Happy Sadguru Sadeva Day

[Guest guest]

     Baba's simplicity is well known and in fact baffling to those who

associated Gurus with grandiose pomp, and showmanship. He did not

consider himself to be above everything. Such was his humility. The fact

that he did not allow anyone to worship him until a few years before his

death stands testimony to this. The Spotless of Gurus, Sadguru Sainath

is the jewel reflecting the divine wisdom. It is a practice of those who

seek Guru to request for a special instruction or " upadesh " . Baba gave

none. When Radha Bai Deshmukh insisted that she would fast herself to

death, the fakir simply stressed the virtues of faith and asked her to

mind patience. Faith and patience will ferry one across the sea of mundane existence,

said Baba. How does patience work? Is the patience just a waiting period

that will culminate into the period of material riches? If so, it will

be just a passive stage the end of which will take one to the beginning.

What are the spiritual lessons one can derive from patience? Patience provides the nourishment to the seed of faith. It is during

this active phase that faith in one's Sadguru will begin to blossom and

bloom. Taking one close to His magnificence, patience provides the

excellent of opportunities to receive, ruminate, and absorb everything

that the Sadguru has to offer. Patience is the incubation phase that

leads one to the realization of the everlasting. The most patients of

His children were not richer by the material they possessed but by the

higher level of transformation they were blessed with. Bhagath and Abdul

remained materially poor their entire lives. While Baba gave lots of

money to other devotees, He always kept these two poor. Baba always

practiced repentance, abstinence, renunciation, and poverty. He guided

these two in the same lines and having Him with them, they never felt

that they were ever poor!-- OM  GURU  NATHASAI  GURU  NATHA