FROM LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

[Guest guest]

FROM " LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA " BY NARASIMHA SWAMI Part 3/60

 

...... " Need for a Guru. The question whether Guru is needed is often times

debated by people with great warmth, some holding that there is need and others

holding that there is no need. These debates are usually in fructuous and they

excite and result in loss of peace. A good example is Hemadpant alias Anna Saheb

Dabolkar’s case on his first visit to Shirdi. He hotly contested for one hour

or so and, contended that a Guru was an unnecessary fetter and quoted the Gita,

in his support. Bala Saheb Bhate took the opposite view and maintained that

destiny was supreme and that a Guru was had by all. The dis­cussion made Anna

Dabolkar less fit to approach the great Guru Sai Baba by reason of restlessness.

But Baba by graciously revealing his Antarjnana of all that passed during the

discussion made Anna Dabolkar feel humble and contrite, and he felt that Baba

was a wondrous Supreme Power before whom he and his weak powers should bend and

give up his

“reason†and supposed independence. And thus he became the shishya of Baba

by the latter’s grace and found that destiny had fixed him up, though his

reasoning might indicate independence was his proper course. The Sastras, for

example, Srimad Bhagavata, Bhagavata Gita, Guru Gita, Katha, Mundaka,

Taittiriya, Maha Narayanopanishad say clearly that without a Guru Brahmanjnana

and Moksha cannot be attained......