GIVE ALMS WITHOUT ARROGANCE AND ANGER.

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GIVE ALMS WITHOUT ARROGANCE AND ANGER.

 

 

Baba: Nana, to-day I will give you one more lesson.

 

NGC: Good.

 

Baba: Nana, If anyone comes and begs for anything give him as much as you can, and if that person be not satisfied and asks for more, answer him suavely in the negative. Do not pour your wrath or display all your official authority against that person.

 

NGC: Good.

 

(But one day at Kalyan Mrs. NGC was greatly provoked by the importunity of a beggar woman who refused to budge unless she was given as charity the whole stock of 'Bhajani' (fried and spiced grains); and Mrs. NGC. appealed to her husband, NGC came down and called out to the peon to neck out the beggar unless she quietly accepted the quantity given and left the house. Sometime late NGC visited Shirdi, but Baba was glum and would not talk to him.

 

NGC: Baba, why do you not talk to me?

 

Baba: How can I talk to one who does not care for my advice or lesson?

 

NGC: What lesson have I forgotten? I remembered all your lessons.

 

Baba: That day, when the beggar woman was importuning you for 'Bhajani', how did you happen to call your peon to expel her and to show  all your official authority. What mattered, if she remained sitting your door, asking for more, while refused it? What could she do? After a while she would have gone away. Instead of gently replying her, why get angry with her and call the peon to expel her?

 

 

Baba: if anyone is angry with another, he wounds me to the quick. If anyone abuses another, I feel the pain. If one bravely endures the abuse, I feel highly pleased.

 

 

 

(from Baba's Charters and Sayings, No. 307, 308)

 

Guruvaar Prarthna

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Guruvaar Prarthna

 

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Baba, are you listening our hearts cry 'why only to me', not one or two, but a lot on me, where are you all these times of our turmoil, is it happening with Your approval, our hearts are crumbling day by day in one way or other, we have no words to talk with you, so we surrender our silence to Your Lotus Feet as our prayer. On this holy day we continue our prayers by reading Your divine words in Shri Sai Samartha Satcharita.

 

 

 

In this way, I told him the whole story. Baba also listened to it attentively and then said to me: "Always keep it in mind".

 

And also asked me very enthusiastically: "How sweet is this story which I have just heard! Did it impress you? Did you understand its real purpose?"

 

 "Baba by listening to this story, I have regained my peace of mind. My own hankering has disappeared and I have understood the right path".

 

Upon which Baba said: "My ways are different. If you have imbibed the lesson of this one story, it will be beneficial to you.

 

True knowledge of the Atman is to be desired the most and Dhyana is essential for this. During Dhyana one merges with the Atman which leads to quietening of desire.

 

Detach your mind from the object of the senses and concentrate on that All-pervading Power. Your meditation will be successful and you will achieve the goal.

 

Meditate always on my formless nature which is Knowledge Incarnate, Consciousness and Bliss.

 

If you cannot visualize that, then follow the physical image of mine. Bring my image from head to foot, in front of your mind's eye, day and night.

 

When you will thus concentrate on me, the functions of your mind will unite and the distinction between the meditator, the act of meditation and the object meditated upon will vanish.

 

Once this trinity disappears, the person doing the dhyana will reach that Supreme Energy – this is the goal of dhyana. You will then be one with Brahman.

 

The female tortoise is on one bank of the river. Her young ones are on the other bank. They get neither milk nor warmth – only her glances give nourishment to them.

 

The young ones always think only of their mother. They don't need to do anything else. They don't need milk nor do they need food. The mother beholding them attentively is their only nourishment.

 

This caring through just looking by the mother tortoise is actually like the showering of nectar. The young ones get happiness and they flourish. Similar is the case of the Guru and the disciple".

 

As these words of Sai were uttered, the loud singing of the arati ended; and all shouted "Sree Satchitanand Sadguru Jai - Jaikar".

 

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

 

 

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter  19, Ovi 101 - 114)

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BABA RESTORES SIGHT

​ BABA RESTORES SIGHT
 

In 1916, Vittalrao Y. Deshpande took his grandfather who was stone blind of both eyes to Shirdi and led him by both hands to Baba.

The grandfather bowed and said,"Baba, I cannot see."

Baba: Yes, you will.

