First-person testimony · Part II

Kasibai Hansraj

Context

"Hansraj" appears in Chapter 36 of the Satcharitra as the kind and liberal merchant who offered Bhagat Mhalsapati a large sum in Baba's presence. Baba did not allow Mhalsapati to accept it, illustrating that Baba protected his core devotees' poverty as a spiritual safeguard.

About the 1936 statement

Kasibai's statement (page 179 of Part II) preserves the family witness around Hansraj.

Verbatim excerpt from Narasimha Swami (1940s)

ook well”. Then he went to my Superintendent, who was on the road and got oral leave for me to go. He took charge of my place. That was about 3-30 p.m. I went home. In an hour, I learnt that there was a riot in that very place which I had left and that the European Officer was killed dur ing that riot. That sickness continued. I went to the Police Hospital and it was found to be typhoid. After 17 days, I dreamt one night that a big strong man with a black dress on his body and a black cloth on his head caught hold of me and was dragging me. I shouted out “Baba Baba”. Immediately a white individual in white dress ap peared and struggled with the black man and I escaped from the clutches of the black man. I shouted “Baba and Datta Maharaj”. Then suddenly, Baba appeared before me out of the frame of the picture that I worship and disappeared. The black man and the other man had already disappeared. I had at that time the smell of soja, Udbath (i.e., Agarbatti). Since then my fever left me. In July, 1929 as a special case, I was exempted from the Examination and given a permanent appointment, as S.I.

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