Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

On my next visit to Shirdi a month or so later, Baba said to me: “Gulab

(rose) has come to your house.” I went back and found that my wife had

recently delivered a male child. Believing that to be the “Gulab”(rose)

mentioned by Baba, the boy was named “Gulab”.

 

One day a lizard on the wall of the mosque ticked. A devotee asked Sai what

the omen was. The Master said that the creature was happy that her sister

was coming from Aurangabad! The devotee was puzzled. After sometime, a man

came from Aurangabad on horse-back. He took out a bag to fetch pulses for

the horse and shook off the dust on it. A lizard fell out of it and climbed

up the wall. The two creatures met and played together!

 

When Nanasaheb Bere and his friends sought Sai’s permission to return, he

said “Start at once and proceed fast!” they started in two tongas. Bere

hurried the driver to proceed faster. His friends followed slowly in the

other tonga as they thought that there was plenty of time. Their tonga was

attacked by highwaymen whereas Bere escaped. One has to implicitly obey the

guru’s order, both in spiritual and worldly matters.

Baba’s omniscience, includes his accurate knowledge of the entire past of

his devotees extending to their previous lives. The sceptical ones might

suppose that Baba’s reference to past lives of his devotees might be part

of a mystification and an awe-inspiring stunt of wicked fakir. But such a

view only reveals a deep-rooted blindness on our part regarding the other

aspects of Sai Baba’s greatness and especially of his virtues like

humility. Then we need remember that after all, modern scientific research

too in the field of parapsychology, like that of Prof. Ian Stevenson, tends

to confirm the truth of this phenomenon. And such classics on practical

yoga as Patanjali’s yoga aphorisms contain specific spiritual practices by

which one could acquire such occult powers.

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org