SREE SAI SAMARTHA SATCHARITA – Part 1
-Foreword to First Marathi Edition by Hari Sitaram Dikshit alias Kakasaheb Dikshit
I bow to Him the Sadguru, who is the Embodiment of the Bliss of Brahman, the Bestower of the Greatest Beatitude, the Absolute, the Personification of Pure Knowledge, who is Beyond Duality (the pairs of opposites like pleasure and pain), All-Pervasive like the sky; to whom ‘Thou Art That’ and similar scriptual passages allude to – The One without another like Him, the Eternal, the Pure, the Immovable, the Witness of all Thoughts and Abiding ever beyond all Modifications (of mind and body) and Attributes (of the three ‘Gunas’).
FOREWORD
Sree Sainath Maharaj came for the first time to Shirdi approximately fifty years ago1. This village of Shirdi is in Kopergaon Taluka1A, of Ahmednagar District. There is no authentic information about who His mother and father were, or the place from where He originally hailed.
It is, however, certainly evident that Maharaj had considerable connection with the Moghuls. In Maharaj’s speech, there were frequent references to the towns under Moghul rule such as Selu, Jalna, Manvad, Pathri, Parbhani, Navrangabad, Beed and Bidar.
Once, a man from Pathri had come for Maharaj’s darshan. Maharaj asked him about the news
from Pathri and named many important persons there, inquiring about their welfare. From this, it can be concluded that Maharaj had detailed knowledge about Pathri; but it cannot be said with any certainty that He was born there.
Similarly, whether Maharaj was born a Brahmin or a Muslim, cannot be said without any certainty. Moreover, many of His devotees believed that He was not born of any womb. This also cannot be substantiated. Those, who are not His devotees, may find it farfetched to say that He was not born of any womb; but this author does not feel so.
Maharaj Himself had spoken to this author that “ now I leave and then appear as an eight-year old ” . When Sree Krishna manifested to mother Devaki, He was also eight years old. Thus it is described in the Puranas. “Unimaginable was the Light, that shed from the eight year form, which illumined all the ten directions and before whom the sun and moon paled into insignificance ”. (Harivijay – Chapter 3 – verse 126).
Many of Maharaj’s devotees do not believe that He had become a Siddha, by sadhanas, but He was definitely an Avatar; and seeing Maharaj’s leelas and incredible powers considered Him to be an Avatar of Sree Krishna. Maharaj Himself did not attribute any of these
powers to Himself.
When He spoke, He called himself God’s ‘Servitor’ and ‘Devotee’. “I have abundant blessings of my Guru and by His Grace the difficulties of the devotees are removed and they are benefited” , thus He said. When He blessed the devotees, generally His words were “Allah will look after your wellbeing ”. He never attributed any greatness to Himself.
He never said “Anal Haque’ which means that‘I am God’; but His words on and oft were ‘Yade Haque’ which Means ‘I am remembering God’.
-Foreword to First Marathi Edition by Hari Sitaram Dikshit alias Kakasaheb Dikshit
I bow to Him the Sadguru, who is the Embodiment of the Bliss of Brahman, the Bestower of the Greatest Beatitude, the Absolute, the Personification of Pure Knowledge, who is Beyond Duality (the pairs of opposites like pleasure and pain), All-Pervasive like the sky; to whom ‘Thou Art That’ and similar scriptual passages allude to – The One without another like Him, the Eternal, the Pure, the Immovable, the Witness of all Thoughts and Abiding ever beyond all Modifications (of mind and body) and Attributes (of the three ‘Gunas’).
FOREWORD
Sree Sainath Maharaj came for the first time to Shirdi approximately fifty years ago1. This village of Shirdi is in Kopergaon Taluka1A, of Ahmednagar District. There is no authentic information about who His mother and father were, or the place from where He originally hailed.
It is, however, certainly evident that Maharaj had considerable connection with the Moghuls. In Maharaj’s speech, there were frequent references to the towns under Moghul rule such as Selu, Jalna, Manvad, Pathri, Parbhani, Navrangabad, Beed and Bidar.
Once, a man from Pathri had come for Maharaj’s darshan. Maharaj asked him about the news
from Pathri and named many important persons there, inquiring about their welfare. From this, it can be concluded that Maharaj had detailed knowledge about Pathri; but it cannot be said with any certainty that He was born there.
Similarly, whether Maharaj was born a Brahmin or a Muslim, cannot be said without any certainty. Moreover, many of His devotees believed that He was not born of any womb. This also cannot be substantiated. Those, who are not His devotees, may find it farfetched to say that He was not born of any womb; but this author does not feel so.
Maharaj Himself had spoken to this author that “ now I leave and then appear as an eight-year old ” . When Sree Krishna manifested to mother Devaki, He was also eight years old. Thus it is described in the Puranas. “Unimaginable was the Light, that shed from the eight year form, which illumined all the ten directions and before whom the sun and moon paled into insignificance ”. (Harivijay – Chapter 3 – verse 126).
Many of Maharaj’s devotees do not believe that He had become a Siddha, by sadhanas, but He was definitely an Avatar; and seeing Maharaj’s leelas and incredible powers considered Him to be an Avatar of Sree Krishna. Maharaj Himself did not attribute any of these
powers to Himself.
When He spoke, He called himself God’s ‘Servitor’ and ‘Devotee’. “I have abundant blessings of my Guru and by His Grace the difficulties of the devotees are removed and they are benefited” , thus He said. When He blessed the devotees, generally His words were “Allah will look after your wellbeing ”. He never attributed any greatness to Himself.
He never said “Anal Haque’ which means that‘I am God’; but His words on and oft were ‘Yade Haque’ which Means ‘I am remembering God’.
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