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Category: Baba’s Charters and Sayings

As Lord Sree Krishna manifests Himself in the Bhagavad Gita, so does Baba in the “Charters and Sayings”; which was complied by Sri B.V. Narasimha Swami. The Book was published by All India Sai samaj, Mylapore, Chennai-600004. India.

  • WHO IS GOD, WHAT IS GOD, HOW TO SEE GOD?

    Baba’s sayings about God

    Para Number in the Book ‘BCS”, About God

    122. N G Chandorkar to Baba

    • Who is God?
    • What is He like?
    • Where is He?
    • How are we see Him?

    Baba: I will tell you later on.

    Baba: (later)

    “Baddhas, (the very worldly) do not know or observe the difference between right and wrong or what God is. They have no moral tendencies.

    Ever immersed in the world, (and impure in heart), having no faith in Scriptures or saints, they do not get to God-but go to Hell.

    The Mumukshus, disgusted with the baddha state, begin vichara and viveka and thirst for the sight of God. They are devoted to God and observe the Moral Law.

    They become sadhakas, by adopting sadhanas e.g., repetition of God’s name (Japa) and (Dhyana) meditation on God, in solitude, withdrawing their minds from objects of senses. They love to move with Saints.

    These, when perfect are called Siddhas. At that stage, God becomes the same as man. Praise, the same as blame etc., They have no desires. They are past the notion that the body is their home or their self. They feel their self to be identical with God. “I am Brahman” is their feeling.

    To know God, see how God is viewed by each of these, at each stage. Then ultimately, God is seen as manifested in all forms – moveable and immovable. God is everywhere. There is no place from which he is absent. But, behold the power of Maya that does not allow Eswara to be seen and recognised (in all). I, you and All the world are Amsa i.e., parts of the Lord.

    Therefore let none hate others, Forget not that God is in every place. Thereby Love (Non-hatred) is there, of itself. When that springs up, everything is achieved.

    HOW ARE WE TO SEE GOD?

    123. The mind is turbulent. Efforts must be made to make it steady. Just as a fly flies and sits on all objects, but turns back when it approaches fire, so the mind longs after sense objects, rejoice in them and merges in them. When it sees i.e., approaches or try to see Brahman, it turns its face away. When thus the unruly mind does not merge in God (Brahman), samsara, i.e., rebirth is inevitable. Till the mind is conquered, one is reborn. But among births, human birth is most precious. 

    There fore do Moortipooja – i.e., worship God in Form, in his Images, to make the mind steady and concentrated. Even the image is got (Paramaswara). Do not reject images. When an image is worshipped with deep devotion, the mind attains concentration, without which there is no steadiness of mind.

    Next practice Manana and Dhyana i.e., recollection and meditation; and study spiritual works, practice what is mentioned in them. Atma Vidya, the science of the self, is the highest wisdom. If that is mastered, salvation (Mukti) is achieved; and Hari (Personal God) is one’s slave.”

    What is God?

    [Sakshatkar. Ideas of God and consequently ideas of sakshatkar of God vary widely. To those who believe in God as a person with form and never without form a, darshan or vision of that form is called sakshatkar and is the highest rung of the spiritual ladder. Those who disbelieve in forms which are said to be divine, use the term sakshatkar to denote a mystic merger of their own personality in the impersonal absolute.

    Das ganu Maharaj [Had fine metallic voice, popular in kirtans, place Sai Baba’s picture next to him & refer Baba as the living Sant] belonged not to the latter class, but rather to the former. He is a varkhari of Pandharpur and the idea of Pandarinath, standing on bricks with arms akmbo is the idea of God, which is uppermost in his mind.)-Editor

    127. Das Ganu to Baba: “I want sakshatkar, Baba. You ask me to read saptha of Bhagavata: but will you grant me sakshatkar as a result of it?”

    Baba: Vittal will appear, but there must be intense devotion  (Bhava ).

    Das Ganu read his saptha of Bhagavata; but failed to get sakshatkar.

