Vyree Bhakti and Sai Baba (contd...)

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In both the above cases, Baba the Antaryami, or powerful thought controller,

helped the original innate goodness of the person to rebel against the

unnatural and unreasonble hatred, the foreign element that was superposed

on it; and the result was vigrous Bhakti shooting or shrouting out of what

looked like adverse or unpromising soil.

 

Perhaps the same explanation may be given for tha not infrequent cases of

persons who heartily disliked Baba on the score of his being a

Mahmadean(as he was long supposed to be ) being turned to devotees. The

best instance of this is late Upasani Maharaj or Kasinath Govinda Upasani

Satri as he was first known. Sri K.G.U.had some serious disease of the

respiratory organs that threatened his life. He was going about in search of

Hindu Yogis who could remedy this ailment contracted by him in the course of

his practice of Pranayama. When he was told that he should bow at the foot

of a Mahomedan (as the very name Sai Baba indicated a Mahomedan). It

was with great difficulty that he was persuaded by his well-wishers to go

and see Baba. At his visit, he was not impressed w ith the nature of Saai

Baba and went away saying that he could not at all return in 8 days as

required by Baba. But Sri Sai, out os his kindness, banished on the minds

of all persons that surrounded K.G.U.Sastri compelled him to visit Sai Baba

on the 8th day his departure. None was more surprised at this revisit more

than Sastri Maharaj himself. Finding himself no match for Sai Baba he

agreed to stay on at Shirdi for 4 years- though such prolonged stay was

all and wormwood to his soul. Again and again he tried to warggle out of

his promise. But he stayed on and had to stay on for a little over three

years. His former dislike for Sai Baba was changed to reverence, expressed

so well by the Mahimna Stotra that he composed about his newly accepted

Gurudeva.

 

 

(Source Sai Sudha April 1944)