2nd Saying The distressed and destitute will be safe and happy, if they enter Dwaraka Mai

[Guest guest]

In front of the mosque, Baba planted a Tulsi

plant. He used to call the mosque as the mother and Dwaraka

Mai.

 

Baba declared that the entry into Shirdi

would end every anguish. The same Baba said if you

enter Dwaraka Mai, you will enjoy all peace and

prosperity. That means Shirdi drives away all

sufferings. Dwaraka Mai is not different from Shirdi. It is around Shirdi. This

universe is in the form of body. Shirdi is its head

and Dwaraka Mai is its heart. There is no mother

without a kind heart.

 

Now, let us try to understand the nature of Dwaraka

Mai. Mother gives birth to children. Cosmic mother Dwaraka

Mai gives birth to the entire universe. All the Jeevas

are her children.

 

People who can't visit her will not get true peace and prosperity.

Baba once told Shyama, " My dear Shyama, you can't understand Philosophical statements. You

are but a small boy. What can I do? We find at last one woman and man to be the

first cause of creation. Such first parents are the original couple. They are Parvati Parmeshwara. That Shiva

is Sai Baba and that Parvathi is Dwarakamai. We

should thus understand Dwaraka Mai and Baba to be our

parents.

 

Without the blessings of Baba, we can't enter Shirdi,

it is only after entering Shirdi we can get

permission to enter Dwaraka Mai. We don't know why

the children of Dwaraka Mai are separated from the

mother. The separated children are like orphans on account of their ignorance.

Mother never drives away her children. In this regard, Baba once said,

" Sea never throws away the rivers which come to it. Does any mother throw

away her children? " People have forgotten the mother Dwaraka

Mai and the reason is their ignorance.

 

If they are free from their ignorance, they will recognize and

return to their mother. Having forgotten the mother, they have gone astray into

the world of Maya. They have been wandering about in the world of polarities,

for several births. This is but a story of ignorance.

(to be contd….)

(Source Eleven Holy Sayings of Shirdi Sai Baba by Pujya Shri Ananda Sai Swamy)