SaiBaba Miracle Of Knowing What Happened Without Attending The Event :Nanasaheb’s Disrespect of a Shrine

Nanasaheb’s Disrespect of a Shrine and Saibaba Know In Shirdi

People could only draw inferences or guess as to whether Sai Baba was a Brahmin or a Moslem.  He actually belonged to no caste.  No one knew definitely when He was born, what community He was from, or who His parents were.  The question became, could He be a Moslem or a Brahmin?  If He were a Moslem, why did He keep a dhuni fire ever burning in the masjid?  Why was there a tulsi vrindavan?  Why did He allow the blowing of conches and ringing of bells and the playing of musical instruments?    Thus, if He were a Moslem, how could He have allowed all the different forms of Hindu worship?  Furthermore, how could He have pierced ears and how could He have spent money from His pocket for repairing Hindu temples?  Moreover, SaiBaba never tolerated the slightest disrespect to Hindu shrines and deities. 

Once Nanasaheb Chandorkar came to Shirdi with his ‘sadu’ (the husband of his sister-in-law), Mr. Biniwalle.  They went to the masjid, sat before SaiBaba, and while they were conversing, SaiBaba suddenly became angry with Nanasaheb and said, “You have been with me for such a long time.  How could you behave like this?”  At first, Nanasaheb did not understand what SaiBaba meant and so he humbly requested Him to explain.  SaiBaba then asked him what he did when he arrived in Kopergaon and afterward, how did he travel to Shirdi.  Nanasaheb at once realized his mistake.  Nana’s brother-in-law, Mr. Biniwalle, a Datta bhakta,  usually worshiped the shrine of Datta on the banks of the Godavari at Kopergaon on his way to Shirdi, but this time Nana dissuaded his relation from going to the shrine so as to avoid delay, thus allowing them to continue directly on to Shirdi.  Nana confessed all this to SaiBaba and then went on to tell Him that while bathing in the Godavari, a big thorn went into his foot and gave him quite a bit of trouble. SaiBaba pointed out to Nana that the thorn was the slight punishment he met for his disregard of the Datta shrine and warned him to be more careful in the future.