Sai Satcharitra - Ovi to Ovi english Translation - Chp- IX

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46. Baba was never a householder and did not become a ‘Vanaprashthachari’9. He was only a brahmachari from his youth and also a sanyasi. Therefore, to beg alms was the rightful thing for him to do. 47. “The whole universe is my home. I am myself Vasudev and all pervading God. I am myself the Parabrahma”. One who has such firm conviction, 48. has the fullest right to beg alms. He believed in the philosophy that the whole world is one family. The others make a mockery of this philosophy, as can be seen, on all crossroads. 49. At the outset, one should give up the wish for a son,10 then lust for wealth and status. One who has given up these three desires, he only has the right to beg for alms. 50. Otherwise, as Tukaram quotes: “Fie upon that life depending upon charity and begging”, because it is useless without understanding the meaning of such a life. 51. The great Sai is a very great Siddha (or yogi). That is known to all, young and old. But we, who are full of worldly ties, do not devotedly attach to his divine feet. 52. Without the

five sacrifices11, the householder is advised against eating of food. But Sai would perform these sacrifices12 and get the food cooked and daily purified the meals. 53. Everyday he would go to five houses and remind the hosts about the Attithi Yagna. So the persons were really fortunate who could sit at home and earn the ‘punya’13. 54. Those people, who after performing the ‘panchmaha yagnas,’ ate the remaining food, were saved from the terrible and unknown five sins, because the sins were burnt. 55. The well-known five sins are: “kandani” – pestle, “chulli” – lighting the hearth fire, “udkumbhi” – water pots; “peshani” – grinding, “marjani” – sweeping. 56. The grains are put in the pot (ukkal) and the pestle strikes the grain so that the chaff is removed and unknowingly during this activity lives are destroyed. 57. But the grains are not edible without the above-mentioned treatment. Therefore, the sin known as “kandani” is counted first in the list of “Panch soonas”. 58. In the stove, wood is burnt and cooking is done. There also, without knowing, life is destroyed. This sin is known as

“chulli’, the second sin. 59. Even in a grinding stone or wooden grinding mill, when grains are ground, unknowingly innumerable lives are destroyed. That sin is known as “peshani”. 60. When people bring water in the pots from a well, or a lake, or a tank, or when men and women wash clothes, innumerable lives are destroyed. http://www.saileela s.org/books/ sss/index.

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