Sai Baba's Method

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Sai Baba's Method

By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji

" LORD "

Lord, Bless me fill thy Light in My Heart and Soul

Let me feel your presence in and around me everywhere

Beauty of the nature sooths my eyes and gives relief, it is all

them creation

Bhakti, Bhajans and

Meditation are the ways to merge in you thou dwell in everybody's Heart.

Prayer is always for you to be with me everywhere and all the times.

 

I surrender at your Lotus Feet with my body and soul.

Jai Sai Ram

- G. K. Bharadwaj

 

The subject of Sai Baba of Shirdi is an extremely interesting one and at the same time

one of great complexity and difficulty. Sai Baba is a

living force and the Sai Movement is growing, expanding,

and developing in its nature as time goes on and though Sai

Baba passed away in 1918, it is quite correct to say that we are too near the

trees to see the forest. Sai Baba's movement is

growing around us and we cannot feel sure that we have seen most of it, much

less of it. Baba's Life is also so full of mystery that one cannot be sure that

one gives an accurate account of Baba. Yet we shall follow the legacy (the

unearthed treasure) stored up by our Sri Narasimha Swamiji,

the founder of Baba's world.

 

In the first place, Sai Baba is

absorbing the attention of an increasingly large number of people, and that is

the meaning of the growth of the Sai movement. The

subject of Baba's life and the history of his movement are of romantic interest

and far surpass the interest which we have in reading fiction like Arabian

Nights, etc. The oft-quoted saying that truth is stranger than fiction is best

illustrated here. Taking the mere question of the life of the

Saint, that itself is incredible and marvelous.

 

When he got into Shirdi, he was ripening

his process of love in solitude. Vairagya, Dhriti and interest in all creatures were developed

unnoticed and in obscurity by Baba, and the benefit to the world came through

the intrepid courage of a Goldsmith (Mahlsapathy) who

was anxious to get the best of saints for his Guru. Mahlsapathy,

a highly devout and dispassionate worshipper of Khandoba

found that Baba who had come as an unknown fakir was really a remarkable gem of

the highest virtues and was most fitted to be his own Guru. So he started the

worship of Baba in the mosque itself where Baba was living. His example was

followed by others slowly. Now it has developed so vastly in all parts of the

country and Baba's worship is going on individually and collectively. This is a

well known fact.

(to be contd…….)

(source Shri Saipadananda Special Magazine)