Sai Baba the Master

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What a source of immense gratitude would it be to a devotee who realizes

that Baba had been watching him by his omniscient gaze all through his

past, long before he even heard of such a one like Sai Baba! This would

assure his devotees that in Baba they have a competent one to judge the

higher justice that underlies the seeming caprices of fortune they may

undergo in their lives and thus it would enable them to rest content when

he chooses to allow his devotees to undergo certain of their hardships

while relieving them of some other. This kind of omniscience reveals that

the possessor of it intimately knows the will of God both far ahead of its

actual manifestation and long after it too. There can be no greater safety

to a devotee than to resort to such a one. Now we shall notice a few such

incidents.

Balwant Nachne visited Shirdi somewhere about 1915. One night, at about 8

p.m., he went to Dwarakamai and asked Sai Baba “What japa shall I make?”

Baba said, “Go to Devpur (a village tweny miles from Kopergaon) and worship

the stones there which your ancestors worshipped.” On his return he asked

his father about it. His father told him that their ancestors worshipped

some images at Devpur for several generations. Further, Nachne’s ancestor

by five degrees, Baba Prayag had no children till he was sixty and he

resorted to a saint, Baba Bhagwat ( a Disciple of Saint Eknath Maharaj) at

Triambak. He was blessed with a son within one year. The saint Baba Bhagwat

took the child, hardly one year old, to Devpur and gave it a handwritten

copy of The Jnaneswari. Ever since, it became a tradition for every

descendent of the family to go to Devpur and take initiation from a member

of that guru’s lineage. All this was at the heart of Baba’s crisp reply to

Nachne’s question.

Nachne did not follow Baba’s instruction till 1927 i.e., till 5 years

after Baba’s mahasamadhi. In 1927, Nachne happened to see a great saint by

name Nanu Maharaj. The saint was hardly 15 years old! On seeing Nanchne he

asked him, “Have you gone to Devpur? Surprised at the pin-pointed accuracy

of the question he had to admit he hadn’t done so and he also explained the

reasons for it. Nanu Maharaj replied, “What if there is no one older than

you in the lineage of your ancestoral guru? My own guru is younger than I.

His name is Doipode. The name of your guru is Bhagwat.” Nachne wondered how

young the guru of Nanu Maharaj could be. The latter promised to show him

his guru. Soon after Nachne went to Devpur and got initiated by young

Bhagwat. A year after that he came to know that Nanu Maharaj was to visit

Bombay and went there. Nanu Maharaj showed him his eight-year-old guru

Sripada Doipode. This incident reveals that Sai Baba’s knowledge of Nachne’

s past extended to several generations and the direction is borne out by

the words of another great saint Nanu Maharaj.

 

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