Faith and Patience are the two Paths to Reach God Sai Baba

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Faith and Patience are the two Paths to Reach

God Sai Baba

 

Sai Baba, the sage of Shirdi, has been pouring out his

divine love and blessings to thousands and hun­dreds of thousands since 1845.

The unending stream of devotees at Shirdi day in and day out is but a

manifestation of divine Love, Compassion and Pitv.

Sai Baba is the most powerfull sage, who bears all

the burdens of humanity.

Like all great teachers Sai Baba has rightly been claimed as

the Mother of all virtues. Baba often told his devotees ''Your servant's

servant l am. lam your

debtor " . I am purified by your darshan. It is a

great grace on your part to have given Me the sight of

your feet " .

Lord Sai Baba often preached that the attitude of

" I " and " Mine'' are the result of ignorance. The right attitude

born of knowledge is that God is the Master and that all things belongs to Him - Once Rama asked Hanuman " How do you

like on me? Hanuman replied. " 0 Rama, as long as I have the feeling of

" I " , I see that you are the whole and I am a part, you are the Master

and I am you " . Thus the first step in the life of a devotee is humility.

Self surrender marks the next step of a devotee.

A devotee has to surrender to God himself wholly and exclusively, including his

five senses-Then he beco­mes a personal servant of God. The entire responsi­bility

for his Maintenance and protection is taken up by the Lord. In BHAQVAD GlTA Lord Kriehna said

" 0 Arjuna. take refuge in Me. I shall deliver you

from all sins " . Lord Sai Baba also said, " Cast all your burdens on Me

and I shall bear them',. Also as prea­ched by Lord

Krishna to Arjuna, Baba also said, " Do your duty

and leave the rest to me " Because once the devotee becomes free from sin and

misery, as all his actions are performed as divine duty without a thought for

the result. Let all the works be God's works all the

thoughts, words and deeds are centered in God. Everyone should see God in every

thing and every thing in God, loves all beings in the

universe as manifestation of God. Thus, the natural results of this self

surrender are intense devotion towards God and love towards all beings in the

universe, such a devotee has no disappointments in life and has no fear of

death.

BABA often used to say that once a person has faith in God,

he has achieved everything. There is nothing greater than faith. The devotee's

heart is full of virtues like forgiveness, spirit of non-vio­lence, Compassion

and love. Thus, these are the virtues of the hero and the characteristic of a

true devotee is a courageous patience or Saburi as Sai Baba has put it. Sainath said " surrender yourself comp­letely your body

and soul to God.'' One, who has abundant faith (Nishta)

and courageous patience (Saburi), will achieve anything what they want through

the attainment of God Sai Baba

Hence, Faith, Patience and Love are the ways to fulfill our

Material goals as well as to reach 'Moksha'

By

Ch. SURYANARAYANA

 

(As appeared in the Dwarakamayi

Magazine Published from Hyderabad August 1989)