Installation of Oil Painting of Shree Baba Maharaj at Pune Muth

The devotees used to break the coconuts in front of the photo of Shree Baba Maharaj and used to sprinkle the coconut water on the photo to pay their respect to Shree Baba Maharaj. Due to this, the photograph had got spoiled. Hence, Shree Maharaj thought of installing a new oil painting of Shree Baba Maharaj on the occasion of second death anniversary. In view of this, Shree Maharaj assigned this work to a Mumbai – based portrait-maker Shri Sawardekar. Shri Sawardekar started the work of preparing the portrait. Actually he had never seen Shree Baba Maharaj. Hence Shri Sawardekar was unable to pain the eyes of Shree Baba Maharaj and he consulted Shree Maharaj, who advised “Once you go to Pune Math (temple-shrine) and take the blessings from Shree Baba Maharaj and you would be able to complete the painting”

Accordingly Shri Sawardekar went to Pune Math for the blessings from Shree Baba Maharaj and while returning to Mumbai, in the train itself, Shree Baba Maharaj gave him a Divine Vision and said “You should paint my eyes like this”. After coming to Mumbai Shri Sawardekar completed the oil painting.

At that time, Shree Maharaj was staying with Shri Marballi at Talmakiwadi, Nana Chowk, Mumbai. Shree Maharaj was to go to Pune with that Oil Painting for the second death anniversary of Shree Baba Maharaj. But two days before going to Pune, something happened and Shree Maharaj cancelled the programme to go to Pune. He wanted to send the oil painting to Pune with Shri Marballi. But the previous day, Shree Baba Maharaj came in the dream in the early morning of Shree Maharaj and he spoke ” why are you not coming to Pune? You will have to come to Pune.”

After getting this vision of Shree Baba Maharaj, in the dream, Shree Maharaj and Shri Marballi went to Pune alongwith oil painting and celebrated the second death anniversary of Shree Baba Maharaj by installing the oil painting in the Math(temple-shrine).