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  • PRIDE

    Baba’s sayings about Pride

    Para Number in the Book & About pride

    Baba puts down the Pride of a Haji

    219. A Haji (one who had made a pilgrimage to Mecca) came to Shirdi mosque. Baba: “Do not get into the mosque.” The Haji went back and was for some months, prevented from getting into the mosque. Then when he asked Syama to intercede for him, Baba thus put him to the test and put down his pride.

    Baba, to Syama:” Go to the Chavadi and ask the man, if he will walk straight in the middle of the narrow foot-path amidst babul bushes near Barve well.”

    Syama went and returned with an affirmative answer.

    Again Baba to Syama: Go and ask him if he will pay me Rs.40,000/- in four instalments. Syama went and returned with the answer that he was prepared to pay Rs.40 lakhs.

    Again for the third time Baba: Syama, ask him whether he would like to have mutton or haunch with bone or the testicles of the goat? Syama returned with answer that the Haji would be quite happy to receive a small crumb of bread from Baba’s mudpot (Kolamba). Then Baba straightway advanced to the Chavadi himself and pouring a shower of vile abuse on Haji’s head added

    “What do you think is here (showing his body)? You vainly brag and fancy youself great. Does the Koran teach you to do so? You are conceited about your pilgrimage to Mecca etc. But you do not know me.”

    The Haji was flabbergasted. Baba went back to the mosque, purchased a basket of fruits and sent them to the Haji and later gave him Rs.50/- and allowed him to come thereafter into the mosque whenever he liked.

    220. Baba, to H.V. Sathe: “Why do you go there (to lay the foundation stone)? What have we to do with all this? The masons and other workmen will do it.”

    221. Baba to Das Ganu: “Why do you go, dressed like a bridegroom to perform Kirtan? Doff all that above the waist (including lace Pagadi etc.).” Narada inaugurated the Keertan Paddati. Hence Narada’s dress should be adopted, viz.. bare above the waist, dress below the waist, chipla and Tambur in hand.

    CASTE-PRIDE

    222. Mamlatdar says to a Brahmin Doctor from South Africa.-“Come, we shall go to see Sai Baba.”

    D.: I am a Rama Upasaka and will not bow to any others.

    M: Never mind, come on.   You need not bow.

    The Doctor, at the mosque, while standing at a distance from the Arati proceedings suddenly darted inside and fell at Baba’s feet.

    M.: (later}.: Why did you change your mind and bow?

    D.: Sai Baba showed himself to me as the beautiful dark Rama and so I bowed. This Sai is a Yoga Sampoorna Avatar. (Baba showed himself as Rama to Madrasi Ramdasis, also.)

    The Doctor resolved upon satyagraha, fasted three days and absented himself from the mosque resolving not to go there, until Baba should send for him and give him Brahmananda- God Realisation. But on the fourth day, a long absent chum of his turned up and accompanying him came to the mosque. Then,

    B.: “Did anyone invite you to come here?”

    Doctor was abashed and prayed mentally for experience of Paramananda. He had it that night at Shirdi and at his own town, (cf 112, cf. G.S.Khaparde on Baba’s yogic glance, and Mrs. Manager, also).

    223. When the caste-proud Mule Sastri of Nasik came to Shirdi. Baba-. ” (to someone) Get me some Gerua (a colour) ochre to colour my cloth.”

    Baba did not wear ochre-coloured cloth that day or any other day.

    Later Baba (to Buty).: “Go and get Dakshina for me from the newly arrived Nasik Brahmin.”

    The Nasik Brahmin Mule came and stood at a distance lest, he be polluted by entry into a mosque.

    Mule Sastri suddently saw his guru in the place of Baba and running into the mosque, cried “Jay Guru, Jay Dholap Guru Maharaj” and fell at Baba’s feet.

    Baba- “Give me dakshina.”

