Category: Sai Baba

Explore the life, nature, miracles, and timeless wisdom of Shirdi Sai Baba — the divine master who transcended all religion and caste, touching millions of hearts across the world. This is the heart of our site.

  • The way of happiness and contentment

    • “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?
    • I shall draw out My devotees from the jaws of Death. 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”

    SSSC Ch-III

  • Five sheaths

    Man is enclosed in five sheaths: the physical, vital, mental, intellectual and blissful; the last, blissful is the core. So, man need only explore within himself for infinite bliss.

    Bliss has to be sought not through accumulation but through sacrifice and promotion of the welfare of others. Sacrifice (Tyaga) is recommended by the Vedas as the only path to immortality.

    Give in plenty, give gladly, give for the glory of God, and. in gratitude to God.

    Selfishness is the canker that destroys charity. Though one is aware that a step is wrong, selfishness does not allow him to desist. But it can be overcome by steady determination.

    Share with others the knowledge and skills you have earned,. the ideas and ideals you have benefited from, and the joy you have won by discipline and dedication.

    Sharing will not diminish them or devalue them. On the other hand, they will shine better with added splendour.

    – Puttaparti Satya Sai Baba in Divine Discourse, Apr 21, 1983.

    Have a sense of values, rather a scale of values; give everything, everyone, its worth or their worth, not a whit more.

    Five sheaths encase the Atma and hide its splendour from revealing itself.

    Make all these pure and shining. The physical sheath (annamaya kosa) must be purified by good, clean, pure food; the vital sheath (pranamaya kosa) by calm, steady breathing and an equanimous temper; the mental sheath (manomaya kosa) by holy thoughts and emotions, untouched by attachment to senses or unaffected by joy or grief; the wisdom sheath (vijnanamaya kosa) by contemplation of the reality; and the bliss sheath (anandamaya kosa) by getting immersed in the ecstasy of God-realisation. – Divine Discourse, Feb 26, 1961.

  • If we cast a glance at Him

    Blessed is the face of Sai.

    If we cast a glance at Him for a moment, He destroys the sorrow of many past births and confers great bliss on us; and if He looks at us with grace, our bondage of Karma is immediately snapped away and we are led to happiness.

    The river Ganges washes away the dirt and sins of all people who go to her for a bath; but she intently longs for the saints to come to her and bless her with their feet and remove all the dirt (sins) accumulated in her. She knows for certain that this accumulation can only be removed by the holy feet of the saints. Sai is the crest-jewel of the saints.

  • 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.

  • Baba is the divine that protects them.

    Sri M.B. Rege gives us the correct clue as to how to treat Baba. When Baba was in the body, his connection with the body gave a colouring to our notions of his personality. His personality was connected with the particular Baba body and gave the people the idea that he was a Muhammadan personality they were dealing with, with such and such peculiarities and such and such merits, etc.

    But when once he left the body, he was no longer to be identified with that body. He had receded into the unknown, the unseen, the beyond, and thereafter had no particularities, no particular merits or demerits. He was merely God. So, Mr. M.B. Rege says, ‘Now, I think of him only as God’. This view of Mr. M.B. Rege is widely prevalent amongst the bhaktas that contacted or do contact Baba.

    In the case of those who contact Baba subsequent to his Mahasamadhi, it is only as God that they come to him. They are in distress, and they want reliet. They cry unto him, and they get relief. That is, He is the divine that protects them.

    Therefore, it is easy for persons contacting Baba after his Mahasamadhi to deal with him as God. The fame of his deeds, conveyed through innumerable experiences, during his life in the flesh, tends to confirm this idea, for, even during his fleshy life, Baba had said. I am Allah; I am Khandoba, Lakshminarayan, Vittoba, Maruti, etc., and had shown himself in those forms.

  • “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”

  • Baba’s kindness and power

    Santaram’s father attended Das Ganu’s kirtan wherein Das Ganu gave a full account of Sai Baba, and described him as Datta Avatara, having wonderful powers and wonderful kindness.

    He brought also a picture of Sai Baba home, and with it Baba puja began in the house. In 1912, Santaram first visited Shirdi.

    Then he had appeared for a departmental examination (revenue test), and went to Shirdi with two friends. At the Kopergaon railway station, the Station Master heard of their proposed visit to Baba and began to abuse Baba saying that undue honour was given to a mere hypnotist, who was gulling people like so many wandering jugglers and thaumaturgists. This made the impressionable Santaram very unhappy. He was beginning to have his doubts about Baba

    He reached Shirdi anyhow. The first sight that he caught of Sai Baba was when Baba was walking from the Lendi to the Mosque. On the way Santaram and his friends met Baba. Baba looked straight at Santaram, and said, “What? Have you come away without taking leave from the Mamlatdar?” The reply was Yes.

    Baba said, “Don’t do so hereafter“. At once, the object of these remarks was evident. Baba revealed his Antarjnana (of Santaram, being a Mamlatdar’s clerk and his coming without permission) and motherly kindness towards his devotee who was wavering. The Antarjnana and the kindness showed the worthlessness of the Station Master’s remarks

    It was for that purpose evidently that Baba addressed those words. This was only the beginning of a series of similar experiences during his three days of stay at Shirdi.

    Each instance showed Baba’s kindness and powers more and more cleariy and forcefully. At the end of three days, Santaram was perfectly assured and confident that Baba was Datta God.