Once,
harvesting in Shirdi had been completed and the foodgrains of the entire
village had been stored in a yard. Blistering summer was ferocious. One
afternoon Saibaba summoned Kondaji Sutar and asked him to better rush to his
field as it was on fire. Fear struck Kondaji ran to his field but there was not
a trace of smoke.
He got back and said so to Saibaba. Unfazed Baba asked him to
look again and as the luck would have it, a part of corn was indeed afire and
smoke was beginning to billow from it. With strong wind fanning the fire,
Kondaji became jittery and asked Saibaba to do something. At this Baba walked
to the yard and sprinkled some water and the fire immediately got extinguished.
