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  • Further Results of Worship -I

    So far we have been dealing mainly with the externals of worship, and it is to be feared that some highly refined and sensitive souls might have been displeased there by.

    These worthy persons wish to have the kernel, the very essence of the fruit of worship, without having to deal with any shell or bark, skin or other outer coverings.

    If one do puja (offer flowers, water, food, scents; and praise to a person or an image of a divine being) and upasana, simultaneously using speech and thought; he utters words, mostly mantras and slokas and his mind turns to their meanings for most of the time.

    Occasionally he may be merging himself in the object of worship mentally – attaining Poorna laya, or feeling perfect bliss and forgetting all ideas of his self being the actor.

     The ordinary man has to remember that his gentle plant of devotion has to be grown; Bhajanas and other ceremonies must be followed for a long time before attaining full fruition of Bhakti.

  • BABA WORSHIP I -Individual Worship

    The benefits attending Baba-worship were quickly seen and hence Devotees from outside the Shirdi village, that is, from the immediate neighbourhood were drawn to the worship. This spread gradually from place to place and people from even remote parts were attracted to the worship.

    Individual   worship itself was first not systematic, nor organised. But K.G. Bhishma, a good Kirtankar and a great adherent of Vittal-worship at Pandharpur, drew up the ritual for Sai-Baba-worship on practically the same lines as the Pandharpur-worship.

    He brought a set of artis that is ritualistic; verses for use by individuals at Shirdi, (and these were sent up by Baba to Nana Saheb Chandorkar at Jamnere) were approved of by HIM.

  • Take you over the seven seas

    Take you over the seven seas

    “Those, who are fortunate and whose demerits have vanished, take to My worship.

    If you always say ‘Sai, Sai’, I shall take you over the seven seas; believe in these words. And you will be certainly benefited.

    I do not need any paraphernalia of worship – either eight-fold or sixteen-fold. I rest there, where there is full devotion“.

    Baba in SSSC-Ch 13

  • SAVING LIFE

    Baba’s saving life

    Para Number in the Book & About His Saving Life

    SAVING LIFE (a) S.B. Nachne’s

    579. Baba, in the presence of S.B.N. and many others in 1913 said: “We should not trust mad men.”

    In 1914 Nachne was doing puja at home and a mad man rushed inside, seized his throat, and said, “I will drink your blood, and opened his mouth wide to bite throat. S.B.N. thrust a spoon into the man’s open mouth and then lost his consciousness. Others rushed in and saved his life.

    When he went later to Baba, Baba said to Anna Chinchnikar (pointing to S.B.N.): “Anna, if I had delayed an instant, then this man would have indeed perished. The mad man had seized with his hands, his very throat. But I extricated him. What is to be done? If I do not save my own children. Who else will?”

    (b) Nimonkar’s Baby

    580. S.S.D.Nimonkar, C.I.D. inspector was on his way from Poona to Nimon, where his brother’s wife was recently delivered of a child. On the way he called on Baba at Shirdi. Baba in giving him leave with the usual udhi said: “Save the child’s life”.

    Then S.S.D.Nimonkar went to Nimon where the new born child had become cold and chill and the parents had lost all hope of its life. He looked for Baba’s udhi and not finding it took the baby in his lap and prayed to Baba for his help, to give the baby its life. In 15 minutes’ time, the child improved.

  • BLESSINGS FOR ISSUE

    6–9 minutes

    Baba’s Says on children

    Para Number in the Book & About children birth

    (a) D.S. Rasane

    539. Damodar S. Rasane married one wife, had no issue and married another, hoping to get issue. But still the second marriage also was not fruitful. In his horoscope there was a papi in the fifth place from lagna. The stars evidently were against him. But he had great faith in Baba. When he went to Shirdi, Baba was waiting for him and gave him four mango fruits.

    B.: “Damia, take these fruits now.   Eat and die.”

