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

July 24, 2007

121. You must act like this always. Truly only this will prove useful, ultimately. Sitting in the Masjid, I do not ever speak an untruth. This is the universal truth. 122. Know that this is the kindness which I preach. Give food to the hungry first and then eat yourself. Remember this clearly in your mind”. 123. What did Sai Samartha

say? The lady could not understand anything. What was the implied meaning of this? His words were never futile. 124. She said: “How could I have served you? How could it happen at my hands? I am dependent. I spend and eat whatever I can get”. 125. Baba answering her said: “Savouring that lovingly given chappati, I became fully satisfied and I am still belching. 126. When you sat down for your meals, you suddenly saw a dog come to the door, which was suffering from extreme hunger. I am one with that dog. 127. Similarly, I am one with that pig bespattered with mud, which was also hungry and miserable”. 128. When she heard Baba’s words, the lady was very much surprised. Dogs, pigs, cats which wander – are they one with Baba? 129. “Sometimes I am a dog, sometimes a pig, sometimes I am a cow, sometimes a cat, sometimes an ant, a fly or fish. I move about in different forms. 130. That person who sees me in all the creatures, you must understand is my beloved one. Give up the belief in the two-fold nature, and worship me in this manner”. 131. These were not just ordinary words, but nectar. She was overwhelmed with emotions. Her eyes were filled with

tears of happiness and her throat was choked with emotion. 132. Similarly there is another story of this lady, which is wonderful and depicts love. It shows the oneness of the great Sai with his devotee; and that the two Atmas are one. 133. Once when Purandare17 with his wife and children set out for Shirdi, she18 gave him brinjals with affection which she requested his wife to make “Bharta”, 19 134. with one, for Baba, and “kacharya”, crisp and brown, from the other, and feed him heartily with them. 135. His wife accepted the brinjals and when she reached Shirdi, after the Arati, at lunch time, she took the “Bharta”. http://www.saileela s.org/books/ sss/index.

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