FROM LIFE OF SEI SHIRDI SAI BABA BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

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FROM " LIFE OF SEI SHIRDI SAI BABA " BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

 

……“Another stanza, which may be quoted next, sets out the names of a

number of loving bhaktas so that they may ever remain in one's heart and show

how bhakti achieves its ends. The end of bhakti is not achieved by the offer of

money to God or by mere learning or by age or beauty of a person, God does not

want any of these. God wants only your heart, that is, your self, and he will

not be satisfied with anything else. The stanza runs as follows,

 

Vyadhasya Acharanam Dhruvasyacha Vayah Vidya

Gajendrasya ka

Ka-jatir Vidhurasya Yadavapateh U grasya

Kim Pourusham

Kubjayah Kamaniya Rupam Adihikam

Kimtat Sudhamno Dhanam

Bhaktya Tushyati Kevalam

Natu Gunaih, .Bhaktipriyah Sripatih..

 

This means, as for the hunter Kannappa what Achara or religious course of

conduct had he?

 

For Dhruva, what was his age?

 

For the elephant Gajendra, what education or degrees and titles had he?

 

Had Vidura favourite of Krishna any qualification in respect of caste? He was

the son of a slave or dancing girl.

 

For the king of Yadavas called U grasena, who was favoured by Krishna what

manliness had he? He was a great coward.

 

Fur Kubja also was favoured by Krishna, had she any great beauty? She was

deformed in person.

 

For Sudhama, known as Kuchela who also was favoured by Krishna, had he any

wealth?

 

Therefore, God is pleased with and wants only bhakti or devotion. God is

captured by prem or love. The above stanza refers to well known bhaktas who

received great help or favour from Krishna or God on account of their bhakti.

One’s profession or conduct, that is, whether one is a hunter or a Vaideek

Brahmin, whether one is young or old, whether one is highly learned or a

creature without education, whether one is a high caste person or the son of a

slave whether one is a brave man or a coward, whether one has beauty or wealth,

none of these are the reasons for God's help and favour. God is pleased by

bhakti alone and bhakti can capture Him. This contains the essence of the

doctrine of bhakti or devotion, and, therefore, earnest readers who are anxious

to study the history of Sai Baba, who realised in himself the perfection of

Godhead by attaining Purnalaya, concentrating his mind always on God with

intense love from his earliest period of life, and

thereby attained Aikya, so that he could say Mainm Allahum, that is Aham

Brahmasm and could exhibit all the powers of God; would find the use of the

above stanzas. Sai identified himself with Krishna and with every other form of

God. As the object of everyone should be to please God in Sai form or in any

other form, one may note how in point of historical fact, from this biography,

numbers of people were drawn to Sai Baba and achieved the love of Sai Baba, and

thereby achieved every object of human existence. The succeeding chapters of

this book would deal with the details of a large number of devotees being drawn

to and benefiting from Baba, and would fully illustrate the truth of the above

verses. At present we have sufficiently satisfied highly sensitive readers who

wish to have the essence of Sai Baba's Marga placed before them, before we deal

with the expansion of the Sai movement and the details of persons who approached

him, and the problems that

arise for consideration in the life of Baba.â€â€¦â€¦