Shree Sant Kathamrut by Das Ganu Maharaj

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SHREE SANT KATHAMRUT

 

BY SHREE DAS GANU

CHAPTER - 57

 

Shri.Ganeshayanamah . Oh Lord Lambodar your form is the Truth. Oh Generous

One, you are the Origin. Please hold my hand and help me write. Oh

Listeners, please listen to this Sant Kathamrut -a book comparable to

spring. The stories of the saints are the mango trees here. They have the

branches of miracles performed by the saints. The poetic arrangement is the

foliage of the tender leaves and the advice given by the saints is the

fruit. I beg you to become a cuckoo and enjoy the sweet juice of the fruit.

This book is the Manas Sarovar.

 

The stories of the saints are the fully bloomed water lillies. The pure

honey of advice is contained in them. Oh Listeners, enjoy this honey like

humble bumble bees. I have narrated the life of Sainath of Shirdi in Chapter

31,32 and 33 of Bhakta Leelamrut. He is the Kalpatam (The Divine Tree). He

is the ship to cross the ocean of the mundane world, he is very generous. He

is the ocean of mercy. He loves his devotees.

 

Sai's devotees went to Shirdi at the time of Dhanu Sankraman in the month of

Pausha. Listeners may think that the Dhanu Sankranti is not as important as

the Makar Sankranti. Why should, then, the devotees choose a less important

day for the Darshan? On Dhanu Sankranti. people offer the Naivedha to the

Sun and take their meals at sunrise. A similar situation is here too. I

shall try to explain it to you.

 

The worldly miseries froze the devotees with cold. They donned themselves

with the warm clothing of devotion and rushed to see Baba -their Sadguru.

Shirdi is the mountain from where rises Sai the Sun. Sai's grace is the

dawn. The devotees bathed themselves in the Ganga of faith and went for his

darshan. The Lord, then, offered them a meal prepared from Self realization.

This is Dhanurmas in Shirdi and hence the devotees gathered in Shirdi in

anticipation of the meal. Narayan, the son of Shri.Govind born in the family

of Chandorkar Haripant, a pious devotee and a firm believer in the teachings

of the Vedas. Beray, Nimonkar, Laxman Maruti and other great devotees

gathered there.

 

(To be contd...)

Source http://www.saileelas.org/books/4chap.htm