    D. G. to Baba “you promised me sakshatkar ; but I have not got it.”

    Baba:   Wait, you will have it.

    [Baba was evidently waiting for development of the requisite faith and earnestness in D.G.]

    • 128. In 1916, Bhadrapad, D G was keen on going to Pandharpur; but N.G.C took him to Shirdi and made him perform keertans and was for detaining him there even for Asvin, evidently with Baba’s assent. D.G. then taught within himself without saying “How is He, a Guru, who blocks my way to my God at Pandharpur”
    • Baba to Nana : Nana do not stop him from going to Pandharpur.

    Baba to Ganu : Go to Pandarpur.

    So D.G.gladly went to Pandharpur for asvin, as vittal of Pandari alone was God to him and not Baba. Later he returned to Shirdi.

    • 129. D.G.   :“ “Baba, you have been long putting off request.  When will you give me sakshatkar?”

    Baba- “You see me, That is Sakshatkar. I am God.”

    • DG.:“ “I expected you would say so.   But I am not satisfied with that.”

    D.G. considered that it was not in his destiny (Prarabdha) to have sakshatkar of God vittal, as that was what he evidently wanted.

    Ordinarily # Sakshatkaras are very transient

    130. H.S.Dixit, one day had a vision of Vittal [God]. But he was not sure what the God or figure was that appeared to him. He went to Baba.

    Baba:– “Did not Vittal Patil come? Have you not seen Him? That Vittal is very elusive. Tie Him fast. If by inadvertence you lose sight of him, he will vanish in a second.”

  • ATMA VICHARA – JNANA

    Baba’s sayings about self enquiry

    Para Number in the Book ‘BCS”, About Gaze inside

    119. (Q)- “Baba, who are you? Whence?”

    A.: (Baba. in the mood of Absolute). I have no residence. I am the attributeless, Absolute-Nirguna,

    (Again, in the mood of Duality). “By the action of Karma I got embroiled and came to a body. My name is “The embodied-Dehi”. The world is my abode. Brahman is my father, and Maya my mother. By their interlocking I got this body. The world is mutable, evanescent.”

    B. (To Appa K) “Allah or The Nirguna (Parabrahma) became saguna Parabrahma (known as) Mohiniraja at Nivas. Go and bow before him. God manifests all his powers for the benefit of his devotees”, (cf.145)

    Who am I? Who are We?

    1. A. Baba often said, “Who are we? Night and day think on this.” About 1915 R.A Tarkhad, Managing Director of a mill, got into a compartment at Manmad in the dark and was fighting for a seat with a police constable, who was there. When R.A.T. arrived at Shirdi.

    Baba– “With whom were you persisting in contest this morning?, Bhav (brother), we should not engage in contest with such people! “Who are We?” This we must enquire into.

    R.A.T saw first, Baba’s reference to the social inequality of the disputing parties, and later on, the Vedantic meaning of the words, i.e., the unity of those parties in Brahman.

    B. Baba to Bala Bhav ( i.e., Sitaram Dev) – “We have only to see (i.e., know) our self.”

    1. In October 1917 ? Baba spoke to a Bombay Lady.

    Baba : Mother, what do you want? Ask for it.

    Lady: Let me be free from the whirl of births and deaths.

    Baba (laughing): Is this all you want? What! have you come to die?

    Lady (shocked): Baba, I do not at all understand you

    Baba: Think who you are.

    Lady: I do not understand.

    Baba (pointing to her husband): He will tell you.

    Then the lady went with her husband to her lodgings and asked him what Baba meant.

    Husband: “Baba’s words are mysterious. I cannot be sure I have made out his meaning. Probably he means something like this. The Jiva goes on reincarnating any number of times till it gets Sakshatkar i.e., sees or realises God. Baba is God. But people seeing him do not get full faith and do not see him i.e., feel him to be God; and hence they do not get Mukti.

