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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Contemporary devotees of Shirdi Sai Baba.

Most that we know about the life and stories of Sai Baba is from the contemporary devotees of Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi.

Those many devotees and non devotees who were graced by Shri Sat Chit Anand Sai Baba. Many of those were fortunate to spend much time with the embodied Sai Baba and witness and be part of Sai Baba's divine play.

Ganesh Shrikrishna Khaparde used to mantain a diary of daily events that occurred in his life, along with the date. His long stay in Shirdi has also been recorded and Shri G. S. Kaparde dairy has also been published by Shri Saibaba Sansthaan Shirdi. Hari Sitaram Dixit ( known as Kaka Saheb Dixit) and Langda Kaka as lovingly called by Sai Baba, also wrote a diary of many leelas (divine play) that happened with him and other devotees. The diary was published in the Sai Leela magazine in the early 1920's.

There is a wonderful book called Sai Vaani written by a dedicated devotee Vinny Chitluri. Many leelas and parables told by Saibaba recorded in 'The Dixit Diary' have been written in this book, which is a great gift to all Sai Baba devotees from the autor and the hard work she put for the same with the grace and divine love of Sai Baba.

Below are the pictures and names (Links to the name follows to the page or post containing to the stories related with that particular devotee.

Also Sai Baba lovingly called many devotees by the pet names he gave to them which had also a deep meaning. The name which were given by Baba are given in ( ). While female devotees were usually called as 'Mai' (mother) Or Tai (sister) or Bai or Mousi with respect.



Shri Abdul Baba ( Halalkar)-----Anna Babre------------------(Hemad ) Govind R. Dabholkar



-----Appa Kulkarni-------------------Baijabai Kote--------------Bala Saheb Dev (Chindi Chor )
-------Balasaheb Mirikar------------------Bhagoji Shinde------Bhau Dhumal (Bhau)

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------Bhaumaharaj Kumbhar----------Chotubhaiya Paralkar--Dadasaheb Khaparde (Bapusaheb Tapsun Dada)


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------Dadasaheb Purandare-------------Damodhar Rasne--------------------Dasganu

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Gopalrao Bapusaheb Buti (Buttyaa)----Justice Awasthi----------------Kakasaheb Mahajani


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---------Kashiram Bala Shimpi----------Laxman Mungi-------------------Laxman Nulkar

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--------Laxmibai Shinde-----------Madhavrao Aadkar----Madhavrao Deshpande - Shama (Bhatacha Shamya)


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------------Mahadev Sapatnekar---------Megh Shyam Rege------------Mhalsapati

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-----------Moreshwar Pradhan---------------Nanasaheb Chandorkar-----------Nanasaheb Kharkar

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------------------Nanasaheb Rasne----------------Nandu Marwadi--------------Parvatabai Sapatnekar

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---Pillai (Andhoji Pillai)-------------------Radhakrishna Swami------------Rajubhaiya Naik

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--------Ramakrishna Walkar---------Sadubhaiya Naik ---------Sagun Meru Naik (Naik Takki (deceiver))

- ------Sunderrao Navalkar--------------Swami Sharananand--------Tatyakote Patil (Kothayacha Godmukhya)

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------------------Trimbak Rasne--------------------Yashwant Galwankar---------------Y . R. Sukher

3 comments:

People Matter To Me said...

What an excellent collection of an array of the spiritually wealthy and lucky ones!!

Smriti said...

Om Sri Sai Ram,
Alpesh Patel U have done a great job.
I am really very happy by seeing such a blog.
Me too started a blog on LORD SRI SAI.
http://sairam9.wordpress.com/ is my blog.
See this once.
Jai Jai Sai Ram

Anonymous said...

Om Sai Ram. Shiridi Sai Baba has saved me and my family many times. Three weeks ago, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctors had to do a procedure to shrink the tumor, but to our horror, my father started bleeding and the doctors told us that they couldn't guarantee anything; it might be a few hours only...if that. Frantically, we made calls to relatives near and far to come and see my father for the last time...in the midst of this chaos, I remembered Baba's words, "...Look to me and I look to you..." I prayed sincerely to Baba to look to my father and to save him...I asked Baba to go in the operating room and to stop the blood himself as the doctors said they were helpless...In about an hour, the bleeding stopped!!! Everyone who had gathered in the hospital who were ready to say their last words to my father were in a grateful shock! Baba had saved my father! He was alive. Today, it has been three weeks since this miracle, and my family and I are grateful to Baba for this miracle...every single day that you are giving to my father is greatly appreciated, Baba. I will not forget my promise that I have made to you...I love you, Baba...Thank you. Shirdi Sai Nath Maharaj Ki Jai!

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