VYREE BHAKTI AND SAI BABA (BY B.V.N.SWAMY)

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VYREE BHAKTI AND SAI BABA (BY B.V.N.SWAMY)

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VYREE BHAKTI AND SAI BABA

(BY B.V.N.SWAMY)

 

 

 

There are various incidents in the life of Sri Sai

Baba that may be recalled in connection with Vyree

bhava. One Jehangir was the official superior of a

Sai Bhakta X, and he once got a picture of Sai Baba

for the purpose of Xx. With through callousness he

would insult Baba in the preesence of X, who being a

weak man, in a ssubordinate position, had to endure

the pain and disgrace silently. Z however prayed to

Baba to turn the heart of the Jehangir. After fifteen

days, that superior had qualms of conscience. He ran

to his subordinate, expressed regret for his past

conduct and declared his reverence for Sai Baba, in

token of which he paid one rupee as his fine to be

sent to Shirdi. Here Baba, the Antaryami of all, was

allowing the boil(bastred) in J’s heart to ger ripe

and burst. A very similar case was that of Bala Saheb

Bhate. When he was Mamlatdar at Kopergaon, his

educated friends would call on him, on their way

to Shirdi. He then never lost the chance of tolloing

them what fools they were to go and bow at the feet

of a Mahomedan and a crazy fakir at that. He refused

their proposal that he should visit Sai Baba to form

judgement. After a year of two passed in this

violenlty anti-Sai mood, he paid a visit to Sai Baba-

accidently one might say, if one did not know of

Baba’s wonderful knowledge, power and kindness. The

effect of the visit was most unexpected. The scoffer

was held spell-bounded by the glance of Sai Baba. He

sat on for hours before Baba, feeling Baba’s power to

read his thoughts and control his desires. With

difficulty he could be made to leave Baba’ presence

that day. He resolved to stay on for days there,

though he had no excuse for staying there leaving his

official work unattended to. Three days he stayed and

on the third day, Baba spread a kashaya cloth over

his body. He then determined not to go back to his

office but to devote the rest of his life to the

company and service of Sai Baba. That violent hatred

of contempt he had for Baba became, by Baba’s

grace, transformed into strong attahement to Baba and

Vairagya or distaste for all things wordly. In fact,

though he resumed official duties and stayed on at

Shirdi without leave for very long periods. He was

compulsorily retired and granted compassionate

allowance, as one who had met with a mental malady in

the course of his official duties.

 

 

 

In both the above cases, Baba the Antaryami, or

powerful thought controller, helped the original

innate goodness of the person to rebel against the

unnatural and unreasonble hatred, the foreign element

that was superposed on it; and the result was

vigrous Bhakti shooting or shrouting out of what

looked like adverse or unpromising soil.

 

 

 

Perhaps the same explanation may be given for tha not

infrequent cases of persons who heartily disliked

Baba on the score of his being a Mahmadean(as he was

long supposed to be ) being turned to devotees. The

best instance of this is late Upasani Maharaj or

Kasinath Govinda Upasani Satri as he was first

known. Sri K.G.U.had some serious disease of the

respiratory organs that threatened his life. He was

going about in search of Hindu Yogis who could remedy

this ailment contracted by him in the course of his

practice of Pranayama. When he was told that he should

bow at the foot of a Mahomedan (as the very name

Sai Baba indicated a Mahomedan). It was with great

difficulty that he was persuaded by his well-wishers

to go and see Baba. At his visit, he was not impressed

w ith the nature of Saai Baba and went away saying

that he could not at all return in 8 days as required

by Baba. But Sri Sai, out os his kindness, banished

on the minds of all persons that surrounded

K.G.U.Sastri compelled him to visit Sai Baba on the

8th day his departure. None was more surprised at this

revisit more than Sastri Maharaj himself. Finding

himself no match for Sai Baba he agreed to stay on at

Shirdi for 4 years- though such prolonged stay was

all and wormwood to his soul. Again and again he

tried to warggle out of his promise. But he stayed

on and had to stay on for a little over three years.

His former dislike for Sai Baba was changed to

reverence, expressed so well by the Mahimna Stotra

that he composed about his newly accepted Gurudeva.

 

>From Sai Sudha April 1944.

This can be read from www.saileelas.org

 

 

 

 

 

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