Who is Sai Baba?

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Only Three Sai Avatar As per Lord Shivji

 

First is Shirdi Sai Maharashtra State India

Second is Sri Sathya Sai Andhra Staate India

Then the last is Sri Prema Sai Karnataka State India

 

Sai Baba, a personification of spiritual perfection

and an epitome of compassion , lived in the little

village of Shirdi in the state of Maharashtra (India)

for sixty years. Like most of the perfect saints he

left no authentic record of his birth and early life

before arriving at Shirdi. In fact, in the face of his

spiritual brilliance such queries do not have much

relevance.

 

He reached Shirdi as a nameless entity. One of the

persons who first came in contact with him at Shirdi

addressed him spontaneously as ‘Sai’ which means

Savior, Master or Saint. ‘Baba’ means father as an

expression of reverence. In the Divine play it was

designed as such, that He subtly inspired this person

to call Him by this name, which was most appropriate

for His self-allotted mission.

 

All that we definitely know of Sai Baba is that his

arrival at Shirdi was anonymous. He was first noticed

in the outskirts of the village Shirdi, seated under a

‘neem’ (margosa) tree, about the year 1854. However,

even this date is not definitely noted. Sai Baba of

these younger days remained a stranger staying under

the neem tree for some time and then suddenly he left

Shirdi to come back again sometime in 1858, and stayed

on there till he left his gross body in the year 1918.

 

 

The second advent of Baba at Shirdi, around 1858 was

interestingly quite different from the first. This

time he accompanied a wedding procession as guest of

honor. On the arrival at Shirdi, he was immediately

recognized by someone as the same anonymous saintly

personality who used to be seated under the neem tree

a few years earlier and, greeted Him as “Ya Sai” –

Welcome Sai.

 

In the early days of his stay at Shirdi he spent his

time either wandering in the outskirts of village and

neighboring thorny jungles or sitting under the neem

tree totally self absorbed. The first set of villagers

who regarded this saintly figure were Mhalsapati,

Tatya Kote, Bayyaji Bai and few others. Bayyaji Bai

felt deeply motivated by this Divine Saint, and with

her motherly instinct she used to walk miles on end

into the jungles in search of him, carrying food in a

basket on her head. Often she found Sai Baba sitting

under some tree in deep meditation, calm and

motionless. She would boldly approach him, serve the

meal and return home.

 

After sometime as though out of compassion for her,

Sai Baba ceased wandering and moved into a dilapidated

mosque in the outskirts of the village. He referred to

this mosque, where He resided till the end, as

‘Dwarkamai’ (Dwarka was the place where Lord Shri

Krishna stayed to fulfill His divine Advent). This

mosque ‘Dwarkamai’ – abode of Sai Baba became Mother

of Mercy for all the time to come.

 

He had a body of athlete built and in his earlier days

he was fond of wrestling. Another aspect of Sai Baba’s

personality was his love for song and dance. In those

early years of his life he used to go to ‘Takia’ , the

public night shelter for moslem visitors to the

village. There in the company of sojourning devotees

and fakirs, he used to dance and sing in divine bliss,

with small tinkles tied around his ankles. The songs

he sang were mostly in Persian or Arabic. Sometimes he

sang some popular songs of Kabir.

 

He donned a long shirt – ‘Kafni’ and tied a cloth

around his head, and twisted it into a flowing plait

like manner behind his left ear. He used a piece of

sackcloth for his seat and slept on it with a brick as

his pillow. He always declared that Fakiri (Holy

poverty) was far superior to worldly richness. He was

no ordinary fakir but an ‘Avatar ’ (incarnation) of a

very high order. But His external appearance was of

simple, illiterate, moody, emphatic – at times fiery

and abusive and at times full of compassion and love.

In the moments of towering rage people with him

thought it was ungovernable rage. But his anger never

prevented his compassion dealing with the devotees.

His anger was evidently directed at unseen forces. He

enacted all these simple traits only to hide His real

identity as the God incarnate. Under the cover of

simplicity He silently worked for the spiritual

transformation and liberation of innumerable souls –

human beings and animals alike, who were drawn to Him,

by an unseen forces.

 

He begged for alms and shared what he got with his

devotees and all the creatures around him. He never

kept any food in reserve for the next meal. He

maintained the ‘Dhuni’ – the perpetual sacred fire and

distributed its ash – ‘Udi’ as token of His divine

grace to all who came to Him for help.

 

Baba would ask for ‘Dakshina’ (money offered with

reverence to the ‘Guru’ or the master) from some of

those who came to see him. This was not because he

needed their money but for deeper significance, which

the devotees realized at, an appropriate time.

 

Baba used to freely distribute all the money that was

received in the form of Dakshina to the destitute,

poor, sick and needy the very same day. This was one

of Baba's methods for testing out the devotees

attachments to worthy things and willingness to

surrender.

 

He ploughed up the village common land and raised a

flower garden thereon, he watered the plants, carrying

pots full of water on his shoulders. In the later

years he spent a few hours in this Lendi garden which

he himself had laid out in the early days.

 

He was every moment exercising a double consciousness,

one actively utilizing the apparent Ego called 'Sai

Baba' dealing with other egos in temporal and

spiritual affairs, and the other - entirely

superceding all egos as the Universal Ego or Over

soul.

 

He was the common man’s God. He lived with them, he

slept and ate with them. Baba had a keen sense of

humour. He shared a ‘chillum’ (clay pipe for smoking)

indiscriminately with them to write off the cast

superiority and orthodoxy in their minds. He had no

pretensions of any kind .He was always very playful in

the presence of children. Baba used to feed the fakirs

and devotees and even cook for them.

 

Saibabas perfect purity, benevolence, non -attachment,

compassion and other virtues evoked deep reverence in

the villagers around him. His divinity could not

conceal itself for long. Initially when people wanted

to worship him formally, Baba protested and dissuaded

them. But gradually he allowed it with the prescience

that it would become the means for temporal and

spiritual benefits to millions of individuals for all

time to come.

 

The 'Dwarkamai' of Sai Baba was open to all,

irrespective of caste, creed and religion. As the days

passed devotees from all walks of life started

streaming into Shirdi. The village Shirdi was fast

assuming prominence. As the gifts and presentations

flowed in, the pomp and grandeur of Sai worship also

increased. But Baba’s life of a fakir remained calm,

undisturbed, unaltered and there is the Saint’s

spiritual glory.

 

He lived His divine mission through His pure self in a

human embodiment. The immense energy that was manifest

in the body of Sai was moving in a mysterious way,

creating and recreating itself every where beyond the

comprehension of time and space.

 

This fountainhead of unsurpassed spiritual glory shed

His gross body on 15th October 1918. Every limb, every

bone and pore of his body was permeated with divine

essence. Baba claimed that though one day his physical

body will not exist his remains will communicate with

all those who seek him with inner yearnings. His

self-allotted labour of love in His physical body was

perhaps over. Today He continues to work ever

vigorously as the ‘Sai Spirit’thro mHIS another

incarnation known as Sri Sathya Sai Baba....then Sri

Prem Sai Baba also.

 

If you go to Parthi, then after the morning Bhajan try to

go the Bhajan hall and have a nice darshan of Naga Sai &

Sri Shirdi sai. Sai Ram. WHAT ELSE WE NEED IN THIS LIFE?...........What We

Really need is only Sai's darshan

and Sparshan thats all Sai Ram

 

Jai Sai Ram