First-person testimony · Part III

Badave

Context

Badave's statement appears at page 232 of Part III.

About the 1936 statement

A brief Part III testimony.

Verbatim excerpt from Narasimha Swami (1940s)

for it as dakshina I gave 211 it but not without a momentary regret and hesitation. He received it and handed it over to some fakir by his side. Then looking at me and evidently to meet my momentary regret at losing the watch, Baba said to me ‘You are not going to be worse off (on his account)’ I said, ‘Of course, it was nothing I had given. Then I started back, and via Kopergaon I came to Poona. There I went to a friend’s (Mr.Natu’s) house. I was talking of my Shirdi watch incident and inquired what it would cost to get a similar watch. Just then my friend’s brother sent down his gold watch worth about Rs.60 and wanted me to ac cept it as a present and I accepted it. So I wasn’t worse off for parting with my watch to Sai Baba I visited Shirdi on one or two occasions. I composed then a Sanskrit poem on Sai Baba. XII 27 th July, 1936 Balakistna Ramachandra Khairikar, Brahmin, Vydiki life, aged 70, Khairi (3 miles off Chitale) says: When I first heard of Sai Baba, it was that he was a mad man. That was 35 years ago or thereabout. But when everybody began to talk of him and as some of the Brahmins of Shirdi (egAppa Kulkarni) are connected with me, I went to see him.

Source: B. V. Narasimha Swami, Devotees' Experiences of Sri Sai Baba (All India Sai Samaj, Madras, 1940s; reprint Akhanda Sainama Sapthaha Samithi, Hyderabad). PDF on Internet Archive · OCR full text. Excerpt matched on the term: Badave. This is the canonical English excerpt; please consult the original PDF for context.