    Damia was shocked, failing to see that begetting progeny and continuing in Samsara was Spiritual death. Again,

    B.: “Do not eat the fruits yourself.   Give them to your wife. Damia: Which wife?

    B.: “Junior wife. Let her eat the fruits. She will have two sons first, the first to be named Daulat Shan, and the second to be named Thana Shah.”

    Later Baba told him that he would have eight children in all. This proved to be exactly the case, Damia had two sons first. He took his first son to Baba and said’ ” How shall I name this child?”

    B.: “Have you forgotten what I told you? You have written it at page 3 of your notebook- Did I not say that he should be named Daulat Shah?”

    (He is Nanasaheb Rasane, Trustee of Baba Sansthan)

    (b) Rao Bahadur H. V. Sathe

    540.   H. V. Sathe, a deputy collector was at the age of 50, a widower with 2 daughters and without male issue and he hesitated very much to marry again to get male issue.   He came to Shirdi in 1904 along with the Mamlatdar.

    Mamlatdar: Saheb has no male issue, Baba.

    B.: “If Saheb marries, God will give him a son.”

    Thus assured, H.V.S. was prepared to marry. Next year, Dada Kelkar’s daughter was offered: but H.V.S. wished  to consult Baba. As soon as the girl was taken by Sharma and Dada Kelkar to Baba, Baba (putting Kumkum on the forehead of the girl) said: “Send this girl away to Ahemedabad (The place where H.V.S. then was). Then H.V.S. married her (1906); but during the next six years, two daughters only were born.

    In 1912, Dada Kelkar and his wife went to Baba and said: “Baba, when are we to have a grandson?”

    B.: “I am requesting Allah. He will comply with my request.” (In 1913 a son was born to H.V.S. and he is still (1940) hale and hearty.)

    (c) Sapatnekar

    541. One, Sapatnekar, a law student found his friend going up for the Law Examination with him and asked him what hopes of success, he could have with his insufficient preparation of his subjects. The latter replied that he was relying upon Sai Baba’s assurance to him of success despite insufficiency of preparation. Then Sapatnekar reviled both his friend and Baba. The Examination results came and proved the correctness of Baba’s statement.

    Sapatnekar, however, attributed the results to a fluke and still held Baba in low esteem. He then practised at Akkalkot as a lawyer and after ten years lost his only son. Then conscience began to prick him and he wished to visit Baba to apologise. He went and bowed to Baba.

    B: “Chal! Hut” (i.e., get away).

    A little later, again he bowed to Baba.

    B.: “Get away from here.” The man went back.

    A year later, Baba appeared in his wife’s dream and invited the pair to come to him. On this occasion Sapatnekar apologised humbly for his past contempt. Baba then addressed a shepherdess in S.’s presence and narrated the incidents of S.’s life, as his own.

    While S. was wondering at Baba’s thorough knowledge of things transpiring at distant places and at distant times. Baba spoke again to the shepherdess.

    B.: “This man (pointing to S.) blames me, thinking that I killed his son. Now I will again bring back that identical soul to his wife’s womb.”

    Baba then turned to S. placed his palm over his head and said: “Your object will be quickly attained.”

    Sapatnekar was full of joy and his faith grew and developed as Baba showed him, more and more of his Antarjnana. For instance Baba gave a full account of Mrs. Sapatnekar’s disease and foretold (or directed) its cure. In the face of such utterances, it was impossible to disbelieve Baba again, as he(S) did in his student days. At leave taking, Baba gave him a cocoanut and said “Put this in the Padar ( the frings of the upper cloth) of your wife and go away rejoicing”.

    In 12 months’ time he got a son, whom later he brought to Baba.

    (c) Mrs. Aurangabadkar 

    542.     One  Sakharam   Aurangabadkar  of Sholapur had no  issue  by his  second  wife. She never conceived even once during the 27 years she lived with him. Shama asked her to wait near the mosque, when he would call for her, after Baba should get into a pleasant mood.

