Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj

A Short Biography of Shree Swami Samarth 88
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saheb “Offer food to the Fakirs 163 and a sheet of cotton cloth at Sheikh Noor Dargah 164 ”.
Shankarrao Saheb did accordingly. Within a few days he recovered his health.
Then as per the orders of Sri Swamiji, Shankarrao Saheb built a Muth90 at
Akkalkot spending thirty thousand rupees, then celebrated a festival with great pomp
and later returned to Hyderbad.
Shoe Thrown at the Brahmin Possessed by Ghost
A Brahmin was possessed demoniacally. He always behaved like a lunatic. His
wife brought him to Akkalkot. She would collect alms and feed her husband but he
would abuse and spit at people. The helpless lady somehow calmed down the victims.
In the evening the Brahmin would become more mischievous and would run away
without notice. With great difficulty he would get traced and caught.
One day, the possessed Brahmin started shouting, “There is no justice in the
royal court of Lord Dattatreya. Sri Swamiji is beating me unnecessarily”. In addition, he
also started screaming. When Sri Swamiji asked the reason for his screaming, replied,
“This Brahmin has not repaid my two thousand rupees. I was a poor man, hence I had
to commit suicide, and then I became a ghost. Had he not swallowed my money, would
I be, in this state of a ghost? Maharaj, please do justice in my case. If this Brahmin
returns my money and completes my funeral rites, then I will go away”. Sri Swamiji
said, “Oh, he is a poor Brahmin”. Hearing this the ghost said “I made this Brahmin poor
and childless. Now let him return my money. I will not leave his body till he returns my
money”.
Hearing this Sri Swamiji started laughing. Sri Swamiji took a turban of a person
and gave one tip of the turban in the hand of that person. An old wooden house, with a
big hole was lying nearby. Sri Swamiji asked the person to put the tip of the turban in
that hole and start pulling the turban. When that person started pulling the turban, the
possessed Brahmin, began to writhe in severe pain. The entire body of the Brahmin
started shrinking and stiffening. He started crying loudly and said “Maharaj, please
forgive and release me. I will not demand for money. Whatever you say, I will agree for
the same”.
When the turban was pulled out completely from that hole, the Brahmin became
unconscious. The Brahmin’s wife started crying, and she prayed to Sri Swamiji, to save
her husband. Then Sri Swamiji threw his shoe and hit the Brahmin. The Brahmin
immediately got up and asked Sri Swamiji “What do you command me to do? ”. Sri
Swamiji said, “Go and sit on that tamarind tree”. The ghost left the Brahmin’s body and
went away. Then the Brahmin regained his consciousness.
163 Fakir: Muslim mendicant
164 Dargah: A Muslim place of worship
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