First-person testimony · Part III

Mr. X

Context

"Mr. X" — an anonymous witness whose name Narasimha Swami withheld at the witness's request. The statement is at page 299 of Part III. Anonymous statements were sometimes given by witnesses whose accounts touched legal, marital, or financial matters they preferred not to attach their name to.

About the 1936 statement

An anonymous Part III witness.

Verbatim excerpt from Narasimha Swami (1940s)

nd declined the dinner offered to him by my father-in-law. After the marriage was over, I went to Shirdi and stayed there for four days. Baba, as soon as he saw me, remarked: “Why so much delay?” I replied that I was a poor clerk and could not easily come. He asked me dakshina, I gave him five rupees. But, he insisted and wanted five more. I did not know his reason but I gave him the five rupees extra. Then he said. “Nothing more is due to me from you”. I discovered the reason for that demand only after my return home to Karhegaon when my wife told me that she had sent Rupees Five by money order to Baba a year ago (unknown to me) and that the money- order had come back with the endorsement that it would be received in person. That is why, I see, Baba asked me, in person, five rupees more. My youngest daughter Prema Bai, aged 4, was suffering from fever and it had taken a serious turn. She had become a mere skelton. Medicines and treatment brought no relief. My wife, who was a devo tee of Sai Baba, prayed to Baba to help the girl. Baba’s voice, she heard at the prayer in the waking state, saying “I will take away all the trouble on the third day”.

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