    One must learn from the sastras, that essentially Jiva and Siva are one. You think yourself to be a Jiva is it not?”

    Lady: Yes.

    Husband: Baba and the Sastras want you to regard youself as Siva or God.

    Lady: No. No. I am a petty sinner-a Jiva and not the great God Siva.

    Husband: “No doubt that is your feeling. But Baba means that by constantly regarding yourself as God, your deeply ingrained belief that you are only a finite Jiva will be removed. This process continued, may be through numerous births and strengthened and helped by contact with saints will give you the firm belief that you are Brahman. That must be Baba’s meaning.

    (The pair agian returned to Dwaraka Mai)

    Baba- “Mother, I have listened (from here) to all that your husband told you. Keep that in mind.”

    1. To know me, constantly think ‘Who am I?, by Sravana and Manana. Who are we?  What are we? Where am I? Where are you? Where is all the world?

    Think, think on all your husband said (viz., that, in reality, you are not different from God).

    1. We must see our Self.

  • General -Moksha Marga

    Baba’s sayings about Road to Heaven

    Para Number in the Book & Path that leads to heaven

    1. SAMSARA: N G Chandorkar bowed to Sai and said- “Enough of this Samsara for me. As the Sastras describe it, samsara is really nissara i.e., worthless. Break its fetters off from me, Baba. What first seems to be joy here is seen to be sorrow at the end. Fate leads us a nice dance here and there. I cannot discover even a bit of happiness in this Samsara. I am  quite disgusted, I do not wish to touch it, Baba, any further.”

    Baba- “What crazy and delusive talk is yours! There is some truth in it – mixed up with error. As long as the body remains, samsara remains. None escapes it. How can you? Even I am caught up in it.

    Samsara is various sorts. It is like the surface of the body. Kama (desire) Krodha (anger) etc., and any mixture of these is samsara. All mental and bodily processes are samsara. The contact of any two things is samsara. By going away to a forest you cannot  escape samsara. Your present condition, has been brought about by yourself. What is the use of irritation at it? This Deha Prarabdha is result of the karma done by you in former births. This body was, therefore, born. The jiva takes birth in body to work out former Karma. Without suffering the results of Prarabdha Karma, you cannot get rid of it.

    All persons, all creatures differ in form etc., Why? Because of previous karma of each. Difference between species, like difference between individuals is due to the same cause. see the difference between the rich man’s dog lolling on sofa and the poor man’s running about in search of crumbs. That is  due to Deha Prarabdha.

    1. TRUE HAPPINESS: Question by N G Chandorkar: “Joys and sorrows of samsara disturb one so much. Should we not renounce samsara therefore?”

    Answer by Baba- “Joy and sorrow are mere delusion. Mere appearance of worldly joy is not true happiness. The worldly man is forcibly drawn to it, as he believes it to be true happiness. According to the Prarabdha of each, one gets delicacies (Panchamrita), one, stale crumbs, and one, mere bran-gruel. the latter fancy themselves unhappy at that, and the former fancies he lacks nothing.

    But the result of eating any of these is merely the satisfaction of hunger. some cover themselves with laced shawls, others with barks. Both serve only one purpose, covering the body. This joy and this sorrow is due to opinion, which is mere illusion and is ruinous. Whenever any idea of joy or sorrow arises in your mind, resist it. Do not give room to it. It is pure delusion. 

    The ‘Shadripus’ i.e., Lust, Anger, Covetousness, Delusion, Pride and Jealousy) are all delusive. they make the unreal appear as real. if a rich man wears a gold ornament, the poor man gets jealous, and thinks he must have one. This is Lobha.

    All are like this. so one must conquer the six enemies. if they are conquered, waves of passion will not arise. Else they will enslave you. If they are subordinated and reason made the commandant, then the delusive pressures and pains will no longer hold sway over you.”

    115. Mukti (Release) is true joy or happiness. Coursing through births and deaths is unhappiness. All the joys and sorrows of samsara are unreal. 

