Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj

A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 117
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Snake Bite to Ravanna Vani
Sri Swamiji along with his disciples and devotees went to village Idagi and took
a halt in the temple of Maruti156. At that time a villager named Ravanna Vani was
ploughing his field. Around afternoon at about 4 0’clock a poisonous serpent bit him. He
started getting pain cramps, the snake poison started to spread throughout the body
and eventually he died. People brought him to the Maruti Temple where Sri Swamiji was
sitting. To give some relief to the dead man Babasaheb Jadhav placed Sri Swamiji’s
shoes on dead Ravanna Vani’s head. Sri Swamiji woke up from deep sleep and started
showering volleys of abuses on Babasaheb. People present there got scared and they
ran away. Sri Swamiji took off his clothes and became stark naked. Babasaheb started
trembling with fear.
Rebuking Babasaheb, Sri Swamiji spoke “You foolish fellow, who had asked you
to keep these shoes on the head of a dead man? ”. He asked Babasaheb to shake off
his (Sri Swamiji’s) clothes on the ground and call on Ravanna loudly. There were no
signs of movement when Babasaheb called on loudly in one of Ravanna’s ears. Then Sri
Swamiji ordered him to call in both the ears. When Babasaheb started calling in both
the ears, Ravanna woke up from his death-sleep. He was very hungry. Sri Swamiji
asked Babasaheb to feed Kheer to Ravanna.
After taking Kheer he became fully conscious. In fact Ravanna had already died
before they had got him to the temple. But Babasheb took Ravanna as being
unconscious and placed the shoes of Sri Swamiji on his head. To keep up the honour of
his shoes, Sri Swamiji himself endured the snake-poison, shook off his clothes, and
restored the life of Ravanna. In fact, a person bitten by snake is never given anything
prepared out of milk. Can there be anything else to match this incomprehensible
miraculous work of Sri Swamiji.
You Horse! Swallow This Child
The health of a male child of a village lady started deteriorating. She tried all
types of remedies but there was no use. So finally she came to Akkalkot along with her
child to get the kind favour of Sri Swamiji. When she came to Akkalkot she found her
child dead. She started weeping very loudly and openly for her dead child. Sri Swamiji
softened with compassion. He got up from his seat and came near the child. He lifted
the child upside down and started whirling him.
A horse was standing nearby. He brought the child near the mouth of the horse
and said “Horse, swallow this child”. Then Sri Swamiji threw the body of the dead child
in a nearby pit. No sooner the child fell into that pit, it became alive and started crying.
The village lady went running to the child, embraced him with great affection, and then
started feeding him with her breast milk. Tears of joy started flowing from her eyes.
She repeatedly started singing in praise of Sri Swamiji and returned with the child.
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