"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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As one goes closer to the sun he
becomes warmer. Similar to that when one contemplates
on Sadguru Sainath and develops more intimacy, with the
additional grace radiated from the Great Master, wonderful
spiritual feast is enjoyed by the concerned devotee. When
a delicious dish is shared along with others it gives
more happiness. Like that this web page is intended to
share such spiritual feast along with Sai devotees visiting
this web site.
Sainama Sankirtan:
For anything name and form are inseparable. When you just mention a name, a mental figure is produced immediately that of the object associated with the name. When God is originally formless, just for the sake of His devotee-children, time to time He comes down on earth in various forms with different names attached to them. Not only that, He deputes His representatives namely saints to enlighten the people about the perishable nature of the worldly life and to achieve the most glorious aim of merging their souls with Himself, the process being named salvation or mukthi. After this the concerned soul will be totally merged with God with nomore separate identity and will be immersed in eternal joy.
Unless a highly intimate contact is developed between God and a particular soul how this merger is possible? For his we should make God happily reside in our mind and atma. While various sadhanas (spiritual exercises) are prescribed for this by great saints, Namasankirtan (Namajapa) i.e. chanting repeatedly God's name is prescribed as the infallible sadhana for Kaliyug. In our present fast moving world practicing other sadhanas are difficult and simply chanting God's name is so easy, suitable to all conditions, men or women irrespective of caste, creed etc. That is why it was very much liked, recommended and practiced by Sadguru Sainath of Shirdi.
When anybody goes to a new place he tries to stay in some
place suitable to his nature. God is having no attributes
or qualities and naturally if He is to reside in our atma
(soul) it should be perfectly pure with no attributes
or qualities. Though our atma is pure by its original
nature, with the association of mind, sense etc. it develops
an impure condition. God's name is the purifier for the
contaminated atma. As we go on chanting and chanting God's
name associated with any of His genuine forms, gradually
everything associated with our atma i.e. body, mind, speech
and action all become so pure, washing away all impurities
such as kama, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya that
without invitation Almighty comes and resides in our atma
and the person associated with it becomes divinely i.e.,
a genuine representative of God. A nice illustration of
this is Sri Valmiki, the writer of "Sri Ramayanam".
Originally he was a bandit in forest and after getting
enlightened by Narada about the vagueness of His attachments,
switches over to ceaseless chanting the name of 'Rama'.
Even in this see how God's grace is. He could not be taught
to chant God's name properly as 'Rama'. Using his shrewdness
Narada made him to chant 'mara' which produced the needed
effect of chanting the nama as "Rama" and ultimately he
was raised to the level of writing himself the great voluminous
glory of Lord Rama (Ramayana).
Impact of Baba on Modern World:
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 to attain 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.
Om Karmadhvamsine Namaha:
This is the 51st one in Sai ashtothram, which means, "I
bow to Sai who is the destroyer of the effects of all
the past deeds i.e. karma". Every being has to face the
results of their past actions whether good or bad. In
the creation of God for any action there is a reaction.
For example in a stand still water if you throw a stone,
rings are formed. Like that, for any action by any system
of the Universe there will be a reaction. As far as each
soul is concerned, this reaction is called karma. This
effect has to be nullified before the soul gets salvation
or merger with the Almighty, who is free from attributes.
Till then according to the previous actions of Karma,
birth after birth the soul experiences pleasures and pains
mixed together. It is the universal opinion that karma
cannot be destroyed and necessarily has to be enjoyed.
But Almighty in full capacity as the Creator, Protector,
Destroyer and Baba who is Almighty Himself, with His infinite
love towards His bhakthas has proved that He can wipe
out, undertake, modify and prescribe to wipe out this
difficult karma, for which we are having instances or
references in Satcharitra and other concerned books.
Sri B.V. Narasimha Swamiji, the chosen apostle of Baba
has composed the Sai ashtothram. In one of the satsangs
in 1995 with devotee attached to Dattaguru Bhandara Trust,
Pujyasri Sivanesan Swamiji of Shirdi had a discussion
about this particular nama "Om Karmadhvamsine Nahama"
and he narrated one incident in support of this, which
is given now. One lady from Hyderabad by name Amruthavalli
was seriously affected with T.B and at the suggestion
of one Kusabhuva was taken to Shirdi in her hopeless condition,
to get it cured by Baba Himself. She was placed in Sathe
wada and her relatives met Baba at Chavadi and narrated
her case. Baba gave such an assurance that they need not
worry about her and He would take care of her. Again when
they came late in the night to see the lady she was already
dead. With no other go they were thinking of how to dispose
her body in the morning. To their astonishment before
dawn that the lady was alive again in somewhat healthy
condition and they were totally perplexed. The lady herself
narrated her experience that in the night, she was dragged
by two ugly persons and her life actually left her body.
But, Baba with His Satka fought with those demon like
persons and reinstated her life in the body. Eventhough
it was the first time for them to go to Shirdi that lady
described every moment of Baba's action in Chavadi and
afterwards it was confirmed that what she said was fully
true. According to her bad karmas, she had to die or already
dead. For her to again revive with life, is it not karmadhvamsam
- destruction of karma? One thing in this juncture we
have to observe. Perfect saints in whom Almighty dwells
are having the same capacity of performing any deeds like
the Almighty Himself. There is such a subtle arrangement
among component systems of the universe, the creation
of Almighty, that in addition to time, location and other
aspects, a perfect synchronization is prevailing concerned
with each and every activity going on that even a small
disturbance made at one point in this system may have
a great resultant reaction with the entire universal system
which may be felt or not. So, saints honouring this universal
synchronization or arrangement of God eventhough there
are capable of, won't interfere with it. But, in certain
cases when souls attached to them are suffering to the
core and the same take asylum in the saints with total
surrender, with their infinite motherly love they decide
to violate this rule and interfere with the system or
in other words they undertake to wipeout, modify or prescribe
means for souls to come out of the situation i.e. karma.
