Guru Charitra - Complete Biography of Shree Akkalkot Niwasi Swami Samarth MaharajTranslation of Hindi Book "Shree Swami Samarth Maharaj Ki Avatar Leela"

A Boil on the Head

Bhimrao was one of the servants of Sri Swami. A big boil had appeared on his head that it looked as if he had two heads. Due to this deformity and ugliness he became very restless and people started passing irritating remarks by calling him as a man with two heads etc. Because of this ugliness he became very restless and sad. One day Sri Swami also called him as a man with two heads and started laughing. Bhimrao burst into tears and spoke to Sri Swami “Let people laugh at me, but you are always compassionate to the distressed and very kind to the devotees. It is your righteousness to wipe out the evils of a devotee. If you shower your kind grace on me and liberate me from the evils then why should anybody laugh at me? ”. Sri Swami got softened with pity but he did not say anything. At night when Bhimrao was in sleep, he saw a vision in his dream that compassionate Swami passed his bountiful hand over his head.

When Bhimrao woke up in the morning he found that the boil on his head had already opened up and the pus had oozed out. He was very happy. Now only the skin of the boil was hanging on his head. Sri Swami gave him holy water and sacred ash. Within a few days the hanging skin dried up and everything became normal again. Now the two-headed Bhimrao became single headed again.