BABA IS A PERFECT JANANI...SRI SATHYA SAI BABA AND RAMANA MAHARSHI

January 14, 2009

Baba is a Perfect JnaniSri Sathya Sai Baba and Sri Ramana Maharshi Source: http://www.saibaba-aclearview.com/contents2.html - [Copyright 2001. Dated August 2001.This material may be downloaded, reproduced and distributed freely, as long as the source is clearly attributed.]By R. D. Awle

I¢ve noticed that many seekers on the jnana path tend to misunderstand Sai Baba, and look down on Him because of His miracles, believing they mean He is merely an un-Self-Realized 'showman' capturing immature hearts with yogic tricks. I would like to give a brief answer. If the testimony of Anandamoyi Ma and the other Saints quoted above can be trusted, Sai Baba is a full incarnation of God, the likes of which the world hasn¢t seen for thousands of years. Jesus and Sri Krishna also worked miracles frequently, didn¢t they? Does anyone imagine that means they weren¢t Self-Realized? Simply put, working miracles is one of the fundamental aspects of the Avatar's job. When God takes birth on Earth, He always comes with a huge mission to accomplish; Baba¢s mission seems to be to lift the Earth from an age of materialism and nuclear madness into one of divine understanding and peace -

and to do this, He must establish faith in God in the hearts of millions of non-believers. Miracles are simply the most efficient way to accomplish this. (It is surely as true in today¢s world as in the days of Jesus: unless we see signs and wonders, we will not believe!) If someone miraculously materialized a necklace before your eyes, lovingly put it around your neck, and then told you the innermost secret of your heart - would it ever again be possible for you to doubt the existence of a higher Reality? Wouldn¢t those small miracles have gone a long way to proving God¢s love for you? [...]

In addition to His role as Incarnation of God, the Avatar is also a Self-Realized Master; in fact, this is the Avatar¢s primary qualification. He is the Paramatman, the infinite expanse of pure Awareness in which the whole realm of time and space floats like a tiny bubble - and the Avatar will always be fully aware of His identity as the Paramatman; otherwise He could not be called an Avatar! I humbly submit that Sathya Sai Baba, miracles and all, is a perfect Jnani, and fully capable of leading a seeker on the jnana path (or any other path, for that matter) all the way to Self-Realization. Baba and Ramana Maharshi

And speaking of Jnanis, at the moment of the death of Ramana Maharshi (one of the greatest Self-Realized Masters of the last century), and extraordinary event occurred in Baba's ashram, giving us a clue both to Baba's identity and His relationship with Ramana. A Sai devotee named Varadu reported what happened: "...the night when Ramana Maharshi passed away in Tiruvannamalai [14th April, 1950], I was with Swamiji [sai Baba]. Krishna [another young devotee] and myself were both there. That evening, around 9:00, we continued whatever it was we were doing (I think we were doing a puja) when suddenly Swamiji looked up at us. There was a peculiar way of looking He has which means that He wants to go to His room. The moment Krishna and I went through the door into the room and closed it, Swami fell down. I was ready for it. Krishna and I both held hands, and Swami was lying across them. Then [He] rose up into the air, from our arms. He was as stiff as a board. He started murmuring - something about 'Maharshi has reached my lotus feet.' And then the sole of His right foot split open, and nearly two kilograms of beautiful,

well-scented vibhuti poured out from the sole of His foot. I collected the vibhuti while [He] was still levitating in the air. Then [He] came down and returned to [His] senses and asked what [He] had said. I said, "Swamiji, this is what You said: 'Ramana Maharshi has passed away.' And this is what came out of Your feet." He said: "Put it into packets and give it out as prasadam." A day or two after this incident, we learned from the newspapers that [Ramana] Maharshi had died. It had been at the time that Swami said Maharshi had reached [His] feet."1 So, at the time of his death, Ramana Maharshi merged in Baba's feet! Is it not therefore clear that Sai Baba is a full embodiment of the Divine Self, the supreme Atmic Reality that Ramana had realized at the age of 17? 1 Miracles are My Visiting Cards, Erlandur Haraldsson, Sai Towers, Prashanti Nilayam, 1987, pp. 167-168.

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