Baba Protects You

Aum Sairam

On one occasion in 1908, when Smt. Borkar was at Kopergaon observing
Chathurmasya, a four month period of the rainy season which is
considered inauspicious, a fakir came up to her and asked for rotis and
onion chutney. She sent him away saying, we do not eat onion during the
Chathurmasya. However she immediately felt guilty, thinking that it may
have been Sri Sai Baba who came to her in that form and whom she turned
away. So later, when she visited Shirdi and Sri Sai Baba said to her,
You didn't give me the onion chutney, why did you come here then?,
she said without hesitation, I only came here to offer it to you now!

Smt Chandrabai Borkar was a woman of heart and great presence of mind.
On a Guru Poornima day Sri Sai Baba told her to go and worship Upasani
Baba. Upasani did not allow anybody to come near him in those days and
everybody was afraid to even approach him. However, Chandrabai, armed
with the courage of Sri Sai Baba's words, went straight up to Upasani
Baba along with her puja material and held his feet in worship. Upasani
Baba, astonished at her behavior, shouted at her angrily, saying, what
you are doing? Why are you holding my feet? Go away at once! She coolly
went ahead with her worship, saying, Sri Sai Baba told me to worship
you today, and his word is the ultimate for me. I will not go away, no
matter how hard you try to make me. Thus, totally ignoring his anger,
she left only after completing her worship. Such was her resolve and
her unflinching faith and respect in the words of Sri Sai Baba.

Sri Sai Baba forewarned her of the imminent death of her husband.
Appearing in her dreams he said, Mother! I am taking away your Ramu.
Don't lose heart! The disease struck Ramachandra Borkar wished that
he wouldn't die during the days of Chathurmasya, so she prayed to Sri
Sai Baba to fulfill the wish of her husband, and Sri Sai Baba obliged
her. Shree Borkar passed away one week after the period of Chathurmasya
was over, in full contemplation of Sri Sai Baba. Even though he never
visited Shirdi nor served Baba with faith, Sri Sai Baba granted him
salvation, only because of the devotion of his wife Smt. Chandrabai Borkar.


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