In plain words
He had a cloth tied round His head. He held a stick in His hand. He came: ‘Mother! You are suffering very much. You are a good woman, truly! But you have ended up with a rākṣasa for a husband. He has no thought at all of God or of the Lord, no Bhakti, no faith. That is why you lost your son. If you want your son back, be sure to come to Shirdi. The very son you lost will come to you.’ At daybreak she rose. “Listen! Some sannyāsī came to me in a dream. He had a cloth tied round His head. He held a stick in His hand. You, it seems, are a rākṣasa. You lost your son only because you married someone like a rākṣasa. One who has no devotion to God, what is he but a rākṣasa? So come away to Shirdi,’ He said. ‘Let us go to Shirdi,’ she said. He answered, ‘Do you want me to suffer one more insult?’ ‘He said the son who is gone will come back. So come, at least for this,’ she said. At daybreak he rose and had tiffin. He went to Śivadās's house. Śivadās said, ‘Even though you told me not to come to your house, it is a great joy that you have come to ours.’ ‘What brings you here?’ he asked, and welcoming him very warmly, he served him tiffin and the like. ‘A sannyāsī appeared to my wife in a dream and told her to come to Shirdi,’ he said. ‘He is no sannyāsī; He is Bābā Himself. Let us go back to Shirdi,’ he said. Once again they all set out.
By the time they came to Shirdi, fear and anguish had gripped him. He stayed sitting in the tonga and sent his wife and Śivadās into the mosque. Smiling, Sai Bābā spoke with the wife. ‘I know about your son dying, don't I! I came there in the night, didn't I, before 9.30. I will give you back that very son,’ said Bābā. She: ‘Your very form came to me in the dream, Bābā! You Yourself came to me in the dream; You dwell within all,’ she went on, describing it. ‘These are the very words You spoke to me in the dream,’ she said, and she was overjoyed. Then Śivadās, to his friend: ‘Bābā is very pleased. This is the right moment,’ and he beckoned him with a sign. He came slowly up to Bābā. Again Bābā: ‘Hey! Satan, go!’ He said very loudly. He said some things sternly.