Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

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Beside this, the manifestation of the Spirit as Sri Sai Baba is unique in

another respect. No one knows his caste, creed, or parentage. This

anonymity lent a strange facet to his teaching. To the Hindus he was

an

orthodox brahmin with sacred fire, enjoining the worship of the many

gods

and the devout study of various Hindu scriptures; he even named the

mosque

as Dwarakamai and planted the Tulasi in its frontyard and then allowed

himself to be worshipped by his devotees in the Hindu fashion. To the

moslems, he was a moslem, a pir, living in a mosque, observing the

discipline enjoined for a fakir, always uttering the Islamic Allah

Malik,

guiding moslem seekers like Abdul Baba along the Islamic line. To the

Parsis, he was the sacred fire-worshipper. His life, too, is a living

manifestation of the Sermon of the Christ and of the eight fold path

of

the Buddha. Thus, in him were have a perfect model of harmony of all

religions for whom this world, with all its sectarian and religious

antagonisms, has been looking forward.

 

A third feature that specially belongs to him is this: Most of the

religious scriptures and holy men seem to suggest that one ought not

to

aspire for this or that material goal, in being devoted to a guru or

god.

Sri Sai Baba never laid down such a rule. Indeed, once, when a

self-assured devotee dissuaded a few visitors who came to Sai Baba for

the

fulfilment of material needs, the Master told him not do so.

 

The fourth unique feature is the phenomenally large number of

instances in

which the great fakir has been physically appearing before his

devotees,

even decades after his mahasamadhi literally fulfilling his verbal

assurance on the great event.

 

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