Lighting Lamps with Water
Shirdi is a small village, 13 Kms. to the south of Kopargaon in Ahmednagar District of Maharastra State,India. Sri Sai Baba first came to Shirdi in about 1852 A.D. and stayed there for two years. He appeared again in Shirdi after 2-3 years along with a marriage party from Dhupkhede, when he was hardly a lad of 16 years in a dress of Kafni, dhoti and a to He was first greeted in Sri Khandoba's temple as " Aao, Sai, Aao" by Sri Mahalasapati, A goldsmith and manager of the temple and the name of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba was adopted to the young saint since then.
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Miracles of Sai Baba
The villagers of Shirdi and afar soon found out that this was no ordinary fakir but an avatar (incarnation) of a very high order. He demonstrated through his miracles and utterances, the purpose and intention for which he had come. He would often say, "My Leela is inscrutable". To each one he met, he imparted knowledge according to the capacity of the recipient to absorb it. Baba's Leela's (miracles) were plenty and varied, and we recount just a few which occurred during and after his lifetime.
Long before Sai Baba's fame spread, he was fond of burning lights in his Masjid and other Temples. But for the oil needed in those little earthenware lights that he lit, he depended on the generosity of the grocers of Shirdi. He had made it a rule to light earthenware lamps in the masjid every evening and he would call on the grocers for small donations. But there came a time when the grocers got tired of giving oil free to Sai Baba and one day they bluntly refused to oblige him, saying they had no fresh stocks. Without a word of protest Sai Baba returned to the masjid. Into those earthenware lamps he poured water and lighted the wicks.
The lamps continued to burn deep into the midnight. The matter came to the notice of the grocers who now came to Sai Baba with profuse apologies. Wouldn't Sai Baba kindly pardon them? Sai Baba pardoned them, but he warned them never to lie again. "You could have refused to give me the oil, but did you have to say that you didn't have fresh stocks?" he admonished them. But he had made his point.
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