BABA - PERFECTLY REALIZED SOUL

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BABA – PERFECTLY REALIZED SOUL

Baba’s words to G. S. Khaparde, Kaka Saheb Dixit and others were "Why fear

when I am here?" Baba gave ample proof to Dixit of his thorough knowledge of all

events, past present and future, taking place here, there, and everywhere, and

his power to see to the exact fulfillment of his promise or prediction. By

constantly staying with Baba, Dixit noticed that Baba had this "Antarjnan" or

Chittasamvit or Ritambhara Prajna, and that he had also vast control over men,

creatures, and inanimate things of Nature. For instance in 1917, Kaka Mahajani,

who was at Bombay, was requested by the son of his master Thakersey Sait to go

to Shirdi and take Baba’s advice as to what would be the best course for

his mother’s health. Mahajani said that Dixit was at Shirdi, it would be

sufficient to write to him. But the master’s son said that Mahajani

should actually go to Shirdi, as nothing else would satisfy his father. When

this conversation was going on at Bombay, Baba told Dixit at Shirdi, "What

deliberations and conditions are going on there!" The next day, when Mahajani

turned up at Shirdi and mentioned about his master’s health, Baba told

Dixit, "This is the matter we were talking yesterday. Is it not?" Dixit

compared notes with Mahajani and found that while Mahajani and his

master’s son were talking at Bombay, Sai at Shirdi was fully aware of

that fact. On one occasion, immediately after Arati, Sai Baba told his

devotees, (BCS 406) "Be wherever you may, say whatever you may, and do whatever

you may, be sure, I am aware of what you say or do." This is Ritambhara Prajna,

which only perfectly realized souls like Sai have. Some others may through

yogic practice, mantras, or by the use of spirits, acquire mind-reading,

clairvoyance, and, within limits, may even be able to say what some persons at

some places do or say. But ordinarily such yogis cannot always and without

effort, be all-knowing at all places like Baba. Thus Dixit was convinced that

Baba had these divine qualities (far superior to magical feats) and also the

divine power to know or control the future and protect him.

Written by: HH Parama Pujya Narasimha Swamiji in Life of Sai Baba.

(Vasuki Mahal Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Trust, Coimbatore 641025, India)