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OCTOBER 2012
PRABUDHHA JIVAN
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Thus HE Was, Thus HE Spoke :
SAI BABA
From the far away exotic world of Konya and the food, after which he would mix everything in a clay jar, inner realm of Rumi, let us come back closer home to keep that clay jar out in the open , so a few animals our very own beloved Shirdi Sai Baba.If Rumi would take some morsels from it after which he would epitomised love, Sai represents compassion. Every touch it. This was both his victory over the sense of taste believer has his/her personal acknowledgement of his and his immesurable compassion. 'karuna.' Devotees swear by 'Sai Charitra' that if one Another incident was about oil. Sai baba besides starts reading it on a thursday and finished it by the food, used to beg for a little ghee/tel to light the lamps. following thursday, a boon will be granted. Some see diyas). Once the villagers did not give him oil to light Sai in their mind's eye, other's in their night dreams but his lantern. Unperturbed he went to the mosque, filled Sai ki Nagri is fragrant with stories of his compassion. his clay jar with water and filled the water in the lamp
So who is Sai Baba? I use the present tense and it burned as brightly as if filled with oil. This comes because a 'Sai Bhakt' will vouch that Sai still lives in to a special part of most saints. Because the pudgals Shirdi, or in their hearts.
in the aatma pradesh have started to diffuse, the words He taught us 'shradha' and 'saburi - the basics for we use for them is 'nirmal.'and in 'Nirmal' souls. siddhis. a happy life and a spiritual life - Have faith and have or abilities to perform what we call miracles becomes patience.
natural, and yet, most of the real saints keep these Sai Baba was a 'saint' in the early nineteenth century. siddhis to themselves and rarely use it. Very little is known of his origins. It is believed that he His miracles are innumerable. That was his destined left home at a young age and may have been a disciple way to convert devotees from the worldly way to the of a Sufi Fakir (A Muslim mystic.) Why did he choose spiritual.. His way of curing were bizarre to the normal Shirdi as his home later is still a mystery but the days human being. He was like a local hakim but he rarely after he reached Shirdi are all frozen in the oral tradition gave herb concoctions- usually he gave bhasm or ash of the Bhakts.
from his fire which used to invariably work. But at other When he first arrived, the villagers thought he was times he has done things like putting his own hand in a lunatic. He did not fit in any concept of a holy man. the fire to save a child who had fallen in a forge. He called on both Bhagwan and Allah. But gradually At the same time, and this is the final point of him in his divine powers as a healer and his never ending this essay is that whenever he was performing a compassion made people realise that he was no miracle,or curing an ill, he would say, 'Allah acha karega' ordinary man.
or 'Allah Mallik hai' or 'the fakir will not allow me to do Here I would once again call upon the philosophy of that' or 'i can only do what the Fakir orders me to.' and 'Anekantvad' while looking at Sai's miracles. And that I shall end this with just this,,, that saints anywhere be is the beautiful blend of one's karma and divine grace. it chaitanya prabhu, or Mirabai or Narsi Mehta or Can anyone, human or saint take away one's vedniya Compassionate Sai baba - they are all always under karma or antray karma? No and yes. No because Guru Aagnya.' which is a fundamental aspect, maybe nothing or noone can give or take from anyone and in their cases, this direct connect to Allah and in other yet the divine eye, divine grace can diffuse the biggest cases, pratyaksh guru, but even in a previous lifetime, catastrophies.And in it lies our understanding Sai baba's it is said that Sai Baba's guru was from Shirdi which is Karuna.
why he chose that place to kind of repay back the I am going to briefly speak about three incidents or "Karuna' shown on him. characteristics which throw light upon this higher being. To those who offer love and faith to Sai, Sai Baba
For all the sixty years he was there, one thing returns blessings in great measure. He remains one of remained upto his death was to go out everyday to India's most loved saints. His grace ever present. beg for food. I use the word beg but it was more like
O RESHMA JAIN our Digambar Sadhu( except the quantity would differ)
The Narrators where he would he would go to a few houses and collect
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