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"Udi as a Panacea" is the 32nd Leela in the series. In this clip, Vinny Ma narrates the experience of Baba's devotee Neela who got her knee pain completely healed in Shirdi after she took Baba's Udi in some water and applied some on her knees. When she got home, Neela carefully poured the Udi she received in a bottle and put in a cupboard. One day, when she opened the bottle, she saw perfectly round smoke rings arising from the Udi to the mouth of the bottle. She touched the Udi and it felt hot, which is when she felt that Baba had blessed her with hot Udi straight from His Dhuni.
Transcript
Neela and her family stayed for two days on a visit to Shirdi in 1960. When Neela had left for Shirdi she had severe pain in her knee joints. She had collected some Udi from the Dwarka Mai and brought it to her room. Then she mixed some in water and took it internally, and rubbed some on her joints.
After taking permission from Baba in the Dwarka Mai to leave, they returned home. At home, Neela was busy looking after her little baby, and doing her household chores. A week after returning home, she remembered that her knee joints were hurting before she left for Shirdi. However, she had no problem now, as the Udi had taken care of it.
When she had reached home, Neela had carefully poured the Udi in a bottle and kept it a cupboard. Neela said to herself, “This is Baba’s precious Udi and I should preserve it carefully. This sacred Udi is a symbol of Baba Himself; besides, it is the panacea for all illnesses. Hence if I keep it in this cupboard, no one will meddle with it.”
One day, Neela was looking for something so she opened the cupboard. At that time she had quite forgotten that she had kept the Udi there in a bottle. There were a number of bottles and they looked the same to her. Neela opened one bottle and what happened next left her flabbergasted.
She says, “When I opened the bottle, I was astounded to see that perfectly round smoke rings were arising from the surface of the Udi to the mouth of the bottle. For a moment I thought I was imagining this. Then I thought that I might have shaken the bottle and agitated the Udi, and thus the Udi was giving me the impression of smoke rings. So I put my finger right in the centre of the ring and touched the Udi and it felt hot. “O Baba, You have blessed me by giving me hot Udi from your Dhuni.” Then the smoke rings disappeared and the Udi settled down. Immediately, she took the Udi bottle and kept it in her prayer room.
This Leela is taken from Shri Sai Leela Magazine, vol. 62, no. 5, August 1986.
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