- “I always think of him who remembers Me.
- I require no conveyance, carriage, cart, nor train nor aeroplane.
- I run and manifest myself to him who lovingly calls me.
Baba in SSSC-Ch 40
Category: Quotations
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Quotation 212
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Give one and receive tenfold
“If I take one rupee as Dakshina from anybody I have to return it tenfold to him.
I never take anything gratis. I never ask any one indiscriminately.
I only ask and take from him whom the Fakir (My Guru) points out. If any one is indebted formerly to the Fakir money is received from him.
The donor gives, i.e. sows his seeds, only to reap a rich harvest in future.
Wealth should be the means to work out Dharma. If it is used for personal enjoyment, it is wasted.
Unless you have given it before, you do not get it now. So the best way to get is to give.
The giving of Dakshina advances Vairagya (Non-attachment) and thereby Bhakti and Jnana. Give one and get tenfold”.
Sai Baba in SSS- Ch31
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Sense of differentiation is the barrier to Happy or Union
“If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give, but do not bark at him, like a dog.
Let anybody speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving any bitter reply. If you always tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy.
Let the world go topsy-turvy, you remain where you are. Standing or staying in your own place, look on calmly at the show of all things passing before you.
Demolish the wall of difference that separates you from Me; and then the road for our meeting will be clear and open.
The sense of differentiation, as I and thou, is the barrier that keeps away the disciple from his Master, and unless that is destroyed the state of union or atonement is not possible, “Allah Malik”
Baba in SSSC-Ch 18 & 19
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If any men or creatures come to you, do
- “Unless there is some relationship or connection, nobody goes anywhere.
- If any men or creatures come to you, do not discourteously drive them away,
- but receive them well and treat them, with due respect.
- Shri Hari (God) will be certainly pleased, if you give
- water to the thirsty,
- bread to the hungry,
- clothes to the naked, and
- your verandah (Platform outside to House) to strangers for sitting and resting. “
It is on account of Rinaubandh (former relationship) that we have come together, let us love and serve each other and be happy. He, who attain the supreme goal of life, is immortal and happy”
Baba in SSSC-Ch 18 & 19
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Now, How to visualize Baba
- Let us remember and visualize Shri Sai, now.
- Let us go to Shirdi, and see carefully the programmes, after the noon-Arati. After the Arati ceremony was over, Sai used to
- come out of the Masjid, and
- standing on its edge,
- distribute udi to the devotees with
- very kind and loving looks.
- The Bhaktas also got up with equal fervour,
- clasped His Feet, and
- standing and staring at Him,
- enjoyed the shower of Udi.
- Baba
- passed handfuls of Udi into the palms of the devotees and
- marked their foreheads with Udi with His fingers.
- The love He bore for them in His heart was boundless. Then He addressed the Bhaktas as follows:-
- “Oh Bhau, go to take your lunch;
- you Anna, go to your lodgings;
- you Bapu, enjoy your dishes”.
- In this way He accosted each and every devotee and sent them home.
- Even now, you can enjoy these sights if you bring into play your imagination. You can visualize and enjoy them.
- Now bringing Sai before our mental vision, let us meditate on Him, from His Feet upwards to His face, and prostrating before Him humbly, lovingly and respectfully
Baba in SSSC-Ch20
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Blessed knows the greatness of his Guru
“Make me the sole object of your thoughts and actions. You will, no doubt, attain Paramartha (the spiritual goal of life).
Look at me whole-heartly; and I, in turn, look at you.
Sitting in this Masjid, I speak the truth, nothing but truth.
No sadhana or proficiency in the six Shastras, is necessary. Have faith and confidence in your Guru. Believe that, Guru is the sole Actor or Doer.
Blessed is he, who knows the greatness of his Guru and thinks him to be Hari, Hara and Brahma (Trimurti -Gods) Incarnate.”
Sai Baba in SSSC-Chapter 18 & 19.
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Dearth of persons asking for spiritual matters
“Oh, My dear friend, do not be anxious, I shall immediately show you the Brahman; all My dealings are in cash and never on credit.
So many people come to Me, and ask for wealth, health, power, honour, position, cure of diseases and other temporal matters.
Rare is the person, who comes here to Me and asks for Brahma-Jnana. There is no dearth of persons asking for wordly things, but as persons interested in spiritual matters are very rare”
Baba to avaricious Man in SSSC -Ch21 When ask him to “surrender five things to get self-realization”
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He, who sees Me (Baba) in all the creatures
“Eating that lovely bread I(Baba) am heartily contended and I am still belching. The dog which you saw before meals, and to which you gave the piece of bread is, one with Me.
So also other creatures (cats, pigs, flies, cows etc.) are one with Me. I am roaming in their forms. He, who sees Me in all these creatures is My beloved.
So abandon the sense of duality and distinction, and serve Me, as you did today.
Baba in SSSC-Chapter 9 to Mrs. Tarkhad
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Would You like to come with me?
“I will show you what you want,
but he alone who believes in what I say,
will be successful”
Baba’s Guru to Baba
SSSC-Ch 32
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Make me the sole object of your thoughts and aims, you will attain Paramartha
“Look here, my Guru was a great saint and highly merciful.
I fatigued myself in trying to serve him and yet he did not utter any mantra in my ear. Instead he first shaved me clean and then begged of me two pice (money).
What he wanted was not metallic coin—he did not care even for gold,but only Nishta and Saburi, i.e. faith and courageous patience. I gave these to him and at once, he was pleased.
Mother, Saburi is courage, do not discard it. It ferries you across to goal. It gives i) overcomes all fears, ii) manliness to men, iii) eradicates sin and dejection and
For 12 years I waited on my Guru, who is peerless and loving.
- How can I describe his love to me?
- When he was Dhyanasta (in love trance),
- I sat and gazed at him; and
- we were both filled with Bliss.
- I cared not to turn my eye upon anything else.
- Night and day, I pored upon his face with an ardour of love that banished hunger and thirst.
- The Guru’s absence, even for a second, made me restless.
- I meditated upon nothing but the Guru and had no goal or object other than the Guru.
- Unceasingly fixed upon him was my mind.
- Wonderful indeed the art of my Guru!
- I wanted nothing but the Guru and
- he wanted nothing but my love.
- Apparently action less,
- he never neglected me,
- but always protected me by his glance.
That Guru—I tell the truth, sitting as I do in this Masjid— never blew any mantra into my ear; nor do I blow any into yours.
- Go thou and do likewise.
- If you make me, the sole object of your thoughts and aims,
- you will attain Paramartha, the supreme goal.
- Look at me with undivided attention;
- so will I look at you.
- This is the only truth my Guru taught me. The four sadhanas and the six sastras are not necessary.
- With entire confidence, trust your Guru. That is enough.”
- The lady bowed, accepted the advice and gave up her satyagraha.
Baba to a Lady, who started Fasting to get mantra from Him, about His Guru.
- How can I describe his love to me?
"I draw to Me, My man from far off or even across the seven Seas to Shirdi, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet"-Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Guru-God 