Final Advent At Shirdi
Sai Baba appeared in Shirdi in 1854. After a short stay he left the village and nobody knows as to where he was. However, he came back to Shirdi along with a wedding party in 1858. He permanently settled in Shirdi.
As the wedding party neared Shirdi, the members had dozed off. Only Sai Baba, the fakhir was awake. He was alert and as the caravan neared Shirdi, his ears heard from a distance a mingled music of Shehanai and tolling of a bell from a temple. He was pleased with the harmony of their combination. He enjoyed it because he knew that one came from a Muslim house and the other one emerged from a Hindu temple. Shehanai was played at Norbhai’s house whose daughter was betrothed to Chand Patil’s nephew. The bell tolled in accompaniment of the morning ‘Arathi’ Mhalsapathy offered at the Khnadoba temple. It was a perfect harmony of musical notes irrespective of the place they emerged from.
The Fakhir mused – “That is my Mission! Mission of Love! Mission of Brotherhood! Unity of souls!”
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