5/5 Ayaskant P. 11 months ago on Google • 36 reviews
Though
apparently
and
formally
Baba
used
to
go
to
the
Chavadi.
In
his
super
conscious
state
he
was
never
asleep
and
used
to
tell
his
devotees
that
in
his
everlasting
awareness
(consciousness)
he
will
always
protect
his
devotees
who
were
asleep
at
night.
Chavadi
means
“village
office”,
and
was
the
place
where
taxes
were
collected,
village
records
kept
and
visiting
officials
put
up.
After
Baba’s
mahasamadhi
the
Sansthan
acquired
Chavadi,
and
until
the
late
1930s,
used
it
for
storing
books
and
accommodating
pilgrims.
The
village
offices
have
long
been
relocated
and
Chavadi
is
kept
as
a
shrine
to
Baba
and
is
open
to
all.
Sai
Baba
is
intimately
connected
with
this
place,
as
he
used
to
sleep
here
on
alternate
nights,
during
the
last
decade
of
his
life.
The
routine
was
started
on
one
wild
and
stormy
night,
around
1909.
It
was
raining
heavily,
and
water
was
coming
through
the
leaky
walls
of
the
mosque.
The
devotees
tried
their
best
to
persuade
Baba
to
move
out,
if
only
until
the
water
had
subsided,
but
Baba
did
not
want
to
go.
Eventually,
they
virtually
forced
him
to
leave,
by
picking
him
up
and
half-carrying
him
to
Chavadi.
From
that
day
onwards,
Baba
would
spend
alternate
nights
here.
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