BHAGAWAN BABA OF SHIRDI

BABA'S POWERS

Baba mastered yoga and demonstrated now and then. His proficiency was of high order in Dhauti - a kind of yogic practice of disgorging the intestines and hanging them up on the branches of trees to dry after washing. Many witnessed this spectacular feet. Besides, his supreme skill in Khanda yoga too struck terror into the minds of spectators. Once a stranger, who entered the Dwarakamai in the night was horrified to see Baba's limbs separated and strewn in different places, like head in one corner, limbs in another and trunk in the middle. Above all, he used to fall into trance now and then lasting for not hours but days. Once he entered into samadhi, and after three days he returned to normal state, as promised. But it created a great furore; for, the asramites were abused for keeping his corpse for more than a day, mistaking his trance for death. This display enthralled even the septics. Hence he was deemed and adored as prataksha daivam.

Nothing was impossible to him. Impossibilities bent their heads and carried out his bidding. Even the elements and planets too. Such extra-ordinary events deified him and people went to him in and out of the day for everything and anything. They were never deserted. Listen! It so happened, one night there descended a terrible storm, with blinding lightning and deafening thunders. All on a sudden. People started running helter sketlter, wailing and shouting. All the panic got concentrated at the portal of Dwarakamai, their sure safe refuge. No sooner did the heart-rending cries of the afflicted fell on his ears.

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