RELY ON SAI ALONE

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RELY ON SAI ALONE

 

Our love for Lord Sainath should be whole-hearted. Then it will banish the

feeling of loneliness and gradually diminish our dependence on human

relationships. Ultimately, the companionship of Shirdi Sai alone is dependable.

It is right that we love

others, but our reliance should not be on human beings, but on Sainath. Anyone else we cling to, we lose. May be it is

because the Lord wants us to know that if we wish for Him, our attention to Him

must be single-minded. It is wonderful to pine for the one divine beloved of

our souls; wonderful to utter Sai Name. Then He is sure to respond.

In Arabia,

there was a great saint know as Ibn-Al-Arabi. Once he

sat down facing the Kaba. After a long time he turned

round happily and demanded his supper, which he received and ate very heartily.

When he was asked aobut it, he told

: “I declared to God that I would neither eat or drink til lthe man imprecating me was

pardoned. I recited “LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH’ seventy thousand time till God pardoned him.

Whether it is agreed or

not, that fact is that Allah who is the MALIK of ALL CREATION has always

listened to the prayers and demands of the saints and pardoned the sinners. The

saints intervene on our behalf and pray to the most merciful Allah to forgive

us and in turn Allah very gladly grants their request. Shri

Sai Baba was one such beloved saint.

Sai Baba has clearly told that the person who thinks

that Baba is in Shirdi only has not at all understood him. Baba’s mortal

body has disintegrated into its original constituents like air, ether, water,

earth etc. But the real Baba who is the great invisible force still continues

to help people in mysterious ways even after His “Mahasamadhi”.

He is active as before taking care of His children.

Sainath

is the divine channel through which the beloved Lord’s wisdom and mercy

flow. Like a mother bird that pushes the fledgeling

out of the nest so that it can learn to fly, the Gurudev

Sai Maharaj forces the devotee to establish his own

relationship with Almighty. For the same reason, Sainath

takes away from the devotee every human support to awaken awareness about Him,

until the devotee comes to the ultimate realization :

“Sai is my strength. Sai is my Friend. Sai is my beloved, my only one.

When He is absent from me, I am bereft of everything. I am a beggar. When he is

with me, I am filled with love and joy ; I am filled

with courage and strength.

Dear Sai brothers and Sai

sisters: If we go to human beings to find divine solace, divine comfort, we may

for a while receive a little happiness and contentment, but sooner or later the

Lord takes those props away. We have to rely on Sainath

alone. He alone is ever lasting, so He wants us to e strong in our faith in

him.

 

Shivajyoti M.Nanjappa

 

Sub Registrar

Ananthapur Dist A.P

(October 1985)