    After Shama poured water on Baba’s food-soiled hand to wash it, Baba pinched his cheek. Shama feigning anger “What Deva, is it good for you to pinch me?”

    Baba: “During the 72 Janmas that you were with me. I never pinched you till now; and yet you resent my touching you.”

    Shama: Deva, we want a deva to give us sweet things, e.g.. Swargaloka, Vimana, etc.

    B.: “Yes indeed I have come for that”. Then Baba sat on his usual seat. Shama beckoned to the lady and she came, bowed and presented a cocoanut and scented sticks.

    Baba shook the cocoanut, which was dry.  The kernel within rolled and made a noise.

    Baba: (holding it in  “guduguduppandi” fashion) “Shama, this is rolling.  See what it says.”

    Shama: The lady here prays that a child might be similarly quickening in her womb. So give her the cocoanut with that blessing.

    B.: “Will the coconut given to her turn into a baby? How foolish people are to fancy such things!”

    S.: I know the power of the blessing and the cocoanut. Give her the coconut and the blessing.

    B.: “Break the coconut. “

    S.: Give the blessing and the coconut.

    This was repeated twice or thrice. S.: But when?

    B.: “In 12 months’ time.”

    Then the coconut was broken and one half was given to the lady.

    S.: Madam, you see what he said. If in 12 months time you do not get issue, I will break a coconut against his head and drag him out of the Masjid. If I do not, I will not call myself “Madhava Rao”.

    She was delivered of a son in one year’s time and the boy was brought to Baba in his fifth month; and the grateful father paid Rs.500/-, which was used for constructing a stall for Baba’s horse “Syamakarana“.

    (e) Cbintamani Rao

    543. Baba to Mahalsapathy: “Tell that man Chintamani Rao that, if he marries again, he will have one son and one daughter”. Chintamani married again and had just one son and one daughter.

    (f) Mahalasapathi

    544. Mahalsapathy had only female issue and yet resolved to lead a life of Brahmacharya and slept at the mosque or temple.

    Baba: “Bhagat, Go and live in your house. You will get a son. A son is a mango fruit. A daughter is a tamarind fruit.“

    Bhagat went on a Gokul Ashtami day and stayed at his house. Next Gokul Ashtami, a son was born to him.

    (g) Ratanji Sait

    545A. Ratanji Sapurji Wadia of Nanded (Nizam’s States) having no issue, gave a picnic party to Das Ganu Mahraj and Mouli Sahib, a Moulana at cost of Rs. 3-14-0 and went to Baba. He had no issue and wanted blessings from Baba for issue.

    B: “You have already given me Rs. 3-14-0. Give me now Rs. 2-2-0 Dakshina”.

    Ratatnji gave the required amount, but wondered how he had given Rs.3-14-0 to Baba, as he had sent him no money and never met him before.

    Baba: “God will fulfil your heart’s desire.”

    With this blessing, Ratanji returned and learnt from D.G. that Baba’s receipt meant that Baba had received it in the form of the Maulana. Ratanji looked up the account and saw that Rs3-14-0 was the amount expended on the picnic.

    Ratanji thereafter was blest with the birth of a son

     (h) Re: Narayana Govind Sindhe

    545B. N.G.S who got one son (after 7 daughters were born) by prayer to Datta in 1903 was told by Baba, that Baba granted the prayer, though there was no male issue in the man’s prarabdha. See under “Powers”.

    545C. Baba’s blessings for longevity of children 

    B: “Has G.G Narke children?

    Devotee: Baba, they all died very young.

    Baba: “Allah will bless.”

    Four children were born to G.G. Narke, after that and all of them are alive (Baba blessed Mrs.Badave, with similar effect.)

    545D. Villagers (after Appa’s death) : Baba, there is terrible cholera raging in the village. Save us.

