108 Salutations To Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (31-40)

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108 SALUTATIONS TO BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA31. SALUTATIONS TO EASY GOING GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI

BABA"When

Baba visits a home, however short the stay He leaves it a Heaven of

peace and love. Often He goes alone into the house in order that 'the

devotee may not be distracted by the need to attend to the companions!'

He persuades the devotee not to indulge in pompous receptions and

invest in exhibitionistic decorations, exotic garlands, expensive

feasts, or quick publicity among kinsmen and friends. He comes as our

nearest and dearest kinsman, arriving after a long absence, to bless,

to heal, to enrich, to elevate, to alleviate, to console and correct,

to confer courage and conviction and confirm the consummation of

spiritual aspiration. He fondles the children, recognizes even slight

gestures of homage, remembers the names of everyone in the family,

relates incidents unknown or forgotten, promises relief and leaves

everyone expressing gratefulness to Him."(Sathya Sai Speaks Part III, pg 95) When it comes to formalities, He is always easy going.Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Easy Going' God.32. SALUTATIONS TO EDUCATING GOD :SRI SATHYA SAI

BABA"Baba

exhorts all to plan and establish a new educational system which will

instill discipline, canalize passions, control emotions and equip

youth, for mutual co-operation, compassion and comradeship, calm

deliberation and constructive service. At present, education equips

youth only with a begging bowl, entitling them to clamor for jobs! Baba

said

that He would establish a college in Bombay City if 'you prepare

students worthy of entering it's portals! Teach them spiritual truths

and the discipline that promotes their translation into daily life.

Intellect without integrity is infructeous and injurious. Politics

without principles, education without character, science without

humanity and commerce without morality are positively poisonous.' "(Sathya Sai Speaks Part III, pg 200, 201)"Bhagavan's

message and master projects planned for its' realization, drew many

educationalists, administrators, scientists, communication experts and

psychologists to the colleges He has founded.(Sathya Sai Speaks Part IV, pg 67)He is educator Par Excellence!Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Educating' God.33. SALUTATIONS TO EFFULGENT GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"There

are some very fortunate devotees of those days who cannot contain

themselves with Joy, when they describe the miracles they were

privileged to witness. He would ask them, in clear commanding voice

from the top of the hill, standing by the side of the wish fulfilling

tree (Kalpatharu), 'look up and see'; and lo they saw a wheel of

circling light with Baba's head in the center, or a blinding set of

light (jyothi) emanation from His forehead, 'from Shiva's third eye,'

they say. Instances are related of a few devotees falling down in a

swoon at the sight of these strange phenomena. Some have seen, looking

up from the sands, a huge Shirdi Sai Baba, illuminated by a mysterious

effulgence, some have seen Sathya Sai Baba's face inside the full

circled moon, and miracles like a pillar of fire, etc."(Sathya Sai Speaks Part I, pg 49)Truly, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Effulgent' God.34. SALUTATIONS TO ENCOMPASSING GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"On

the uniqueness of Bhagavan's aura, Dr Frank G Baronowski of Arizona

State University said, 'I was not brought up in any belief, though I am

a Christian by birth and a Roman Catholic. The scientific community in

my country finds it difficult to accept God. "It is not scientific,"

they assert. The aura that Swami projects is not that of man. The white

was more than twice the size of any man's, the blue was practically

limitless and then there were gold and silver bands beyond even these,

far beyond the building, right up to the horizon! I am risking my

reputation when I make this statement. Two days ago, right outside this

hall, I looked into His eyes. They had a glow in them. It was clear to

me that I had looked into the face of Divinity. If ever I can use the

phrase, I have seen 'love walking on two feet', it is here."(Sathya Sai Speaks Part IV, pg 57)Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Encompassing' God.35. SALUTATIONS TO ENCOURAGING GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"Baba has written in 'Dharma Vahini'

"No nation can be built strong and stable, except on the spiritual

culture of its women. This generation is full of unrighteousness and

injustice, malevolence and greed, falsehood and cruelty, because the

mothers who brought it up were not vigilant enough or intelligent

enough, or because they were not trusted enough by men, with the

responsibility of chastening and fostering their children. What is past

is past. To save at least the next generation, women have to be

educated in a well-planned manner and endowed with the wisdom,

fortitude and faith that can equip them for the great responsibility

that rests upon them.""Women are the bulwarks of spiritual

culture. But as is evident from the attitude and behavior of educated

women of today, they are fast succumbing to the flimsy attractions of

froth and frippery, cheap and shoddy literature, and sensual films."(Sathya Sai Speaks Part III, pg 53 & 55)That's why Baba encourages women to be educated in a well planned manner.Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Encouraging' God.36. SALUTATIONS TO ENDURING GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"When

