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  Shirdi Sai and Sathya Sai are One and the Same
By Arjan D. Bharwani

13. THE CONFLUENCE AT CHINCHOLI 

The Maharaja of Chincholi was an ardent devotee of Shirdi Sai. Every year the Maharaja used to spend two or three months at Akalkot and Shirdi along with other like-minded people.

After the demise of her husband, the Rani of Chincholi heard about Sri Sathya Sai. She came to Puttaparthi and prayed to Baba to visit Chin­choli and Hyderabad. Granting her prayers when Baba went to these places, He retold accurately every instance pertaining to all things and places, that had happened during His visit there as Shirdi Sai. He inquired from the Rani about a stone idol of 'Anjaneya (Hanuman)' and later Himself located the same in the presence of everybody. He also spoke about an idol of Shirdi Sai, kept at a particular place in the palace. Needless to say it was discovered at the exact locale. This conclusively proves and ascertains without doubt that Sathya Sai is the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai. Soon thereafter Baba departed for Parthi. Within a few days of this historic event followed yet another astounding and supernatural disclosure. This time, the Rani sighted a brass kamandalu (vessel) around which was coiled a live cobra. The Rani offered with devotion, ritualistic puja to the serpent (Naag Devta). It occurred to the Rani that the reptile was guarding the kamandalu and therefore sheattached great importance to the article.

To clarify the mystery from Baba, she brought the kamandalu to Parthi. As soon as she arrived there, she received a message from Baba, "When you come to see Me, you must bring along the vessel from which I used to drink water". She carried the kamandalu to the Divine presence. Baba showed it to all the devotees present there and pointed at the writing 'SAA' and'BAA' that were engraved on it (Saa==Sai, Baa==Baba). Vedic injunctions prescribe the use of 'karaki (vessel containing water)', of a particular phototype during the performance of yajnas. Till to-date this kamandalu has been used in all the Veda Purusha Sapthah Jnana Yajna' during the Navrathri celebrations at Parthi. The wonder is that the vessel fulfills all the requisite details of the 'Vedic Karaki'.

It is a testimony of the household staff at the palace and also of the Rani herself that Shirdi Baba used to come often for two or three days stay with the Maharaja. The two   of them used to go riding a horse-cart (tonga) the country-side. It was said that even today this tonga is preserved at Parthi. Naturally, some readers may begin to doubt as to how is it that Shirdi Baba, who had never left Shirdi beyond its outskirts, could be associated with being at Chincholi in Hyderabad (Deccan). However, it must be remembered that when Baba was at Shirdi simultaneously He was seen to be physically present at Dahanu in Thane District, at Hasrishchandra well at Bombay, at Junagadh and likewise at Chincholi also.

In an artilcles Smt. Nagamani Purnaiya has narrated that she has herself seen Shirdi Baba's robe and hukkah at Chincholi. Once she accom­panied Parthi Baba to that place. She bears witness to Baba directing some people to a particular house, giving them the details of the interior. The minutia were found precisely identical with the description.


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