    Baba: “Do not fear. Only seven will die. After that this epidemic will disappear,”

  • MISCELLANEOUS -NATURE

    11–17 minutes

    Baba’s other natures

    Para Number in the Book ‘BCS” About HIS other Natures

    Baba’s advice re. His Biography

    609. Baba: (How the biography ought to be written).

    1. “Inquire and collect a true account of events and experiences of devotees.
    2. The biographer should not write with self conceit and in the spirit of controversy. Let there be no taking of sides and no aggressive debate.
    3. The biographer must drown himself in the contemplation of Sai Baba and after full surrender of self and egotism, the biography must be written. It will then be really written by Baba himself.
    4. Benefit of reading, writing and thinking of Baba’s life is this:

    Devotion will be intensified and ignorance will be dispelled. If however the book is written in a controversial spirit, ignorance will develop thereby.

    1. If anyone serves me (Baba) with faith, God will be kind to him.”
    II. Baba’s Peculiar methods of Talk-Paradox
    1. When H.S. Dixit had a vision of Vittal (Pandari Nath God) at his lodgings and then went to Baba, Baba said:

    “Has not Vittal Patil come?   Have you not seen him? That vittal is very elusive. Tie him fast. If inadvertently, you lose sight of him for a second, he will vanish.”

    1. Das Ganu Maharaj was much confused about the meaning of Isavasya Upanishad and went to Baba.

    Baba : What, man. is the difficulty in this? Go back to Kaka’s house (H.S.D,’s in Ville Parle). His molkarin (i.e., servant girl of the agricultural class) will clear your doubt.”

    Das Ganu went there ; and a young servant girl (aged 8 and belonging to the Kumbi caste) was there. Her words and conduct enabled him to understand the Upanishad, though she never knew his difficulties or she was solving them.

    1. When Shama was stung by a snake and went to Baba at the mosque. Baba: “Do not get up Bramin. Get back. Descend”. Shama was afraid that this was an order to him not to climb. Baba a little later : “come up. The fakir (God), is kind. You will be cured”. (Then shama discovered that the first spoken words were addressed to the poison so that it should not creep up the body of the Brahmin.)
    2. Uddhavesa Bua was writing a letter to Baba every Ekadasi day i.e., once in 15 days. He visited Baba some months before Baba passed away.

    B.: Well go. You need not be coming here every fifteen days, I am always with you and will ever be. Tell all people there (i.e., convey my best wishes to all.) This was really bidding farewell. Uddhavesa did not however understand it, but somehow owing to forget-fulness, he did not send his Ekadasi letter thereafter. Obviously Baba’s reference to the 15 days, visit was a reference to these letters.

    1. Baba (1} (re: a poor but saintly man): ‘He has much paica (literally Cash)”.’

    (2) “Brahmins earn much paica by their ways’. (Baba meant by Paica-punya, or Apoorva, i.e.. merit.)

    1. B. (re: a person of Harda who had just died): “How can he die? In the morning, he will come to life.”

    (The relations of the deceased were looking for the revival of the corpse and were disappointed. Baba referred to survival of personality and taking up a new body in the next birth.)

    1. B.: “That fakir is kind to all”. (Baba referred to his God-Guru, under the term Fakir.)
    2. H.S.D. to Baba: Nana saheb Karambelkar writes that his wife and brother are unwell and wants your help for their recovery.

    Baba: The brother will recover. H.S.D.: The lady?

    Baba: Is she come?

    H.S.D.: No, but shall we send for her ?

    Baba: Yes.

    The brother recovered and the lady died. ‘Is she come?’ means, in “sukshma sarira, after death.”

    1. H.S.D. wished to help a devotee at Shirdi who was in pecuniary difficulties, but who would not accept any presents. So he enclosed the money in an envelope and went to Baba.

    H.S.D.; Baba. shall I send this letter? Baba: “Yes”.

    H.S.D. send it at once; and it was accepted. The devotee gave the explanation. Two hours earlier, the wife of that devotee went to Baba. Baba: “Mother, I am coming to your house. Tell your husband, not to reject me.”

    III Baba’s peculiar humour, double entendre, jokes etc.

