Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

Chennabasappa sought my protection and I assured him of it. Owing to hatred

Veerabhadrappa is born as the snake and the timid Chennabasappa is born as

a frog. True to my pledge, I have rescued the latter now.” Sai stands by

his word to the very end of time.

Sai Baba’s Daily Life

As days passed devotees started streaming to Shirdi in evergrowing numbers.

The village was fast blossoming into a famous center of pilgrimage. As

gifts and presentations flowed in, the pomp and ceremony of Sai worship

were fast growing. But Sai Baba’s life of a fakir remained calm and

undisturbed. He never allowed his personal life to be in any way altered.

And therein is the saint’s spiritual glory. We might glimpse at his daily

life.

 

I In the morning Sai Baba used to get up quite early and he first attended

to his prayers. At such times Baba generally used to be near the dhuni or

the sacred fire, facing south, leaning on a post, doing something which was

difficult for others to perceive clearly. For, at such moments people were

not allowed to go near him, not even within a range of fifty yards. The

servants and attendants could carry on their usual service of cleaning

things or replenishing the fuel in the dhuni or sacred fire. He used to

mutter words like “Yade Haq” but they were seldom clear or loud enough to

be overheard at such a distance. Then he would arrange the fuel in the

sacred fire and, sitting before it, he would go on telling his devotees to

what distant places he went overnight in subtle yogic body and what he had

done to his devotees there. His statements were found to be literally true

on verification.

 

At times he would talk of the after-death experiences of a departing soul

whom he had helped on the previous night.

 

As befitting the rules of conduct ordained to a celibate fakir, Baba did

not wash himself except on every third day. And when he did, people noticed

what extraordinary control he had over his physical frame. He went to a

well near a banyan tree and washed his mouth and body. Some lepers and

other patients often approached him and besprinkled themselves with the

water that he spat out. And their faith was amply rewarded.

 

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