DEVOTEES' EXPERIENCES - Shri Prof.C.G.Narke

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DEVOTEES' EXPERIENCES - Shri Prof.C.G.Narke

 

UPADESA, MANTRA, TANTRA, ETC

 

Sai Baba never gave me any mantra, tantra or Upadesa - and so far as

I know, He gave these to none. Madhavarao Deshpande has told me of

the following incident.

Radhabai Desmukhin was at Shirdi waiting for a time on Baba and she

wanted Upadesa. Finding that He gave her none, she started

Satyagraha. She stopped taking food and was determined to be without

food until Sai Baba gave her Upadesa. On the fourth day of the fast,

Madhavarao taking pity on her condition went and told Sai Baba of it

and requested Him to pronounce the name of some God, so that she

might take it as the mantropadesa for Japa. Baba then sent for her

and told her that giving Upadesa was not in His line, that He

following His Guru had different traditions, that His Guru was so

powerful that He trembled to go and stand before Him, and that the

help given by the Guru was invisible and secret and not by oral

instruction.

/ do not instruct through the ear.

Our traditions are different was what He said.

 

Sai Baba never lectured, nor discoursed systemati­cally as others do.

He gave hints - very pregnant hints. A word or a sentence or two at a

time was all He cared to utter. But from them an observant devotee

could build up his own system, lecture or philosophy. It is difficult

therefore to be dogmatic if one is asked what are Sai Baba's aims,

methods etc.? But stray hints were forthcoming.

 

.....to be contd

 

Devotees can read this book from the Book Section of

www.Saileelas.org/books/exppart2.htm