Baba's delight, lighting lamps!

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Baba's delight, lighting lamps!

 

The study of Sai Baba becomes incomplete if one misses

the portion of His immense love of lighting lamps.

Lighting of lamps has a lot of significance in all

faiths in general and to Hindus in particular. A lamp

apart from spreading light in dark night/space stands

as a symbol of enlightenment in Hindu faith. Thus any

worship starts with lighting lamps .In the light of a

lamp a devotee beholds the idol of the Lord in a

temple. In the realm of spirituality, a lamp

symbolizes the imperishable Atman.

 

Baba when started living in the masjid, used to light

lamps every night by collecting oil from the village

merchants. He could not stop His most loved habit even

on the memorable historic night when the merchants

denied the oil. Baba with His yogic power turned water

to oil and lit the lamps to the wonder of the secretly

watching merchants. After that wondrous event, the

people of Shirdi, and slowly the rest of the world

started looking at Baba with an eye of admiration and

devotion.

 

Later Baba started lighting lamps as Nandadeep in

Lendi garden. Until date, Nandadeep continues to shine

in Lendi. On one occasion, a devotee named Dengale

brought a small wooden plank of few inches width as a

gift. Baba tied that plank to the roof of the masjid

with feeble rags and to the amusement and astonishment

of the onlookers used to sleep on it by keeping four

lamps at four corners. In fact, the people watching

this unusual feat could not fix the exact moment of

Baba's jump.

 

Also in the early days of Baba's stay in Shirdi, when

the villagers dug under the neem tree, they found a

cellar in the light of four burning lamps. Baba told

that was His Gurusthan and there He served His Guru

for twelve years. It is no wonder that Baba is

continuing lighting the lamps of wisdom, devotion,

faith, and patience in the hearts of millions. Blessed

are those who find their path in the light shown by

Baba!

 

Baba Said

 

" The self cannot be gained by the study of Vedas, nor by intellect, nor by

learning, he, whom the self chooses, gains it. To him the self reveals its

nature, Katha Upanishad "

 

" Unless a man discharges satisfactorily and disinterestedly the duties of his

station in life, his mind will not be purified and unless his mind is purified,

he cannot get self-realization. "

 

" He who has understanding and whose mind is restrained, has his senses being

under control, like the good horse of a charioteer, reaches that place, i.e. the

state of self-realization; where he is not born again "

 

" The body is the chariot, and the self is it's master; intellect is the

charioteer and the mind is the reins; the senses are the horses and sense

objects their paths. He, who has no understanding and whose mind is charioteer,

does not reach his destination (get realization) but goes through the round of

births and deaths "

 

" The wise man prefers the Good to the pleasant; but the unwise, through greed

and attachments, chooses the pleasant "

 

Baba is every where just feel him and keep on saying `Om Sai Ram' to whom so

ever you meet.

 

OM SAI SRI SAI JAI JAI SAI!!! Let us pray at the lotus feet of Bhagwan Baba who

is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and

increase our devotion towards him

 

Jai Sai Ram

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai-Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!