Baba took over the sufferings and diseases from devotees.

Saibaba suffers for the sake of devotees many a time. He won't reveal it. But when the mother of kaparde narrated Baba, that her young son was suffering from fever with bubonic plague, Baba said, "Do not worry, the thick clouds will disperse and the sky will become pure once again". He lifted his kafni and shown to the mother of the boy kaparde, fully grown bubonic plague boils. He said, i have to suffer for the sake of my devotee. Thus assured of Baba's protection, the mother was relieved of her worry. Once during Deepavali day in 1910, Baba was silently sitting beside the fire and he was feeding the fire with logs of firewood. Suddenly he inserted his own hand in the fire instead of the logs. Finding such catostrope Shama and a servant working in the mosque, "Madhav' came to the place and pulled Baba by waist and removed him bodily. Before that it was found that Baba's hand has been scalded by the fire. Baba came to his conscious and said, 'in a distant place, a blacksmith's wife was pumping air in to the fireplace. When her husband suddenly called, she rushed to his presence without noticing her baby slipped in to the fire. I inserted my hand and saved the child. I am glad that the child is saved. No matter if my hand is scalded. Coming to know such mishap, Nana Saheb brought a Doctor named Paramanand to attend Baba. Baba refused such treatment. His lepor devotee, Bagoji applied ghee to the affected place and bandaged it after keeping a green leaf over the wound. Finally the hand was healed. But the process of applying ghee and bandaging with leaves by Bayaji continued till Baba's Mahasamadhi. Saisaran, Sairam.