Sai Baba the Master

[Guest guest]

“One noticeable difference between Sri Sai Baba and other saints struck me. I

have moved with other notable saints also. I have seen them in high samadhi or

trance condition, entirely forgetting their body, and in its course effacing

the narrow notion of the ‘self confined to the body; and I have seen them

later getting conscious of their surroundings, knowing what is in our hearts

and replying to us. But with Sri Sai Baba, there was this peculiar feature: He

had not to go into trance to achieve anything, or to reach any higher position

or knowledge. He was every moment exercising a double consciousness, one

actively utilizing the ego called ‘Sri Sai Baba’ and dealing with other egos

in temporal or spiritual affairs, and the other-entirely superseding all egos

and resting in the position of the Universal Soul or Ego; he was exercising

and manifesting all the powers and features incidental to both the states of

consciousness. Other saints would forget their body and surroundings and then

return to it. But Sri Sai Baba was always in and outside the material world.

Others seemed to take pains and by effort to trace the contents of other’s

minds and read their past history. But with Sri Sai Baba this was not a matter

of effort.

He was in the all-knowing state always…..”

“It is not merely his power that endeared him to his devotees. His loving care

combined with those powers made Shirdi a veritable paradise to the devotees

who went there. Directly we went there, we felt safe, that nothing could harm

us. When I went and sat in his presence, I always forget my pain, nay the body

itself with all mundane concerns and anxieties.”

“His accessibility to all and at all hours practically was a remarkable feature

of his, ‘My darbar (royal assembly) is always open’, he used to say, ‘at all

hours’. He had nothing to fear from scrutiny, and nothing shameful to conceal.

All his actions were open and above board.”

Source: http://www.saibharadwaja.org