'Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi -A God!' by Bapatla Hanumanth Rao Garu

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My Dear fellow devotees,

 

      I am indeed fortunate enough to place this booklet in the hands of all the

devotees as directed by Sri Sai Baba in an attempt to answer the question:

"Is Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi also a God? Are the present Gods not enough?",

posed to me by a friend of mine.

I wrote some articles on this issue in Sai Leela, (a monthly magazine

published from Chirala) in 1953, and in Sai Sudha (Published from Mylapore,

Chennai,) in 1957-'58, At the behest of my fellow devotees, this small

publication is brought out compiling all those articles with certain

additions and modifications.

      I am a small and insignificant person to detail about God, His Incarnations

and the Holy Saints. One should be One with that Supreme Being to speak

about Him. It shall always remain incomplete if a small person like me

ventures to talk about Him. Words seem to express a fraction of entirety.

The Eternal Truth can neither be comprehended nor expressed but can only be

experienced. God is the central cause of all our actions and its effects. It

is Sri Sai Baba's wish that makes one to raise a question and it is His wish

only that prompts some one else to answer it. I earnestly believe that this

is a special mission entrusted to me by my Guru, Sri B.V. Narasimha Swamiji

a great Saint. He earned the reputation as the modern Nana Saheb Cbandorkar

(a close disciple of Sri Sai Baba) and also called Sai Vyasa by Sai

devotees. He was the Founder President of All India Sai Samaj, Mylapore,

Chennai.

 

Let the learned pardon me for my audacity in talking about a divine

personality, Sri Sai Baba,

 

The book is divided into four chapters.

 

First Chapter:

 

In answer to the second question of my friend: (Are the present Gods not

enough?, It has been established that there is only one Supreme God, who is

Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and does not possess any specific form.

The other Godly forms (called by my friend as Gods in his question) are His

Avatars (Incarnations.)

 

Hinduism is the most ancient of all religions in the world with wider scope,

goals, and objectives. It propounds that this human life is the best form of

all living beings. If a person who believes in the existence of God (Theist)

meditates upon Him (God) with full faith and devotion on any form the

results are the same. They do not depend upon the form of God, they worship.

Bhagawan Sri Adi Sankara, known as Shanmatacharya, has taught us the truth

that Saivism, Vaisbnavism, Saktism are all accepted by Vedas and God can be

worshipped in any form as per his/her belief and the rewards shall be the

same. Our ancient Hindu religion has no rifts with other religions. It

exhibits a broad feeling of love and respect for all other religions and

absorbs all of them into its fold. This is the reason for its survival till

today and it will survive forever.

 

 

To be contd....

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