How K.J.Bhishma Composed Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana.

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How K.J.Bhishma Composed “Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana”.

 

Krishnashastri Jageshwar Bhishma was a resident of a village called Bori in

the district of Nagpur. He lived on the income from his farms. After his

second wife died he became restless. His relations and friends advised him

to remarry but he declined. In the month of Shravan in 1908, on the night of

Purnima he had a dream. He saw a person of dark complexion with tripundra

mark on his forehead, sandal-wood paste mixed with saffron applied to his

body and puja offered at his feet. He gave Bhishma a newspaper. Bhishma

enquired of him as to who he was. He did not reply but pointed to the the

newspaper on which “Sat-Chit-Anand” was printed in bold letters. He directed

Bhishma to read. Bhishma looked at the newspaper wherein he saw the words

“Mantra va shikava” which mean “mantra and learn”. Bhishma was intrigued and

wanted to question the dark person, but both the person and the newspaper

had vanished. Bhishma was mystified, but in the meantime he heard a knock at

the door and he emerged out of his dream. He lost no time in recording this

dream. Thereafter he thought long about his dream but was unable to unravel

the mystery. After a few days a sadhu, a devotee of Ganesh, visited Bori.

Bhishma narrated his dream to the sadhu who told him that “Sat-chit-anand

Swami” was his guru, and gave him the mantra “va shikava” combining the

words “and learn”.

 

After sometime Bhishma happened to visit Amraoti where Dadasaheb Khaparde

asked him whether he would like to accompany him (Khaparde) to Shirdi. He

agreed and in the company of Khaparde arrived in Shirdi. There is a mention

of Bhishma in Khaparde’s Diary pertaining to his second and long stay at

Shirdi beginning from 6th December, 1911. As soon as Bhishma went to the

Musjid for Sai Baba’s darshan, Sai Baba with folded hands exclaimed “Jaya

Sat-chit-anand”. Bhishma was perplexed. He wondered whether the sadhu of his

dream was Sai Baba. However, the sadhu of his dream was a Vaishnav while Sai

Baba appeared to be a Muslim! Yet, why Sai Baba utter Sat-chit-anand? All

Brahmin devotees of Sai Baba took tirtha of his feet but Bhishma did not.

Sai Baba used to smoke the chillim and often invoted others to have a puff

but excluded Bhishma in the beginning. Once while Sai Baba was narrating a

story, a devotee got the chillim ready and handed it to Sai Baba. Sai Baba

held it out to Bhishma and directed him to smoke after merely touching the

chillim to his mouth. Bhishma had a puff and returned it to Sai Baba. Sai

Baba accepted it and remarked, “I rove everywhere, my friend – Bombay, Pune,

Satara, Nagpur; all those towns are filled with the presence of Rama”. Then

he suddenly said to Bhishma, “You eat laddus alone by yourslef without

offering anything to me. At least now give me five laddus”. It is well known

that Sai Baba asked for dakshina from every devotee and spent the amount

collected for charitable purposes.

 

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Source Shri Sai Leela September 1985.