"Sai, you are the Universal Father,You are the Universal Mother,Kindly confer every dependant of you with all the Four aspects or goals of auspiciousness ....
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Dear Saibandhus,
The world we live in is a complicated one. After
coming into this world, one should be free from
the clutches of Maya. When Maya gains power, God
manifests Himself in age after age to save His beloved
devotees from its powerful clutches. This is the
mission of the Lord and for Baba His one of the
forms; this is the most vital one. Holding Baba's
feet we are sure to cross any trouble in the path
and finally merge with the Almighty, the highest
status possible for any soul. Rare are the sadhus
and saints who after attaining God vision, strive
for the welfare of other people but Baba with His
infinite love promoted His devotees also this status.
Sai was originally formless. He assumed a form only
for the sake of devotee's easy recognition and welfare.
As discussed above, the main mission of Baba is processing of souls for final salvation or merger with the Almighty. This is not a single operation; it may take so many births according to the Almighty's will. As the custodian or guide for the soul for enlightenment, to accomplish this goal, naturally Baba's responsibility continues. Sai Baba often said that "Let My man be at any distance, a thousand koss away from Me, he will be drawn to Shirdi like a sparrow, with a thread tied to its feet". These words simply reflect the same opinion as stated above about Baba's mission. Sri Narasimha Swamiji has considered in the book titled "Life of Sai Baba" the following unique features of our sadguru Sainath; In Baba's school there are infinite number of students but they have only one teacher i.e., Baba.
Almost in all other schools of thought there prevail
systematic propaganda to influence people to adopt
their policies. In Baba's margam, no such propaganda
is present. The actual propaganda takes place from
person to person due to the heart-felt experiences
of them. With the abundant grace showered by Baba,
the first person crosses over his difficulties and
is switched over from sorrow to happiness. His overflowing
gratitude to Baba impels him to influence some other
person in his original situation also to put faith
on Baba and have relief like himself and this continues
as a chain. In the present modern material world,
without purposes nobody follows anybody and worship
him. Devotees might have known that almost in the
entire globe, there is no place where a Sai mandir
is not existing. This is naturally due to the impact
of Baba. Baba is even now active and even now responds
to the genuine prayer of devotees and this is an
eternal process. Thereby the question of time whether
ancient, modern or future does not arise with Baba's
mission.
This is why you might have observed in Sai Satcharita
in various places to devotees like Nanasaheb Chandorkar,
Shama, and Mrs.Khaparde etc Baba was mentioning
His relationships with them in previous births.
Even during Baba's lifetime, even afterwards you
can observe so much learned people like agnihotris,
doctors, lawyers etc from all walks of life, eventhough
in some cases there was some initial aversion, after
coming to Baba's fold all became so much attached
to Him like iron to a magnet. The universal dharma
never changes, but the presentation only differs.
That is why some totally merged devotees with Baba
like Sri Sivanesan Swamiji of Shirdi treat Sri Sai
Satcharita to be the modern summarised version of
Gurucharitra, Bhagavad Gita and other holy scriptures
so that with Baba's talk and actions, in this modern
fast moving world, this dharma can be imbibed and
practised easily. One very good example of Baba's
message to the modern world you can verify from
chapter 38 of Sai Satcharita. The learned Sanskrit
scholar in Nanasaheb Chandorkar thought that Baba
was not having Sanskrit knowledge. Using a proper
situation Baba analysed word by word a shloka from
Bhagavad Gita, brought out its real meaning to the
astonishment of Nana and brought down his pride
over it.
The entire world is God's creation. With modern
science so many unimaginable advancements man is
able to achieve. But has he considered the fact
that he himself is the creation of the great creator
God? Take for example himself. From the mother's
womb with a single connecting tube is not a nice
baby with so many organs and mechanisms developed?
Who is that great and greater engineer who designed
such a complicated programme? Even after descending
on earth from babyhood to old age upto death so
many changes and activities take place with the
same baby. With what wireless communication system,
locating the control center at which place the great
wirepuller is doing His job simultaneously actuating
infinite number of creatures; can anybody say? Words
fail, only body bows in reverence.