Baba: Give me four Rupees Dakshina.

Vittalrao Y. Deshpande went out to change a note. Then Baba placed his hand on the old man's head and his sight was fully restored.

Old man (with tears): Baba, your kindness is wonderful. I can see everything now.

Baba: Take udhi and then go.

The old man went back into Shirdi and from Shirdi to Bombay with clear vision requiring no assistance.

 

BABA RESTORES SIGHT (TEMPORARY)

A woman of Bassein came to Baba. She was blind. At the Mosque she said, "Baba, my wish is to see you with these eyes." She was at once able to see Baba. She then went out and blindness returned.

 

(from Baba's Charters and Sayings, No. 339)

 

Guruvaar Prarthna

​ Guruvaar Prarthna

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Baba, days are passing out, our age is going up, yet we didn't get any ray of light from You. From time to time You are giving few opportunities to come across the ocean of mercy, but we couldn't recognize that offers are from You and continue to looking for You. Baba, please remove the darkness from our life and give us the vision to recognize all Your blessings. On this holy day we start our prayers by reading Your divine words in Shri Sai Samartha Satcharita.

When a person is in tremendous difficulty, then he remembers God; and that too, with great difficulty. Then the devotee continuously calls out God's name and becomes a follower.

 

But till the sins are not diminished, just reciting God's name does not help. Afterwards, seeing the devotion, God leads him to a Saint.

 

Similarly it happened for that devotee. Seeing him utterly fed up of the world, his friends gave him good advice. Listen to that.

 

" Why don't you go to Shirdi to take the darshan of Samartha Sainath? Pray to him, the Saint who is the Cloud of Mercy.

 

If one is able to get the company of a Saint, even for a moment, the wayward mind becomes steady and immediately settles at the feet of God from where it is difficult to turn back.

 

People go from far and near, humble themselves in the dust of Sai's feet, act according to Maharaj's commands and get their wishes fulfilled by serving him.

 

Such is his wide-spread fame. The young and the old all know about it. If he takes pity on you, you will be free of miseries.

 

Shirdi, at present, is a holy place. Streams of people flow in and out, day and night. You too can have this experience. The darshan of the Saint will be beneficial ".

 

Just as a person worried because of drought and thus reduced to penury, if he is suddenly showered with ample wealth; or if a person agonised by terrible hunger is served with delicacies;

 

He felt like that when his friends told him of Shirdi. That devotee accepted this advice and decided to have the experience. He set off for Shirdi.

 

He came to the town, had darshan and prostrated at his feet. Immediately, he felt relaxed and contented.

 

He who was Absolute Brahman, Ancient, Self-illumined, Unblemished – such was the vision he saw and he was joyous.

 

He felt that, thanks to his last birth's good fortune, he had come near Sai's feet and his mind was at peace, free from anxiety because of the darshan.

 

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter  18, Ovi 30 - 42)

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BABA AVERTS DEATH - Modern Markandeya

BABA AVERTS DEATH

 

In May, June 1917, a Mumbai lady and her younger son sat before Baba at noon Arati.

 

Baba: Your must come here exactly at 2 p.m.

 

Boy: Yes.

 

Accordingly the boy was there at 2 p.m. at the Dwarakamayee.

 

Baba: Boy, come here. Sit at my feet on this mat. Be massaging my feet and do not let go my feet till I tell you.

 

Accordingly the boy went on massaging. At 3 p.m. a terrible female figure with wild disheveled hair, begrimed face and head and a protruding long tongue shot out and moving like a dog's jumped over the compound wall and coming near the boy, said: "I want this person".

 

Baba: I will not give him.

 

She: This exactly is the person I want.

 

(She then approached the boy and pulled him. Baba got up enraged and holding the boy with one hand, kicked her on the breast. She roared and ran away)

 

Baba: Boy, are you not attending? Do you know the woman that came; Hallo! that woman wanting you to be given up. But how can I give? I refused.

 

Boy: When this was going on, I sat benumbed like a picture. I saw everything, but my body was inert or stone like.

 

(Baba declared that the female form was the goddess cholera. And the very next morning, Baba permitted the boy and his mother to go back to Mumbai. Cholera then began to rage at Shirdi)

 

 

 

(from Baba's Charters and Sayings, No. 327)