'Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi -A God!' by Bapatla Hanumanth Rao Garu

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These qualities are revealed in Baba's behaviour towards his devotees like

Nana Chandorkar and Upasini Baba (His contemporaries) whom he set on the

right path. The Fakir carved Baba into a perfect person of good qualities

and made him a deserving disciple to seek the shelter of Gopal Rao Deshmukh

(Venkusa). How fortunate Baba was! Baba reached the hands of a Sufi saint

from Hindu parents and came back to the tender care of a Hindu saint from a

Muslim saint. No wonder, Baba was the culmination of two different

religions; Baba assimilated the great ideologies of the two great religions

and then started preaching socio unity between the Hindus and Muslims.

The Islam religion believes in one Nirakara God where as the Hindu religion

has many Godly forms in it and we see the pictures of them like Sri Rama,

Sri Krishna, Venkateswara, Lakshmi Narayana, Datta, Ganapati etc., in their

dwellings. They worship them on several occasions, with a belief as per the

Puranic stories. Yet, all these are the many forms of the Infinite and the

Absolute Brahmam, In Islam, God is one, and the prophet comes next. They

have none other than these two.

Our vedas and Vedantas proclaim 'Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma, -'Angaananya

Devataa' (every thing in the form of Brahmamn and all the Devatas are parts

of limbs of that absolute self)  In the Hymns it is said “Surya (Sun God)

Agni (God of Fire) Varun (Rain God) are all considered to be godly forms.

 

The non-Hindus fail to understand the messages from 'Upanisbads' like

'Matru-Devo-Bhava’, 'Pitru-Devo-Bbava’ and ‘Atbidbi-Devo-Bhava’ (consider

your mother to be God your father to be God; and your unexpected guest to be

God Even the Muslims agree to some extent with the Hindus on the statement

'Acharya-Devo-Bhava (consider your Guru to be God). The Sufi sect underlines

this truth only, 'Guru is God and he is to be placed in the hearts of the

seekers. Their basic principles are- loving their Guru, meditating upon Guru

and seeking union of their soul with the 'Guru'. The principle of

Acharya-Devo Bhava’ is propounded in the 'Taittaireya Upanisbad.

 

To be contd....

(Source : http://www.saileelas.org/book/agod.htm

 

 

 

 

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