SHIRDI SAI TEACHINGS - ANNECTODE II

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SAI TEACHINGS

 

- K.SIVA SUBRAHMANYAM

ANNECTODE – II :

 

AT DWARAKAMAYI, THE PLACE

WHERE BABA LIVED AT SHIRIDI BEFORE THE HOLY FIRE-i.e., `DHUNI' SOME

PEOPLE READ HOLY BOOKS. ONE SUCH MAN WAS `RAMDAS'. HE USED TO READ

LORD VISHNU'S THOUSAND NAMES WHICH IS OTHERWISE CALLED `VISHNU

SAHASRANAMAM'. BEFORE READING HE USED TO WEAR HOLY ATTIRE AND APPLY

HOLY ASHES ON HIS FOREHEAD AND READ THE ABOVE THOUSAND NAMES OF LORD

VISHNU.

 

IT WAS HIS NATURE THAT, HE WANTED

TO EXPOSE HIMSELF A GREAT DEVOTEES AND NEVER CONCENTRATED ON THE HOLY

THOUSAND NAMES OF LORD GOD, VISHNU. BABA NOTICED THIS AND MADE UP

HIS MIND TO TEACH HIM A LESSON. SO BABA SENT HIM TO SHOP TO BRING

HIM SONAMUKHI, A STOMACH-ACHE MEDICINE. IT IS QUITE NATURAL THAT

LORD BABA NEVER FEELS HAPPY AND FEELS SICK AT HEAD WHEN HIS DEVOTEES

WALK ON WRONG PATH. SO, RAMADASA, KEPT HIS HOLY BOOK THE

VISHNUSAHASRANAMA AND OBEDIENTLY WENT OUT TO BRING THE STOMACHACHE

MEDICINE. MEANWHILE BABA GOT DOWN FROM THE STEPS OF DWARAKAMAYI AND

GAVE THE HOLY BOOK TO SHAMA, HIS PET DEVOTEE. BUT SHAMA TURNED DOWN

THE OFFER, SINCE HE KNEW THE TEMPAREMENT OF RAMADASI, WHO WAS ILL AND

SHORT TEMPERED MAN. HE WAS AN IRRITANT MAN. BUT BABA FORCIBILY GAVE

THE HOLY BOOK TO SHAMA AND ADVICED HIM TO READ AT LEAST ONE HOLY NAME

VERY DEVOUTLY. SHAMA COULDNOT BUT ACCEPTED. SHAMA KNEW WELL THAT HE

COULD NOT UNDERSTAND SANSKRIPT SCRIPT IN THE BOOK. BUT IT WAS THE

ORDER OF BABA AND SHAMA OBEDIENTLY TOOK THE BOOK FROM BABA.

MEANWHILE RAMADASA CAME FROM SHOP WITH THE STOMACHACHE MEDICINE AND

NOTICED THAT HIS HOLY BOOK WAS MISSING. ANNA CHINCHIKAR, SPURRED HIM

FURTHER AND SAID THAT BABA GAVE THE BOOK TO SHAMA WHEN HE LEFT FOR

MEDICINE AND POISONED HIS MIND.

 

THUS SPURRED BY ANNA CHINCHINIKAR HE SUSPECTED SHAMA

AND AT ONCE FLARED UP AND CAME DOWN AT ONCE ON SHAMA AND SAID THAT IT

WAS SHAMA, WHO SET BABA TO SEND HIM AWAY, UNDER THE PRETEXT OF

STOMACHACHE FOR BRINGING THE MEDICINE AND THUS TOOK AWAY THE BOOK.

THE SO CALLED RAMADASI USED FIRE-SPITTING WORDS AND ABUSED SHAMA THAT

HE WOULD BREAK UP HIS OWN HEAD INTO PIECES IF THE BOOK WAS NOT

RETURNED. SHAMA CALMLY DEMONSTRATED WITH HIM BUT IN VAIN. THEN BABA

SPOKE VERY KNDLY TO RAMADASI AND SAID " OH! RAMADASI WHAT IS THE

MATTER? WHY ARE YOU SO AGITATED ? CAN YOU NOT SPEAK SOFT WORDS? WHY

ARE YOU SO QUARRELSOME? YOU ARE READING THOUSAND HOLY NAMES OF LORD

VISHNU AND STILL YOUR MIND IS FILLED WITH FULL OF PASSIONS. YOU CAN

GET BOOKS BUT NOT MEN. SHAMA HAD NO CONNECTION WITH YOUR BOOK. IT

WAS `I' TOOK YOUR BOOK AND GAVE IT TO SHAMA. AS SHAMA MIGHT READ IT

I GAVE IT TO HIM.. GO TO YOUR SEAT AND SIT COMPOSED. THUS COOLED BY

THE NECTAR LIKE WORDS OF BABA, RAMADASI MIND WAS WASHED UP AND CAME

TO KNOW ABOUT HIS `TRUE SELF'.

 

THUS LORD BABA TOOK EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH

GOOD CODE OF CONDUCT TO HIS DEVOTEES.LORD BABA ORDERING SHAMA TO

READ `VISHNU SAHASRANAMA' MAY BE CONSIDERED AN ORDER TO ALL OF US AND

THUS WE SHOULD KNOW THE HOLINESS OF VISHNUSAHASRANAMA. LET US

REDEDICATE OURSELVES TO BABA'S ORDER AND PARAYAN THE VISHNU

SAHASRANAMA DAILY.

THERE ARE WORDS AS PER SASTRA THAT, THE READING OF

VISHNU SAHASRANAAMA WILL CLEAR THE DOSHAS OR BAD EFFECTS OF ANY

GRAHAS CONCERNED TO ANY MAN.

 

WITH BOW TO LORD SHIRDI BABA…………………

 

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