Sai Baba's Sacred words to Abdul

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Sai Baba's Sacred words to Abdul

 

Abdul was amongst Sai Baba's close devotees and lived with Sai Baba in Shirdi

for a continuous period of twenty nine years before Sai Baba's Mahasamadhi and

then remained in Shirdi for a further thirty six years until his own samadhi in

1954. Abdul wrote down some of Sai Baba's utterances and explanations and over

the years these notes accumulated into a small volume. After Sai Baba's

Mahasamadhi, this old notebook manuscript became very precious to Abdul as he

made use of it, according to Sri Narasimhaswamy, as a 'Book of Prophecy' through

which Sai Baba's message and guidance could be obtained.

 

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Marianne Warren, Abdul's notes have been fully

translated and published in her book - " Unraveling the Enigma - Shirdi Sai Baba

in the Light of Sufism " published by Sterling Publishers, India. In foreword to

the book Dr. N.K.Wagle of University of Toronto says: " Dr. Marianne Warren's

work is the first scholarly attempt to provide a historical context to Sai

Baba's teachings. An equally original point argued convincingly by Dr. Warren

concerns Sai Baba's knowledge of Islamic Theology. Dr. Warren has translated the

Saibaba manuscript in which Sai Baba gave discourses on Islamic history and

thought to his pupil, Abdul, his personal attendant, whose tomb rests near Sai

Baba's shrine " . For Devotees who want to advance spiritually, and are looking

for gems to collect as Baba used to say, these sayings are invaluable and should

be taken as word personally spoken to each one of us without any prejudice,

argument, discussion or

controversy.

 

Abdul's notes on Sai Baba's teachings:

Page 12: The religious emotion is purely spiritual. Only secondarily it relates

to the material world. O Parvardigar! - Universal Sustainer. O God! O Habib! -

My Beloved! What we see in this material state is not real because you cannot

understand it through the intellect or by inference. Those who consider the

spirit as without beginning, this opinion is incorrect because thinking itself

is not permanent. And life is the real thing. The body is subordinate to it...

Page 14 : To understand the true form of God is difficult. In the Qur'an, it is

forbidden to picture God with form. If you walk on the path of righteousness,

then you will not feel the need for it. It requires great effort to walk on the

path [of righteousness] i.e. tapas. When a person practices taps (riyajat),

divine insight (ma'rifa) will automatically come. A sura from the Qur'an says

something to this effect, Ajjain jahidu fina tabulana riyajat - He who performs

tapas, I regard him to be

on the path. It would not be proper to give him full knowledge about it. But

before you proceed on the path of Allah, you must discipline the mind. It is

strategic to strengthen the defenses, with fortifications. If an army does not

move how can the war of righteousness be fought. O dear friend! Know this that

the body is the kingdom of the heart. Do not think that the heart has many

armies. The Qur'an says: Maya alam rabbuk janud ilahu - The army of Allah, do

not think that it has to besiege the mind/heart. The heart is created for the

realization of God. To find the way to attaining a vision of God is a man's true

task. For the vision of God, divine sight is necessary.