Shti Sai Baba's Grace (December 1975) by S.Thyagarajan

September 14, 2005

Such a feeling of total dedication could be instilled in you by Avatare

Purushas only and the Great Mystic of Shirdi Sri Sai Baba was one such. He

instilled Bhakthi in everyone – be it a Hindu, Muslim, Parsee, or

Christian – poor or rich, male or female. He had no distinction of caste,

creed, colour or calling. He never professed tohave any Supernatural Powers

but every act of His proved beyond doubt that He was not a person endowed

with supernatural powers but he was another Avatara Purusha, who had come

down to earth to help mankind and make them feel the essentiality of having

a Guru and the essense of Bhakti in the right manner and lead them to God

through a peaceful and smooth path all the time discharging their day to day

duties without immersing oneself completely in material benefits. He lived,

guided thousands of devotees who came to Him for advice and drew innumerable

ones from far off places not through direct communication but through

helping them tide over crises and making them realize later that it was He

who had helped them. He never blew any Manthra into anyones ears nor did he

advise undertaking fast, doing penance, changing to orchre robes or

renouncing family life. He advised everyone to stick on to family life with

the singular condition that one should take it as one of the primary duties

to raise raise and run a family but never take it as the end of everything.

The goal should be God Realisation. But it is not possible to reach the goal

after finishing one’s earthly duties towards onself and one’s family. So He

preached the easiet of all Sadhanaas- that is seeing God in everything not

only in human beings but in animals, insects, trees and flowers so one may

not try or even think to do any harm to anything since it will be harming

God Himself. Service to mankind is service to God. Service should be

sincere and truthful and anything offered should be spontaneous and come

from the bottom of one's heart. Such a service to mankind will definitely

take you nearer and nearer to God and ultimately the day will dawn when you

and God will become inseparable-viz. you become one with Him.

To be contd....

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