Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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APPENDIX - II

The Miracles of Sri Sai Baba

The true mystical tradition of all the great religions hold that in the

course of intense spiritual discipline, the higher potentialities of man

might get awakened and these might secure seeker the power to perform

‘miracles’ . Besides it also warns the seeker that these miracles might

distract him from his goal of perfection and may even cause his moral fall.

Some even believe that the performance of miracles will lead to spiritual

depletion of the mystic. How then could Sri Sai Baba be considered a

genuine, prefer, saint when he almost incessantly performed miracles?

 

The fact is that there are two classes of ‘miracles’. Those performed by

those who are still on the path, as an act of will, either for the blatant

purpose of self-aggrandisement or for the seemingly benign purpose of

winning more souls to faith in the spiritual life. As this class of

miracles involves individual will, it only serves to further strengthen the

false sense of individuality or ego of the sadhaka: it hinders his

realization of the One Reality that underlies his self and of others. It

strengthens his fascination for fame and fear of losing it. It is this

which leads to the fall and has to be by-passed by the true seeker.

 

The other class of miracles occur, and are not ‘performed’, spontaneously

without the will of the prefect sage. The very strength of the sage’s

perfect realization, in its interaction with nature, causes the ‘miracle’

to take place. Such miracles did take place even in the ‘lives’ of such as

Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharashi. He even elucidated this distinction between

the two classes of miracles and said that the miracles of Sri Krishna and

of Jesus Christ are of the latter category.

 

How do we know that Baba’s miracles are of this class? Firstly, the fame

that accrued to him thereby did not in the least touch his heart as is

amply borne out by his way of living. Secondly, we have to judge the tree

by the fruit. The miracles which manifested through Baba were just such as

are needed to make his devotees ethically and spiritually better evolved.

Thirdly, almost all his contemporary saints, whether Hindu, Moslem or

Parsi, did all acknowledge his inner perfection long before he came to the

notice of the people around him. Fourthly, the miracles did not taint him

with egoism nor did his spiritual energy get exhausted even sixty years

after his mahasamadhi. Fifth, his firm opposition to the performance of the

lesser class of miracles is demonstrated by his dealings with the devotee

Kusa Bhav.

 

Bhagawan Sri Ramana is said to have elucidated the distinction between a

Jnani and Jnana Siddha and Sri Sai Baba, like his great contemporary Sri

Swami Samarth of Akkalkot seems to belong to the latter category and this

explains why the miraculous experiences of his devotees stand such a

characteristic feature of his life.

 

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