" I
am with you "
Chapter
III
THE
GLORY OF TAJUDDIN BABA
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..Healing the sick and such other
such miracles are common enough even among saints of a lessor
order and the sceptic's mind is not much touched by the
replacement of medicine with faith as a means of a cure. Other
worldly blessings might pass for happy coincidences. There is a
realm of miracles which defies all comprehension and needs the
outmost disbelief, verging on dogma and superstition, to brush
them aside heedlessly. Baba Tajuddin relelled in them and thereby
the world knew that he is one of the greatest saints.
..........The most striking
of the these is Huzoor Tajuddin's presence in more than one place
at the same time and in diverse physical forms. Even while he sat
at Sakardara or Waki, in another from he would go to some one's
house or office and help them out of a difficulty or do their
office work for them! Once this 'mysterious double' form went as
a lawer to argue a case at the court and, on another occation, he
even sat as a Judge in a court. This type of miracle is indeed
found in the accounts of great saints like Sri Sai Baba of
Shirdi. Such cases are recorded by Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda in
his Autobiography of a Yogi. Similar Occurrences have been
reported in the lives of saints in Israel and Arabia too.
.........These are strange
instances when the saint concerned often traveled thousands of
miles in the wink of an eye and even took his devotees with him!
Sri Satya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi has many such miracles to his
credit. Hindu scriptures, and in fact all of world's scriptures,
speak of such miracles as the grace of God that he mercifully
besows on the seekers as a reward for his piety, humility and
zeal to serve the suffering people materially and spiritually.
........Nagina is a town
in U.P. where a Kaji by name Ahmad Ali Shah lived. He worked as a
Kuriti Officer i.e., he looked after the auctioning of insolvents
property. His pay was low and he compansated it by accepting
bribes freely. When he was transferred from that place he found
thatin the accounts there was a deficit of Rs.24/- and he was
charged with misappropriation of money. He spent thousends of
rupees in bribing superiors to escape punishment but it was all
in vain. In desperation he started seeking the divine
interventionof sadhus and fakirs through their blessings. When he
almost grew desperate even in this endeavor, someone suggested to
him to seek the protection of Hazarat Tajuddin Baba. So he
promptly arrived in Nagpur and went to the saint. Immediately on
seeing him Tajuddin Hazoor said, " Stay! ". Accordingly
he stayed in Nagpur for four days and on the on the fifth day he
againordered " Stay! " After some more days, Huzoor
Tajuddin gave him permission to go home saying, " I am with
you"
...............Ahmed Ali sahab
returned home full of apprehension and knocked his door. To his
utter srprise when the door was opened for him no one in the
house expressed any curiosity regarding his trips or absence from
home for so many days. When he asked his wife to pay for the
coachman she picked up a quarrel with him and asked him whether
he had brought the earrings for her which he had been promising
her every day and did so even the day before. The Kazi was amazed
at her remark. He told her that he was just then returning home
after nearly one year of wandering from fakir to fakir. But none
in the house belived his words. For they saw him every day, going
out in the morning and returning in the evening. They saw him
repeating the Lord's name himself incessantly through the nights.
The Kaji brushed aside evrything they said as sheer nonsense..
Then they even told him that the case of misappropriation was
decided in his favor and that he evendrew his pay for the period.
The Kaji could not understand anything. He went to his office but
there was too he was surprised to see that no one in the office
expressed any curiosity about his long absence from his seat.
When he looked into the office register, there was his daily
signature! The same day his superior officer sent for him and
expressed him sympathy and regrets for the worry the case and
caused him. But he did not say a word about Ahmed Ali's long
absence from the office! then he remembered the parting message
of Tajuddin Sarkar," I am with you". He realised that,
assuming his form, Huzoor Tajuddin had been mysteriously
attending to the court affairs and the office all through last
year!
............Ahmed Ali was
overwhelmed with gratitude and wanted to express the same
personally to the grat Fakirand left for Nagpur. He had to change
trains at Delhi. There was met by a man and a dog, who walked by
his side. The ticket collector asked the Kaji for their tickets
too; for the stranger said that he and his dog were the
companions of the Kaji and that he had their tickets with him!
The Kaji was exasperated and protested that he is not answerable
to them as they were not his companions. When he came out of the
station he could not see the dog and the man anywhere. He
feltrelieved of the nuisance. Later he reached Nagpur and
approached Huzur Tajuddin to touch his feet in homage. On seeing
him Baba laughed loudly and said," Did I not tell you that I
am with you? But at the Delhi Railway Station you disowned me and
broke off from my company!" The Kaji was again shocked to
learn that the man with the dog whom he encountered at the Delhi
Railway Station was Tajuddin himself and that he had stupidly
disowned him. He shed tears and with floded hands begged to be
pardonen. Tajuddin Sarkar was only too ready to pardon him and
comforted him with a smile and blessing.
............Once a Madrasi
Brahmin came to Skardara for Baba's dasrshan after obtaining
leave from the office for four days. He spent the four days
blissfully in the service of the great saint and on the last day,
sought his leave to return to his headquarters. But the Baba did
not grant him permission to leave Sakardara. One week passed. The
Brahmin was worried about his office and so he once again sought
Huzoor Baba's permission but the latter had kept silent. This
time, however, the visitor brushed off all thought of seeking his
leave and stayed on in the service of this supreme lord of all
bosses for one month, when he was granted permission to go home.
Though at the time of his homeward journey he was calm and
unperturbed, on the way he started brooding over the awkwardness
that he would have to encounter on facing his officer to explain
his long absence from duty without leave. However, when he long
absence from duty without leave. However, when he arrived at his
home, neither his wife nor his children referred to his long
absence. Even at the office no one expressed any surprise at it.
as usual, in the evening, the peon came to his seat and said,
" The officer wants you to send him yesterday's files".
Then the brahmin understood that it was all a miracle of Tajuddin
Baba and that none of them knew of his absence, that Baba
Tajuddin Himself acted as his sustitute both at home and in the
office all the time. Then he divulged the whole thing to his
colleagues and the officers, who were all utterly amazed at the
miracle.
..........An old Muslim
gentleman by name Jan Shah was wandering in the Afganistan hills
in search of Light. In couse of his wanderings, he once went on a
piligrimage to Macca. There he met a saint in green robes and
marvelled at the spiritual radiance of his face and postrated
before him. The saint saidin a foreign accent, " Not here;
come to wake near Nagpur, which is famous for santhras ( a
variety of oranges grown around Nagpur). There you will know
everything." Before Jan Shah could ask him what and where
Waki was, the saint vanished.
..........Jan Shah came to
Nagpur and was inquiring about Waki. His foreign accent made it
impossible for any native to follow his pronunciation and so he
was told that there was no such place thereabout. When Jan Shah
stood there perplexed Mr. Ahmed Khan, a devotee of Tajuddin
Sarkar at the very fist sight; for he was indeed the saint that
had directed him to go there. at the mountains of Afganistan! Jan
Shah become his disciple and stayed away in the service of Baba
for the rest of his life. He moved along with the latter to
Sakardara. Whenever Tajuddin Sarkar was in an ecstatic mood,
abusing someone vehemently, Jan Shah used to ask, "Baba, why
do you abuse him?" Baba used to reply very lovingly, "
No, I am not abusing him; I'm blessing him". The way Baba
drew the old man from Afganistan is indeed Marvellous!
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