    116. I will tell you how to conduct yourself in samsara. The wise should be cheerful and contented with their lot in life, as it is the result of Deha Prarabdha. Do not kick against the pricks.

    If wealthy, be humble. Plants bend, when they have fruits. But humility is not towards all. Severity is needed in dealing with the wicked. But towards saints, be humble. Respect them.

    Spend money in Dana (charity) and Dharma (piety) – but be not extravagant. The world perishes no doubt. But not obsessed by the importance of wealth. Do not be entangled in it, ot be misery. Be liberal and munificent – but not lavish or extravagant.

    Get on cheerfully with your worldly round of activities but do not forget God. Remember God. “This samsara is not mine but God’s”. Think thus all the time you are awake. Have consideration for the poor and wretched. Do not persecute and tease them. Inquire always, “Who am I”?

    117. Anant Row Patankar- “Baba, I have read a good lot of Sastras, etc., but I have no peace of mind.    Prary, grant me your blessing.”

    Baba- “Once a merchant came here. In his presence, a quadruped passed its stomata, i.e., nine balls of stool. The merchant anxious to attain his quest spread his cloth beneath its tail, gathered all the nine balls and took them away. He got concentration and peace of mind.

    Anant Row, unable to make out this parable, questioned Data Kelkar, “What does Baba mean?”

    Data Kelkar- “God’s grace is the quadruped. The nine balls excreted are the nine forms of Bhakti. You are to be in the position of the merchant. If you follow Nava Vidha Bhakti, you will attain peace.”

    Again Ananta Row went to Baba.

    Baba: Have you gathered the nine balls? 

    Anant Row. For that I must have your grace. 

    Baba: God will bless

    118. Baba– “Gnana marga is like Ramphal. Bhakti marga is like Seethapal (custard apple), easy to deal with and very sweet. The pulp of the Ramphal is inside and difficult to get at. Rampal should ripen on the tree and be plucked ripe. If it falls down, it is spoiled. So if a Gnani falls, he is ruined, even for a Gnani there is the danger of a fall, e.g., by a little negligence or carelessness.”

  • DIFFERENCE, REAL & UNREAL

    Baba’s sayings about difference!

    Para Number in the Book ‘BCS” , About differentiation

    1. Do not say of anyone that he is inimical. Who is whose enemy? Do not entertain ill feeling towards anyone. All are one and the same. 
    2. People differentiate between themselves and others, their properties, and others’ properties. This is wrong. I am in you and you in me. (To Purandhare) This is the Teli’s* wall that parts you from me; pull down this wall; and then we see each other clearly face to face.

    ( A teli i.e., oil seller* lived next to the Mosque.)

    Saints do not recognise this differentiation. To serve me, remove this differentiation. Continue to think in this way and then you will realize it.

    Search the scriptures. See if Atma is one or many. 

    1. “What am I”? asks Upasani Maharaj 

    Baba replies: “I am you, You are I. There is no difference between you and me. That which constitutes me constitutes you.

    112A.  Narain Asram of Wai, Satara (then Mr.Toser) was, about 1914, made by Baba to feel that differences do not exist; and NA had the blissful feeling of non-difference while at Shirdi. Sai encouraged (Krishna) Bhmisma, in the bliss of experiencing the cosmic self at the view of his own shadow at sunrise.)

  • BABA, A SURRENDERED INSTRUMENT OF GOD.

    Baba’s sayings about him

    Para Number in the Book & How surrendered himself

    1. Without God’s permission, nothing can be done by me
    2. Baba to G.G.Narke- “Do not blame me for not giving you a Kupni. “That Fakir” (God) has not permitted me.”
    3. Hallo. Do I demand dakshina/donation of every one ? I demand only from those whom “The Fakir” points out to me.

     I do nothing. I receive nothing. Datta calls for his own. He had called for Rs.15 his due and given it to Masudi Ayi. So, the money has been received (by me).

