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

[Guest guest]

He was the very embodiment of divine bliss and the central pillar

of self knowledge. Baba's form did not appear to have beginning or end. He

loved all. Never did he show any discrimination. The all pervading divinity had

assumed Baba's form. Baba is none other than Parabrahman in a human form. Only fortunate

people of accumulated virtues and pious life shall alone know him to be divine.

Those who cannot find him to be divine consider him to be an ordinary person.

Such people are really unfortunate.

 

Before assuming the form of Baba, where was he? He was present

everywhere in a formless subtle form. Before you assume this form, where were

you? You were in another body. Where does Baba go after he drops his body? He

will be present in the entire cosmos. Where do you go after your death? You are

sure to go to some other body.

 

By this we understand that you have birth after birth. But not

God, now and then at will, God appears in a form and that is Sai.

 

People assume infinite names, infinite forms and are in infinite

families, but Baba has no form and name.

 

Once in the presence of people in Shirdi, Baba declared, that

Atman has nothing to do with the body. He described the Upanishads pertaining

to the self or the Atman. Everybody was astonished by it. He is the eternal Atman.

 

For 72 hours, he was engrossed in Samadhi. If we know what he did

during then, we understand him to be not a body, but the blissful Atman.

 

On the full moon day, in the month of Mrigaseersh,

Baba said, " Protect my body for three days. If I come back to the body

after 72 hours, well and good; if I fail to come back, bury it in the vacant

land in front of us and plant two flags for identification " He also showed

him the specific place for the proposed burial. Having said so, he fell down at

10'° clock in the night. His breath stopped. Pulse is frozen. Body appeared to

be dead. People from the village had assembled to bury the body in the selected

place but, Mahalsapathi prevented them from burying.

            (to be contd….)

(Source Eleven Holy Sayings of

Shirdi Sai Baba by Pujya Shri

Ananda Sai Swamy)