    1. Once a goat entered the mosque, old, famished and just about to die.

    Baba (to Bade Baba): Cut that goat with one stroke.

    Bade Baba (Looking at it with pity):How are we to kill this?

    So saying, he went away from the mosque,

    Baba: Shama, you cut it.   fetch a knife from Radhakrishna Ayi.

    (Ayi sent a knife; but learning the purpose recalled it.) Shama: I will go home to fetch a knife.

    Shama went home and stayed away there.

    Then Baba to H.S.D.:You fetch a knife and kill it. H.S.D. went and fetched a knife. H.S.D. Baba, shall I kill it? Baba: Yes.

    H.S.D. lifted up the knife and held it up in hesitation.

    Baba: What are you thinking of? Strike.

    Dixit obeyed and was bringing the knife down.

    Baba: Stop, let the creature remain, I will kill it myself but not at the mosque.

    Then Baba carried the creature a few yards, after which it fell dead.

    1. G.D. Pandit of Pelaspe came and bowed to Baba. Baba (to some one): “What is Bapu Saheb doing?”

    Narayan: Sleeping.

    Baba : “Narayan, beat him well, when he comes here. He owes me three or four thousand rupees and delays payment.”

    This referred to a debtor of G.D. Pandit named Bapu Saheb, who owed G.D.P. that amount and was delaying payment. But Bapu Saheb Jog (who was Baba’s occasional banker) believed that it was a wrong accusation against him and he declared in anger that he did not owe any such sums.

    IV Baba’s peculiar method of Teaching
    1. Madhava Bua sat before Baba, and thought that Baba should teach him the nature of a “Hamsa “saint

    Baba (to M.): Go and hear pothi (read by H.S.D.) At once M. went to H.S.D. and found him reading Eknath Bhagavat, Skanda XI, chapter 18. Verses 2737, describing Hamsas and paramahamsas.

    1. A Prarthana samajist discovering that Baba’s power, nature and acts showed (a) that Avatars were possible and probable, (b) that God comes as Avatar to help devotees and (c) that offer of camphor, and naivedya to Avatras and God is right, came to Baba and sitting before him framed within his mind this question: “Baba, shall I place all my burdens on you?”

    Baba (loudly): “Yes.”

    P.S. (loudly): “Do you look on all with equal eye?”

    B.: “Some sense is required to ask questions.   What a silly question you ask?  I look on all with equal eye.”

    P.S. Mentally prayed or wished to have an Ishta devata (divine form) for worship. He turned to the old sala and there a lovely female apparition was standing and looking at him. He turned to Baba, Baba looked at him with a smile. On that occasion this happened several times.

    P.S, learnt later that the figure, he saw was Annapurna and made her his Ishta devata. On the second visit of P.S. to Shirdi, somebody discussed with him whether Sai was a Sthutaprayna, and the good of going to Shirdi and that upset his faith. Then he went and sat before Baba.

    B: Shama. take this man.   Tell him something.

    Shama took him out and said: Outsider’s talk and upsetting of your faith thereby is all Baba’s Lila. Do not mind what the world says or the troubles it gives. Keep your mind at Baba’s feet. Then Baba will give you peace. When the two returned, Baba (to P.S.): “follow Shama’s advice.”

    623. Baba, to Radhabai Deshmukhin:

    “I do not bite (i.e., instruct through) the ear. Our traditions are different.”

    624. Baba to Upasani Maharaj: “Be by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.”

    As in the case of Narayana Tirtha, he infused this devotee with thought and feeling without giving express instruction (Upadesa). except in visions.

    625. Shama Rao R.Shrotrie, a record keeper of District court, Thana, sat before Baba at Shirdi with a question in his mind.

    Baba- “Go to Bai”.

    She is reading puran in the temple. Then Shrotrie went up and listened and found the answer to his question in what she read.

    This is one of Baba’s ways of giving answers.

