Sai Baba Sitting on Stone

A Canvas reprint of the original portrait of Sri Sai Baba sitting on the stone  painted by D.D. Neroy. 

D D Neroy was also devoted to Kamu Baba (a saint at Girgaum, Mumbai). He got this portrait of Baba sitting on the stone made and mounted it in an ornate frame. Then with the help of four men he took it to Girgaum and offered it to his Guru.

Kamu Baba appreciated the portrait and the kind gesture, but he refused to accept it. He told D D Neroy to take it to Shirdi, and place it in the Sabhamandap of the Dwarakamai. Dejected he sat at his Guru’s feet and said “it took me three years to make this portrait and one and a half months to get it framed. Never mind the expense, now you reject it?”.

To this, Kamu Baba calmly said, “It is not a question of rejecting it, but a keen desire that you take it to Shirdi and place it where thousand upon thousands of devotees will have the benefit of praying to it”. Thus, this portrait came to be installed in the Sabhamandap of the Dwarakamai.