SHRI SAI LEELA June 1978 - Under Construction

Shri Saileela June 1978Alandi along with Shri Keer in the latter's car. The plot at Alandi on the lefthand side of the road near the bridge was immediately inspected andapproved.As they were walking on the land, Shri Maharaj went on explaining theproposals in his mind. Though he did not take any training in a school, he hadthe whole layout of the place before his mind's eye and he went onexplaining to Shri Keer the different buildings that he wanted to beconstructed at different nooks and corners of the plot. His instructions werequite thorough. He gave detailed instructions about the buildings, openspaces and even the plantation of gardens and the trees to be plantedtherein! The location of the store room, kitchen and the place for serving lunchto the blind and maimed were all decided by Shri Maharaj and theexecution thereof was only left to Shri Keer. As a building contractor,Shri Keer had wide experience of planning and estimating; but looking at thebroad vision of Shri Maharaj, he was also wonder struck. He found that ShriMaharaj had obtained lot of technical knowledge simply byobservation. As Shri Maharaj and Shri Keer were walking on theplot, the former appeared to be drawing sketches very quickly and thelatter appeared to be adding thereto suitable colours in suitable places. Thusthe whole picture of the entire dharmashala got ready within a shorttime.Shri Bhagoji Keer was the only person, who was to bear the entireexpenditure of the building and hence there was no question of waiting forcollection of funds. Thus when the entire plan was fully explained by ShriGadgemaharaj to Shri Keer, the latter immediately took up the building workin hand. As Keer himself was a contractor, he did not require waiting foranybody or consulting anybody regarding the construction work. The buildingwork therefore started progressing briskly and very soon the entire work wascompleted by Shri Keer at a total cost of round about a lakh of rupees. ShriGadgemaharaj inspected the work, on completion and expressed his entiresatisfaction about it.29