First-person testimony · Part III

Mama Dube

Context

Mama Dube opens Part III at page 203 of the HTML edition.

About the 1936 statement

Mama Dube's brief statement is the opening of Part III in Narasimha Swami's compilation.

Verbatim excerpt from Narasimha Swami (1940s)

The body must go to the earth. Why go on lamenting for that?” Again he said “Scatter your Ramphal far and wide.” That (I learnt) meant, scatter knowledge, of course after obtaining it. Then baba began to describe to someone present my house and my garden and state the exact number and locality of my Sitaphal and Ramphal trees etc., with the accuracy and certainty of neigh bour, who had actually seen it often. He told others of me that I had lost my son fifteen days previously and was vainly lamenting over it. He was going on removing my poignant grief and fortifying my faith in him, by abundant proof that he knew everything about me and about every one that came to him. I stayed there for four days. Dur ing those days, many came to him and he told them facts about them which they mentioned to me and others, as remarkable proof of Baba’s knowing everything. This was the real starting of my faith which has proved a valuable asset for my spiritual and temporal life. Though I did not visit Shirdi again till 1935, I had got such intense faith that whenever I was in trouble, I beheld his person in dreams and he gave me help.

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