Dr Antonio Rigopoulos, Italy in his ‘Oral Testimonies on Sai Baba As Gathered During a Field Research in Shirdi and Other Locales in October-November 1985′ (Venice Ca’ F Editions Oscar – Digital Publishing 2021) explained his own Experience that:-
”I went to the cāvaḍī and while I was casually sitting at the cāvaḍī’s entrance, looking at the raṅgolīs, the auspicious signs that some young women were skilfully drawing on the ground, a stray dog caught my attention. He was full of pustules and eczemas, of fleas, and was in a really bad shape. Then it suddenly flashed on me that that dog was Sai Baba. It was something stronger than a simple thought, like an insight or a sudden flash of awareness that I find hard to put into words. I really felt that he was that dog and that he was standing in front of me in that very form: it had the force of an incontrovertible truth. It was a strange and startling experience indeed. Sai Baba was that dog: the lowest, the despised, the most neglected creature. The dog had sweet and penetrating eyes, which called for sympathy and attention.
I felt I finally understood something: not intellectually, i.e. with the head, but emotionally, i.e. with the heart. There was Sai Baba, truly and fully. It came like a revelation and I shed a few tears; couldn’t help it. It was just so overwhelming”
-On 21 Oct 1985 at 7.30 am
Thanks / Reference:
Rigopoulos, Antonio. ‘7 Shirdi-Kopargaon-Shirdi. Monday, October 21, 1985’. Masters, Texts and Sources of the East (2020): n. pag. Crossref. Web.
"I draw to Me, My man from far off or even across the seven Seas to Shirdi, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet"-Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Guru-God 