Puranas are all real!!

May 23, 2005

Dear Members,

This is a posting made by my dear friend Arun Reddy of UK. This comes from my other on Shridi sai baba.

PURANA EVENTS ARE REAL

Baba’s attitude to tradition can best be seen in his answers to the questions put on to him by Madhavrao alias Shama. Once Madhavrao asked Baba whether it was true that there were fifty crores of yadawas in Dwaraka as mentioned in the puranas. "Baba, Prof. Narke says that the account given by the puranas is false." But Baba replied "No, It is all true. Even Rama and Krishna did really exist."

On another occasion Shama asked Baba, "Baba, is it true that one crore of vanara army assembled at the time of Rama’s war against the demon king Ravana? How could so many assemble in one place?"

Baba replied that it was true that so many of them had assembled and that he personally saw them gathering one above the other, as ants do.

Shama said, "How could you witness what happened to long ago? If you were there then how were you?"

Baba: Innumerable births went by for you and for me. You don’t know but I do. I was as I am now."

On yet another occasion Shama asked: "Are Vishnu and Brahma lokas real? If they are, you must show me those. For, they say that when compared with those worlds, this one of ours is trivial."

Baba: "Don’t worry about them; for when compared with God they are still more trivial. For those worlds are also of the same nature as our world (i.e., transient).

Shama: But you must enable me to realize the truth of what you say!

Then Baba asked him to close his eyes. Immediately on closing his eyes Shama could see those subtle other worlds. As he went on seeing them Baba proceeded to point out Brahma in the Brahmaloka and told him that it was Satyaloka. Next Baba showed him Vishnuloka and pointed out Vishnu seated therein, and Kailasa with Siva in it. Finally, Baba ended the vision and told Shama, "These realms of existence are not to be desired by us. What we want is different and still higher."

(Source: Sai Baba the Master, by Pujya E Bharadwaja.)