Baba forewarns the devotees.

When a devotee came to Baba's presence, Baba asked him, "Do you know the 'lamba bhava?. Saibaba was caricaturing with his hand and showing his palm like a snake. The devotee was unable to make out any thing. However Baba told him, "He is vicious but when Dwarakamai protects, what the snakes will do? Now the devotee understood that there is going to be a danger from snake soon. He sought Baba's permission to leave for a particular place. Baba told him, 'you take Shama with you". But the devotee thought that it would be inconvenient Shama. Again he thought over Baba's words and consented to take Shama. Shama took Baba's permission and departed along with the devotee. They reached the place and rested in a temple of Maruti. As the Officials whom the devotee want to meet has delayed, they were chitchatting and looking at the newspapers. As the devotee was reading a newspaper, he heard a rattling sound. He just looked behind him and to his consternation, he saw a snake resting in his upper cloth. Then every body shouted and a peon went to bring a stick. The snake silently moved from his upper cloth and thus he was saved. Then he remembered the warning from Baba.Sairam.