Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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APPENDIX - III

An Objection and An Answer

Several readers of Telugu version of the book objected to the chapter in

which I have written of some of the famous contemporary devotees of Sai

Baba. Different readers averred that most of these devotees do not deserve

to be mentioned in such a book, caught as they are in the coils of certain

moral lapses.

 

To this charge I can only give my view point. Moral lapses are a

consequence of incomplete spiritual perception of the nature of worldly

things and of the spirit. Increased insight into the worthlessness of

matters grossly worldly is a product of gradual evolution of consciousness

through sadhana. In the path of devotion to Baba this development is

entirely a matter concerning the devotee in question. We have nothing to

bother about it. Sai Baba himself had furnished the true picture of the

matter. When one of his devotees wondered how many of those flock to Baba

would realize life’s goal, he gave an apt parallel. When the mango tree

blossoms, how many of these blossoms, buds, tender fruits and half-ripe

ones fall off owing to wind, pests, monkeys, children etc? And how few

reach the state of ripe fruition? A verse in the “Bhagavadgita” too says

that of thousands of individuals, only a few turn godward; of these, only

very few will realize Him. “Many are called but very few are chosen” says

Christ and illustrates it with the parable of the sower. The devotee’s zeal

in the pursuit of his goal is of prime concern to him and it is a matter

concerning his enlightenment. Why should we bother about it? A true devotee

of Baba never does. For, Baba himself had demonstrated what our attitude to

such should be. When Jawahar Ali, the pseudo-saint pretended to be the guru

of Sai Baba, the latter kept quiet. He never bothered to expatiate the

former’s unworthiness to other devotees. He was very explicit in asking us

to shed the sense of difference and to see the one in all if we wish to

attain the ultimate object of life (paramartha). Then should we bother

about any moral lapses in these devotees?

 

 

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