First-person testimony · Part II

Dinkar Rao Jaiker

Context

Shamrao Jaykar was the artist whose life-like portrait of Sai Baba adorns the masjid at Shirdi. "Though Baba has no body now, he lives there and everywhere" — Hemadpant notes that for an imaginative and devout spectator the Jaykar portrait gives the satisfaction of darshan (Chapter 43-44). Dinkar Rao Jaiker is likely a family member.

About the 1936 statement

Dinkar Rao Jaiker's 1936 statement at page 181 of Part II preserves the family-side perspective. Shamrao Jaykar himself has his own statement in Part III (p. 268).

Verbatim excerpt from Narasimha Swami (1940s)

lowed it to get in, to watch how it could possibly reach the curd pot which was kept so high in a sling. But it did. Anyhow the cat had dipped its mouth into the curd pot and the curds were not fit for use. He quickly watched its drinking and when it got down he used his stick severely on its back, by way of summary punishment for its larceny. In the afternoon, people resorted to Baba at the mosque and got udhi from his hands. We went there; Jog, Madhav Rao Despande, Kaka Dixit, Buty etc., were there. Baba addressing them referred to my husband and said “There is an (i. upantiya e., one who does the reverse of what he is asked to do) who wants to die by eatin g sour and pungent things. But I would not allow him to do that. To day I went to him in the form of a cat. That fellow has given me a caning on the back. See here.” Then Baba exposed his back from under the Kupni; and there we could see a weal or stripe such as caning might cause, what a wonder! Thereafter my husband wanted no more curds to be prepared and no more acids etc., to take. This accelerated his improvement very probably. Baba was not for giving him any medicines.

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: Dinkar. This is the canonical English excerpt; please consult the original PDF for context.