WHO IS SRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI?

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33. The vast majority want benefits, temporal and spiritual, temporal first and then spiritual. The body and its adjuncts, a family. Etc., have to be maintained with sufficient provision for health and some degree of comfort before people can think of spiritual things. Sai Baba may be approached by all who feel the need for this urgent help. The more impassioned their appeal, the more faith they have in Baba, the quicker will be the results, other things being the same. To these we may suggest the ways and means of contacting Baba. 34. There are no special ways for approaching Baba, i.e., ways different from those adopted for approaching other high and noble personalities. How do we approach our mother? It looks ridiculous for us to ask such a question. The mother has showered her love on the child long before it is aware of such love. Thus Baba has similarly played the part of an unseen mother showering benefits on her children, the devotees, even from their previous births. But how are they to approach Baba now? Let them sincerely wish to do so. At once the approach has been started. They are improved from that very instant. They get more and more enthusiastic and get more and more benefits. These produce gratitude first and finally strong love. Let the reader daily think of Baba, seeing his future in the medals, pictures etc. he keeps with himself and let him read about Baba’s great deeds more strong than all poetic thought. Baba’s 108 Namavalis is a mnemonic device for forcefully recalling these qualities. Let him attend bhajanas and poojas where sincere devotees gather. One song from a sincere devotee, one artless song, will thrill the hearer and fill him with awe, joy, piety and lofty sentiments that will last a long time. Le one always go in for service to humanity or to lower creatures for the sake of Baba i.e., viewing Baba as existing in each individual person or creature that he sees. Baba himself will direct the further steps of the earnest enquirer. Ways and means for further contact and further growth will be disclosed by Baba himself in innumerable ways to each ardent devotee. The manner in which

he imparts these varies. Some of highly emotional nature see him at times even today and some talk with him during waking hours. Others get such contact in their dreams. Still others earnestly wanting some response and piously opening some book with a prayer, find their response in that book. Others resort to chits. Others simply rely on the correctness of their intuition that the though suggested to them at a particular time is the thought given by Him. In these and other ways, people get their contact and benefits from Sai. Sai is not different from God. Are not all these ways adopted by devotees in various religions

to get access to and a response from their God or Ishta Devata? The same applies to Sai Baba. There are numerous Sai Bhakthas who have such intense faith in Him as their God and who get their response and benefits from hi. If any reader is very earnest and wishes to pursue this matter further, it must be very easy for him or her to ascertain who are the Sai Bhaktas in their district or province with such Bhakti and, if these are noted for their pure and lofty nature, they can and might be approached with perfect safety and advantage. WHO IS SRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI?By Shri H.H.NARASIMHASWAMIJI (Founder)All India Sai Samaj (Regd.), Madras - 600 004. http://groups.msn.com/

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