Sai Baba the Master by E.Bharadwaja

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The significances of an accomplished mystic to religion is inestimable. All

major religions sprang from the mystic experience of such - the Rishis of

the Vedas and Upanishads; the Masters of Taoism, the Buddha, the Christ and

prophet Mohammad. All religions are sustained too, from time to time, by the

saints who demonstrate in their lives, the truth of the promise of religious

life, that any mortal can realize the Spirit through genuine effort. The

individual seekers too derive the true interpretation of the scriptures from

the lives and teachings of such. Upanishads say that a disciplined seeker

has to seek the guidance of a realized sage and Sri Krishna says the same in

The Bhagavadgita (ch. iv : 34). The third of the three vows of Budhism,

“Sangham Sharanam Gacchami”, affirms the need to seek the association of the

wise. The Chirst says, “No one can come to the Father save through me”. He

finds it so essential to spiritual life that he chooses to seek baptism from

John the Baptist “for righteousness’ sake”. The esoteric school of Islam,

Sufism, enjoins a seeker to resort to the Pir-O-Murshad. Even modern saints

like Guru Nanak and Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa were divinely directed to

Masters even at an advanced stage of sadhana.

 

The point is driven home even more powerfully in world’s mythologies. In

Hinduism, Lord Dattatreya is the Avatar that manifests Himself to awaken and

lead mankind to the verities of spiritual life. It is he that reveals

himself in all the world’s perfect masters of wisdom. The Budha and the

Bodhisattvas are said to reincarnate for the same end. Every Christian saint

had declared at the moment of realization that Christ lives in him and not

he. Sai Baba of Shirdi has demonstrated that the One spirit of wisdom of all

saints is He.

 

Further, all the world’s mystical works say that association with a Master

is of greater value than the study of scriptures. For the Master interprets

the scriptures in a manner which is appropriate to his times and to the

individual seekers and thus enables them to live up to the spirit (rather

than the letter) of religion.

 

(Source http://www.saibharadwaja.org/