Mhalsapati faced so many worldly
difficulties with extreme poverty. He did not have any food to feed his family
lot of times. His family fasted without food on several occasions. He never
yielded to this pressure.
Baba offered to give him some money but he refused to
take and used to say “Sai I just need your blessings not monetary benefits from
you.
He was goldsmith by profession but a poor village like Shirdi could not
give him any business to survive. His lands were barren.
He was worshipping his
Khandoba (Lord Shiva) in the form of Sai all the time. Even at the height of
his poverty, he showed Ananyabhakti
(unconditional devotion).
His greatness and unconditional worship (shradda) was evident when he did
not ask or say anything about his son’s death. He could have asked Baba to get
his son back like all other devotees but he did not. Because he knows what he
needs to get from a great Guru like Sai?
Can we learn this kind of Shradda, and
love our Sai to the extent that Bhakta Mhalsapati did. This could be our golden
standard for spiritual development in loving Sai.
Baba gave these padukas to Mhalsapati
OM SAI RAM!
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