I WILL GO WITH YOU!

I WILL GO WITH YOU!

Mrs. Chandrabai was an ardent devotee of Sai Baba. She visited Shirdi now and then but her husband Borkar never did. But as he was his devotee's husband, Baba showered his grace on him too. In 1909 when Borkar was engaged in a road construction at Pandharpur, Chandrabai visited Shirdi and stayed there for some days. One day Sai Baba said to her, "You had better go to Pandharpur at once, and I will go with you. I need no conveyance to travel."

When she reached Pandharpur she was shocked to learn her husband had left his work and went away to Bombay. She had only a little money in her purse and she had two companions with her. She just managed to go up to Kurdwadi and there she sat in the railway station, brooding gloomily about her helpless state. Suddenly a fakir appeared before her and asked her why she was gloomy. She gave an evasive reply but was surprised when he told her that her husband was at Dhond and that she should at once go there. But Chandrabai had not the needed fare. Then the fakir at once handed over three tickets to Dhond and went away before she could ask him anything. She then proceeded to Dhond.

Meanwhile, Borkar who was at Dhond railway station drank a little tea and was dozing on a bench. He had a reverie or a dream in which a fakir appeared before him and said, "Why do you neglect my mother? She is coming here by the next train, and is in carriage number s0-and-so" and he mentioned even the number of the carriage. Borkar got up wondering who that fakir could be. The train arrived and Chandrabai stepped down from the railway carriage of the same number was mentioned by the 'visionary' fakir. Borkar received her and told her of his strange experience and asked her to show him the picture of Sai Baba. It was the same fakir that had appeared to him! Did not Sai Baba assure Chandrabai that he would go with her and that he needed no conveyance?

Sai Baba often manifested himself before his devotee in some other form. In such cases Baba always confirmed it to the devotee.

Written by: HH Pujya Acharya Bharatwaja in Sai Baba the Master