Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

9-12-1911 : “I went to the musjid and sat long, listening to the things

said there. Sayin Maharaj was in a pleasant mood. I took my hukka (smoking

kit) there and Sayin Maharaj had a smoke out of it. He looked wonderfully

beautiful at arti time, but dismissed every one very soon after it. He said

he would come to dine with us. He calls my wife ‘Ajibai’. On returning to

our lodging we learnt that Mr.Dixit’s daughter who was ill passed away. The

deceased dreamt a few days ago that Sayin Maharaj kept her under the neem

tree here. Sai Maharaj also said yesterday that the girl was dead. We sat

talking about the sad event. The child was only seven years old. I went and

saw her mortal remains. They were very beautiful and the expression on her

face after death was peculiarly charming. It reminded me of the picture of

Madonna that I saw in England”.

 

11-12-1911 : “We visited Sayin Maharaj both as he went out and after he

returned. He gave me chilim (smoking pipe) very often and grapes that

Radhakrishnabai had sent. He gave the grapes twice to my son Balwant. In

the afternoon I heard that he was cleaning the musjid. So I did not go

there. All the people brought a deputation to Sayin Maharaj to get rid of

the plague. He advised them to clean the roads, sweep the tombs, cremation

and burial places and to feed the poor.”

 

12-12-1911 : “After breakfast I lay down for a few minutes and then went

with my people to the musjid. Sayin Maharaj was in a good mood and told

(us) a story. Taking up a fruit lying there he asked me how many fruits it

was capable of producing. I replied, ‘As many times thousands as there were

seeds in it’. He smiled very pleasantly and added that it obeyed laws of

its own. He told how there was a girl, very good and pious, how she served

him, and prospered”.

 

19-12-1911 : “He said there was a rich man who had five sons and a

daughter. These children effected a division of the family property. Four

of the sons took their shares of movables and immovables. The fifth son and

the daughter could not take possession of their share. They wandered about

hungry, came to Sayin Baba. They had six carts laden with jewels. Robbers

took away two of them. The remaining four were kept under the banyan tree.”

 

Meaning : The father is ego or jiva. The five sons are the five senses.

Mind is the daughter. Fifth son is the sense of smell i.e., breath. The

rest of the four senses are attached to their objects. Mind and breath

which are perturbed had both sought Baba’s succour. Yet the jewel-laden

carts were stolen by the weakness of the other senses. The passions

associated with the other senses are the robbers. The jewel-laden carts

symbolize the six aspects of sadhana or sadhana shatka. Banyan tree

symbolizes samsara, the perennial tree of phenomenal manifestation. The

parable shows that it is not enough if only a few senses of the seeker and

a few of his passions are under control.

 

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