“No,” Baba replied resolutely, “where is the need to go all the way when the Godavari is here right at my feet?” Das Ganu was vexed. On a festive occasion, he sought Baba’s permission to go to a place called Singba on the banks of the Godavari to have a bath in the holy waters. Sai Baba was to them as real as their homes and their fields and their cattle and the distant hills.Das Ganu once had an unforgettable experience. It was not secondhand information they had gathered.
These were instances of things they had seen with their own eyes. And great was the rejoicing of the people. No sooner had that platter of leaves been dropped in the well, it is said, water rose from the bottom as if by divine command and completely filled it. The villagers had no qualms about doing as they were did. So What should they do but go to Sai Baba with their problem? “‘Oh yes,” said Sai Baba, ‘so you want plenty of water, do you? Here, take this and drop it in the well and wait and see.” “‘This,” turned up to be a platter of flowers on which some prasad (blessed food) had been placed along with the remnants of alms Baba had received earlier in the day. When, therefore, Sai Baba gave his permission to the villagers to celebrate the Ram Navami Fair, (Baba’s Birthday) the big problem facing the organizers was one of water supply. It had no natural spring water and if ever there had been one, it must long ago have dried up. When Sai Baba first came to Shirdi it had of no basic facilities. “Sai Baba,” the people shouted “help us, help us put the fire out!” Thereupon, Sai Baba walked casually towards the yard, sprinkled some water on a stack of sheaves and said: ” There now! The fire will die down!” And so it happened.
A strong wind was fanning the fire and word had gone round to the villagers who now came running to the scene. Kondaji noticed that a sheaf of corn was indeed on fire and smoke was billowing from it. He returned to the masjid and informed Sai Baba that he had looked everywhere but had found no trace of fire and why did Baba have to frighten him? Unfazed, Baba said : “You better turn back and look again.” Baba was right after all. frantically looked around for any sign of fire. One afternoon Sai Baba summoned Kondaji Sutar and said to him: “Go, your field is on flrel” Frightened, Kondaji ran to his field and. The heat was intense as only those who have lived in Shirdi know. Once, harvesting in Shirdi had been completed and the foodgrains of the entire village had been stored in a yard. “You could have refused to give me the oil, but did you have to say that you didn’t have fresh stocks?” he admonished them. Wouldn’t Sai Baba kindly pardon them? Sai Baba pardoned them, but he warned them never to lie again. The matter came to the notice of the grocers who now came to Sai Baba with profuse apologies. The lamps continued to burn deep into the midnight. Into those earthenware lamps he poured water and lighted the wicks. Without a word of protest Sai Baba returned to the masjid.
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But there came a time when the grocers got tired of giving oil free to Sai Baba and one day they bluntly refused to oblige him, saying they had no fresh stocks. He had made it a rule to light earthenware lamps in the masjid every evening and he would call on the grocers for small donations. But for the oil needed in those little earthenware lights that he lit, he depended on the generosity of the grocers of Shirdi. Long before Sai Baba’s fame spread, he was fond of burning lights in his Masjid and other Temples.
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