On 5th July 1926, Dixit, Dabholkar, and Purandhare were going in a train and after boarding the train, Kakasaheb said, “How kind is Sai Baba? He takes care of the minutest needs of His devotees. If we had missed the train our day would have spoiled and we had to spend the night in Colaba”. Eulogizing Baba, Dixit closed his eyes. Purandhare and Dabholkar assumed that Kakasaheb got fully immersed in Baba’s devotion. After some time, Dabholkar whispered to Kakasaheb, “Bhau, are you awake?” He repeated this statement about three times, but he did not get any reply from Kakasaheb. So a railway doctor was called at Mahim station. On examination, the doctor concluded that Dixit has passed away.
As Dixit’s demise was informed Purandhare had a vision in which several people had died at Shirdi. Around that time there was an unusual rain-storm with lightning at Shirdi and a major branch of the holy neem tree at the Guru Sthan got snapped and fell to the ground.
While speaking about the greatness of Baba, Kakasaheb has left his mortal coil. Then Kakasaheb’s dead body was taken to his house in Vile Parle. It was Monday, Ekadashi day and at the age of sixty-two, Kakasaheb merged with Sai Baba which is heaven. Baba once told him, “Kaka! I will take you in vimana (heavenly vehicle)”. Kakasaheb’s death was pleasant and peaceful.
Just a week prior to this, Prof.G G Narke visited Shirdi and stayed with Kaka Dixit at Dixit Wada. Dixit told him of his trip to Mumbai in the first week of July. During Narke’s stay throughout, Dixit was speaking philosophical truths – ‘The soul meanders on its journey home; we reincarnate in a particular environment to certain parents, and our destiny unfolds based on the samskaras and genetics we have brought from our previous births and the influence of our immediate environment.’
Dixit was reminiscent of his early life groomed by family and community, to elevate our consciousness and fulfill the purpose for which we took birth. From childhood, many of us are taught to believe in God and religious values. We offer worship in the hope that with divine grace we will attain liberation, heaven, or at the very least, escape the clutches of hell. But Dixit felt all these early experiences as only the beginning of our orientation toward spirituality. From this, we evolve to higher and finer levels.
Sai Baba advised some rituals to point the right direction so that we evolve beyond them. He also prescribed Scriptures like Natha Bhagavat and Bhavarth Ramayan to Kaka Dixit to lead him inward.
Dixit till late in the night explained to Prof.Narke the way to feel the presence of the Ultimate. For Dixit, ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ was no longer a mere belief; but is a conviction arising out of his personal experience. His next step was to graduate from experiencing Sai Baba the Almighty within, as Antaryamin, to the Almighty as ‘Sarva-Vyapi’, the all-pervading.
When the journey is infinite, will the need to adapt to new means ever stop?
Prof.Narke felt that Sai Baba has prepared Dixit to cross over to the other shore, that such a heart longs for nothing, and is always full, overflowing with godliness. . Can anything be lacking in such a person?
Dixit’s soul was getting ready to merge in Brahman, the Supreme Entity. Everything is created, maintained, and dissolved in Him, the Supreme Controller of everything, showering grace on all. He is Lord Sainath none other than, Mahadeva, the abode of real peace.
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