Sai Baba

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Sai Baba

 

Satya Sai Baba, a small, chubby Hindu with a halo of black crinkly

hair, is regarded by countless people as a miracle worker and a god

incarnate. In India there are now 3000 centres and 5 universities to

promote his teachings, and books could be filled with feats he has

performed. Some of them defy belief.

 

He is known to have materialised out of thin air almost anything

from a diamond to a deerskin. For children he will produce flowers

and sweets, for the hungry, food: for his followers religious idols,

books and medallions. Yet the bright red robe he wears has no

pockets and has narrow wrists so no one has been able to explain how

he does it.

 

These miracles are only a small part of his life, in which he is

said to have healed thousands, brought people back from the brink of

death and given the impression that he has limitless knowledge and

wisdom. In 40 years he has risen from being a village urchin to

being a potent influence on modern thought, teaching that 'there is

nothing within the human grasp than love'.

 

Sai Baba was born in India on November 23 1926, and was a normal,

robust boy who liked to run with the village children. His

popularity was assured by his ability to produce sweets from an

empty bag. Apart from bringing home beggars for his mother to feed,

he showed no other signs of sainthood. And his father thought he

would make a good political figure.

 

What happened when he was 13, gave indications that he was going to

be spectacularly different. Out with friends, he suddenly jumped

into the air with a loud cry of pain, holding his right foot. it was

thought he had been stung by a scorpion.. Nothing more happened to

him, however, the next night he fell to the ground in a swoon. When

he came round, he was a different person, quoting Sanskrit texts far

beyond his knowledge.

 

His parents thought their young Satya (as he was then called) had

been possessed by a demon, and called in an exorcist who very nearly

killed him with various treatments. The boy did not complain.

Instead he sought to please his parents with a demonstration of his

new powers. With a wave of his hand he produced sweetmeats and

flowers from no-where. This was too much for his father, who got a

hefty stick and faced his son and asked 'what are you?' Satya

replied, 'I am Sai Baba.'

 

His family did not know what he meant, but various educated men in

the village did, the original Sai Baba, had been a Hindu holy man

from the village of Shirdi, who had performed many miracles in his

life. He had died in 1918 but promised that he would come again.

 

The psychic phenomenon increased, though he regarded them as small

tasks compared to the spiritual teaching he had to do.

 

One of the most remarkable stories of his healing power involves a

factory owner, who has gastric ulcers, the man was given a room and

left there. His condition got worse and he went into a coma, but Sai

Baba did nothing but tell the man's wife, 'Don't worry, everything

will be alright.'

 

Instead of getting better the man became very cold, turned blue and

stiff, and then went cold, and the breathing became labored. Sai

Baba was unperturbed and the man's wife visited him every day. By

the third day the man was corpse-like, and his wife asked for the

body to be taken away. Sai Baba told her to have no fear once more.

 

Going into the room he found the family weeping around the man, Baba

told them to leave, and he remained with the man for a few minutes,

when he asked for the family to come back in, the man was sitting up

smiling. The ulcers were cured, and they never came back.

 

He claims that he does not read and that he was inattentive at

school, but he can quote from the Bible, the Koran, Socrates, Samuel

Johnson, Kant and Karl Marx.

 

He teaches that 'the purpose of life is to grow in love' and says 'I

have come to repair the highway to God. I have not come on behalf of

any sect or creed or religion..

 

His primary aim in his present incarnation is, he says, to lead the

world away from violence and hatred towards compassion. To avert the

nuclear holocaust. But to do that he may have to be born again, A

triple incarnation to save the world from destruction was forecast

in the Upanishads 5,600 years ago: if Shirdi Sai Baba was the first,

and Satya Sai Baba the second, he will have to be born again as

Prema Sai.

 

Sources: The Worlds Greatest Mystics and Psychics

 

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