How Baba Made Das Ganu Eat Onion

HOW BABA MADE DAS GANU EAT ONION

 

The orthodox Das Ganu Maharaj dislikes onions.

 

Baba (to Das Ganu): Prepare Pitla, sauce of onions. Give me a part and eat the rest of it.

 

Das Ganu: Yes.

 

Next day prepared the onion dish and touched the onion with the tip of a finger and drew the finger near the nether lip as a token of tasting and then washed his fingers and face. Then he went to Baba.

 

Baba: Have you eaten onions?

 

Das Ganu: Yes.

 

Baba: He pretends he eats, but only touches it with his finger and brings the finger near lip.

 

Baba actually showed what Das Ganu did.

 

Baba: Ganu, you must really eat onion and not pretend.

 

Das Ganu: Yes.

 

Das Ganu was eating onion at Shirdi (as long as Baba was alive) on ordinary days, i.e., except on Ekadasi Day.

 

(- from Baba's Charters and Sayings, No. 282)