When Baba was not immersed in meditation, he went out, met people and enquired about their ailments. He used to pick up herbs or got cheap drugs from shops. With these, he cured their illness in the body of the villagers. His knowledge of medicine and surgery appears to have been extraordinary. He cured not merely snake bite but also leprosy with snake venom and rotting eyes with Bibba, that is, washerman’s marking nut as an antiseptic alkali. He pulled out the rotting eyeballs of a patient, washed them, sterilized them with Bibba, replaced the eyeballs and the disease was cured. He never accepted any payment for his medical or other services.
He also rendered other kinds of services. He ploughed up the village common land, the very land on which his Samadhi Mandir now stands, and raised a flower garden thereon. He carried on his shoulders pots filled with water from the well and watered the plants. He distributed the flowers and leaves freely to various Hindu temples and to Muslim holy places and never made any unenviable distinction between Hindu and Muslim places of worship. As for as He is concerned, differences of caste, creed, position and learning, were non-existent or meaningless. All persons were children of a common father or mother, and he felt a maternal or paternal interest in all of them and helped them. So, he expected and accepted no recompense. Leaving aside an incident or two remembered by some of the villagers about his early years, this is all the history of the early years of Baba.
Baba, looking like a Fakir possessed of the most extraordinary super human powers. He became a well-recognized Samartha Sadguru. He had a very large following of people of all classes from the highest to the lowest and from all places, from Bombay to Hyderabad, from Konkon to Ahmadabad, and finally from all over India.
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