First-person testimony · Part III

Raghuji Ganpat Scinde Patel

Context

Raghuji Ganpat Scinde Patel's statement appears at page 282 of Part III. Possibly related to Bhagoji Shinde, the leper devotee who dressed Baba's burnt arm daily after the 1910 Hand-in-the-Fire (Chapter 7), and to the broader Shinde / Scinde family network around Baba.

About the 1936 statement

A Part III witness.

Verbatim excerpt from Narasimha Swami (1940s)

pplied that pepper poultice over his eyelids and he was cured. 256 Once a Moslem boy, who was up on neem tree behind the Mosque, fell down and died. At that very instant, Baba from within the Mosque was sounding a note of distress and cried out: mulla jore marila and blowing Shankha vadyam (i.e.) on the back of his palm. The Margosa tree is not visible from inside the Mosque. As he spoke these words, the boy fell down and died. I was seated at no great distance and I heard his words and went up to see the fallen boy and the people crowding there. I knew the fire in the village stacks. Baba asked Bagchand Marvadi to run up there as a stack had caught fire. It was his stack that was on fire. Baba came up and made some signs. The fire cooled down. One day, Baba called me to him and gave me a packet of udhi and a copy of Baba’s arati. I had to go to Khandesh at the time. Baba directed me to go to Jamnare (which is 36 miles off by cart route from the station Bhusaval) and told me to deliver the udhi and arati to Nana Saheb Chandorkar, Deputy collector at Jamner. I said to baba that all I had was Rs.

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