|| Shri Swami Samarth ||
Rajshri Chintopant Appa Tol was leading a retired pensioner's life during the time that Shri Swami Samarth had come to Akkalkot. Later, Shahajiraje, the king, appointed Tol as an administrator at Akkalkot.
Once, when Tol was on his way to Solapur, the king called for him and asked him to go to Akkalkot instead. Shri Swami Maharaj was at Tol's home at that time. Tol requested Maharaj to accompany him.
Maharaj replied, "It is very hot in Akkalkot, I am not coming."
"Then when will you come to Akkalkot?", asked Tol.
"I'll come after it rains!", replied Majaraj.
Then, with Swami Maharaj's permission, Chintopant Appa Tol left for Akkalkot.
Shri Swami Maharaj never shied away from roaming at will in the scorching hot sun. The unbearable summer at Akkalkot was not the reason He did not go. He wanted to imply that the summer would be a difficult time for the people there, because the king, Shahajiraje, was going to pass away, and rainfall would be delayed.
Just as Shri Samarth had foretold, Shahajiraje feel ill and he left his mortal coil in the month of ashad. That year, it did not rain during the chaturmas. Later in the year, after Diwali, in the month of kartik, there were good rains, and the crops flourished. Swami came to Akkalkot after these rains.
Malojiraje, the newly anointed king, had just assumed his royal duties.
From then on, for the next twenty-three years, Shri Swami Samarth resided at Akkalkot and performed various leelas, to become bhakta-kama-kalpadruma for his devotees.
|| Shri Swami Samarth ||
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