"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.
Full faith can be seen as the foundation of belief, whereas complete surrender is the action taken based on that belief
“If you spread your palm with devotion before Me, I am immediately with you, day and night. Though, I am here physically, still I know what you do beyond the seven seas.
Go wherever you wish, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart, and I am within you.
Always worship me, who is seated in your heart as well as in the hearts of all beings. Blessed and fortunate indeed is he, who knows, Me thus.”
Sai Baba in SSSC-Chapter 15
In the case of Sai Baba, his perfect purity, asceticism, general benevolence, harmlessness, non-attachment, and other virtues evoked the respect of the saints like Devadas, Janakidas, Gangagir, Anandanath and Bidkar, that met him; and also of serious and noble minded men like Mahlsapathy and his friends Appa Bhil and Tukaram Darji.
Baba’s nature is well described as unattached and happily roaming about fearlessly and as a help to those in suffering and misery. So Mahlsapathy and his friends regarded Baba as a saint, an Acharya or Guru Deva, long before he exhibited any siddhi power.
However, so far as the general mass was concerned, it was the fact that he turned water into oil that provoked worship. And the worship took the usual form of offering flowers, fruits and scents.
Baba protested and tried to dissuade these worshippers. He asked them to go to their customary objects of worship such as the images they had in their temples and homes. But they would not listen. They felt that he was a saint, a samartha saint. The learned could quote Tukaram’s ‘Sant toch dev. Dev loch sant’ that is, ‘Saints are God. God is saints’.
The Villages told him “You are a Bolte Chalte Dev”, that is, a talking and walking God. The persistence of the mass idea that his siddhis were evidence of divine power, and therefore marked him out as a Guru Deva for worship, could not be combated or resisted.
So, alike in the case of the highly learned pandit, Sri Upasani Baba, as in the case of the uneducated rustics, the ladies of Shirdi, the chamatkars or lilas (play) are the first prompters to worship Sai as a manifestation of divinity. That is how worship begins and grows.
According to higher systems of thought (In Hindu System) , every object in the Universe is a manifestation of God, and therefore might be or ought to be worshipped.
The Upanishads recommend the worship of the mother, the father, the teacher and the guest (particularly, at Lunch time in olden India; even now by few)
If any particular Guru happens to be possessed of noble virtues or of siddhis, superhuman or extraordinary powers, then he is worshipped more naturally and readily not only by the mass, but by the intelligentsia and the critics.
Baba’s sayings about Chanting Names
Para Number in the Book of BCS & About some names
(I) Ram Name.
“Always say Raja Ram, Raja Ram. If you do so your life will be fruitful. You will attain peace and infinite good.”
What should we say? “Sri Ram, Jaya Ram, Jaya Jaya Ram.“
“I was always saying, “Hari Hari”. Hari then appeared to me. I then stopped giving medicine and gave Udhi.”
“Say, ‘Ram, Ram’. God will bless.”
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.”
198B Baba approves of “Sai” nama Japa by the judge MB Rege.
Para Number in the Book-BCS and Baba’s saying on His Own Nature
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.]
Para Number in the Book ‘BCS’ & Baba’s Sayings on his Own-Name, the followings
Baba’s sayings on his Mosque/Dwaraka Mayi/ Masudi
Para Number in Book-BCS & HIS Sayings
Dasganu was once performing his Kirtan and singing the glory of Sai Baba, in the Koupineshwar temple in Thana.
One Mr. Cholkar, a poor man serving as a candidate in the Civil Courts in Thana, was amongst the audience. He heard Dasganu’s Kirtan most attentively and was much moved.
He there and then mentally bowed and vowed to Baba saying – “Baba, I am a poor man, unable to support my family. If by your grace, I pass the departmental examination and get a permanent post, I shall go to Shirdi. I will fall at Your Feet. I will also distribute sugar-candy in Your name.” As good luck would have it, Mr.Cholkar did pass the examination. He got the permanent post. Now it remained for him to fulfil his vow. The sooner, the better.
Mr. Cholkar was a poor man with a large family to support; and he could not afford to pay for the expenses of a Shirdi trip. As is well said, one can easily cross over Nahne ghat in Thana District. It is easy even to cross the Sahyadri Range. However, it is very difficult for a poor man to cross Umbareghat, i.e., the threshold of his house.
As Mr. Cholkar was anxious to fulfill his vow as early as possible, he resolved to economize, cut down his expenses, and save money. He determined not to use sugar in his diet; and began to take his tea without it.
He saved some money in this way. Then, he came to Shirdi and took Baba’s darshan. He fell at His Feet and offered a coconut. He distributed it with a clean conscience along with sugar-candy as per his vow. He told Baba that he was much pleased with His darshan and that his desires were fulfilled that day.
Mr. Cholkar was in the Masjid with his host Bapusaheb Jog. When the host and the guest both got up and were about to leave the Masjid, Baba spoke to Jog as follows:- “Give him (your guest) cups of tea, fully saturated with Sugar.”
Hearing these significant words, Mr. Cholkar was much moved, he was wonderstruck, his eyes were bedewed with tears, and he fell at Baba’s Feet again. Mr. Jog was also curious about this direction, regarding the tea-cups to be given to his guest.
Baba wanted by His words to create faith and devotion in Cholkar’s mind. He hinted as it were, that He got the sugar-candy as per his vow and that He knew full well his secret determination not to use sugar in his diet.
Baba meant to say, “If you spread your palms with devotion before Me, I am immediately with you, day and night. Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the saven seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me, Who is seated in your heart, as well as, in the hearts of all beings, Blessed and fortunate, indeed, is he who knows Me thus.”
SSSC Ch-15
"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 