle." Shama was annoyed at his unexpected response. So he said, "He stayed here with great trust in you; how can he go now when he is laid up with fever?" Baba is not the one to yield. He just reiterated his order and did not even give udhi for him. "What a mad fakir he is!" he thought. Yet he had the sense to start on his homeward journey and went to the mosque to take leave of Baba. On seeing him Baba said, in a voice not too soft, "Go home! The fever will go even as it come, in four day's time. Don't lie down on the bed but move about, eat badam (almonds), pista and sira." Then he gave udhi and sent Shama to accompany him on his journey. Kaka's mind regained composure at the assurance of Baba. It was 11 o'clock at night when they walked home in Ville Parle. Every one at Kaka's home was surprised at Kaka's quick return this time, for he usually stayed on at Shirdi for several days. His wife was about his health.
As per Baba's order Kaka took sira for his diet. Next day the fever increased. His wife, in her anxiety, called in a doctor who emphatically told Kaka not to move about but to rest himself, and gave him medicine. But Kaka adhered to Baba's order, kept moving about and refused to take the medicine. Every one feared that Kaka would die and started reviling him for pawning away his sense to the absurdities of mad fakir. The doctor grew impatient with Kaka's obstinacy and roared. "What am I here for?" But Kaka kept his course. And on the ninth day the temperature fell and it showed 'normal'. Later when Kaka visited Shirdi again, the first question Baba asked was "What did your people in Bombay say?" He know it all.
(Written by: HH Pujya Acharya E Bharatwaja in Sai Baba the Master)
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