Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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In all these dual interpretations of the lives of the Godmen, we find that

both are equally true. From this it is easy to see that such a perfect

manifestation of the divine as Sai Baba calls for both the interpretations

for a fuller appreciation of it.

APPENDIX - I

A Previous Life of Sai Baba

 

In the chapter ‘Sai Baba is in all Saints and Sadhus’ we have noted a

peculiar anecdote. In one of his previous mainifestations, Sai Baba was

asked to go to one Mukund and assure him of the success that was at hand in

his spiritual endeavour. Soon after, Baba met a prince in the market place

and directed him to proceed to Amarkot assuring him that a son would be

born to him who would be a king of a country in future. Baba added that

this child was Akbar the Great. Obviously, Baba, in narrating these two

episodes, implied a connection between Mukund and Akbar. I shall quote the

passage which I found in Prof. A.L.Srivastava’s book “The Mughal Empire”.

 

“The tradition is recorded in the pages of Murtaza Hussain Bilgrami’s

Hadiaq-tul Aqalim, and when a child, the present writer heard it also from

his father who gave the story in detail. It is related that in his previous

life Akbar was a Hindu anchorite, entitled Mukund Brahmachari,

who was supposed to have undertaken a religious penance (tap) at Prayag so

that he might be born a powerful Kshatriya King and exterminate Islam from

India. But as luck would have it, he was, owing to a mistake in the

performance of the tap, born as a moslem. Nevertheless, in view of his

prenatal-heritage, Akbar acted like a Hindu monarch that he was so anxious

to be, and served the interests of Hindu religion and culture. Many a Hindu

would not have his breakfast without having seen the emperor’s face ‘darshan

’) in the morning”.

 

How close is the connection between this passage in a text book of Indian

history and the anecdotes recounted by Baba!

 

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