He was hardly a fourteen year old boy, Baba went through the terrors

and endured the treatment given by an exorcist. It is a belief among

some villagers that any illness is usually the result of some one's

black magic or some evil spirit taking hold of the patient. So, someone

gave information to the worried parents of Baba that there was a

'Sakthi worshipper', before whom no evil spirit dare wag its poison

tail! The parents went through some difficulties but some how managed

to reach the famous expert in devil craft and handed over the case.""He

was a gigantic figure, terrible to behold, with blood red eyes and

untamed manners. He tried all his craft while the little Sathya was

smiling at his failures. So, he attempted some desperate techniques

which he dared not experiment even with strong adult patients! For

example, he shaved the head of Baba and with a sharp instrument scored

three 'X' marks on the scalp and with the scalp injured and bleeding,

the witch doctor poured on the open wound the juice of limes, garlic

and other acid fruits. He arranged to pour 108 pots of cold water every

day in the morning for some days. He beat the boy on the joints with a

heavy stick. Then he got furious and used his strongest weapon, a magic

collyrium, a mixture of all the acidic abracadabra in the repertory of

torture, applied to Sathya's eyes, which caused the head and face

swollen beyond recognition.""All the same Sathya never spoke a

word, there was not even a tear; He sat through the pain without

wilting. Baba said later, 'I wanted to make known that I am Divine

Stuff, impervious to human suffering, pain or joy.'"(Sathya Sai Speaks Part I, pg 35, 36)Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Enduring' God.37. SALUTATIONS TO ENERGIZING GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"Baba

visited the foremost 'Saivite' Shrine of India, Varanasi (Benaras) and

the foremost 'Vaishnava' Shrine, 'Badrinath' in 1961, in order to

infuse spiritual power in those dynamos of grace. At Varanasi, He

created a unique jewel to be placed on the idol of 'Viswesware'

declaring that it has the mystic might to charge that symbol of the

Lord with divine potency. At Badrinath, He drew from under the present

'Narayana' image, a 'Nethra Linga' which was the original nucleus and

'Energized' it with suitable rites and ceremonial ablutions."(Sathya Sai Speaks Part II, pg 27)Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Energizing' God.38. SALUTATIONS TO EVALUATING GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"In

a letter addressed to Sri Kasturi, Baba once wrote, 'You were a

professor and so you can understand this easily. You must have

evaluated the written answers of your students. You evaluate and assign

them marks only after careful scrutiny of what they have written, don't

you? I, too, measure and weigh the sincerity and steadiness of the

Sadhana you have imposed on yourself.'"(Sathya Sai Speaks Part IV, pg 128)"Baba

told John Hislop, 'It is perfectly all right to ask all these questions

and clear all your doubts. You are examining Swami and Swami is giving

the answers. But, when all this is finished and the next time you come

around, Swami will be the examiner and you will have to be ready with

the right answers in your mind and heart.'"(Sathya Sai Speaks Part IV, pg 95)He evaluates His DevoteesBhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the 'Evaluating' God.39. SALUTATIONS TO EVERY FORM OF GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"Baba

said, 'Since I move with you, eat like you, and talk to you, you are

deluded into the belief that this is but a human phenomenon. Be warned

against this mistake.'""This human form is one in which every

divine entity, every divine principle, that is to say, all the names

and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest."(Sathya Sai Speaks Part III, pg 11, 12)As a proof, many devotees were vouchsafed with the various forms of God by Baba on various occasions.Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is 'Every Form' of God.40. SALUTATIONS TO EVERY NAME OF GOD : SRI SATHYA SAI BABA"During

His discourse, Baba once said, 'You can call Me by any name, I will

respond; for all names are Mine, or, rather, I have no particular name

at all.'"(Sathya Sai Speaks Part I, pg 84)Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is 'Every Name' of God.(From : Sai Veda, The Word of God by Ramadas Gollapudi) Visit : Sai Messages : http://saimessages.blogspot.com/

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