    1. If Gods, like Datta, are easily accessible on the way and if one does not take darshan of them how can I help him ?

    104-A. Baba is, but a Phaladata; you must do good.

    Baba- “If you do good and surrendered it to God, good will come to you. God is the Lord of them that do good. Both wicked and virtuous want good things from me? How (or whence) can I give? (i.e. If they have not put forward the good karma warranting the gift) (cf 371)

  • BABA’S FUNCTION

    Baba’s sayings about His functions

    Para Number in the Book & HIS functions

    1. I am the slave of God. 

    God is the Lord and Master.

    1. God has agents everywhere; they have vast powers. I have very great powers.
    2. God has helped his devotee (Basappa) through me, (a surrendered soul) I am his instrument.

    92.A. Appa Kulkarni, after seeing Mohiniraj (=Siva) by Bab’s order (cf 145) before going to see Dy. Collector at Nivas, to answer charges brought against him and after a acquittal, said “Baba, you have saved me.”

    Baba : God has helped you, Appa. He achieves the impossible for his devotees.

    92B-Baba-G.D. Pensare prayed to Baba and got a pass in his examination and then employment. When he came to Baba .

    Baba : What is your profession ?

    GDP-I am a teacher- the employment you gave.

    93. Baba- I can revive the dead boy and bring back his spirit from the new body it has entered, killing it and reviving this corpse. But that is marring the useful work the new body will do.

    1. She, the deceased (Spirit) has come to me.
    2. I draw my devotee to me, at the time of his death, even though he may die a thousand miles away (from Shirdi)
    3. I will not allow my devotee to be lost. I will account to God for all those that have been given to me.

    97.        When (in 1918) Mrs. T. and her son Master T. visited S.B.

    Baba- ” Mother, now a days I have been much pestered. Some want wealth, some women, some sons, Hallo! what I have, none wants. I wait and wait; and one day I will suddenly disappear. I am quite disgusted.

    Mrs. T’. Baba, why do you say so? Then, what is to become of us?

    Baba: Why are you anxious? Is not God taking thought for your welfare? I am very much pleased when my children come to me, and then I take my two morsels of food with gusto and put on more flesh.

    Master T. : We come to you to ask just what you have got. You know that?

    Baba: Yes. You will get it. 

    M.T.: Yes, we are quite sure of it. But when? 

    S.B. : Very soon.

    M.T.: Baba, I must have an assurance from you how many more births I will have to take before getting it.( cf 113.)

    S.B.: Three more lives will be sufficient. 

    M.T.: But Baba, will you not be always with us? 

    Baba : Hallo! During how many births have I already been with you! We shall meet again and again. I have to take care of my children night and day, and give an account of every pie to God.

    1. I put the Rohilla, Pishya and Rao Sahib Galwankar each into his mother’s womb.
    2. (To Akkalkote Sapatnekar). The soul of your deceased son. I shall bring back to your wife’s womb. (Next year A.S.got a son)
    1. I will take my Kaka (H.S.Dixit) in Vimana (HSD had a happy blessed ending).
  • Baba and Others Saints

    Baba and Others Saints

    Para Number in the Book -BCS & Baba’s appearance in the form of other saints

    1. Keshav Naik of Tardev, when Akkalkote Maharaj was passing away
      (about 1878) thus addressed him: Maharaj, if you go away, what support have we?
      Akkalkote Maharaj (giving his shoes to be worshiped): My Avatar (spirit) will be at Shirdi in Ahmadnagar District. Go there always. Be devoted there. If you do so, you will not remember me. And you will be happy
      When Akkalkote Maharaj passed away, Keshav Naik and his son
      Ramachandra Naik, accompanied by two orthodox Brahmins went to Sai Baba at Shirdi. On the way the Brahmins referred to Baba as a mad moslem fakir to whom no Brahmins could bow. When all four reached Baba.

