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  • 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.
  • Baba’s Yoga Practices

    Baba’s Yoga Practices

    Sai Baba knew all the processes and practices of Yoga. Some of them will be described here:

    • 1) DHAUTI or CLEANING PROCESS: Baba went to the well near a Banyan tree. It was at a considerable distance from the Masjid. Every third day, he washed his mouth and had a bath.
    • On one occasion, He vomited out his intestines. He cleaned them inside and outside. Then, he placed them on a Jamb tree for drying. There are persons in Shirdi, who have actually seen this, and who have testified to this fact.
    • Ordinary Dhauti is done by a moistened piece of linen, 3 inches broad 22 1/2ft. long. This piece is swallowed. It remains in the stomach for about half an hour to react there. Then, it is taken out. But Baba’s Dhauti was quite unique and extraordinary.
    • 2.) KHANDA YOGA: In this practice, Baba extracted the various limbs from His body. He left them separately at different places in the Masjid.
    • Once, a gentleman went to the Masjid, and saw the limbs of Baba lying separately at separate places. He was much terrified; and he first thought of running to the village officers, and informing them of Baba being hacked to pieces and murdered. He thought that he would be held responsible, as he was the first informant and knew something of the affair. So he kept silent. But the next day when he went to the masjid, he was surprised. Baba was hale, healthy, and sound, as before. He thought, that what he had seen the previous day, was only a dream.
    • 3) Baba was an adept of all the margas. (Path) . His chief marga was Bhakti marga. The special form of it is described as Guru Marga in the ‘Guru Gita’.
    • Jnana and siddhis, including yoga siddhis, came in the wake of his Guru bhakti.

    Baba had no particular marga, as the yoga marga etc. But if any person came to grief in his yoga marga, he could give relief. One yoga sadhaka had bleeding piles and came to Baba and got relief at Baba’s hands.

    • 4) Baba said, ‘Life is lived in vain if no yoga, yaga, tapas, or jnana be achieved’. He asked a devotee, ‘Will you sit idle merely eating your food? Have Saburi, that is patience and courage’.
    • Baba set the example himself of tapas. He kept awake the whole night, lying on a small narrow plank making Namasmaran, keeping his eyes open, and holding his mind in trance.
    • 5) What took place was the Baba’s conversion of water into oil. Somehow oil came into the lamp in a sufficient quantity, from Water to burn all night. Now this is not explicable to ordinary men with their notions of chemistry and physics.
    • Water is not converted into oil in a straightforward manner. Castor and other plants absorb water and combine it with their ingredients. They then produce oil in the seeds of their fruits. Without any such process, Baba was able to fill his lamps with oil.
    • 6) We take Baba’s first achievement at Selu of reviving the dead man with no other remedy or mantras than the throwing of his Guru’s pada duti on the corpse with a prayer for revival: or His taking water at his Shirdi Masjid and filling his lamps with that water for feeding the wicks with a prayer, we find his concentration on his Guru God is the only means.
    • 7) Baba was always thinking of God. Serving God is serving man and serving creation. He had evidently no need to determine the time of his death by noting the Arishta or omens or ripeness of his karma, according to Patanjali Yoga Sutra No. 23 for all knowledge to him was an open book.
    • His undertaking on behalf of his devotees to give them happy and blessed deaths, e.g., his promise to H. S. Dixit to carry him in a vimana, were fulfilled by him with remarkable accuracy of Dixit’s death, through his divine power.
    • 8) G.S. Khaparde was a highly cultured Sanskrit scholar and had evidently read yoga shastra. He has referred to certain instances and experiences of his in his diary in the year 1911-12, while he stayed at Shirdi.
    • In his Diary, he repeatedly mentions that Baba cast Yogic glances at certain persons. These individuals were immediately filled with a wave of bliss. This wave overpowered all their other mental activities. It kept them immersed in bliss for hours without break. Khaparde experienced such bliss after a yogic glance from Baba. This state lasted for three or four hours. He has noted this in his diary.
    • 9) Baba’s yoga sampoorna state enabled him to keep several people in such happy state, as they themselves have recorded in their experiences.
    • Mrs. Tarabai Sadasiva Tarkhad says that though she had physical pains in her body and mental worries, life was quite miserable. Yet when she went and sat before Baba, that very moment she felt steeped in Lethe. All her anxieties, pains, and cares, both physical and mental, vanished. Till her departure from Dwarakamayee, she was enjoying a happy state.

