Guest guest Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 Chapter 7 (Part 9) - Scribblings of A Shirdi Sai Devotee This is part 9 of Chapter 7 of the divine book " Scribblings of A Shirdi Sai Devotee " written by an ardent and staunch devotee Shri Suresh Chandra Gupta ji from New Delhi. Devotee readers who have missed earlier chapters can read from the links below. Already Posted : An Introduction - Scribblings of A Shirdi Sai Devotee Chapter 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Part 2 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 - Part 1 Chapter 3 - Part 2 Chapter 3 - Part 3 Chapter 3 - Part 4 Chapter 3 - Part 5 Chapter 3 - Part 6 Chapter 3 - Part 7 Chapter 3 - Part 8 Chapter 4 - Part 1 Chapter 4 - Part 2 Chapter 4 - Part 3 Chapter 4 - Part 4 Chapter 4 - Part 5 Chapter 4 - Part 6 Chapter 4 - Part 7 Chapter 4 - Part 8 Chapter 5 - Part 1 Chapter 5 - Part 2 Chapter 5 - Part 3 Chapter 5 - Part 4 Chapter 5 - Part 5 Chapter 6 - Part 1 Chapter 6 - Part 2 Chapter 6 - Part 3 Chapter 6 - Part 4 Chapter 6 - Part 5 Chapter 6 - Part 6 Chapter 6 - Part 7 Chapter 6 - Part 8 Chapter 7 - Part 1 Chapter 7 - Part 2 Chapter 7 - Part 3 Chapter 7 - Part 4 Chapter 7 - Part 5 Chapter 7 - Part 6 Chapter 7 - Part 7 Chapter 7 - Part 8 17. Sai’s Ankita Child I implored Sai, To save me from the vicissitudes of life To give me more and more To make my life comfortable, respectable and easy With a place of dignity in society. Sai smiled and said: The other day you asked Me Th give you my ‘ananya bhakti’ To fill your heart with love and compassion, To enable you become My ‘Ankita’ Child Do you know? One cannot be a bhakta Unless he imbibes all virtues in life. One cannot be a rich man It his heart if filled with love and compassion For he shall then learn To share his wealth with others And never be able to accumulate If one is compassionate He would not care for his own comforts The concern of the less fortunate, the neglected and the poor Will become his own. I leave the choice to you To decide what you wish to ask from me My bhakti, my love, my compassion Or the pleasures and comforts of life The choice is yours But do not try to rid Both horses together And deceive your own self Let me assure you If you choose the path of bhakti You shall have to make sacrifices At every step of life But then, The responsibility for your well being Shall entirely become mine And you might then, become entitled To call yourself my ‘Ankita’ Child. 18. Make Me to Fade as a Child I came into this wide world Like a child. During the whole of my life I might have endeavoured to play Some child like pranks here and there But as the child soon returns to its natural Self Make me to return to my original state of a child I implore you, O’ My Baba. Very man y years spent on this Mother Earth Seem to have taken me nowhere. Oh! What a bliss it is To live like a child And leave all one’s burdens on Him Who has undertaken to bear them The one who has experienced The divine ecstasy the surrender bestows Knows the sublime heights It takes one to. I pray to you my Baba To let this physical frame Face into oblivion, Like a child As it came. Continued...Part 10 of Chapter 7 Jai Sai Ram Hetal Patil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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