Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj

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A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 86 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Asthma A Brahmin suffered from Asthma and he was always restless. One day, with great confidence he prayed to Sri Swami and asked for suitable medicine. Sri Swami said, “Roast a sweet potato and eat it”. When the Brahmin started eating the roasted sweet potato, within three days itself his asthma got cured. In this way, Sri Swami, cured different ailments or diseases of his devotees by his kind blessings. However, just for namesake, he would recommend some petty medicines. In fact these petty medicines were not medicines in reality but they carried the kind grace of Sri Swamiji. Those impossible diseases which were not cured even by long medical treatments were cured by the use of simple neem tree leaves or by charan-Teerth 160 of Sri Swamiji. Devotees still remember the compassionate nature of Sri Swamiji. For the ailments and diseases, which come due to one’s fate, no medicine can help but only the kind blessings of Sri Swamiji. Demoniac possession Sri Swami Samarth had liberated a number of devotees from demoniac possession by his simple sportive plays. Tailor from Solapur One day Sri Swami Samarth had gone to village called Basal, which is near Akkalkot. At that time, a tailor from Solapur, Maharashtra, had come there along with his family for Sri Swami Samarth’s Darshan’. By merely glancing at the tailor, Sri Swamiji said, “Would you not feed me? ”. The tailor made all the necessary arrangements. After the food was ready, the tailor gave bath to Sri Swamiji, worshipped him, performed Aarati 161 and then offered sumptuous food to Sri Swamiji. After Sri Swamiji accepted the food, the tailor came and sat in front of Sri Swamiji. All of a sudden the tailor got demoniacally possessed and started swinging. He started screaming. He started dancing and then said, “Where is the necessity for an ascetic to show such plays? ”. Sri Swamiji kept silent for some time and started watering the tailor. Then suddenly he spoke “Fasten the hands of this rascal at the back”. Simply by listening to these words of Sri Swamiji; the tailor became helpless and fell down. He started praying, “I am an orphan. Please shower your kind grace on me and show me the way”. Listening to the tailor’s prayer Sri Swami Samarth got filled with compassion and he blessed the tailor with kind grace. The tailor got liberated from the demoniac 160 Charan-Teerth: Holy water obtained from washing the lotus feet. Considered to have divine energy of a Sadguru or deity. 161 Aarti: A very important part of worship in which the devotee waves a lamp around the Sadguru or Deity and simultaneously sings devotional hyms. Copyright © 2006 Shree Vitthalrao Joshi Charities Trust
A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 87 _________________________________________________________________________________________ possession and returned home happily. Then onwards on every full moon day he started going to Akkalkot on a pilgrimage to take Sri Swami Samarth’s ’Darshan’. Govindrao Govindrao, the son of Chintopant Toll, had severe stomach pain. One day unexpectedly Sri Swamiji came to his house and called Govindrao as ‘goldsmith’ and immediately there was a surge of psychic phenomena due to demoniac possession in Govindrao’s body and he started admonishing Sri Swamiji. He started swinging and went near Sri Swamiji and said, “Why should an ascetic remain in one place just like a buried wooden stump? ”. He went ahead to kick Sri Swamiji but the servants caught hold of him. Sri Swamiji silently went out and sat under the ‘Audumbar’ tree. The psychic went near Sri Swamiji and said, “Why should an ascetic stay in a village? ”. Finally, Sri Swamiji shouted angrily at Govindrao “You black-smith, bind the hands of this fellow with an iron chain weighing fifty seers 162 ”. Both the hands of Govindrao got entangled as though an iron chain weighing fifty seers bound them. Govindrao started shouting, “Maharaj, I am going to die. Kindly save me. I have offended you and committed great sins. Govindrao has taken my money. You tell him to return the money and then I will go away”. By that time, a Muslim devotee arrived. Noticing Govindrao he said, “The tree is undergoing a lot of hardships. Kindly give relief to that tree”. Sri Swamiji said “A great man with a beard like you, has come here, why don’t you yourself relieve him from the bind of that heavy chain? ”. However, the Muslim devotee lacked enough courage to do so. A woman devotee had come for Sri Swamiji’s ‘Darshan’ of. She went ahead. No sooner she touched Govindrao his hands got freed from the invisible binding chain. Within two-three days Govindrao got relief from his stomach pain to a great extent. Then Sri Swamiji said, “At the age of fifty-five you will be completely relieved from the stomach pain as well as the demoniac spirit of a deceased Brahmin”. Eventually Govindrao got the total relief after the completion of fifty-five years. Shankarrao Daftardar Shriman Shankarrao saheb was a record keeper in the regime of the then Nizam of Hyderabad. He was demoniacally possessed. He was also suffering from T. B. He had taken lots of medical treatment but there was no positive effect. He came to Ganagapur and performed number of religious ceremonials, gave money in charity and rendered devotional service. Finally, he had a visionary insight advising him to go to Akkalkot. At Akkalkot, with the help of Sundarabai who was a devotee of Sri Swamiji, Shankarrao saheb offered his prayers to Sri Swamiji. Hearing the prayers, Sri Swamiji got up and went to the graveyard of Muslims. One graveyard was kept ready there. He went and slept in that pit. When Sri Swamiji woke up from that grave pit, he told Shankarrao 162 Seers: Indian measure of weight. One Seer = Two pounds. Copyright © 2006 Shree Vitthalrao Joshi Charities Trust
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