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

August 9, 2007

91. This is a great favour of yours that I have been able to reach your feet. I am a maggot in your excreta. I consider myself blessed thereby”. 92. What humility on the part of Baba! Oh how much he desired to be humble. What height of complete abandonment of ego! He was equally modest too! 93. The above

mentioned words of Baba were really spoken by him and I have respectfully presented them. If anyone feels that it is disrespectful then I beg pardon. 94. If speech has become impure and if the sin of hearing is to be avoided, let us recite Sai’s name continuously. It will cleanse the sins of all. 95. Our austerities of all the previous births have borne fruit by Sai’s grace. It gives endless contentment like a thirsty person obtains on being given water at a water-distributing place. 96. Though it seems that he relishes food through his tongue, actually he does not feel the taste, because his taste buds are not aroused. 97. He who does not have any passions, how can he be said to enjoy any pleasures! Where the pleasures do not affect his senses, how can he be said to indulge in pleasures! 98. Though, through his eyes he perceives things which come before him, he does not actually see them as he does not have the desire for them. 99. The genital organs of Hanuman were seen only by his mother and Sree Ram; therefore, then with whom can his celibacy be considered comparable! 100. When even the mother has not seen the private organs, then what about the others! Baba’s celibacy was the highest kind, complete in itself and exceptional. 101. He used to wear only a cod-piece or loin-cloth around his waist. His genitals were never aroused10. They were only for the sake of performing the bodily functions of urination or excretion. They were only for the sake of the bodily functions. 102. Such was the state of Baba’s body that though the sense organs performed their duties, yet there was not even an iota of passion aroused. 103. Because of ‘satva’, ‘raja’ and ‘tama’ guna qualities, all the sense organs were tied down to their respective places. Though in the practical sense they were active, there was no attachment involved. 104. Baba was not attached, he was the Supreme Being, turned towards his Self, whose desire and anger were put to rest, who was free from desires and attachments, and who had completely achieved his mission. 105. Such was his state of liberation that he regarded the sense objects as Brahman. He was beyond good deeds and bad. He was the abode of complete repose. http://www.saileela s.org/books/ sss/index.

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