This is the story about Shirdi Sai Baba's grinding wheat. Grinding of wheat is symbolic of crushing our impulses, desires and ahamkaar; without this there can be no self realisation.
Shri Sai Satcharita.- Chapter 1
Hemadpant writes
One day I visited the Masjid in Shirdi and I was awed at seeing Sai Baba making preparations for grinding wheat. He set a hand-mill on the floor, took some wheat in a winnowing fan and started grinding. The other people who were present there, and I too, thought ‘Why does Baba need to grind wheat, when he lives on alms?’ However, none had the courage to question Baba. Eventually four courageous female devotees forcibly took the task into their own hands and started singing Baba's Leelas. Seeing their devotion Sai Baba too began to smile. While they were grinding, they thought to themselves that perhaps Baba meant to distribute the flour amongst us, since he himself lives on alms. They finished grinding and began to divide the flour into four portions, but to their surprise Sai Baba got wild and spoke to them sharply, "Ladies, what madness is this? Is this your father’s property or have I borrowed any wheat from you? If you want to help, then take the flour and throw it outside the village." On hearing this, the women, although flustered, did exactly as they were told.
I, along with many other people, eventually realised, that by grinding the wheat and spreading it outside the village Baba had prevented a cholera epidemic from spreading further.
Philosophical Significance
Just like wheat, Sai Baba also ground the sins, afflications and miseries of his devotees. The two stones of his mill consisted of Karma and Bhakti. Sai Baba believed unless there is the prior act of crushing our impulses, desires, sins; and of the three gunas - Sattva, Raja and Tama; and the Ahamkara, which is so subtle and therefore so difficult to be got rid of; there can be no self realisation.
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