He remained there and continued his service at night by slow massage of the legs of Shree Swami Samarth. This went on throughout night but Shree Swami Samarth did not tell him to stop this massage even till the morning. But then, suddenly, a miracle took place. A cobra appeared in between the knees of Shree Swami Samarth. The cobra raised its hood and started hissing at Shree Beedkar Maharaj. This was a testing time of his virtue and courage. He fully succeeded in the test and Shree Swami Samarth blessed him fully and roared “You monstrous fellow, go away from here “and Shree Swami Samarth slapped Shree Beedkar Maharaj. With this slap, Shree Beedkar Maharaj instantly passed into a trance and entered Samadhi20, which lasted for 12 hours. Since the very moment, he experienced himself totally detached from worldly matters. Shree Beedkar Maharaj thus attained Vairagya21.
He regained consciousness only on the next day morning and he was so much delighted that it was inexpressible by words. Shree Swami Samarth ordered Shree Beedkar Maharaj to give a ceremonious dinner to a thousand Brahmins. He had absolutely no money left with him to comply with his Guru’s order. Hence to earn money, he went on a horseback to sell his perfumes. Unfortunately in an accident the Horse fell down and the only box containing perfume bottles fell down and broke completely. Shree Beedkar Maharaj managed to keep himself very calm.
Shri Shrinivasrao was the administrator of the ruler of the then Akkalkot State, and through him Shree Beedkar Maharaj got the financial assistance for the ceremonial dinner to thousand Brahmins and thus he could fulfil the command of Shree Swami Samarth. Further, Shree Swami Samarth said to Shree Beedkar Maharaj “You have given the dinner but still the dakshina22 is pending. As dakshina to me, you have to immediately stop the business of medicinal roots as well as the business of converting base metal into gold”. Shree Beedkar Maharaj bowed and agreed to follow the command. Then he said “I promise that I will not do this business. But I will teach this art to my associates”. But due to this wish of Shree Swami Samarth, Shree Beedkar Maharaj did not succeed in continuing this business through any of his associates. Regarding the principle of Paramartha23, Shree Swami Samarth said, “Unless a man is hungry, do not feed him any food as it will not get digested”. There upon Shree Beedkar Maharaj said, “Anybody can feed a hungry person”. It was with such magnanimity that he distributed freely amongst his devotees the wealth of spiritualism. Never would he feel tired of preaching
Shree Beedkar Maharaj prepared a special perfume ashtagandha24 for the ruler of Akkalkot by using the perfume available in the broken bottles. The ruler was very much impressed by the ashtagandha perfume and paid a good price to Shree Beedkar Maharaj, who in turn utilized that amount, to pay back the loan money, taken for giving the ceremonial dinner to a thousand Brahmins.
A person who was deeply absorbed in enjoying all the possible worldly pleasures of life throughout, now gets completely altered, to change his course of life as well as struggles, to get the full blessings from a great preceptor, like Shree Swami Samarth the incarnation of Lord Dattatreya. He further passes his life in the continuous singing of the hymns, in the praise of Shree Swami Samarth. This is nothing else but a great miracle, which possibly occurred, due to the accumulated religious merit in a number of previous births, of that person. That person was none else than Shree Beedkar Maharaj.