Allah Is My Doctor says Sai Baba

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" Allah

Is My Doctor " says Sai

Baba

Reference to context: In the year 1910, Baba was sitting near The Dhuni on Diwali, and warming

Himself. He was pushing firewood into the Dhuni,

which was brightly burning. A little later instead of pushing logs of wood,

Baba pushed His arm into The Dhuni. The arm was

scorched and burnt. This was noticed by the errant boy Madhava

and also by Madhav Rao Deshpande

(Shama) They, at once, ran to Baba and Madhava Rao clasped Baba, by His waist from behind and

dragged Him forcibly backward and asked, " Deva,

for what you have done this? " Then Baba came to his senses and replied,

" The wife of a Blacksmith at some distant place was working the bellows of

a furnace, her husband called her, forgetting that her child was on her lap,

she got up hastily and the child slipped into the furnace. I immediately thrust

my hand info the furnace and saved the child. I do not mind My

arm being burnt, but, I am glad that the life of the child is saved " . In

the same chapter VII, same page 42 of

Shirdi Sai Satcharitha under the Caption " Leper

Devotees Service " it reads:

 

" On hearing the news of Baba's hand being burnt from (Shama) Madhavrao Deshpande, Mr. Nanasaheb Chandorkar accompanied by the famous doctor Paramanand of Mumbai with his medical outfit, consisting of

ointments, lint and bandages etc., rushed to Shirdi and requested Baba to allow

Dr. Paramanand to examine the arm and dress the wound

caused by the burn. This was refused. Ever since the burn, the Leper devotee, Bhagoji Shinde, dressed the arm.

His treatment consisted in massaging the burnt part with ghee and then, placing

a leaf over it and bandaged it tightly. Mr. Nanasaheb

Chandorkar solicited Baba many a time to unfasten the

bandages, get the wound examined, dressed and treated by Dr. Paramanand, with the object that it may heal fast. Dr. Paramanand himself made similar requests, but Baba

postponed, saying that " Allah was His Doctor " and did not allow His

arm to he examined.

 

Now, if such things (burning our hands or we suffer from the

ailment, injury etc, to our bodies) we run to a doctor to get cured from the

malady. This is all due To our body consciousness (deha

abhiman).

 

But, Saints have no body consciousness. They always abide in the

self. (Spirit consciousness) Bodies are like shadows to them if we cut the

shadow or torture it, nothing happens. So, nothing happens to their bodies.

 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

says: " Let the disease and the body look after each other. Oh, Mind, you

always be happy (in Bliss) (by with drawing from The

worldly activities & abiding in the self) " Sri Ramana

Maharishi's thigh was operated umpteen times. But, he

was calm and composed, (never bothered about his body) Why? Because he had no

body consciousness and firmly abided in the Self, (became one with Clod, like

our Baba) Sri Sivanesa Swamiji

of Shirdi died of cancer. Before leaving the body, he was continuously

meditating on Baba. When devotees from Hyderabad went to see

him, he told them not to worry about his health condition (suffering from

cancer) but advised them to do " Nama Japa " (Om Sai Sri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai)

constantly.

 

We mortals have no control over our body, senses and mind with the

result they control us. (We have become slaves to them, instead of becoming

slave to God) So, we are in the

grip of Yoga Maya (Illusory power of God).

From the Mind, the first thought (the

ego, I) starts functioning the bundle of thoughts follows it (all worldly).

Maya is God's illusory power, Parashakti.

 

Lord Krishna says to his friend and disciple Arjuna

in Bhagavadgeeta Text.4-r» that " Intelligence, Knowledge, freedom

from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses and

mind, happiness and distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, nonviolence,

equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, fame and infame

- all these various qualities of living beings are created by Me alone "

 

So, God (His Power- Parasakthi) is the

doer, but due to ignorance, we think that we are the doers (body consciousness)

and thus entangle ourselves in endless miseries and sufferings (Punarapi Jananam, Punarapi Maranam). What is the

remedy to get over (to come out of this illusion of Maya) and attain salvation?

 

The one and only way is that we should surrender tan, man, dhan (body, mind all possession) to our Samartha

Sadguru Sainath Maharaj and always remember him think over his sayings,

read his stories (Leelas) meditate on Him, always

chant his taraka mantra " Om

Sai Sri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai "

which is the easiest path to attain salvation in this Kaliyuga

(iron age)

Om

Tat Sat

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantihi!!!

R. Radhakrishnan

(Sai Jeevi)

(Souviner 28th All India Sai

Devotees Convention)