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I carry on your burden - Baba

 

" Do you love dolls? " a little girl asked the guest " Yes, I do " , he

replied.

 

At once she ran and brought a heap of dolls. The guest asked

her, " Which one do you love the most? "

 

" Promise not to laugh at it I tell you? " He said, " I promise " .

She picked a doll whose hair had come off, with a broken nose,

scratched cheek, one leg and one arm missing.

 

" This one "

 

" Why? " asked the visitor.

 

" Because " , she answered, " If I don't love this one, no body else

would! "

 

What a great lesson from a child! God loves the broken ones, those no

one else loves!

 

In Gita, Lord Krishna has given express assurance that those who are

totally dedicated to Him with implicit faith and those who worship

Him incessantly are helped and protected by Him. Sai Baba has given a

similar promise to His devotees. His symbolic discourse with Shyama

fully reflects his divine assurance to devotees who place unflinching

faith in his protection as guardian Godfather.

 

Shyama was a school teacher. He became the first knowledgeable and

conscious follower, devotee and propagator of Sai Baba's glory among

the incoming educated and elite persons who visited Shirdi

occasionally during olden days.

 

At first Shyama considered Sai Baba as a crazy fakhir. He was

attracted to Baba as he was fond of tobacco and Baba used to give him

sips of chili. After having a close company of Baba, the intelligence

and education of Shyama brought home the understanding to him, that

the strange behavior of the Master has some scheme behind it. He used

to select good and pious persons for blessing and granting udhi with

boons, whereas Baba at once found out the black sheep and wicked

persons in society and remonstrated them. Thus Shyama who used to

treat Baba as a mad fakhir and came only to enjoy and relish tobacco

smoking, came to realise that Baba was the wisest among men and

greatest among the sadhus of contemporary decades. Slowly he became

the introducer, mediator and follower of Baba and used his affinity

as a media to incoming devotees.

 

Once Baba gave a book of Vishnu Sahasra Namam taken by Him form the

bundle of a Ramadasi, Shyama refused to accept it. Instead he

requested Baba to protect him, remove his worries directly without

the mediation of book or name. Baba then assured (in the words of Sai

Geetayan) as follows:-

 

" O! Shyama is it necessary for me to repeat this to you every time

that I carry the burden of my devotees for ever. I swear by the

sacred flames burning in the Dhuni. There will be nothing short in

the house of my devotee. He will be never destitute of food and

clothing. Those who forget their body consciousness in my memory are

blessed by me. I carry their burden. Those who will climb the

footsteps of this mosque will be lifted up from the mire of this

magic and transitory samsara. I will carry them on my shoulders to

the yonder bank of peace, tranquility and deliverance. These devotees

are dearer to me than my own soul because they forget themselves in

the recitation of my name and meditation of my form. Shyama - I carry

their burdens. I have repeated this a million times to you " .

 

Baba has not left the world of devotees although he has left his

human body. He is beside, before, behind and accompanying his devout

followers. All burdens are to be placed at his feet by the devotees

and behave in the world with 'Shraddha' and 'Saburi'. In fact this is

the summing up of what Baba did and said during his lifetime. Shyama

is the first and foremost comrade devotee assured in straight and

direct terms.

 

Let us pray Shri Sai to give us the intellect and wisdom

to make tomorrow's world a happier place with unity like one

family under sssd group to stay by following his principle of " Shraddha " and

" Saburi " for ever and ever!!!!

 

Sai Bless you ever and ever!!!

 

My Humble salutations at the Divine Lotus Feet!

 

Jai Sai Ram

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