Sri Krishna And Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi.

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It is the conviction of many who are worshippers of Sai Baba of Shirdi that He

is Sri Krishna reincarnated to lead mankind in the path of knowledge and

salvation. Even as Sri Krishna preached the immortal Geeta to the world through

the medium of Arjuna, Sai Baba of Shirdi preached His Geeta to the world through

his various sayings addressed to His devotees. Any reader of "Sri Sai Sat

Charita" of Hemadpant will be acquainted with the numerous utterances of Baba

with the same meaning or import or wave length of the utterances of Sri Krishna

in His Geeta. If liberty of _expression is allowed Baba's Geeta is simpler to

understand and assimilate by the common man in comparison with Sri Krishna's

Geeta. Similarly some of the actions of Sri Baba of Shirdi are grand or sublime

even as those of Sri Krishna. One of the most spiritually elevating episodes in

the Mahabharata is the blowing of the breath of life by Sri Krishna in Uttara's

still born babe and

thus nullify the curse of Aswathama to wipe out the Pandava race from the earth.

In consternation it is that Kunti Devi appeals to Sri Krishna and true to His

word given when Aswathama uttered his terrible curse Sri Krishna takes the

lifeless babe in his hands and with His wonderful yogic power breathes life

into it, following which He Himself becomes limp with exhaustion but to recover

to his true form of course subsequently. Now let us look at the episode in

S.S.D.Nimonkar's life. An ardent devotee of Sai Baba that he was, he once

visited Shirdi to do his obeisance of Baba on his way from Poona to Nimon where

his brother's wife was expecting her confinement. Look at Baba's words at the

leave taking "save the child's life" addressed to Nimonkar while giving His

"Udi" to him. What was the sight that greeted Nimonkar at Nimon? It was the

cold and chill babe just delivered of his brother's wife and considered as dead

or lifeless. Nimonkar searched for the all powerful "Udi" of Sai

Baba in him and not finding it simply took the babe in his lap and prayed

fervently to his deity of Shirdi and in a few minutes the almost dead babe

sprang into life. Sri Krishna as god breathed life into the babe Parikshit by

His yogic power. Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi similarly gave life to the babe of

Nimonkar's brother's wife by the thaumaturgic power of a prayer to Him. Endless

are the miracles or "Leelas" of Baba of Shirdi and it is a thrill that one

experiences inrecounting such "Leelas"

 

(Adopted from Book "A Century of Poems on Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi by ProfC.R.Narayana)

Arun Reddy Nukala

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