Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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>From the above consideration, it follows that if Dwarakamayi represents

the physical body of Baba to which people rushed for darshan, his visits to

the chavadi represent the visits of Baba to his devotees in the world in

his subtler bodies. Indeed, like the chavadi the world is a place where all

of us gather again and again for social interaction.

 

The significance of the samadhi mandir is self-evident. It represents the

state of samadhi in which we can contact him as our true Self, in which

“all of us can be happy together”, to put it in his own words.

 

There are six places at Shirdi which are closely connected with Baba:

 

1) The underground cellar under the neem tree

2) The neem tree

3) Dwarakamayi

4) Nandadeep at Lendi

5) chavadi

6) Samadhi Mandir

 

These six places may together be taken to symbolise the six yogic centres

in our body, the seventh being beyond space and time.

 

This interpretation of Baba’s life as a symbol is needed to understand a

particular aspect of the phenomenon of divine manifestation in general.

When we look into the history of mystical schools of various religions, we

find that all religious scriptures are interpreted both as records of

historical facts and spiritual, symbolic truths. We have in Hinduism, the

story of Rama. Some believe and interpret it as a real fact of history and

this plays an important part in their life. Others interpret Sita as the

Self and Rama as the Ego, with Hanuman or the breath as the mystic

messenger between the two. Ravana is the sum-total of our evil propensities

which conceal the Self from the Ego. Again, some Hindus take the

Mahabharatha for a piece of history. Others insist on a symbolic

interpretation: the body is the Kurukshetra. The Kauravas are the evil

tendencies. The Pandavas are the five vital breaths, Droupadi is their

common companion, the mind. Sri Krishna is the Self. Mahabharatha was the

perpetual battle which goes on in every human being. We find the same

approach to the story of the Buddha in Buddhism. While the exoteric schools

of Buddhism attach much importance to the historical Buddha and his

teachings, esoteric schools (which are secret only in the sense that they

cannot be conveyed in words to the intellect) like Zen insist on

re-enacting the story in our own being and discovering the Buddha nature in

us. In Christianity, the story of Christ is insisted on by some as deriving

its value from its historicity. But several mystical schools hold that the

birth of Christ, his baptism, crucifixion as spiritual phenomena which have

to be effected in one’s own soul.

 

 

(Source : http://www.saibharadwaja.org)