Category: Love of Devotees

Ia Love every person & creature

  • Baba laid the foundations of future World Unity

    Love is a principle on which all religions must unite. That love gets identified with God and perfection in man.

    Baba achieved in himself that perfection, and therefore was able truly to declare that he had reached the highest Anandam Brahmeti Vyajanath. Baba showed that he was the Paramatma of all, that he was the Antaryami of all, and that he had in him perfect bliss, which we call Satchidananda.

    To Muslims Baba is the Sufi. Kabir panthis, being part of the contributors to Sufism recognised Baba as the perfect Sufi.

    Hindus including the most advanced in Bhakti and Jnana recognised him as the perfection of divinity or Satchidananda. Therefore believers in the principle of love as embodied in Godhood found it demonstrated in Baba. No doubt, success in this is not achieved in a day, but he has laid solid foundations for the edifice of inter-religious unity and, as time advances and as other world movements also advance, Baba’s pioneering efforts will be recognised and followed by the masses and also thinkers.

    This is imminent; one can see glimpses of it even at present. Let none think that Baba is gone and has ceased to work. See the latest lilas. That enables us to see that Baba is the emblem and cause of the unity of religions in India and the world.

    Regarding world unity, we are reminded of Abdul Bahai who attempted in 1830-40 to make people accept him as the Messiah of unity and to establish one religious, economic and social order into which all countries will fit in their systems harmoniously in accordance with his principles and directions. But history records the failure.

    Baba’s work was similar to Bahai’s, i.e. promoting love, cooperation and harmony. But Baba was preeminently practical and he saw with his wonderful prescience how limited the progress will be at the outset and for a considerable time; and Baba laid the foundations of future World Unity in all essential matters to the extent that was possible.

  • Temporal benefit had, at the same time, a push in the Spiritual direction

    Baba was the Guru-God for the devotee so that the devotee might attach himself firmly to Sai Baba, and develop his life thereafter with his help. This is the great object with which siddhis were utilised by Baba.

    Temporal help was given by means of these chamatkars, but there was always a string attached to the temporal help. The man who got a temporal benefit had at the same time a push in the spiritual direction.

    When Baba was going to give Damia four fruits he started by saying ‘Damia, people are crying, “Give, give”. Here are the fruits, eat and die’. Damia was very much puzzled. He came in order get issue, but here death was mentioned. Then Baba smiled and told him that the fruits were not for him but for his second wife to eat. And that she would bear eight children for him. Now eight children are a very large portion of samsara. Samsara makes a man thoroughly abdorbed in the world and thus he gets in Pramada, that is, forgetting God completely and thinking only of the world and worldly objects a the be-all and end-all of existence. Thus, this Samsara pramada is death said Sanatkumara in Sanatsujatiya; and Baba gave him an inkling of that danger of pramada before pushing him into samsara.

  • “What is God”

    Baba’s answer to the question ‘What is God’ is, that question cannot be answered in words of course, as the real truth about God is one to be felt at heart.

    One should grow into God and then only he knows God. It is only by developing the little spark of Love that Baba will ignite in your heart, and blowing it into a name, that you can be transformed into a mass of love.

    God is love, nothing but love. Everything it touches is turned into love. Even the basest creatures feel the power of the purely loving soul, and tigers and murderers give up their qualities in the presence of a fiercely loving soul

    It is only when a soul gets to be so very powerful, magnetic, or dynamic with love, it understands and expresses God as love. No other answer to the question ‘What is God” is worth having.

  • Baba is still going on

    If we have discussed at present, the question of a disciple’s position to attain spiritual perfection and God-realisation at the hands of a Guru, we have to lay emphasis on each one of the qualification.

    If any readers are anxious to have such Guru, they will discover that the unseen Sai Baba is still such a Guru, and if one puts oneself into contact with him and adopts the fullest possible quantum of qualifications described, then he has the very best chance of being moulded by Baba into the perfection of sainthood, perfection of Atma-nishta and Brahm nishta sishya.

    By his vatsalya, Baba is still going on, from his unseen position, undertaking the entire responsibility for the temporal and spiritual welfare of earnest devotees or discipies who get prepared and are eager to meet him.

  • Baba said about His Guruji

    Baba says- “Then he took me to a well, tied up my legs with a rope and suspended me, head downwards, from a tree by a side of the well. My head was about three feet off the water , which I could not reach. And my Guru left me there and went away, God knows where.

    He returned after 4 or 5 hours and asked me how I fared. “In great bliss was my time passed”, answered. The Guru, mightily pleased with me, drew me near him, passed his palm over my head and body and spoke to me tender words dripping with love, and he put me into his school where entirely forgot my father and mother and all attachments and desires.

    “I loved to gaze at him. If he were not there to see, I would not like to have eyes at all. I did not wish to go back. I forgot all other things but the Guru. My life was concentrated in my sight and my sight in him. That was the object of my meditation.

    In silence I bowed. “Meanwhile Realisation flashed upon me of itself without effort or study, purely by his grace”

  • Muslim Devote Chote Khan

    Muslim Devote Chote Khan

    In the fourth visit, Baba said to Imam Bhai Chote Khan of Vajapur, “Gulab” has come to your house.” Imam Bhai Chote Khan returned home. He learnt that his wife had recently delivered a male child. That must be the Gulab mentioned by Baba, and so the boy was named Gulab.

