I AM ALIVE, DO POOJA AND ARATI

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I AM ALIVE, DO POOJA AND ARATI

Every one of us, though we are not face to face with Sai Baba as Dixit was

between 1902 and 1918, can still have even now the same faith, the same

surrender and the same assurance from the Sadguru Sai that he will look after

all our concerns and the consequent fearlessness and calm with the certainty of

a happy death like Kaka’s. Sai Baba is not dead. He is God, and cannot

die. When his body was lying in the dwarakamayee, he appeared to and told

Lakshman, ‘Jog thinks I am dead; no; I am alive. Therefore do pooja and

arati.’ He has repeatedly said that his tomb, (i.e., He as Apantaratma or

Ishtamurthi or Perfect Avilia) will speak and move with those who make him their

sole refuge. Baba said, "I shall be active and vigorous from the tomb also. Even

after my Mahasamadhi, I shall be with you, the moment you think of me at any

place. As soon as a devotee calls on to me with love, I will appear. I require

no train to travel.’ BCS 47-52). Some readers may think that H.S. Dixit

had the advantage of constantly meeting and hearing Sai Baba and getting

strengthened thereby, which they the readers do not have. But, if one is

earnest in his desire to concentrate on Sai, one can hear and move with Sai

now, not through any extraordinary chamatkars (though these do take place even

now vide for typical instances September 1953 and June 1955 ‘Sai

Sudha’), but through very ordinary means available to all, such as

getting the vast literature on Sai Baba in various language, and having

sravana, manana, nidhidyasana, etc., of the same.

Written by: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji in Life of Sai Baba

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