• Khandu Patil and his brothers were wrestlers They used to tease Gajanan Mahraj and would ask to wrestle with them.
• One day when coaxed Maharaj agreed and fixed his foot on the ground and asked Hari Patil to undo it. Hari Patil tried and tried but in vain. He bowed down tired and became the disciple of Maharaj.
• But Hari's brothers were not convinced. They decided to test Maharaj. They thrashed Gajanan Maharaj with sugarcanes; they severely beat Maharaj, but Maharaj was calm and smiling and to the astonishment of all there were no marks on his body. The brothers were surprised. They sank down prostrated and called him "Yogeshwara".
• The same time Maharaj took some sugar canes and squeezed them by his hands & collected the juice for them. They were so crestfallen that they became the devoted disciples of Maharaj.
• By the Aashirwada of Maharaj a son was born to Khandu Patil.