BABA IS OPERATING ALL THE WORLDS

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BABA IS OPERATING ALL THE WORLDS.

How Baba could foresee the future event is the moot problem for metaphysicians

and philosophers and would puzzle every professor. The future must be fixed if

it is to be foreseen. In that case there is no free will for any of the people

who produce the results predicted. So, on the horns of this dilemma, learned

people were impaled, and Narke, being no exception to the rule, was however,

lucky enough to get actual experience of Baba’s statements regarding the

future turning out to be true. He had to conclude that Baba’s nature was

obviously divine and omnipotent, able to control the future in such a way as

still to make people who are exercising their ‘free wills’ to work

up to the end that is fixed, Baba’s nature was very puzzling and when

Narke was studying Baba’s nature, Baba complimented him, calling him a

Hushiar or a clever man. Baba never stifled legitimate enquiry. Everything he

said or did was full of significance and the professor declared that he could

mostly understand them.

We will now give the result of this professor’s study of Baba, and then

show the other side of the shield. The professor noted that Baba was living and

operating in other worlds also, besides this world, and that he was working in

an invisible body too. His word were highly cryptic, symbolical, allegorical,

and not plain. But one carefully noting them could make out what Baba meant.

Baba would often refer to ‘Paica’, ‘Oh, Brahmins earn much

paica by their ways’ he would say. He did not mean dakshinas. He meant

‘Punya, Apurva or merit acquired by careful observance of duties of a

Brahmin. Baba was also often misunderstood, when he talked in his mysterious

ways.

For instance in 1914 or thereabouts, a Harda gentleman, rich and old came with a

lady to Shirdi. He was suffering from tuberculosis. For one month he improved at

Shirdi. But later on he grew worse and worse, and the end seemed to be nearing.

One day, ladies of his house told Narke that he was in a critical condition,

and that he should go and ask Baba for udhi. When he went, Baba said,

‘The man would be better by quitting the earth, what can the udhi do? Any

how, take the udhi and give it as it is wanted’. So, Narke gave the udhi,

but did not report the conversation. The Harda gentleman’s condition grew

worse, and Shama, arriving later, informed Baba that death was imminent. Just

about the time of death, Baba remarked, ‘How can he die? In the morning

he will come back to life'’ This was taken by the relatives of the sick

man to mean that he would not die or that he would revive. So, they placed

lamps all round the corpse and waited till noon the next day. But life was not

restored. His funeral ceremonies followed. The Harda gentleman'’

relations thought Baba had given them false hopes, and for three years they did

not return to Shirdi. One day, one of those relations saw Baba in a dream with

the deceased man’s head over his own. Baba disclosed the lungs in a

rotten state, and said, ‘From the torture of all this, I saved

him’. Thereafter the relations renewed their visits to Shirdi. Then the

meaning of Baba’s words became apparent. How can he die, referred not to

this life but the survival of human personality, which takes up new forms of

life.

Baba used to sleep either at Masjid or at chavadi, and while sitting in front of

the duni, he would often say to what distant places he went overnight and what

he had done. People sleeping by his side and seeing his body by their side all

night would wonder how he could have travelled when his body was there. But

Baba did travel with the invisible body to distant places and there rendered

actual service.

Baba used to often describe scenes in the other worlds. For instance, when a

Shirdi marwadi’s boy died, people returning from his funeral heard Baba

say, ‘He must be nearing the river now, just crossing it.’ The

professor G G Narke says this could have reference only to Vaitarani which dead

souls have to cross.

Then Baba’s reference to past lives often puzzled people. But those who

had faith appreciated these recitals. Narke himself had full faith in Baba told

him the facts of four of his previous lives. He said this in the presence of

others. But others could not understand that these referred to Narke. Baba had

the peculiar art of giving information to particular individuals in the midst

of a group in a way that those concerned alone could understand and not others.

Thus at one sitting, by a few acts and words, he benefited numerous people.

As Sai Baba could traverse other realm than this earth and could control what

took place everywhere and, because he could see the past and the future alike

quite clearly, his nature could be clearly inferred. He was not a body-bound

soul. Baba himself brought this out by asking the question. ‘Where are

you? Where am I? Where is this world?’ Pointing to his own body, he once

said, ‘ This is my house. I am not here. My Mourshad Guru has taken me

away. That is, his Dehatmabuddhi was completely swept off by that Guru. The

professor, very clever in his logic, concluded ‘Sai Baba is alive. He is

where he was then. Even then he was where he is now.’ These highly

learned statements carry much truth with them.

Baba’s references revealed to Narke that the function performed by Baba

was very peculiar. Baba stated that he controlled the destinies of departed

souls. So, that was an important function of his. As Sai Baba never spoke

untruth, not merely babbled meaningless words, the professor concluded that He

was a Divinely gifted person whose function was to regulate the fate of

departed souls, that is, those who had been in contact with him.

Written by: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

(Vasuki Mahal Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Trust, Coimbatore-641025, India)