Sai Baba the Master

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Sainthood is no rosy privilege. How much such a one as Baba has to suffer

from the violence that people commit on dumb creatures, receiving and

experiencing, as they do, all the pain and misery, not for a day or two at

some point in history but to the end of time? We shall, in a later chapter,

note a few incidents to show that Baba was very much alive even after his

mahasamadhi and that he did suffer for the sins of mankind and bless it in

return. Christ had only brought this truth into the knowledge of mankind.

But the ignorance of making seems to have been too great even for him. Men

have conveniently packed him up in to a limited period in history and

thought that he had once suffered for them and that he no longer does. The

testiomony of all great saints and prophets like the Buddha and Vivekananda

shows that they have to suffer till the last creature in creation is

ultimately liberated from sin and ignorance. But men find it quite

Christian to vilify, kill and hate one another, in the name of such holy

ones by raising one Goodman’s name against that of another. Yet the holy

ones hold on and continue to draw the ignorant mortals to the shore. What

grace, compassion and tenacity are theirs!

Mrs. Hansraj says, “Sai Baba, while he was all along living at Shirdi

itself, should suddenly declare, ‘I am just back from Varanasi after a holy

dip in Ganga. Why do I want a bath here’ Or ‘I have just now returned from

Kolhapur and Audumbarwadi.’ ”

Baba’s omnipresence extends even to things. Balabua Sutur of Bombay was a

famous saint who by his melodious and ecstatic bhajans, earned the title of

‘Modern Tukaram’. He came to Shirdi for the first time in 1917 and bowed

before Sai Baba. Baba said to the others, “I know this man for the last

four years”. Balabua remembered that exactly four years earlier, he

prostrated before Baba’s photograph in Bombay. What an immense assurance

for us today!

 

Source http://www.saibharadwaja.org)