SHIRDI DIARY 2

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SHIRDI DIARY – BABA’S PARABLES AND MEANINGS (2)

 

11-12-1910

We went to Sayin Saheb as usual & today’s conversation was both important &

marked by two incidents. Sayin Maharaj said that he used to sit in a corner and

desired to exchange the lower part of his body for that of a parrot. The

exchange came & he did not realize for a year and lost one lakh of rupees. Then

he began to sit near a post & then a great serpent woke up and was very angry.

It used to jump up & also fall from above.

Meaning: Parrot is, proverbial for lust. Baba exchanged the neither half of his

body with its body indicates that he had succumbed to the demands if the flesh.

The lakhs of rupees he had lost indicates that he had lost all the spiritual

power he had accumulated by earlier sadhana. The pillar stands for the spine

and sitting at its foot symbolizes meditating on the base of the spine or

muladhara. The jumping snake is the awakened kundalini or the ‘serpent power’.

 

Then Baba changed the subject apparently & said that he visited a place and the

Patil there would not let him go unless he made a plantation & had a footpath

through it. He said he completed both.

Meaning: God is the landlord or Patil. Raising plantation signifies the

foundation of a spiritual centre. The footpath stands for the spiritual path,

which Baba had to lay for his devotees. The parable indicates that God has

ordered Baba to play the role of a Guru. It is interesting to note that Baba

did raise a garden at the spot where now stands the samadhi mandir, which is

the beacon, light to innumerable spiritual seekers.

(Source: Sai Baba the Master)