Sai Baba the Master

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The spiritual training Sai Baba gave to Kasinath was mainly through a

number of significant visions which served in wiping out human fragilities

like lust, greed, etc., from his heart. For instance, once Kasinath had a

vision that he entered a house. Sai Baba who was seated inside beckoned to

him with a view to whisper some instruction into the former’s ear. When he

was about to do accordingly, a shabby counterpart of Kasinath himself

pulled him away and asked him not to heed Sai’s words. After repeated

warnings to the shabby figure Sai Baba beat him, took him to a stream and

burnt him on a pyre. Then Sai returned and told him that the shabby figure

was the personification of his (Kasinath’s) sins; “You are now free from

sin. By our united effort much is to be accomplished. “You will yourself

understand everything without any word from me.” Then Sai Baba’s guru

prostrated before Kasinath to the latter’s amazement. Thus ended the

vision, proclaiming the flowering of Kasinath into a full-fledged saint,

Sri Upasani Baba Maharaj. Similarly, on another occasion, Sai Baba showed

the glowing person of Upsani Maharaj’s spiritual glory to him. Upasani

Maharaj then asked Sai, “If this figure is the form of my virtue and if the

one you destroyed earlier was of my sins, who, indeed, am, I?” Sai said,

“You are beyond these two; that which constitutes ‘me’ constitutes ‘you’.

There is no difference between you and I.”

 

This transformation of Kasinath into Upasani Baba was not a mere

subjective experience. His inner glory started revealing itself in a large

number of miracles which his visitors had witnessed. Sitting in the temple,

for instance, he would describe everything that happened at the mosque. He

knew the innermost thoughts of all and their past, present and future. One

Narahari from Nevasa visited Baba with a few others. But he did not bow to

him as he seemed a Moslem fakir. Sai glared at him and he at once left the

mosque. He learned that a Hindu Sadhu, Sri Upansani Baba, was at Khandoba

temple and visited him. When he bowed to him, Sri Upasani Baba drew his

feet back saying, accusingly, “Oh! You are a high caste Hindu and Sri Sai

is a Moslem to whom you should not bow down! Then what have you got to do

with me?” Narahari realized his folly. Sri Upasani and Sai Baba are one and

the one knew what was happening to the other every minute!” In short, Sai

Baba moulded Upasani Maharaj into his own likeness and once told him. “You

must plant trees that will live for many centuries – from which people will

derive benefit”, implying that thousands will spiritually benefit through

him.

 

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org