11 Holy Sayings - Whoever puts his feet on Shirdi Soil, his sufferings would come to an end.

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All your pilgrimages, all your holy dips in sacred rivers, all your

meetings with great sages and all your acquisition of knowledge will be purified

only by your visit to Shirdi. Only by the grace of Shirdi Sai Baba, they all

will bear fruit. Atmasakshatkar is possible only by

Baba's grace.

 

Shirdi is not a mere place of pilgrimage, place of Punya, but the place of

liberation. Baba is more a giver of liberation than a giver of virtues and

boons. Know Shirdi to be a spiritual center of

self-realization and liberation. With this knowledge, look at Shirdi and Shirdi

Sai Baba. Is Shirdi Sai Baba limited only to Shirdi? Does he live only at

Shirdi? Is he not available anywhere else? If Baba is present only at Shirdi who

is governing the rest of the world? Who is present outside Shirdi? Doubts of

this type may crop up in our mind. God is available everywhere. He is not

confined to a particular form, not limited to a particular time and not

available only in one place. Baba is available everywhere, at all times, all

over the globe, though is known to be living only at Shirdi. Shirdi is a

spiritual center where Sai Baba has sanctified all by his presence.

 

Life is present all over the body in every human being, but, all parts

of the body are not equal in getting respect and patronage. Only the

face and head are given respect and importance. In every other part of

the body, the same life is available, but the other parts enjoy the

high status that the head gets. Similarly the head is to the body,

Shirdi is to the world.

 

There may be a person without legs and hands, without the ears and nose. Even if

the mind is not sane, one can live. But there can't be a person without head.

When the head is chopped off, man is dead. Similarly, Shirdi is the head.

Because of the head only, mind and the heart work. The entire body is alive

because of the head. If the head is cut, life vanishes. Shirdi is like the

essential head. Therefore Baba has chosen to live there.

 

You may visit any place at will, but you cannot go to Shirdi at will

unless there is Baba's call and grace, your will and effort to visit

Shirdi can't fructify. Baba's permission, Baba's call and Baba's grace

are very essential to go to Baba (Shirdi).

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(Source Eleven Holy Sayings of Shirdi Sai Baba by Pujya Shri Ananda Sai Swamy)