BALAJI PILAJI GURAV
This house is situated to the left. It is the corner first house while going from Gurusthan to Sevadham. At the corner is a small shrine with Baba's Padukas, commemorating the place where Baba rested while going to Lendi Bagh daily. Balaji came to Shirdi in 1912 with his parents. Both mother and father had dreamt of Baba. The father in the dream was summoned to Shirdi. While the mother dreamt that Baba asked her for 50 paise and a piece of cloth, so they both decided to go to Shirdi. They came from Korallah to Rahata where Tatya's Munim brought them to Shirdi. Baba abused and beat him and he was often afraid of Baba. But Dixit allayed his fears saying it was a blessing in disguise. Thus they stayed on. He played the clarion at Arati and for Baba many times. He carried Mahalsapathi (after he became blind) on his back to and from his house whenever Baba called him. Most importantly for us he has the waist cloth (Langoti) of Baba which was removed during the last bath after Baba took Mahasamadhi. This Langoti was worshipped by this family.
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