PART I - SHIRDI SAIBABA SAYS... TECHNOLOGY GRIND?

It was the year 1910. Hemadpant came to shirdi. One day after washing his face, Baba sat in Dwarakmai and started grinding wheat furiously. The villagers enquired why but he did not reply...He kept at it. Until some women folk decided to help him in his chore. They too wondered why Baba was grinding wheat because he never cooked, but begged alms for food, and did not need such huge quantity anyway. He had never done the grinding before. So all who were nearby were looking with wonders at this. Four bold women went inside the mosque and requested Baba to sit aside, took the grinding stone and started grinding. Though Baba got angry at this he kept quite, seeing their affection for him. On completion of the grinding work, the ladies divided the flour into four parts and wanted to take it for themselves. Baba watching them calmly till then got angry and scolded them.” Oh ladies, are you crazy? Are you thinking this flour is your property to take it? I never took any wheat from you. Then why are you taking this flour?”...He cooled down after a while and said politely,” It is alright take the flour and sprinkle it on the boundaries of this village.” The ladies bowed their heads and asked for mercy. After touching Baba’s feet, they went quickly and sprinkled the flour on the boundaries of the village. The villagers told Hemadpant that there was cholera in the village, and only to eradicate Baba would have done all this. Hemadpant did not understand the relationship between cholera and the wheat flour, but the epidemic in the village gradually subsidized. Then Hemadpant concluded that what Baba ground that day was not wheat, but the cholera epidemic. Which he had sent outside the boundaries of the village, so that whole village gets rid of this disease. Hemadpant bowed his head to show respect to SaiBaba, he was so impressed by the greatness of Baba and his Miracles that later he decided to write a book about him to pay his tribute to this great saint....The result is Sri sai satcharita