    Baba to Keshav Naik: You and your son may come and visit me, if you like.
    (Pointing to the other two); These are Karmata Brahmins.
    Baba to Ramachandra Naik: Fetch Margosa (Neem) leaves.
    Ramachandra Naik brought some leaves. Baba distributed the leaves to the four.
    Baba: Eat the leaves. How do they taste?
    Brahmis (with a wry face): Very bitter.
    The two Naiks: The leaves are sweet. We ate plenty of the leaves.

    Thus Baba parted his sheep from the goats, and confirmed the statement of Akkalkote Maharaj.
    I am at Mirzgaon (‘Fakir Bua’)
    Why come here? (To Kusa Bhav)
    I am Bandra Moulana.
    [I am Nanded Moulana] You have already given me Rs.3-14-0

    75. I am with you wherever you may be. I do not require conveyance to take me.

    1. Baba (May 1914) addressing Mrs. T., a Bandra lady and her son Master T. : “Mother, I have to go thrice a day to your house.”
      Mrs. T.: Yes, Baba
      A local lady was astonished at this statement. She saw Baba daily at Shirdi. She said “Baba, what is this strange thing you say?”
      Baba: I do not speak falsehood. I am Mahalaxmi. Mother I come to your house. You give me things to eat, is that not true?
      Bandra Lady: Yes, Baba
      Shirdi Lady: Truly, does Baba go to you and do you feed him? Bandra Lady: Yes.
      Baba to Master T.: Do I not come to your house?
      Master T.: Yes, Baba.
      Baba to Shirdi Lady: Yes, mother, I go easily to Bhav’s house
      (at Bandra). In the middle, there is a wall. Jumping over it, next comes the railway line, and then Bhav’s house. (Here Baba described the crow’s flight from Shirdi to the lady’s house at Bandra).
      I have to fly across walls and excavations.
    2. Mrs. Tendulkar of Bandra daily heaped up garlands of bakul (flower) over
      Baba’s picture in her house at Bandra for two months and then went to Shirdi.
      Baba : Hallo, Kaka (ie.To H.S. Dixit) these two or three months I have not been at Shirdi at all. This mother has smothered me with bakul flower and I was quite dizzy, and unconscious of myself. Now I am slowly coming around.
    3. I went to Bandra and saw Bhav left nothing for me to eat, so I have returned hungry.
    4. Do you think of me, at meal ? Am I not present near you ? Do you give me a morsel ?
    5. I am not at Shirdi, but in all.
    6. He who thinks that (Sai) Baba is in Shirdi (alone) has totally failed to see (i.e., know) Baba.
    7. Why do you (weep and) behave so madly. Am I not there (at Bombay) by your side?
    8. He (Sai) who is at Shirdi now is also at Machandragad here. It is to teach you this, I sent you here. (To Manker)
    9. I have just been to Kasi and had a bath.
      I was at Jejuri, Bagat.
      I was at Dhulia, did you not see me? (To Upasani’s son)
      When you heard my voice, why doubt? Bolted doors do not bar access to me. (To Megha)
    10. I will go with you (invisibly). Do not worry. Mother, I take thought for your family. Well, Go. I am by your side.
    11. I am myself sitting there (invisibly), guarding you (Purandhare) and your wife.
    12. Wherever you may be, think of me, and I am by your side.
    13. Wherever you may be, whatever any of my devotees think, say or do, that very instant I am aware of it.
      (cf Quran-“And when my servants ask thee concerning me, then I nigh unto them and answer the cry of him that crieth unto me”
    14. I look equally on all. Not a leaf moves, except by my grace. I look on all with equal eye.
  • UBIQUITY OF BABA

