Dakshina box / Hundi

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Dakshina box / hundi The principle of dakshina monetary sacrifice performed by giving money by way of donation to Baba Baba used to accept or not accept according to HIS wish money as dakshina from devotees for retrieving them from their the evil effect of sins. Life becomes pure and rich by sacrifice. This is the preaching from upanishada religious scripture about knowledge which means learning by sitting at the feet or in the company of SatGuruthe Supreme TeacherUntil around 1909, Baba almost never asked for dakshina donations and rarely accepted monetary offerings, except occasionally a few small coins which he used for buying fuel. Then, for some reason, Baba did start asking, although he had no personal need or desire for money, and by the end of each day he had always given away whatever he had received that day, remaining true to his principles of nonattachment and poverty. A few devotees such as Bade Baba and Tatya

Kote Patil were even given a fixed amount every day.Babas purpose in asking for dakshina was always to benefit a particular individual by, for example, driving a frequently moral point home, balancing a forgotten debt or conferring a special blessing. I do not ask from everyone, he said, but emblem of MuslimHindu unity. The provision of the tulsi in a Muslim place of worship is an example of the many ways in which Baba fused Muslim and Hindu elements and resisted being identified exclusively with one religion, while persistently challenging sectarian divisions and prejudices.Babas photograph and the stoneBaba always wore white Kurta not saffron as a symbol of light. His posture is Niralambasan Nir without alamba dependence. This means that Baba as a supreme eternal power does not require any physical matter to rest upon. Another significant thing about Babas posture is that Baba never raised his hand to give HIS blessing. However HIS right foot is

parallel to ground so that devotees can have charan darshan vision of HIS right foot and bare left foot on groundOn the eastern wall opposite the steps leading up to the dhuni, hangs a large framed picture of what is probably the most famous image of Baba. It is a painting of an original blackandwhitephotograph.He is seated on a large stone with his right leg crossed over the left thigh, his left hand resting on the crossed foot. Baba is wearing a torn kafni, a headscarf knotted over his left shoulder, and he sits relaxed yet alert, leaning forward slightly. His expression is at once intense, allknowing and compassionate, but above all, unfathomable. To Sai devotees, this is probably the most familiar image of Baba. Consequently, many believe that this posture was a common one of Babas. Some suggest that Baba adopted this pose deliberately, as in Indian iconography it represents sovereignty, and is associated with gods and maharajahs and some draw parallels

with Dakshinamurti, who also sits crosslegged facing south. Others say that it has no special significance and that it was not Babas typical posture. Whatever the facts, the picture is treasured by Sai devotees as one of only six or seven photos that we have of Baba.Until Baba sat on it, the stone was used by devotees for washing their clothes remember that in those days, the mosque consisted of only the raised area around the dhuni, so the stone was outside. One day Baba happened to sit down on it and someone took the opportunity to photograph him. Once he had sat on it, the stone was considered sacred and no longer used for washing. It is that stone, set with a pair of marble padukas, which is now under Babas photo. The owner of the original painting of this photo, D. D. Neroy from Bombay, gave the painting to his guru, Kammu Baba, who later gave it to the Sansthan. It is likely that this was the picture that the Sansthan gave as a model to the sculptor who

carved Babas statue for the Samadhi Mandir.Devottes meditate on and worship this picture. Baba has said that there is no difference between his physical self and his image. Indeed, he even proved this on a number of occasions. When Balabua Sutar came to see Baba for the first time in 1917, Baba said that he had known him for four years. This puzzled Sri. Sutar, but then he remembered that he had prostrated to a picture of Baba in Bombay four years previously, and it was to that which Baba was alluding. Even more dramatically, Baba once came to Hemadpant in a vision and told him he would be coming for lunch that full moon festival day. In an extraordinary chain of events, a picture of Baba was unexpectedly delivered to Hemadpants house just as the midday meal was about to be served

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