Bala Ganpat Shimpi

Baba helped his devotees in hundred of ways to remove anxiety , fears, ward off disease and misfortune and to bring hope and cheer into their lives. He granted their prayers readily and was ever at their beck and call to attend to their needs and inspiration.
A devotee by name Bala Ganpat Shimpi suffered from a Malignant type of Malaria. He tried all sorts of cured but without effect. The fever did not abate a bit. He went to shirdi and fell at Baba's feet. Baba told him:" Give a black dog some morsels of rice mixed with curds in front of the Lakshmi temple." After shimpi returned home he mixed rice and curds and brought it ti the Lakshmi temple infront of which he found a black dog wagging its tai. He gave it curd rice which it ate greedily. The devotee was cured of his malaria.