    V. Re. Photographing Baba

    626. B.:   Shama   what   have   the   boys   come   here Shama: To take a photograph of you.

    B.: Tell the boys that no photo should be taken (To have my real likeness), if the wall is pulled down, that is enough.

    N.B.- wall is (1) the body and (2) the idea that we are the body. Baba’s real likeness is Brahman.

    VI Baba’s parables
    1. Baba- “I had brought numerous asses laden with gold. Robbers looted all that on the road. So it is very hard to live in the house (or proximity) of thieves. You (Bhao saheb Pradhan, sub-Registrar) have been sent to me that I may teach you this. It is very difficult to remain in this sapless world. That is what I was taught. Convey this much to my brother Madhav Nath (Maharaj).

    627a. My money was carried away by people. I said nothing, but quietly followed them killed them and recovered my money.

    1. Baba: “I once changed the lower party of my body for that of a parrot, and after a year’s experience, I discovered that it was a serious loss. I lost a lakh of Rupee  (i.e., aim).”
    2. Baba: “I sat near a post and then a great serpent woke up, and was very angry. It used to jump up and also fall from above.”
    3. Baba: “A man had a very beautiful horse. In spite of all his efforts, it would not go in pair. A vidwan suggested that its should be taken back to the place whence it was brought (it source). That was done. Then it became controllable and useful.”
    4. Baba (to B.V. Dev); “You have given four, it is true. Baba however gets only one.”(All four merged into one)
    5. Baba (to Mr G.S.K.)”It is cloudy. Rains will fall. Crops will grow and mature. Clouds will disperse, why do you fear?
    6. Baba: “A person rode on a camel. It passed excreta. I gathered all the excreta and ate them up, My belly was puffed up-swollen. I felt listless. Then the rider took pity upon me. He gave me four grains of Bengali gram (Cicer arietinum) and I ate them and drank water. Thus my vehement turbulence ceased. My swollen belly subsided. Now hereafter, it will be cured.”
    7. Shama:  Why  are you grinding  corn  with  grindstones?

    Baba:   “For those who come here (to me), I have to grind.”

    Sri Sai Baba’s utterances to Kasinath Upasini Maharaj
    1. Sai: Hallo, Kasinath when you left, you protested you-could not return within 8 days.

    Kasi: I do not know how this has happened. It is all your doing.

    Sai: “Man, I was behind you all these 8 days.   Now go and stay in that Wada (Kaka Sahib’s).”

    Sai: (Addressing a general crowd):- “One day as I walked along I noticed a pregnant woman. Her belly was protruding, her hand and feet were emaciated, she was alone, could not walk easily except with a stick to support “You have been carrying for many years. Why are you not yet delivered?”. She made no reply, so I added” Let it pass. Drink only hot water. That will make delivery easy”. She heeded not my advice and went to a steam to drink cold water.

    Hallo, I thought “she will die and that unnecessarily and her numerous children in her belly will also die with her, so, I went up and told her “Dame did I not tell you to avoid cold drink; why have you come to this stream? Go to the village and get hot water to drink”. From that day she drank hot water. Now she is all right. This is all mere Vata (Wind). “

    As Sai spoke thus. He pointed occasionally towards Kasinath and looked at him. Kasinath at once understood. It is Sai that came to me at Rahuri and told me drink hot water and again at Jejuri 156 miles away and forced me to drink hot water. He is the kind Saviour, who cured my trouble, that no doctor could cure.

    1. “There is renanubandha, mutual obligations between us. Our families have been interlocked by mutual obligations for centuries,   nay for a thousand years, so there is no difference between you and me.”

    B. “There was a well at its brink there was a tree, on the tree 2 birds sat, one of them slipped down and was about to be drowned. Down jumped its loving friend to save it and actually saved it, though the saviour nearly lost its life.”

