Baba’s sayings about His functions
Para Number in the Book & HIS functions
- I am the slave of God.
God is the Lord and Master.
- God has agents everywhere; they have vast powers. I have very great powers.
- God has helped his devotee (Basappa) through me, (a surrendered soul) I am his instrument.
92.A. Appa Kulkarni, after seeing Mohiniraj (=Siva) by Bab’s order (cf 145) before going to see Dy. Collector at Nivas, to answer charges brought against him and after a acquittal, said “Baba, you have saved me.”
Baba : God has helped you, Appa. He achieves the impossible for his devotees.
92B-Baba-G.D. Pensare prayed to Baba and got a pass in his examination and then employment. When he came to Baba .
Baba : What is your profession ?
GDP-I am a teacher- the employment you gave.
93. Baba- I can revive the dead boy and bring back his spirit from the new body it has entered, killing it and reviving this corpse. But that is marring the useful work the new body will do.
- She, the deceased (Spirit) has come to me.
- I draw my devotee to me, at the time of his death, even though he may die a thousand miles away (from Shirdi)
- I will not allow my devotee to be lost. I will account to God for all those that have been given to me.
97. When (in 1918) Mrs. T. and her son Master T. visited S.B.
Baba- ” Mother, now a days I have been much pestered. Some want wealth, some women, some sons, Hallo! what I have, none wants. I wait and wait; and one day I will suddenly disappear. I am quite disgusted.
Mrs. T’. Baba, why do you say so? Then, what is to become of us?
Baba: Why are you anxious? Is not God taking thought for your welfare? I am very much pleased when my children come to me, and then I take my two morsels of food with gusto and put on more flesh.
Master T. : We come to you to ask just what you have got. You know that?
Baba: Yes. You will get it.
M.T.: Yes, we are quite sure of it. But when?
S.B. : Very soon.
M.T.: Baba, I must have an assurance from you how many more births I will have to take before getting it.( cf 113.)
S.B.: Three more lives will be sufficient.
M.T.: But Baba, will you not be always with us?
Baba : Hallo! During how many births have I already been with you! We shall meet again and again. I have to take care of my children night and day, and give an account of every pie to God.
- I put the Rohilla, Pishya and Rao Sahib Galwankar each into his mother’s womb.
- (To Akkalkote Sapatnekar). The soul of your deceased son. I shall bring back to your wife’s womb. (Next year A.S.got a son)
- I will take my Kaka (H.S.Dixit) in Vimana (HSD had a happy blessed ending).