    Mule Sastri found that the Gerua robed Brahmin Guru of his, viz., Dholap Guru had suddenly disappeared and Baba was seated in his stead. He gave Baba dakshina.

    pride of physical strength

    224. Bayyaji Appaji Patel boasted of having Bhima’s strength and occasionally lifted Baba up in his arms after massage to place him before the fire. One day he tried to lift Baba, but could not. Baba looked at him and laughed. That laughter was a homily against pride, (cf, Kena Upanishad. –Vayu trying to lift up a straw in vain.)

    Pride of Learning

    Baba put down N.G.C.’s pride of learning in Sanskrit especially about Gita Bashya – See No. 182.

  • ANGER

    Baba’s sayings about Anger

    Para Number in the Book ‘BCS”, About anger

    1. Baba (to Ramadasi)- “You are reading pothi. Adhyatma Ramayana, unceasingly. Yet your heart is not pure. You repeat Sahasranama and yet your troubles are not gone. You call yourself a Ramadasi. If you are one, you must be indifferent to all objects. You ought not to have Mamata, attachment, but must have Samata, viewing everything with equal eye. You behave like a boy and fight for your book. Books can be had by the ton for money but not men, i.e. friendship.”
    2. Baba: If any one is angry with another, he wounds me to the quick. If any one abuses another, I feel the pain. If anyone bravely endures the abuse, I feel highly pleased. (cf. 289.)

    209. Baba to Jog- “Give me dakshina. “

    Jog (flaring up): You know I have not got a single pie. How can I give, Baba’?

    Baba- “Do not give, but why do you lose your temper?”

    210: Baba to R B Purandhare- “If anybody comes and abuses you or punishes you, do not quarrel with him. If you cannot endure it, speak a simple word or two, or else leave the place. But, do not battle with him and give tit for tat. I feel sick and disgusted when you quarrel with others”

    211 Baba to Mrs. MW Pradhan- “If anyone talks ten words at us, let us answer with one word, if we reply at all. Do not battle with anyone”.

    Baba’s Control of Anger

    1. When Baba was in a towering rage, Uddhavesa Bua came, prostrated and asked for leave; Baba, cooling down, spoke tenderly to him.-“Are you going? When will you come? You need not come again and again every fifteen days. I am with you. Well, go.”
    2. When Baba was in towering passion, Samant, Police Sub-Inspector stood at a distance and thought that unless Baba gave him leave immediately, he would, be too late for his train and have to meet official trouble.

    Baba, at once- “Tell all those who want to go, to come at once and take their Udhi.”

    1. When pleader Joshi of Thana and another sent by Kata Dopeshwar arrived at the Shirdi mosque, Baba was in towering rage. Baba saw them. Baba- “Bring those people here.”

    And when they came, he was perfectly cool and asked, “You have killed that old man and come here” (meaning that Kaka Dopeshwar died after telling them to go to Baba). (s.c. 411.)

    Baba’s Anger
    1. Baba- “I get angry with none. Will a mother harm her little ones? Will the ocean send back the water of the streams? I love devotion. I am the bond slave of my devotee, (s.c.15).
    2. Baba- “Nana, I am not angry with you. You, my children, have a right to be angry with me. If Venkusa were here, I could be angry with him. (s.c.179).
    3. Baba to Mrs. Pradhan (who feared that Baba would get angry:) “See, I did not get angry with anyone to-day.”

    218. Baba, when in a towering rage “Let blessings be to all”

    218.A(226)  HATERED. Baba to Das Ganu (who complained that he had not been invited to a feast where Sira (Semolina pudding) was distributed, on account of the host being his enemy)- “Who gives, what to whom? What is this Sira? Who eats it? Do not say anyone that he is your enemy. Who is whose enemy? Do not entertain any ill-feelings towards any one. All are one and the same.”