    637. Sai: “Kasinath must clear his accounts before he can leave Shirdi.”

    Shame: “What accounts”

    Sai: “I settle the accounts of all that come to me. (Some weeks later) all accounts have been settled except 2 or 4 cart loads (Sravanam. July-Aug. 1911). All accounts have been settled with the result that Kasinath must remain 4 years at Shirdi”

    Shama:    “What is he to do for 4 years here?”

    Sai: “He must simply sit quiet in Vittoba’s temple doing nothing. He has merely to eat bread and vegetable and sit quiet. I shall accomplish what I want”.

    Sai to Kasinath: “Have nothing to do with anybody. Your future is very excellent.”

    Sai to Others; “Such is his worth” the whole world may be put in one scale pan and he in the other.

    (Bombay Prabhti): “What Baba-do you give him a copper plate grant of your full favour”.

    Sai; “What I have spoken, every thing I have got has been given.”

    Sai to Kasinath: “Wherever you may be, you are God. Now understand that the gold plate grant is in your hands. You need not go to me frequently, come to me only occasionally. However don’t talk to me and I shan’t talk to you. After 4 years, you will have the full favour of Mahalsapathi and you will realise everything”

    “You have not recognised me, I have recognised you thoroughly. I have been intently thinking of you for many a year. Now where have you to go or come? If you are unable to do anything, keep quiet. I shall personally accompany you, get a ticket, put you into the train and see that you reach your destination.

    Prabhti : “What Baba, you have given everything to this individual”.

    Sai; “Yes, Yes, everything has been given, whatever he be, good or bad, he is mine.”

    There is no distinction between me and him. Now the whole responsibility for him rests with me.

    1. Sai Baba (to Kasinath) ” I shall be coming there to Khandobha’s.”

    “If I go over, will you regonise me and give me a chilm to smoke?”

    Kasinath; I do not understand you.

    1. Sai Baba to Kasinath : ” I do not want your prasad. why do you take the trouble to bring it here? I was there”

    Kasinath:  “Baba.  there was none there, except a black dog.

    Sai: “Yes, I was that black dog”.

    1. Sai to Kasinath : “You drove me away.”

    Kasi: There was none there except a sickly Sudra.

    Sai: “I was in everything and even beyond”.

    1. Kasi to Sai: Baba, the person you cast out and burnt is I.

    Sai:    “Yes, you were in that SIN form”. Papa Rupa. I have destroyed him. You are now free from sin. By our united efforts there are many things to be achieved in the future and how can that be done if sin remains.”

    1. Sai to Kasi: “Look at that man, that is you. Your punya purusha. (See 112) Kasi: “Baba, if this my punya purusha and the other whom you destroyed is my papa purusha, who am I?

    Sai: “You are beyond these two. That which constitutes me, constitutes you, you are myself.”

    1. Sai to Kasinath: – “Plant 14 peepal trees that live for centuries.”

  • Outwardly, Baba longed for public welfare.

    Though Sai Baba looked like a man, three cubits and a half in length, still He dwelt in the hearts of all.

    Inwardly, he was unattached and indifferent, but outwardly, He longed for public welfare.

    Inwardly most disinterested, He looked outwardly full of desires, for the sake of His devotees.

    Inwardly an abode of peace, he looked outwardly restless.

    Inwardly He had the state of Brahman, outwardly He acted like a devil.

    Inwardly He had the state of Brahman, outwardly he acted like a devil.

    Inwardly He loved Adwaita (union or monism), outwardly He got entangled with the world.

    He always abided and was engrossed in the Self and was well-disposed towards His Bhaktas. He always sat on one Asan and never travelled.

    His ‘band’ was a small stick, which He always carried in His hand.

    He was calm, being thought-free.

    He never cared for wealth and fame and lived on begging. Such a life He led.

    He always uttered ‘Allah Malik’ (God the real owner). Entire and unbroken was His love for the Bhaktas.

    He was the mine or store-house for self-knowledge and full of Divine Bliss. Such was the Divine Form of Sai Baba, boundless, endless and undifferentiated.

