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

August 16, 2007

16. In whose company one can chat lovingly, and who can be worshipped with sandalwood paste and rice, coloured with turmeric and kumkum, for that a form is a necessity. 17. It is really easy to understand the nature of a bodily form rather than the formless. Once love for the saguna increases, it is the awakening for the formless (abstract). 18. Baba would evolve various means to enable the devotees to experience the abstract. By his authority, he would make them sit far and forbade darshan for a long time. 19. One would be sent on tour; one would be isolated in Shirdi; one would be confined to the wada and made to read the “pothi” regularly. 20. When such a studious training is undergone for a number of years together, then the craving for the

abstract will develop. While resting, sleeping and eating, one would then enjoy Baba’s company mentally. 21. The body is perishable certainly. It is going to come to an end, at some point of time. Therefore, the devotees should not feel distressed but should concentrate on the eternal. 22. This manifold perceivable world is the manifestation of the unknown (or invisible). It has taken shape or form from the invisible and will return to the invisible. 23. The universe which has evolved from Brahman, with each part having the same divine essence as the whole, will also be assimilated with the invisible from where it has taken birth. 24. Therefore, no being dies. Then how can there be death for Baba? - Sree Sai is always pure, enlightened, perfect and untouched by death. 25. Some may call him a devotee of God; some may call him a great Soul; but for us he is truly the very embodiment of the Lord. 26. The Ganga flows to meet the ocean, and on the way she cools those who are distressed by the oppressive heat; gives life to the trees on the banks, and quenches everyone’s thirst. 27. Similar is the manifestation of the saints. They appear and disappear. But their behaviour purifies the

world. 28. Of an extremely forgiving temperament, soft spoken, gentle, tolerant, and also incomparably contented, 29. outwardly though possessing a form, yet he is without a form, without qualities (of passion). He is without attachments and within him, he is liberated, though he lives an ordinary life. 30. Krishna who is himself God, says “a saint is as it were, my soul, my living image and a saint is my beloved and is myself.http://www.saileela s.org/books/ sss/index.

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