  • LUST

    LUST

    Baba’s sayings about moral teaching on lust

    Para Number in the Book & About correcting lust

    204. Sai Baba to Devasad (an ascetic)

    1. Adhere to Vairagya

    2. Women are the greatest danger to ascetic

    3. Avoid the Upadhis-Moha (Delusion) and pomp

    4. Think of God and Kill out that ego

    A person that has not overcome lust cannot see God, i.e., get God-realisation.

    205. LUST conquest – NGC

    Two Moslem ladies wearing veils came to take darshan of Baba at the mosque and NG Chandorkar was sitting by him. NGC tried to get up and go away.

    Baba- “You had better remain. If they wish to take darshan, let them come. “

    The ladies came. The older removed her veil and took darshan. Next, as the younger removed her veil, took darshan and resumed her veil, Nana, smitten with her beauty, thought to himself “Shall I have one more opportunity to see that angelic face?”, but he said nothing. Baba struck him on the thigh. Then the ladies left.

    Baba- “Nana, do you know why I struck you?”

    Nana: How can I hide anything from the omniscience of my guru? But I do not understand how such low thoughts should sway my mind, when I am in your immediate presence.

    Baba- “You are a man after all. Are you not? The body is full of desires, which spring up as soon as a sense object approaches. But are temples with lovely and well coloured exterior scarce in the world?

    When we go there, is it to admire the exterior or see the God within? When you are seeing the God in the shrine, do you care for the outside beauty of the building or for that of the image or Paramatama within? Does God remain only in temples? Is he not found in every object in the world as in temples? We are not to bother ourselves about the beauty or ugliness of the exterior, but to concentrate soley on the form taken by and revealing God.

    Of course there is nothing in looking at the exterior, but as one looks at it, he must think how clever and powerful is the God that produced such a beautiful abode, how he resides therein and how nicely ornamented he is. Nana, if you had directed your thoughts to this way, you would not have had the desire to get one more look at the Moslem beauty’s face. Keep this always in mind. “

    206 H V Sathe, a Settlement Officer and devotee of baba was staying at his place, Sathe wada. Out of curiosity, he wished to visit a lady devotee of Baba, whose reputation was not good. Earlier in the day, he called upon Baba.

    Baba: Saheb, have you been to “Sala (School)”?

    HVS: What Baba! Have you made me a Deputy collector without taking me to School?

    Baba found HVS ignorant of local names and dropped the matter. Later on, HVS visited the lady who lived in a place locally known as the School.

    There, in the course of talking with her, sexual thoughts were assailing him and he was in danger of a fall. Suddenly the outer door was thrown open. Baba standing at the door made gestures which evidently meant –“What ! You have come so far to your guru! And are you now descending to Hell! What excellent course!” Then Baba disappeared. HVS was saved in time by this proctor Baba. He left the Sala/School at once and never again visited that lady.

  • Nama Japa

    Nama Japa

    Baba’s sayings about Chanting Names

    Para Number in the Book of BCS & About some names

    (I) Ram Name.

    1. Baba (to N.R.S.): “Ram Rami Ghya.” i.e., (repeat the name of Rama)
    2. Baba (to Mrs. G.S.Khaparde)

    “Always say Raja Ram, Raja Ram.   If you do so your life will be fruitful.   You will attain peace and infinite good.”

    1. Baba (to Rao Bahadur M.W.Pradhan):

    What  should we  say? “Sri Ram,  Jaya Ram,  Jaya Jaya Ram.“

    1. Baba (to H.S.D.): cf 293 Namasmaran.

    “I was always saying, “Hari Hari”. Hari then appeared to me. I then stopped giving medicine and gave Udhi.”

    1. Babu (to some one): 

    “Say, ‘Ram, Ram’. God will bless.”

    1. Baba (to a Bandra youth):  “Read Pothi i.e., Have Parayana.   Make some Nama Japa.”

    Boy: “Baba, I will not. If sometimes I fail in these, I will incur sin?”

    Baba to Mother, “I have now to take ENTIRE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIM.”

