Indifference to pleasure and pain in the service of the Master

Mr Rege tells about a very strange Incident which reflects Radhakrishna Ayi's control over her pleasure and pain .

In 1914Rege was doubtful to attend the Guru Poornima. The food was used to be cooked in mother’s house, but she said that if Rege was not there, it had better be cooked elsewhere. On the Guru Poornma day, she got an extra quota from Baba’s ‘Bhiksha’. She then announced that Rege was coming and the cooking started.


Mr Rege reached at about 9 a.m. They wanted a stone to pound the spices (masala). The step leading to the house was considered good and mother and Rege moved it with some difficulty. Just as it was in the door frame, a devotee Sri Purandare came up and wanted to help. The stone turned and it might have crushed Rege's hand but the mother pulled it towards herself and the index finger of her right hand was crushed into two.

Sai Readers you can imagine her agony; but as if nothing had happened, she soaked a rag in oil and wrapping the bleeding finger, went on to help in cooking. Only after all was over, she called Mr Rege and said she was feeling the pain and would like to go to the jungle and cry. They went and for half an hour she cried. Then they came back for their normal work. What control over the body and indifference to pleasure and pain in the service of the Master!

Read other parts here.
You and My Mother .
She will take you in her back.
It has reached its place.

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