The Immortal Theme

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The Immortal Theme

By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji

Baba gives all things to His devotees and fills them with all sorts of

joys - enjoyment of worldly objects, comforts of domestic life, riches,

honor, success in one's efforts, security from danger, cure of diseases and

relief from troubles of various sorts. By constantly remembering Sai, we get

a new life of virtue and power, with the joyous sense of achievement which

not only increases the quantum but also the scale of our happiness, lifting

it from the selfish sense gratification to the selfless spiritual joy, the

joy of life that is grounded in love.

 

Baba in His life worked many miracles and thus convinced many people of His

greatness. His love for humanity knew no bounds. He had realised that God is

love. He constantly preached that in order to reach the abode of God one

should have real and sincere love and bhakti.

 

To those, who went to Him for spiritual illumination and for the cure of

their physical sufferings, He gave His nectar-like udi saying Allah bhale

Karega. The sufferer did become all right very soon.

 

He made no distinction between this man and that man. To Him all were equal.

The poor man was as much entitled to His love and attention as the rich man.

The saint first satisfied the worldly desires of the people who went to Him

in order to attract them to Himself. He then gradually purified the minds of

His bhaktas and turned them slowly but surely towards spiritual desires. He

thus made His devotees fit for realizing God and attaining mukti. He very

often said, " Why should any one suffer when I am here? "

 

Near about the year 1886 this great saint said to Mahlsapathy, one of His

great devotees, " I am going to Allah now. I shall not return for three

days. " Soon after, the physical body became corpse with no life. His

devotees took care of the body for three days praying to the saint to return

as promised. So at the end of three days, the body began to show signs of

life. Slowly the saint opened His lustrous eyes and beheld all around Him.

 

People belonging to different castes and creeds began to flock to Him in

large numbers for spiritual advice. The saint had the same respect for all

castes and creeds. He strongly advised His bhaktas not to forsake the Gods

of their faith, but to worship them in all sincerity and devotion. He

preached that the goal of all the religions was one and the same, namely the

attainment of mukti. He was not a believer in proselytism. In fact, He

discouraged conversion from one faith to another. He was a great advocate of

Hindu-Muslim unity and worked with might and main for the realization of

this great ideal.

 

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