I have to take care of my children night and day
When (in 1918) Mrs. Tarkhad and her son Master Tarkhad visited Sai Baba.
Sai Baba: Mother, now a days I have been much pestered. Some want wealth, some women, some sons, Hallo! what I have, none wants. I wait and wait; and one day I will suddenly disappear. I am quite disgusted.
Mrs. Tarkhad: Baba, why do you say so? Then, what is to become of us?
Baba: Why are you anxious? Is not God taking thought for your welfare? I am very much pleased when my children come to me, and then I take my two morsels of food with gusto and put on more flesh.
Master Tarkhad : We come to you to ask just what you have got. You know that?
Sai Baba: Yes. You will get it.
Master Tarkhad: Yes, we are quite sure of it. But when?
Sai Baba: Very soon.
Master Tarkhad: Baba, I must have an assurance from you how many more births I will have to take before getting it.
Sai Baba: Three more lives will be sufficient.
Master Tarkhad: But Baba, will you not be always with us?
Sai Baba : Hallo! During how many births have I already been with you! We shall meet again and again. I have to take care of my children night and day, and give an account of every pie to God.
(Baba's Charters and Sayings, No. 97)