A modern doctor should see a greater and greater
doctor in God. An engineer should consider a supreme
engineer in Him and so on. Sir Isaac Newton, the
father of laws of motion when honored for his contribution
with knighthood stated like this, " I am like a
child picking pebbles on the sea shore" echoing
the same opinion stated above declaring the fact
that what man had developed is infinitesimal compared
to what has been created by God. Baba being God
Himself and in that status it is His dharma to save
even a modern man just like a mother taking care
of her child, adopting Himself to the present conditions.
However modern we may be, we should remember that
Sai is watching over us and it is only through His
grace that we can avoid obstacles. One very good
example of Baba's omniscience is proved in case
of Dr D. M. Mulky as cited out in the book "Devotees'
Experiences of Sri Sai Baba". Mulky was posted to
Bombay in the government service. His brother was
devotee of Baba. A disease with his nephew not cured
by modern doctors was cured by mere glance and udi
of Baba and Dr. Muliky's attention was drawn towards
Him. Inspite of many obstacles his atheistic attitude
changed and he was converted into a staunch devotee
of Baba. Is it not showing Baba's impact even in
modern times?
Once upon a time the notion was that for merging
with God an aspirant should remain out of the society
and do his sadhana. But Baba in his own way without
much exhibition and exertion taught so many devotees
how in this very worldly life without moving out
of it they can attain salvation. Kakasaheb Dixit,
Mahalsapathi, Megha may be worth mentioning here.
So Baba's impact on the souls allotted to Him is
even now the same. In the present fast moving world
it is not brought to our knowledge that there is
something more precious than the material world.
One by one man wants to aquire more and more comforts
and at a particular stage when he realizes they
are not going to be permanent for him his energetic
days would have passed. The precious human life
instead of being utilized for the highest imperishable
goal of salvation would have been a just a matter
appear and disappear. So without the least delay
even while having worldly dealings we should have
some concern about our own souls. Discriminating
between the perishable and imperishable we should
strive to attain oneness with God. For this, the
ever active Baba ready to profusely shower His grace
should be fully exploited in every possible manner.
If this is not done the loss is to our souls and
not to Him. Let us exploit this opportunity to markout
the additional specialities of Baba to be described
below.
The treatment of Baba to persons nay souls is not
universal. Compared to a physician a specialist
in a particular faculty collects data of a patient
from every angle and based on that in a single shot
he prescribes the appropriate medicine with the
best results and no side effects. Like that the
instructions given by Baba, the doctor of doctors
to various devotees for their welfare were and are
different from person to person. For example let
us consider the case of Radhabai Deshmukh (chapters
18 &19) and Mrs.Khaparde (chapter 27) of Satcharita.
Smt. Radhabai was fasting to have upadesh from Baba.
He consoled her without giving any upadesh. But
in the case of Mrs.Khaparde even without asking
He advised her to chant "Rajarama" which
is nothing but an upadesh. What is the meaning of
this? Baba's consideration should have been that
it was not appropriate that Radhabai should be given
some upadesh whereas Mrs.Khaparde was fully qualified
to have it immediately and that is why it was given
even without asking. Devotees who had gone through
the book "Khaparde's Diary" might have read the
last few pages in which by the impact of Baba's
grace even after knowing her approaching death Mrs.Khaparde
without the least fear, after settling all her property
to her successors and after doing 'Patipooja', had
a peaceful demise with definite signs of mukti.
So even now Baba's mission i.e. assessing the maturity
of souls allotted to Him for the final deliverance
and guiding them towards the goal continues and
in that respect the positive impact of Baba will
be continuously there, suitably adopting itself
according to the maturity of souls, situation and
time.
As long as Universe exists its dharma never changes and in establishing it Baba's undertaking also remains unaltered.
-Be with Baba and Be always Benefited-
On the infinite earth, the merciful Creator has provided limited number of sacred spots to easily and immediately develop access to Him and charge oneself with His boon bestowing grace to saturation, and be the recipient of worldly benefits of perishable nature and also spiritual benefits of imperishable nature, to the highest level of merging with Him.
With Nirantara Sainama Sankirtan at the Sai Mandir within it, Dattaguru Bhandara is probably the Sai organization which is open all the 24 hours in a day. In addition to the round the clock Nama Sankirtan the daily routine adopted by the trust.