    What is this siddhi called? Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Srimad Bhagavata, llth Skanda, 15th Chapter, amongst other books, give a list of siddhis attained by yoga processes. What Baba did would be called ‘Yatha Sankalpa Samsiddhih’ and ‘Apratihata Ajna.’ This means producing whatever one wants by mere will power or supreme command.

    Srimad Bhagavata says ‘When one gets laya in God, all powers, all knowledge, all wisdom, all perfection, that are termed divine, shine forth from such a person’. Baba was perfect in his concentration on God. Therefore in the above quoted instances as in the other innumerable instances to be found in the Gospel of Sai Baba (i.e. BCS) or other books on Baba, the powers exercised by Baba were the result of his laya in God, that is, they were really divine powers

    SSSC Ch-7

  • Sathya Narayana Poojah

    Sathya Narayana Poojah

    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

  • Why Udhi /Ash is important, even now?

    Why Udhi /Ash is important, even now?

    SSSC Ch 33 says

    It is well-known that Baba took Dakshina from all. Out of the amount thus collected, He spent a lot on charity. He purchased fuel with the balance left with Him.

    This fuel He threw in the Dhuni – the sacred fire, which he kept ever burning. The ash from this fire was called Udi. It was freely distributed to the devotees at the time of their departure from Shirdi.

    What did Baba teach or hint by this Udi? Baba taught by His Udi that all the visible phenomena in the universe are as transient as the ash.

    Our bodies composed of wood or matter of the five elements will fall down. After all their enjoyments are over, they will be reduced to ashes.

    Baba distributed Udi to the devotees. This was to remind them that their bodies will be reduced to ashes.

    Baba also taught by the Udi that the Brahman is the only Reality. He taught that the universe is ephemeral. No one in this world, be he a son, father or wife, is really ours. We come here (in this world) alone and we have to go out alone.

    It was found and is even now found out, that the Udi cured many physical and mental maladies. However, Baba wanted to din into the devotee’s ears the principles of discrimination between the Unreal and the Real. He emphasized non-attachment for the Unreal, by His Udi and Dakshina.

    The former (Udi) taught us discrimination and the latter (Dakshina) taught us non-attachment. Unless we have these two things, it is not possible for us to cross over the sea of the mundane existence. So Baba asked for and took Dakshina.

    While the devotees took leave, He gave Udi as Prasad. He besmeared some of it on the Bhaktas’ foreheads. He placed His boon-conferring hand on their heads.

    So much about the spiritual implication of Udi. It had also its material significance.

    It conferred health, prosperity, freedom from anxiety, and many other worldly gains. So the Udi has helped us to gain both our ends – material as well as spiritual.

  • BABA and JESUS

    BABA and JESUS

    One common feature of both Sai’s and Jesus’ lives is the reliance on miracles. People needed miracles to be convinced of their divine nature.

    They could only demonstrate their divinity by performing these miracles. Miracles are a concession that divinity allows for human blindness.

    *When Jesus said to Nilko … ‘I saw you under the fig tree before Thomas talked to you there.’; The addressee immediately concluded, ‘Surely, thou art the Son of God.’

    Jesus said that he would see more wonderful things indicative of divine power . Again when and unable to rise from his bed, saying ‘ Arise , take up thy bed and walk ‘; and the man with palsy rose up and walked. The conclusion was drawn that the miracle was a token of Jesus’s divinity as also

    *when Jesus cured a man of leprosy

    Some reader might desire to know whether similar incidents happened in Sai’s history .

    *First about palsy , a Marwadi had a young daughter of eight years or so with paralyzed legs . She could not walk to Baba, and therefore had to be carried in a chair, palki or stretcher.

    She remained with Baba for three days. Suddenly her legs, which she could not bend at all till then, were stretched out and the second day she could stand. Thereafter, before she left Shirdi on the third day, she could walk back.

    No application, medical or surgical, was made to her. This cure was purely by Baba’s power with his blessings, offered with udhi applied to her.

    *There was once a patient. He had been suffering for years from inflammation of an ulcer in his stomach or bowels. Because of this, he could not eat any food. He was brought to Baba.

    Baba ordered sweetmeats to be purchased; and brought and placed before the patient. Strange to say, the man was able to eat them. This cure also was purely by Baba’s power blessings.