SAI NATHA OFFERING FOOD TO POOR

Earlier days SAINATHA  used to visit some houses in SHIRDI and take food and bless the people.Later the devotees in SHIRDI and residing village itself started to bring food of different varieties to the Masjid.BABA puts all the food in a container,offer the food as prasadam to GOD.After Giving some food to the people who are waiting outside than they used to  serve the food to all the devotees in the Masjid. Devotees sit in a row to the left and right side of SAI NATHA. NIMONKAR,NANASAHEB,SHYAM serve food to the devotees.BABA said " whoever it may be when they are hungry we should serve lunch to them.We should not have partiality". Even SAINATHA cooks at times and served his devotees.He cooked rice,sweet pongal,pulao etc. He himself went to market bring all the ingredients,clean them and prepare masala on his own only. In the empty place he used to keep the stove and two big containers. To check whether the rice is boiled or not he used to keep the hand inside the boiling rice but, his hand was never burnt.The recipes tasted good and SAINATHA used to take lot of care to make them tasty.He only serves the food also to his devotees.

Some may get doubt . " BABA is a vegetarian or  non vegetarian?". That difference of food habit is for our ordinary people only but not in the case of SADGURU SAINATH.For him the mud and gold are the same and he has that maturity.The person lived in hut  and a king in a castle at the end goes to graveyard only,no one stays like that only. Habits are for us but not for saints and sadgurus. but, he never said we must eat only vegetarian food. He said follow your food habits and traditions based on your ancestors.He used to serve food based on their habits.


One day a devotee asked BABA " When we intend to serve or donate in any form they are some ethics to be followed.Than while serving food to others what is the basic necessity we have to keep in mind?".BABA replied " In all the donations there is no limit but, in food serving only there is limit. When a person intended to serve food he must have the capability to serve and if the person is hungry only he can serve him otherwise he cannot serve him know, so In serving or donating food to others hunger is the only main necessity.If he is not hungry we cannot serve him. so both of them need necessity of hunger only and it has limit.That why they say among all the donations of money,education,clothes etc food is only the superior.