Om Sai Ram!!!
Bhimaji, who had serious chest disease, asthma, tuberculosis,
etc., Baba first told Shama, ‘Shama, in bringing this
thief to me what a load of responsibility you are placing
on me!’ Baba meant that the tuberculosis, asthma, etc.,
from which Bhimaji suffered were the result of Bhiinaji’s
karma in a previous janma consisting of theft. Bhimaji felt
Baba’s declaration a blow. At once he surrendered himself
to Baba and said, ‘Helper of the helpless! I am helpless.
Pray show thy pity and grace to me’. Then Baba’s
tone changed. Baba told him, ‘The Fakir (God) is merciful,
and your disease will be cured’. He was suffering from
the results of karma, but that could be mitigated, and so
the man was sent to live and sleep in a wet verandah. Bhimaji
did so. There, he had two very dreadful dreams. In one dream,
he was mercilessly birched by a school master. For, in the
dream he fancied he was a boy and the master was birching
him. So, he felt the pain in the dream and he roared out.
In the second dream, it was even worse. He felt that some
one was placing a stone roller and rolling it over his breast.
He suffered all the horror of instant death approaching him.
All the pain of a hanging sentence and whipping sentence were
endured by this man in the course of one night. Baba thus
changed the punishments, which he had earned by his previous
karma, and told him that he was thus free from karmic effects.
He then recovered his health. The above instances go to show
that most of our conceptions about karma are nebulous and
ungrounded, and that the safest course for us to follow would
be to be guided by the dicta of Satpurushas like Sai Baba.”
Jai Sai Ram!!!
