"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
People from different Religious, Geographical, Economic, and Social backgrounds are brought together here. Their prayers are delivered and successfully resolved with the grace of the Indian spiritual SadGuru-God, Shirdi Sai Baba.
“Stay, cast off anxiety. the wise avoid anxiety.
Your sufferings for your past karma have come to an end, as soon as you put your feet on Shirdi. Persons in great trouble, sunk in their misery, rise to joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of this mosque (Dwarakamai)
That Fakir (God) is very kind and will eradicate your disease. He will show his love. He is kind to all. “Baba
Baba’s Stories as Beacon- Light:
If any one prostrates before Sai and surrenders heart and soul to Him, then unsolicited, all the chief (Four) objects of life viz. Dharma (righteousness), Artha (wealth), Kama (Desire) and Moksha (Deliverance), are easily and unsolicitedly attained. SSSC Ch-6
Baba’s words were always short, pithy, deep, full of meaning, efficient and well- balanced. He was ever content and never cared for anything.
He said, “Though I have become a Fakir, have no house or wife, and though leaving off all cares, I have stayed at one place, the inevitable Maya teases Me often.
Though I forgot Myself I cannot forget Her. She always envelops Me.This Maya (illusive power) of the Lord (Shri Hari) teases God Brahma and others; then what to speak of a poor Fakir like Me?
Those who take refuge in the Lord wil be freed from Her clutches with his grace”.
In such terms Baba spoke about the power of Maya.
There are two aspects of God or Brahman : (1) the Unmanifested (Nirgun) and (2) the Manifested (Sagun).
The Nirgun is formless, while the Sagun is with form, though both denote the same Brahman. Some prefer to worship the former, some the latter.
As stated in the Gita (chapter XII) the worship of the latter is easy and preferable. As man has got a form (body, senses, etc.), it is natural and easy for him to worship the God with form.
Our love and devotion do not develop unless we worship Sagun Brahman for a certain period of time, and as we advance; it leads us to the worship (meditation) of Nirgun Brahman.
So let us start with Sagun worship. Image, altar, fire, light, sun, water, Brahman are the seven objects of worship, but Sadguru is better than all these.
Let us, on this occasion, bring to our mind the form of Sai, Who was non-attachment Incarnate, and Who was a resting-place for His whole-hearted devotees.
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Pray Baba, this
“Oh Sai Sad-guru,
the wish fulfilling tree of the Bhaktas,
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People in the Maharashtra, India always celebrate God Satya-Narayana Puja in their homes every fortnight or month.
When they are suffering from any problem, they say, ‘I do Satya Narayana Pooja.’ After getting rid of the problem, they performed the Satya Narayana Puja.
In all Sai Baba Temples, Sai Satya-vrata Puja is performed instead of Satya Narayana Pooja. People choose to recite the Sai story. It was told in three figurative verses. These were from the book “Bhakta Liyamaruth” composed by Daskanu Maharaj.
Satya Narayana Puja will be held daily at 7 am and 9 am in Shirdi. At the end of the prayer, the priest reads the three stories in Marathi. He reads them on behalf of all the devotees present. Then the offering will be given.
If you have time, please attend the Sai Satya Narayana puja, at Shirdi Mandir(RS.100 per couples), and also do monthly Pooja at your home in front of Satya Narayana picture and get Health, Wealth and Happiness
The body, composed of the five elements is perishable and transient, but the Self within is the thing – Absolute Reality which is immortal and intransient.
The pure Being, Consciousness or Brahma, the Ruler and Controller of the senses and mind is the thing Sai. This pervades all things in the universe and there is no space without it.
For fulfilling His mission He assumed the body and after it was fulfilled, He threw away the body (the finite aspect), and assumed His infinite aspect.
Sai ever lives, as also the previous Incarnation of God Datta, Shri Narsimha Saraswati of Ganagapur.
His Passing away is only an outward aspect, but really He pervades all animate and inanimate things and is their Inner Controller and Ruler. This can be, and is even now experienced by many who surrender themselves completely to Him and worship Him with whole-hearted devotion.
Though it is not possible for us to see Baba’s form now, still if we go to Shirdi, we shall find His beautiful life-like portrait adorning the masjid. This has been drawn by Shamrao Jaykar, a famous artist and well-known devotee of Baba.
To an imaginative and devout spectator this portrait can give even to-day the satisfaction of taking Baba’s darshana. Though Baba has no body now, He lives there and everywhere, and will effect the welfare of the devotees even now as He was doing before when He was embodied.
Saints like Baba never die, though they look like men, they are in reality God Himself.
God’ to mean Vibhuti of God, i.e., one who can be worshipped with benefit by any one … Using it in that sense, the question ‘Is Sai Baba of Shirdi God or not’, can only have one answer, that is, that he is certainly God or a “Vibhuti”. Those who know enough of facts about him find that HE knows everything everywhere at any time, that he has power to do anything everywhere, that he has power to control the movements and the hearts of creatures, and even thc elements of nature like rain, fire, etc., that he had a mastery of the knowledge of the past, present and future, even innumerable centuries away from the present, and that he had the highest moral principles of selflessness, service and love to all including the meanest beings. So they treat him as God
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Thought struck Nana, ‘Shall I have another opportunity of seeing this angelic face?” Baba at once slapped him on the thigh. Then the ladies departed.
Baba asked him, ‘Do you know why I slapped you?” Nana admitted that his thoughts were low and unfit for one in Baba’s company. He asked, How is it that even when I am next to you, such low thoughts sway my mind?” (B.C.&S. 205).
Baba replied, ‘You are a man after all, and the body being full of desires, these spring up as sense objects approach.
Then Baba asked, ‘Are there not lovely temples with well coloured exterior? When we go there, do we admire the exterior beauty or the God within? When you are seeing God within, do you ever care for the outside beauty of the building? Similarly, remember God is not only in temples. He is found in every creature.
Therefore when you see a beautiful face, remember that it is a temple and the image of the God within is the Jiva, a preeminent part of the Universal Soul. So, think at once of God-or the Universal Soul in every object, whether beauteous or ugly. These forms reveal the God within.
There is nothing wrong in admiring beauty, but the thought must follow at once, “If this object is so beautiful, how much more beautiful and powerful must be the God who made this object and inhabits it?. Thinking thus, you will not get smitten by a woman beauteous face hereafter”.
This was the upadesa given to Nana Baba had not to go further and stop him from any sinful acts due to lust, ( B. C. & S. 206)
As we all know, four things are common to all the creatures, viz. food, sleep, fear and sexual union. In the case of man, he is endowed with a special faculty, viz. knowledge, with the help of which he can attain God-vision, which is impossible in any other birth. It is for this reasons that Gods envy man’s fortune and aspire to be born as men on earth, so as to get their final deliverance.
Some say, that there is nothing worse than the human body, which is full of filth, mucus, phlegm and dirt, and which is subject to decay, disease and death. This is no doubt true to a certain extent; but inspite of these drawbacks and defects, the special value of the human body is – that
that the body should neither be neglected nor fondled, but should be properly cared for, just as a traveler on horse-back takes care of his pony on the way till he reaches his destination and returns home.
Thus the body should ever be used or engaged to attain God-vision or self-realization, which is the supreme end of life.
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"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 