Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

[Guest guest]

“The uncanny ways in which he transmitted various spiritual

experiences

are no less striking. One day someone asked Tajuddin Baba, ‘Master,

how

can ‘hal’ (bliss) be experienced’? Baba took off his cap and kept it

on

the ground top downwards. The seeker was suddenly overwhelmed with the

direct experience of hal and in that ecstatic state, stood on his head

and

started dancing on his head and hands! Only after Baba turned the cap

into

the normal position did the visitor get out of the ecstatic mood and

he

stood upright. Then Tajuddin Baba asked him, ‘Have you realized how it

is

to be experienced?’ The question has a deeper significance than is

apparent. He, as a spiritual teacher, out of his grace, has to grant

it to

his disciple and that is the only way of experiencing hal. This

incident

also shows that mystical states of consciousness are not merely

subjective

states which the saint has to experience for himself through

self-conditioning or auto-suggestion, without any objective reality

about

them. He could, at will, communicate it to one who could not obtain

the

experience through his own endeavors. This finds a parallel in Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa giving an experience of ‘God’ to Vivekananda

at

will”.

 

This experience of hal by Tajuddin Baba’s disciple and his experience

of

bliss in an inverted position shows that it is not only possible but

conducive to certain types of spiritual ecstasy conferred upon

disciples

by their gurus.

 

Indeed the hanging of a sadhaka head downwards into a well seems to be

a

specific technique adopted by certain gurus to help their disciples

achieve quick spiritual progress and some saints used the technique

even

for themselves. Baba Farid Ganj Sakkar, the guru of the celebrated

saint

of Delhi, Sheikh Nizamuddin Aulia, hung himself head down into a well

for

forty days. But he administered no such method to his disciples. So it

is

a technique, which was called for by an individual need.

 

(To be contd....)

 

Source http://www.saibharadwaja.org)