    1. Baba- “I had heart disease. I kept ‘Vishnu Sahasranama’ close to My chest. Hari descended from it. I was cured”

    198B Baba approves of “Sai”   nama Japa by the judge MB Rege.

  • 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.
  • Baba’s promises in His own name

    Baba’s promises in His own name

    Para Number in the Book ‘BCS’ & Baba’s Sayings on his Own-Name, the followings

    1. My eye (of vigilant supervision) is ever on those who love me.
      Whatever you do, wherever you may be, ever bear this in mind that I am always aware of everything you do.
    2. If one ever meditates on me, repeats my name, signs my deeds, and is thus transformed into me, one’s Karma is destroyed. I stay by his side always.
    3. You should have truth always with you. then I shall be always with you, wherever you are, and at all times.
    4. I will be with you, whenever and wherever you think of me. Do not fear.
    5. If one perpetually thinks of me, and makes me his sole refuge, I am his debtor and will give my head to save him.
    6. If, one ever dwells on me in his mind and will not even taste food before offering it to me, I am his slave. So also if he hungers and thirsts after me, and treats all else as unimportant.
    7. I am (Bhaktaparadeena) the bond slave of my devotees, I love devotion.
    8. He who withdraws his heart from wife, child and parents and loves me is my real lover and he merges in me like a river in the sea.
    9. Saibaba: The key of my treasury is now placed in your hands. Ask for anything you want, Rs. 5 to 100 a month or what you will and, I will give it to you.
      Devotee (M B Rage) declines to ask.
      Baba: Ask something, I am anxious to give you.
      Devotee: Is it agreed that you will grant anything I ask for?
      Baba: Yes
      Devotee: Then, Baba, I want this. In this and in any future birth that may befall me, you should never part from me. You should always be with me.
      Baba: Yes, I shall be with you, inside and outside you, whatever you may be or do.
    10. My devotee feels me in you, in himself and in all creatures and sees all as his Guru. He will become like me.
    11. If you make me the sole object of your thoughts and aims, you will gain Paramartha. (supreme Goal)
      Look to me; I will look to you.
      Trust the Guru fully. That is the only sadhana. Guru is all the Gods.
    12. If one devotes his entire mind to me and rests in me, he need fear nothing for body and soul. If one sees me and me alone and listens to talk about me and is devoted to me alone, he will reach God (Chaitanya). He who worships me as Nitya, Suddha and Buddha comes to me.
    13. Those who perpetually repeat my name reach their goal.
    14. Simply say “Sai” “Sai” with heart overflowing. I care not for show of respect and forms, I rest in such devotees.
    15. Repeat my name. Seek refuge in me. But to know ‘who I am” have Sravana and Manana.
    16. I am formless and everywhere.
    17. If anyone casts his burden on me and thinks of me, I look after all his concerns.
    18. Yes; you can place your burdens on me.
    19. In the abode of my devotees, there will be no dearth of food and clothing.
    20. You devotees are my children. I am your father. You have to get everything from me. So you should not talk like that (say Sai is not God).
    21. Why are you anxious? I take all care of you.
    22. Sit quiet, Uge Muge. I will do the needful. I will take you to the end.
    23. Go Everything will be provided, Babugir.
      I will provide for you, Ganu
      I will provide for Manker’s son.
    24. Why do you fear? Am I not here (where you go to ease yourself?)
    25. Stay here, treat it as your house
      Governor came with a lance to pierce Dada (G.S.K). I had a tussle with him and drove him out. Finally I conciliated him.
      Why should any fear, when I am here?
    26. When this baby sleeps we have to stand by, keep awake and watch or take trouble.
    27. I will not allow my devotees to come to harm. I have to take thought for my devotees. And if a devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands, and thus with four, four (i.e. a number of), outstretched hands at time to support him. I will not let him fall.
    28. I am its (frog’s) Father, and am here. Will I let the snake eat it? See how I effect its release…….. “Hallo Veerabadrappa, be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred. (The snake dropped the frog). I have kept my word and saved Basappa (the frog from Viradadrappa, the snake). God has saved him by sending me.
    29. See I have to suffer for your sake, to remove your sufferings.
      I Will not let you die. I will die first ere I let you die (Nandram) (Nandram lived long after 1918)
      Nana is about to die. But will I let him die? (535-A)
      Fakir (God) wishes to kill Dada Saheb (i.e., G.S.Khaparde), but I will not permit him.
      O Annah! if I had delayed a minute, this man (S.B.Nachen) would have indeed perished. The madman had seized him with his hands, even his throat. But I extricated him. What is to be done? If I do not save my own son, who else will.
    30. He is mine, and mine alone.
      I alone have to shoulder the responsibility for carrying him across.
      Whom has he got except me?
    31. (After Cholera goddess was driven away) You are now safe, Go.
    32. Night and day, I think and think of my people, I con/recite their names over and over again.
      Baba to.Dhumal: “Bhav, the whole of last night, I had no sleep. I lay thinking and thinking of you.
      At every step, I have to take care of you, Else, what will happen to you, God knows.”
    33. I shall never forget him; I shall remember him, even if he is 2000 miles away. I will eat nothing without him.
    34. I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her kiddies? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers? I love devotion. I am the slave of my devotees, Bhakta Paradhina.
    35. How can I allow my children to fast or starve?
    36. Come, Sirs, carry away bags of udhi. Come, cart away the treasures of your mother.
      Look here, People come and say Baba, give. I tell them to take. No one takes.
    37. My master told me to give bounteously to all that ask. No one listens to me or wisdom. My treasury is open. None brings carts to take from it. I say dig; none will take any pains. I said dig out the treasure and cart it away. Be the real and true sons of the mother and fully stock your magazine. What is to become of us i.e. this bodily life? Earth will return to the earth; and the air (breath) will return to the air. This opportunity will not return.
    38. Place your entire faith in my words. Your object will be accomplished.
    39. Baba To Lakshman on 15-10-1918 : Jog thinks I am dead. I am living. Come and perform morning Arati
    40. (Give me) my 1¼ Rupee (Majya Savva Rupya)
    41. My tomb will speak and move with those who make me their refuge.
    42. I shall be active and vigorous from my tomb also.
    43. Even after my Mahasamadhi, I will be with you, the moment you think of me, at any place.
    44. As soon as a devotee calls unto me with love, I will appear. I require no train to travel.
  • Dwaraka Mayi

