3rd Saying I shall be ever active and vigorous even after leaving this earthly body

[Guest guest]

He kept the body of Baba for three days and protected it. After

seventy two hours, at 3'° clock in the early hours, the body got back the life.

Breathing resumed. Pulsation was activated. Eyes were open. The entire body

started moving and Baba stood up. From this we understand that Baba is

formless, pure consciousness. Baba's body is different from it. Baba can live eternally without the body and in spite

of the body.

 

Sri Krishna in the Geeta declared that

the body is different from the Atman and that truth is demonstrated and proved

to be correct by Baba. The eternity and the

spectatorship of Atman are proved by Baba.

 

The real essence of Baba is formlessness. And the truthful spirit

is made public by Baba. Baba has nothing to do with the physical form. All

forms are names are his and he is present everywhere.

 

Physical body can't prescribe any limitations to Baba. He cat be conditioned

by anybody or anything, whereas the ordinary mortals are bound by the body and

the Prarabhda. Your previous Karma haunts you. Divine

incarnations are beyond the purview karma theory.

 

Sri Hemad Panth

describes, " The body of five elements perishes. Body is transient. But the

soul is permanent, deathless truthful. This pure consciousness is Brahman. That

controls the mind and the five elements. It governs all and that is Sai. He

alone is present everywhere and in everything. There is nothing without it. To

do its proposed work, it assumes a form of its choice. After doing the self

allotted work, the body gets dropped.

 

Sai is present always. Even if we don't see him here, we can find

him there at Shirdi in the mosque. To the devotees, it gives you the thrill of

Sai-Darshan, without the physical form, Baba present

not only in Shirdi, but in every other place. He is working for our welfare

without a form. Yogis like Baba does not die. This may

look like human beings, but they are divine in reality " .

 

What a wonderful exposition! Hemad Panth is indeed fortunate. Baba, after dropping the body,

appeared in the dream d Lakshman Joshi, the maternal uncle of Shyama and said, holding his hand, " Wake up. Bapusaheb thinks that I am dead. Therefore he does not come.

You offer the worship and perform the Arati " .

 

Lakshman Joshi was accustomed to worshipping Baba ever morning

before offering Pooja to other Gods. He has absolute

faith in Baba. As soon as he saw Baba in the dream he continued his usual

worship.

 

My dear devotees! Now, tell, Does Baba have anything to with the

physical body? Even after dropping the body, does He not live with us? The statement of Baba that he is eternal is

cent percent true.

 

With the physical body, he made many a miracle sometimes. Now, he

responds to our cry or distress and call of love. He smiles and comes to our

rescue even now. Lo and behold He continues to perform miracles even now. Paramatman is permanent. The wonderful Baba too is

permanent. The name has assumed is the great name " Sai " .

" Baba " was not dead when the body was alive. " Baba " was not

dead when the body was dead. He was always alive, wakeful and alert. He was

beyond birth and death. Whoever loves him wholeheartedly, will he looked after by Baba. To our place, Baba comes in the time

we want him to come. We can talk to him and feel his presence always. He is

always among us, with us, caring for us. In some form, he comes and fulfils our

desires.

 

Out of ignorance, body is considered to be real by the ordinary

mortals. Atman is unknown to them. The visible body is all in all and important

to them. The invisible Atman is unknown to them, unnecessary to them and untrue

to them.

            (to be contd….)

(Source Eleven Holy Sayings of

Shirdi Sai Baba by Pujya Shri

Ananda Sai Swamy)