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Story Of Faith-Part 3

He shone as a great dancing star in the early 80's and now he is a judge on some dance shows. My friend was his close buddy who was also his man Friday. They once decided to go to Shirdi after the pack up of shooting. They met at Dadar railway station to catch the late night Manmad Passenger which started at 11.30pm. They selected a compartment which was quite empty and they chatted away till early in the morning when the train dropped them to Nasik. They got out and freshened up and had some refreshments from the vendors. They got inside a crowded bus to go to Shirdi. They were separated by a large crowd so they took the either end of the bus. Three hours of jaunty bus ride later they met each other at the Shirdi bus-stand. They went to have a bath and later they took darshan by standing in the regular queue. Those were the times when he was not so well known so no one recognized him then. They had a meal at the kahanaval of the Shirdi sansthan and then started the journey back to

Story Of Faith-Part 2.

The timing was not right at all. She had gone to Shirdi to meet the saint Saibaba but she was unable to move out from her room, which the saints had so graciously provided. The rest of the family members went for the morning darshan and were sitting with the saint. Saibaba was as usual in a state of very strange samadhi but he still spoke a few words. There were a few who had the guts to go and approach Him but the rest were sitting in front of Him watching Him with full devotion. They all had some problems to discus with Him but He sat quietly near His usual place next to the blazing fire. The crowd maintained a strict distance from Him knowing fully well that there was hardly anything in the world that would not provoke Him and He would run after them with His baton or His expletives would follow. She could not get out of the room since she was very much in her last few days of her pregnancy. She was expecting her 3rd child. She had already lost two of them earlier due to some mishap

Story of Faith-Part 1.

One of my disciples decided to go to Shirdi to get to talk to Saibaba face to face. She being a VIP was given a special place to sit in meditation all day long right in front of Saibaba's samadhi. She cried her heart out to take her smoothly through the travails of life to Baba. On the last day of her sojourn she was sitting till shej aarti or last prayer of the day before Baba goes to sleep. After the aarti, she felt very hungry so she decided to have a pavbhaji from a road side vendor. She asked him to make a pav bhaji and while she was standing and waiting for him to make and give her, she noticed an old man asking her for something to eat. She offered him and the dog which accompanied him a pav bhaji. He insisted on two, one for himself and the other for his dog. She gave him and the dog two pav bhajis which they ate very heartily. After finishing the old man grabbed her hand and tied a string round her wrist. She tried to twist her hand out of his grasp but he was too strong f