Shri Sai Satcharithra - Chapter 41

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As stated in the last chapter, we continue here the story of the picture. Nine years after the occurrence of the incident depicted in the last chapter, Ali Mahomed saw Hemadpant and related to him the following story. One day while wandering in the streets of Bombay he bought the picture from a street-hawker; then he framed and set it on a wall in his house at Bandra (suburb of Bombay). As he loved Baba, he daily took darshana of it. Three months before he gave the picture to Hemadpant, he was suffering from an abscess or swelling on his leg for which anoperation was performed and he was convalescing in the house of hisbrother-in-law, Mr. Noor-Mahomed Peerbhoy in Bombay. For threemonths his house in Bandra was closed; and nobody was living there.Only the pictures of the famous Baba Abdul Rahiman, MoulanasahebMahomed Hussain, Baba Sai, Baba Tajudin and other saints (living)were there. The wheel of time did not even spare these. He was lyingsick and suffering in Bombay. Why should the pictures suffer there (inBandra)? It seems that they have also their ins and outs (births anddeaths). All the pictures met their fate, but how Sai Baba's picture escaped it, nobody had been able to explain to me up till now. It shows theall-pervasiveness, omnipresence of Sai and His insrutable power.