SADGATI TO DIXIT (2)

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SADGATI TO DIXIT (2)

On 5-7-1926, i.e., on Ekadasi he was starting from Ville Parle to go to Dr.

Desmukh’s Dispensary at Bombay to see his ailing son Ramakristna. Anna Saheb

Dabolkar had spent with him some time in excellent bhajan and pothi, and was

starting to go his own station. When these (with Tendulkar) came up after the

scheduled time to the platform, the found the train also was late and came just

in time for them to catch it. Both of them and Anna Saheb got in, and the words

which came from Kaka Saheb were "Anna Saheb, Just see! How merciful Baba is! He

has given us this train this minute. He has not made us wait even a minute." He

then looked into his pocket timetable and said, "Baba has made the train come

late, and enabled us to catch it. Or else we would have to be stranded at

Colaba and be frustrated. So, this is Sai’s grace." Thus, sitting facing Anna

Saheb, Kaka Saheb remembered Baba’s loving grace and appeared to fall asleep.

Dabolkar first thought he was sleeping. When

he went near him to hold his head and asked him, "Are you sleeping?" there was

no reply. Then Dabolkar feared that Kaka Saheb had fainted. Making Kaka lie

down, Dabolkar noted apparently hopeless condition of Kaka Saheb. The train was

speeding from station to station. Anna Saheb told his friend Tendulkar in the

carriage that he should tell the Guard so that they may carry down Kaka’s body

from the carriage. But as there was a big crowd and heavy rain, he could not do

so at Bandra, and only at Mahim he got down and told Guard. The Guard arranged

to phone Parel for a stretcher and doctor, and at Parel, the body was taken

out. The doctor examined the body and said that life was extinct. On account of

the suddenness of death, there would have been difficulties of Inquest. But

luckily the got the doctor’s certificate, and the body was committed to the

care of Anna Saheb. The main point for us is how Baba carried out his

undertaking to carry Kaka in a Vimana. Tukaram was carried to Heaven

in a Vimana, and that was fine, blissful, and excellent end. But that was a

miracle. Without any miracle, Baba had given Kaka a very high end. There was no

pain or fear before life departed from his body. His was a happy death even from

the worldly standpoint. But from the spiritual viewpoint it was a highly

blissful end. The death in such circumstances meant Sadgati (i.e., blessed

future) to the Soul. According to the Gita, what a man thinks of at the time of

his death, he becomes, in his next birth. Here Kaka was thinking of his Guru at

the close of life as "That wonderful God that delayed the train for him." So,

the mood of gratitude and love towards Sai was the mood in which he passed

away. According to Bhagavad Gita (8), 14, 5, 7, "He who always thinks of Me,

being deeply fixed on Me, finds Me at the time of death" and thinking of Me

only at death, reaches My state at death" i.e., "comes to Me" so Dixit would go

to his Gurudeva and live along with him after his death. Be it

noted that Baba’s function was to provide Sadgati. Baba stated in BCS 91, "God

has agents everywhere. They have vast powers. I have vast powers" He has

mentioned how he is exercising those powers. In BCS 90, he says, "Sit quiet,

Uge Muge. I will do the needful. I will take you to the end." In BCS 57, Baba

refers to himself thus, "This is a Brahmin, a white Brahmin, a pure Brahmin;

this Brahmin will lead lakhs of people to the scubra marga and take them to the

goal right up to the end" In para 95, he says, "I draw my devotee to me at the

time of death, even though he may die a thousand miles away from Shirdi." In

96, he says, "I will not allow my devotees to lost. I will account to God for

all those that has given to me". In 94, referring to Upasani’s wife, who died

in January 1912, Baba said, "She the (deceased) spirit has come to me." In 98

he says, "I put the Rohilla Pishya and Rao Saheb Galwankar each in his mother’s

womb. He said of M. B. Rege’s child that died, that it had come

to his breast and would remain there eternally.

>From the above we can infer that Baba carried his Kaka in a Vimana as promised

Written by: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji in Life of Sai Baba

(To read more articles on Shirdi Sai Baba, please visit http://shirdisaibaba.blogspot.com/)

 

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