BABA and JESUS

One common feature of both Sai’s and Jesus’ lives is the reliance on miracles. People needed miracles to be convinced of their divine nature.

They could only demonstrate their divinity by performing these miracles. Miracles are a concession that divinity allows for human blindness.

*When Jesus said to Nilko … ‘I saw you under the fig tree before Thomas talked to you there.’; The addressee immediately concluded, ‘Surely, thou art the Son of God.’

Jesus said that he would see more wonderful things indicative of divine power . Again when and unable to rise from his bed, saying ‘ Arise , take up thy bed and walk ‘; and the man with palsy rose up and walked. The conclusion was drawn that the miracle was a token of Jesus’s divinity as also

*when Jesus cured a man of leprosy

Some reader might desire to know whether similar incidents happened in Sai’s history .

*First about palsy , a Marwadi had a young daughter of eight years or so with paralyzed legs . She could not walk to Baba, and therefore had to be carried in a chair, palki or stretcher.

She remained with Baba for three days. Suddenly her legs, which she could not bend at all till then, were stretched out and the second day she could stand. Thereafter, before she left Shirdi on the third day, she could walk back.

No application, medical or surgical, was made to her. This cure was purely by Baba’s power with his blessings, offered with udhi applied to her.

*There was once a patient. He had been suffering for years from inflammation of an ulcer in his stomach or bowels. Because of this, he could not eat any food. He was brought to Baba.

Baba ordered sweetmeats to be purchased; and brought and placed before the patient. Strange to say, the man was able to eat them. This cure also was purely by Baba’s power blessings.