    UBIQUITY OF BABA

    Para Number in the Book-BCS & His Universalities

    1. I am formless and everywhere.
      I am in everything.
      I am in everything and beyond.
      I fill all space. All that you see taken together is Myself. I do not shake or move.
    2. All that is seen is my form; ant, fly, prince, pauper.
    3. I am in the water, in dry places, in woods, amidst crowds, and in the solitary wilderness. I am in the fire and in ether. I am not limited to any place.
    4. Feeding the hungry bitch is feeding me. I have the feeling of my hunger being satisfied, when hers is satisfied.
      Baba to Laxmi Bai Sciedhe: I am hungry.
      Laxmi Bai Scindhe; Shall I go and bring food?
      Baba; Do.
      Laxmi Bai Scindhe; Then brought food; Baba took nothing from it and placed the entire plate before a hungry bitch.
      Laxmi Bai Scindhe: Baba why do you do so?
      Baba: Is not the bitch also a Jiva? We talk, bitches do not. She is hungry; she and I are one and the same. It is the same if I eat or she eats.
    5. I am still belching with the heavy feeding you gave the dog this morning. I am also in the mire besmirched pig (that you did not feed, though it came to you).
      To serve me, give up differentiation, (to Bombay Lady)
    6. Sometimes I come as dog, sometimes as pig.
      The devotee who recognises me in each form and treats me adequately is blessed.
    7. You have been with me eighteen years Nana. Does “Sai” mean to you only this 3’/2 cubits height of body?
      I am in the ant and fly.
      Whenever you see this sign, remember that I am there and that I can eat food through ants, flies etc.
      72-A. Baba: This body is but my house. My guru Mourshad has long ago taken me away from this.
    8. I went as a cat to drink this man’s Hansraj’s curds to save him, despite his cussedness. But he beat me to day.
      I was the black dog.
      I was the sickly sudra. I am in everything, and beyond.
      I was the fakir who begged of you, at Bombay.
      I was the spirit, you saw at midnight under the tree.
      [I am Akkalkote Maharaj.] I gave you Rs. 2, Pitale(Devotee)
      73-A. Baba as a cat is beaten.
      Baba to Hansraj, an Asthma patient: Do not take curds or taste sour things. But Hansraj was daily preparing curds overnight to drink it, at the noon meal. Daily a cat drank it off and one day he beat the cat.
      Baba to others, in the presence of Hansraj: “There is an Urphatia. a cussed, cross-grained man. I told him not to take curds. But he daily prepared it. Daily I went as a cat and drank it off, to save his life. Today 1 went again. Do you know what he did? He beat me over the shoulder. See here. (Hansraj looked and found a fresh weal on Baba’s shoulder, though it was a cat, he beat with a stick on the shoulder) cf. 359.
      73-B. Baba as a dog and sickly Sudra:
      Kasinath Govind Upasani-KGU Maharaj, who lived at Shirdi in 1911-4, prepared his food which a black dog was watching. Offering nothing to the dog, K.G.U. went to the masjid and offered it to Baba.
      Baba: Why did you bring it here? I was there.
      K.G.U.: Baba, there was none there, except a black dog.
      Baba : I was that black dog.
      Baba refused to accept food that day.
      Next day K.G.U. prepared his meal at his quarters and found no dog there. But a sickly Sudra(Lower caste) was standing, leaning on a wall and looking at the food. The orthodox K.G.U. drove him away from that place and brought the food to S.Baba.
      Baba : Yesterday you did not offer me food. Today also you drove me away. Why bring the food here?
      K.G.U.: Where were you there, Baba?
      Baba.: I was leaning on the wall.
      K.G.U.: What! Could you be in such a person?
      Baba: Yes I am in all things and beyond.
      Purusha Sukta -i.e. HE pervades the earth and transcends it.
  • BABA’S NATURE