    One principle which envelopes the whole universe, (from a stone pillar to Brahma) incarnated in Sai Baba.

    The really meritorious and fortunate people got this treasure-trove in their hands,

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  • Baba’s permission to write Shri Sai Sat Charitra

    Baba’s permission to write Shri Sai Sat Charitra

    Hemadpani- “I requested Mr. Madhavrao Deshpande alias Shama, Baba’s most intimate devotee, to speak to Him for me to write the Book.

    He pleaded for my cause and said to Sai Baba, “This Annasaheb wishes to write Your biography, don’t say that You are a poor begging Fakir, and there is no necessity to write it, but if You agree and help him, he will write or rather, Your feet (grace) will accomplish the work. Without Your consent and blessing, nothing can be done successfully.”

    When Sai Baba heard this request, He was moved and blessed me by giving me His Udi (sacred ashes) and placing His boon-bestowing hand on my head said :-

    “Let him make a collection of stories and experiences, keep notes and memos; I will help him. He is only an outward instrument. I should write Myself My autobiography and satisfy the wishes of My devotees. He should get rid of his ego, place (or surrender) it at My feet. He who acts like this in life, him I help the most. What of My life-stories?

    I serve him in his house in all possible ways. When his ego is completely annihilated and there is left no trace of it, I Myself shall enter into him and shall Myself write My own life.

    Hearing my stories and teachings will create faith in devotees’ hearts and they will easily get self – realization and Bliss.

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  • My method is quite unique

    My method is quite unique

    “My method is quite unique. Remember well, this one story (About Mrs. Radhabai Deskmukh), and it will be very useful.

    To get the knowledge (realization) of the Self, Dhyana (meditation) is necessary. If you practice it continuously, the Vrittis (subtle thoughts) will be pacified.

    Being quite desireless, you should meditate on the Lord, Who is in all the creatures; When the mind is concentrated, the goal will be achieved.

    Meditate always on My formless nature, which is knowledge incarnate, consciousness and bliss.

    If you cannot do this, meditate on My Form from top to toe, as you see here night and day.

    As you go on doing this, your Vrittis will be single-pointed and the distinction between the Dhyata (meditator), Dhyana (act of meditation), Dhyeya (this meditated upon) will be lost and the meditator will be one with the Consciousness and be merged in the Brahman.

  • God Vision

    In the Ekadasa Skanda, Uddhava asks how God is to be thought of in words which are remarkably similar to the words used by Baba. Baba said, If you are unable to think of Nirakara, concentrate upon my form that is think of Me as God.

    • In the Ekadasa Skanda of Bhagavata also the same is advised. Sri Krishna says to Uddhava,
    • “Portray in your mind the entire body of Sri Krishna, get all the limbs, the ornaments, the colour, the sheen and other attributes into your mind.
    • After doing that preliminary work,
    • narrow the field of concentration. Proceed from the whole body with dress and weapons to concentrate on the face alone.
    • After concentrating on that, proceed further to finer concentration remembering that the essential nature of God is not material but  ethereal.”

    Uddhava is advised to think of or see within his mind Sri Krishna’s face as nothing but ether. Ether is all embracing, subtle, and unmanifest.

    So, from the manifest, Uddhava is advised to pass on to the unmanifest, with the feeling that it is the same, that is, with the conviction that the Krishna’s face that he has concentrated upon is the same as the Universal ether. That gives him naturally 
    help to reach absorption or laya in the unmanifest Brahman.

    The net result of the concentration, in fact of all concentration on a Divine Form would be that the soul of the sadhaka will be filled with the bliss of the ethereal unmanifest. Brahman  which as Krishna says is the same as Satchitananda, that is, that which is perceived as bare Bliss within the soul of the sadhaka himself in Sushupti-or- Turiya trance proving Tat Tvam Asi. This process is one of sakshatkara and may also be called God-vision.

    Uddhava becomes like a piece of salt dropped into the ocean of God and simply perceives or has experience of unlimited Satchitananda.