Nanasaheb tried all remedies but they proved in vain he then remembered Baba and invoked His aid. The case was very serious and she was suffering from labour-pains for the two or three days. His daughter Mainatai was pregnant and was about to deliver. Udi used to facilitate childbirth.Ībout 1904-05 Nanasaheb Chandorkar was Mamlatdar (revenue collector) at Jamner, in the Khandesh District, which is more that 100 miles distant from Shirdi. As soon as he took out his fingers, the pain vanished and both the person were moved and felt delighted. Then he stood before Baba’s picture and invoked Baba’s aid, chanted Baba’s name and taking out a pinch of the ashes of the joss-stick burning in front of Baba’s picture and thinking it to be Baba’s Udi, applied it on the seat of pain and the sting.
Baba’s Udi (sacred ash) is most efficacious in such cases it is to be applied on the seat of pain, and so Narayanrao searched for it, but found none. Once a friend of this Narayanrao was stung by a scorpion and the pain caused by it, was severe and unbearable. Narayan Jani left service and started a boarding house, ‘Anandashram’ which thrived well. Some days after, this prophecy turned true. Then Baba Himself told her that he (her son) should serve no more, but start independent business. Once he went to Shirdi with his mother and saw Baba. He was serving under another devotee of Baba, by name Ramachandra Vaman Modak. Narayan Motiram Jani of Nasik was a devotee of Baba. It was found out and is even now found out, that the Udi cured many physical and mental maladies, but Baba wanted to din into the devotee’s ears the principles of discrimination between the Unreal and the Real. We come here (in this world) alone and we have to go out alone. Baba also taught by the Udi that the Brahman is the only Reality and the universe is ephemeral and that no one in this world, be he a son, father or wife, is really ours. In order to remind the devotees of the fact that their bodies will be reduced to ashes, Baba distributed Udi to them. Our bodies composed of wood or matter of the five elements, will fall down, after all their enjoyments are over, and be reduced to ashes.
What did Baba teach or hint by this Udi? Baba taught by His Udi that all the visible phenomena in the universe are as transient as the ash. The ash from this fire was called Udi and it was freely distributed to the devotees at the time of their departure from Shirdi. One of Baba’s special features was that he always kept a sacred fire (Dhuni) burning.
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