    Dwaraka Mayi

    Baba’s sayings on his Mosque/Dwaraka Mayi/ Masudi

    Para Number in Book-BCS & HIS Sayings

    1. This is Dwaraka Mayi of ours on which you are setting. This wards off all dangers and anxieties from her children. Highly merciful is this Masudi Ayi. She is the mother of those who place their entire faith in her. If they are in danger, she will save them. Once a person climbs into her lap, all his troubles are over. He who sleeps in her shade attains bliss.
    2. What can the snake do to Dwarakamayi’s children? They look on amused, when the snake appears. When Dwaraka Mayi protects, can the snake strike?.
    3. We have no need to fear. Strike, let me see how you can strike and kill (ef-36,473)
    4. This is not a mosque. It is Dwaraka. Those who seek refuge in her will never be harmed.
    5. As soon as one climbs the steps of the mosque, suffering due to Karma are at end and, joy begins. That Fakir (God) is very kind and will relieve your troubles.
    6. When any one enters this Dwaraka Mayi, his goal (object) is achieved.
    7. This place (Dwaraka Mayi) is for Tarana i.e., saving people, and not marana ie., killing them.
    8. I do nothing. I receive nothing. Datta calls for his own. He has called for Rs.15/-, his due and given it to Masudi Ayi. So the money has been received (By me)