Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

Pride can be of many types and all are equally potent obstacles to one’s

spiritual progress. But the most difficult one to control or conceal, and

yet the most elusive of its forms is pride in one’s own faith in and love

for god or guru. And Baba was quick in noticing it in his devotee and

ruthless in nipping it in the bud. One day when Balwant Nachne and others

were there Baba complained of stomach ache. An old lady fetched a red-hot

brick and put it on Baba’s stomach. Balwant could not bear to see it. Then

the lady started massaging Baba’s abdomen with much force. Nachne could

contain himself no longer but asked the lady to be more gentle in her

service. Baba was at once wild with his interference in another’s devotion

and service and asked him to get away immediately. And he did so.

 

Sometimes Baba was the sole actor in an incident from which the devotees

could learn much. Indeed his whole way of living was a continuous teaching

of perfect humility, purity, self-control, equality and generosity. He was

like the Buddha, Jesus. The Christ and Mohammed in that his life was a

model of his teaching. But certain of the incidents were more strikingly

so.

 

One day, at noon, Baba asked some one to get a ladder and with the help of

that, climbed the roof of one Vaman Gondkar’s house and from there walked

over the roof of Radhakrishnamai’s house and got down from the other side.

Why he did so remained a mystery. Some thought that it was his mysterious

manner of curing Radhakrishnamai of malaria from which she was suffering.

After climbing down from the other side, Baba gave Rs.2/- to the man who had

brought the ladder. When someone made bold to ask him why he paid such on

exorbitant price for such a minor service, he simply replied that nobody

should take the labour of others free; that the worker should be duly and

liberally paid.

 

Baba’s omniscient gaze was ever watchful of his devotee’s conduct and if

he ever discovered that any of them was committing a folly, he was prompt

in his correction. We have mentioned some instances in the chapter on Baba’

s omniscience.

 

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