BABA KNOCKS OFF VASANAS

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BABA KNOCKS OFF VASANAS

Upasani Baba who came to Shirdi in 1911, took Baba for his guide and got help,

especially, by silent instruction through vision. In one of the visions,

Upasani found that as he was passing on, there was a deep pit, which afterwards

he learnt was hell, and that when he approached it, hands came out of that hell

clutching at his feet trying to pull him down. He had sufficient grace to

remember his Guru, and said, "Let go, let go. If you don’t let go, I will tell

Sai Baba." The remembrance of the Guru knocks off all vasanas and tendencies

which lead to hell. Thus Upasanai’s feet were released from the clutch of the

hands from hell. Upasani was then told that it was a mistake to go very near

the brink of that pit. It was the Guru’s grace that saved him from the pit.

This is allegorical or symbolical, but, in point of fact, it was this same Guru

Sai Baba’s grace that saved Rao Bhahadur H.V. Sathe from the brink of hell, the

sin of immorality with a lady of doubtful reputation at the shala at Shirdi. On

that occasion Sathe felt like a thief caught red handed. He repented his

stupidity immediately and resolved never again to call at that woman’s place or

to commit such a sin. So, Baba really did save this devotee of his from falling

into the yawning pit, and thus showed that he was the Guru who would take a man

on to the goal of his life. If a man commits such mortals sins as adultery or

debauchery, he can never be fit to receive the higher truths which alone can

take him on to purity, detachment and the love of God that ensures salvation

and liberation.

( HH Pujyasri B V Narasimah Swamiji in Life of Sai Baba, Vol.4)

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