    BABA’S NATURE

    Para Number in the Book-BCS and Baba’s saying on His Own Nature

    1. I am god (Allah)
      I am Mahalaxmi: I speak the truth-sitting as I do at the Mosque.
      (I am Vittobha of Pandhari) Baba to NG Chandorkar: Go, I am at Pandhari
      (I am Ganapathi): Mother, all offerings you made to Ganapathi have reached Me.
      (I am Dattatreya): Are you puffed-up? Where was male progeny in your destiny? I tore up this body and …..gave you a son. (In answer to the prayer, you offered before Datta at Gangapur)
      (I am Laxmi Narain): Why go for Ganga elsewhere. Hold your palm at my feet. Here flows Ganga.
      What matters it, whether in your meditation you see this (Sai) figure or the figure of Laxmi Narayana?
      (I am Maruti): My father dedicated me to Maruti.
      I make gestures before his temple, telling him I am his brother.
    2. (I am Krishna): Saibaba (seated in Dwaraka Mayi) to Uddhavesa Bua: “Give me Rs.11 dakshina”.
      Uddhavesa Bua: I have given my ten Indriyas(5 Sense organs & 5 Action organs) and mind.
      Baba: No. Who are you to give them? They are mine already. Read Pothi i.e., do Parayana.
      Uddhavesa Bua: Of what Purana?
      Baba: Of that in which I have spoken to you, and in which I still speak to you
      Uddhavesa Bua: Is it Gita? Jnaneswari?
      Baba: Go and fetch, what Bapu Saheb Jog is reading

    Uddhavesa brought XI skanda of Srimad Bhagavatha from Jog.
    Baba: (slipped his finger into the book suddenly and said) Read this. [It opened at Krishna Uddhava samvada] Daily read this, and then sit at my feet and meditate on it.
    [N.B: That meditation is the gift of 11 INR, eleventh Skanda to Baba, Sai-Krishna, seated in the heart.]

    1. All that (viz, other Gods) is Allah (to Rohilla)
    2. Devotee: Baba, who are you? whence?
      Baba (in the absolute mood): I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
      (Again in the mood of Duality): I got embroiled by Karma, and came to a body. (So) I got a name and abode. Dehi, i.e., the embodied, is my name; and the world is my abode. Brahman is my father and Maya, my mother. As they interlocked, I got this body. The world is evanescent, mutable.
    3. I am Parvardigar (God). I live at Shirdi and everywhere.
      My age is lakhs of years.
      My business is to give blessings.
      All things are mine.
      I give everything to everyone.
    4. I am in Gangapur, Pandharpur and in all places. I am in every bit of the globe.
    5. All the universe is in me.
    6. Stick to the one whom you worship or revere. God will protect you soon.
      65-A. Baba To Shankar Rao Gowhanker : ‘”They had many, giving them trouble. As they were with me, they did not suffer by that trouble. God punished the troublers. See, God rewards the doers of good and punishes evil-doers.
    1. I am the Progenitor of God. Mediate on me as pure Ananada Nirakara; but if you cannot do so, meditate on this this Sai Body exactly as it is.
    2. I am not the body or the senses. I am the sakshi-witness of all these.
      I do nothing. I receive nothing.
    3. Devotee: Baba burn on your hand to be treated. It must pain you so much.
      Baba: what fun will it be (for me) to stand by and see the whole of this (Sai Baba) body burning on a funeral pyre of cow dung cake fuel?
  • BABA’S MISSION

    BABA’S MISSION

    Para Number in the Book-BCS & Baba’s Sayings on His Mission are

    1. Saints exist to give devotees’ temporal and spiritual benefits. Dr. Pillai need not have ten more births for this. All the pain can be endured in ten days.
    2. I have come to give such good things to the devotees.
    3. My business is to give blessings.
    4. A devotee objected to people going to Baba for temporal benefit e.g., employment, money, children, cure of disease.
      Baba: ‘Do not do that, My men first come to me on account of that only. They get their heart’s desire fulfilled and comfortably placed in life; they then follow me and progress further. I bring my men to me from long distances under many pleas. I seek them and bring them to me. They do not come (of their own accord). I bring them to me.
      However distance – even thousands of miles away- my people might be, I draw them to myself, just as we pull birds to us with a string tied to their foot.
    5. This is a Brahmin, a white Brahmin, a pure Brahmin. This Brahmin will lead lakhs of people to the Subhra Marga and take them to the Goal-right up to the end. This is a Brahmin’s masjid.