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Baba’s sayings about Road to Heaven

Para Number in the Book & Path that leads to heaven

113. 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.

114. 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.”

Baba’s sayings about difference!

Para Number in the Book ‘BCS” , About differentiation

110. 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. 
111. 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. 

112. “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’s sayings about him

Para Number in the Book & How surrendered himself

101. Without God’s permission, nothing can be done by me
102. Baba to G.G.Narke- “Do not blame me for not giving you a Kupni. “That Fakir” (God) has not permitted me.”
103. 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).

104. 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 sayings about His functions

Para Number in the Book & HIS functions

90. I am the slave of God. 

God is the Lord and Master.

91. God has agents everywhere; they have vast powers. I have very great powers.
92. 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.

94. She, the deceased (Spirit) has come to me.
95. I draw my devotee to me, at the time of his death, even though he may die a thousand miles away (from Shirdi)
96. 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.

98. I put the Rohilla, Pishya and Rao Sahib Galwankar each into his mother’s womb.
99. (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)

100. I will take my Kaka (H.S.Dixit) in Vimana (HSD had a happy blessed ending).