Sai Baba the Master

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Taking the word ‘big’ to mean ‘of great spiritual stature’, Upasani Baba

was a ‘Maharaj’ even as Sai Baba was a ‘king’ (in the sense in which the

Christ was called the ‘King’). As will be seen in a later section,Sai Baba

himself personally alchemised Upasani Sastry into Upasani Baba Maharaj and

openly announced that there was no difference between himself and Upasani

Baba. Some people, of course brush aside even the statement of Sai Baba and

look upon Upasani Baba as an inferior one - yet they believe that they are

devotees of Sai Baba as though the fact of one of the two being a sadguru

precludes the other of it! To have a sadguru of his own stature honour his

mortal remains – what greater honour can anyone have and from what greater

soul? In fact, in the annals of spiritual history we hardly have a

parallel. The Buddha, Jesus, not even Lord Krishna and Rama had it. The

nearest parallel we have is in Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s mortal remains

being honoured by his devotee Swami Vivekananda.

 

As if this were not enough, we have already noted how great fakirs like

Shamsuddin Mia honoured the proclamation of the date of Baba’s samadhi with

moulu, kawali and nyas; we also noted how a fakir like Banne Mia shed tears

on hearing Baba’s message.

 

There is still one more instance to be mentioned.

 

Gurugobind Maharaj of Khandesh was a very great saint of that time. He was

even thought of being a gurubandhu (literally a spiritual relation through

the guru, i.e., a co-disciple) of Sainath Maharaj. This great saint was

laid up with high fever on the Vijayadasami day, the day of Sai Baba’s

mahasamadhi. His disciples even feared that his end was near. On that day

Sri Gurugobind told his disciples and devotees, “The jyothi (light) of a

great mahatma will soon merge in the Moon. Hanuman says ‘You be’ ”. When

his devotees thought that their Guru was referring to his own impending

death, he corrected them saying that he was referring to Sri Sainath of

Shirdi.

 

One of these devotees of Sri Gurugobind, Madan Patil, immediately wrote

letters to as many devotees of Sai Baba as he knew to rush to Shirdi to

have a final glimpse of the body that was Sai. And he wrote simply out of

his faith in the infallibility of Sri Gurugobind’s words. On the third day

after this, he received a wire from Shirdi that Sai Baba took samadhi

precisely on the day pointed out by Sri Gurugobind. Then Gurugobind made

all his disciples take bath and then told them that the jyothi (divine

flame) had merged in the Moon. One Kesav Datt Maharaj was specially sent by

Sri Gurugobind with the instruction, “Go and visit the place of the Moon".

 

 

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