Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj

A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 83
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Scorpion Bite
A scorpion bit Sri Swamiji’s servant, Cholappa’s wife. She became restless due
to pain. Those days Sri Swami stayed Cholappa’s house. Sri Swami threw his shoe in
front of Cholappa’s wife and asked her to put the scorpion bit hand inside the shoe.
When she placed her hand in the shoe the pain would disappear, but as soon as she
removed her hand from the shoe the pain would reappear again. Therefore, she placed
her hand in the shoe and slept the whole night.
Snake Bite
Once Sri Swami went along with his devotees to a nearby village called Idagi and
took a halt in a Maruti Mandir 156 . There was a devotee of Sri Swami by name Ravanna.
A snake bit him while working in his field. Unfortunately he died due to the snakebite.
The people of the village brought his dead body to Sri Swami. A servant of Sri Swami,
Baba Saheb Jadhav, placed Sri Swamiji’s shoes on dead Ravanna’s head. Seeing this,
Sri Swami got very angry and started throwing abuses at Baba Saheb. Finally Sri Swami
asked Baba Saheb to loudly call on Ravanna by his name. As soon as Baba Saheb called
his name Ravanna woke up and sat, to the great surprise of onlookers.
Leucoderma
Vinchurkar
In the then state of Akkalkot, there was a regent by name Madhavrao
Dadasaheb Vinchurkar (A regent is a person who rules when the regular ruler is absent
or unfit). He was a great devotee of Sri Swami. Sri Swami would visit Vinchurkar’s
house every now and then. On every visit Vinchurkar would render great devotional
service to Sri Swami. Once, a white spot (leucoderma) appeared on the thigh of
Vinchurkar. He became very nervous and started worrying with the very thought that
this white spot should not spread to other parts of his body.
Once, when Vinchurkar observed that Sri Swami was in a jolly mood, he offered
his prayers to get him rid of the white spot. Sri Swami asked, “What is the spot called
as? ”. Vinchurkar replied, “It is called as white spot”. Sri Swami asked him “What is that
on your finger? ”. Vinchurkar replied, “Ring”. “What type of stone are you wearing on
that ring? ”. Vinchurkar replied “White stone”. Sri Swami asked Vinchurkar to throw
away the white stone ring. Then Vinchurkar got rid of the ring from his finger and put it
on Sri Swamiji’s finger. Few days later the white spot on Vinchurkar’s thigh disappeared
completely.
156 Maruti Mandir: (Maruti: Lord Hanuman, Mandir: Temple). Temple of Lord Hanuman
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