    In 1936, Chote Khan was badly in need of money to get Gulab married. So he went to Baba and slept in the Mosque. In his dream, Baba blessed him and said, ‘If you go to Poona, you will be benefited’. So, he started off to Poona.

    One Mr. Ladkar, suffering from severe piles, came to him. Chote Khan told him that he knew of a saint’s (Sai Baba’s) prescription that would cure piles. Ladkar said, ‘Give it’. Chote Khan then prepared the remedy, and that relieved the man greatly.

    Ladkar went at once, and betting on horses at the races in Poona, got Rs. 1,100. Out of that, he gave Chote Khan Rs. 700, and with that money Gulab’s marriage was performed.

  • Sai Baba strive for the welfare of the people.


    There are many Saints, who leaving their houses, stay in forest, caves or hermitages and remaining in solitude, try to get liberation or salvation for themselves. They do not care for other people, and are always self-absorbed. Sai Baba was not of such a type.

    He had no home, no wife, no progency, nor any relations, near or distant. Still, He lived in the world (society). He begged His bread from four or five houses, always lived at the foot of the (Neem) tree, carried on wordly dealings, and taught all the people how to act and behave in this world.

    Rare are the Sadhus and Saints who, after attaining God-vision, strive for the welfare of the people. Sai Baba was the foremost of these and, therefore, says Hemadpant.

  • Mrs. Khaparde and Tatya Patil

    Baba takes the naivedya(food) of Mrs. Khaparde first without touching any of the previously offered ones; because for several janmas (birth) one after another, she has been anxiously and lovingly taking up naivedyas to him, giving milk food etc. (BC.S 516). Baba said, ‘The food she gives me is sweet (with her love).

    Similarly towards Tatya Patil, Baba showed considerable concern and helped him to get a large income on which income-tax was levied. He was well known to be the pet of Baba.

    Tatya Patil’s parents were greatly attached to Baba from the very beginning of Baba’s visit to Shirdi when he had made no name and exhibited no powers. Tatya Patil’s mother would run into the jungles taking food in her hand to feed Baba, a self-forgetful fakir, who did not care for his food. She was looking after Baba with so much love even in this janma. Baba’s nature had gratitude as its bedrock, and he could never forget such ardent and loving service.

    He also explained that Tatya’s mother was his sister in several previous janmas and she was always feeding him. Therefore, Tatya being a son of his sister of so many janmas was expressly called by Baba his Nephew.

  • Sai Baba’s Declaration

    Sai Baba’s Declaration

    Turning to Shama (Madhavrao Deshpande) Sai Baba said.
    “If a man utters My name with love, I shall fulfill all his wishes, increase his devotion.

    And if he sings earnestly My life and My deeds, him I shall beset in front and back and on all sides.

    Those devotees, who are attached to Me, heart and soul, will naturally feel happiness, when they hear these stories.

    Believe Me that if anybody sings My Leelas, I will give him infinite joy and everlasting contentment.

    It is My special characteristic to free any person, who surrenders completely to Me, and who does worship Me faithfully, and who remembers Me, and meditates on Me constantly.

    How can they be conscious of worldly objects and sensations, who utter My name, who worship Me, who think of My stories and My life and who thus always remember Me?

    If My stories are listened to, all the diseases will be got rid of. So, hear My stories with respect; and think and meditate on them, assimilate them. This is the way of happiness and contentment.

    The pride and egoism of My devotees will vanish, the mind of the hearers will be set at rest; and if it has wholehearted and complete faith, it will be one with Supreme Consciousness.

    The simple remembrance of My name as ‘Sai, Sai’ will do away with sins of speech and hearing”.

  • Baba’s personality

    Baba had no particular marga , as the yoga marga , etc. But If any person came to grief in his yoga marga , he could give him relief.

     His liberality and generosity were remarkable . Daily he would get something in three figures; one hundred to three hundreds. He scattered the whole thing away. 

    Bhajan parties and fakirs were liberally supplied when they came up, and they were always coming up .

    His self – control and equanimity were equally remarkable. He had no particular preference for one dish over another, though some people thought he liked mangoes or sira or even country beans. His disregard of his own health was patent . 

    He was accessible at all hours of the day and night to people. He himself said , ‘ My durbar is always open at all hours ‘ .

     All his actions were open and above board. There was nothing done in secrecy. He had nothing shameful to conceal and no fear from scrutiny. 

    His most marked feature was perfect calm and total freedom from care and anxiety. 

    He had no interests to serve or protect, no institutions to support, no acquisitions to safeguard, and no private property to feel anxious about. 

    With a very large daily income, he left only Rs . 16 at the moment of his passing away from his body. 

    He was perfectly just and impartial. He was not obsequious to the rich and highly placed nor supercilious and contemptuous to the lowly . 

    Revenue Commissioners and Collectors and lower officials in large number poured in; also ragamuffins in the street, paupers and beggars adnauseam . He treated them all with perfect equality. 

    Baba’s personality was far greater than that of any other saint that this devotee had seen .