How K.J.Bhishma Composed Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana.

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Sai Baba’s remark had a strange effect on Bhishma. The distinction between

the Vaishnav sadhu of his dream and Sai Baba disappeared. He knowingly asked

the sevak for Sai Baba’s tirtha and placed his head on Sai Baba’s feet. Sai

Baba put his palm on Bhishma’s head for two full mintues. Bhishma went into

ecstacy. How could he describe the state of his mind except by saying like

Devnath in his famous composition “Gurukrupayka uhnjuna paya mera main janu”

.. “The Guru’s Grace I have received I know it from Sai Baba’s feet. Sai Baba

put his palm on Bhishma’s head for two full mintues. Bhishma went into

ecstacy. How could he describe the state of his mind except by saying like

Devnath in his famous composition “Gurukrupayka uhnjuna paya mera main janu”

.. “The Guru’s Grace I have received I know it for myself”.

 

Bhishma returned to his lodging, brooding on how he could prepare five

laddus in a place where he himself was a guest. Even otherwise he would have

had to take the assistance of another person for the purpose and Sai Baba

would have surely known about it. Moreover, why did Sai Baba ask him for

only five laddus and not laddus generally? He spent a day thinking about the

deeper meaning thereof and fell asleep with this thought uppermost in his

mind. Suddenly he woke up and was inspired to compose a stanza. In the

morning while he busied himself with the second stanza, Hari Sitaram

Dikshit, on his way to the Musjid, saw the stanza. After his bath, Bhishma

went to the musjid. Sai Baba reminded him about the laddus. Bhishma kept

quiet but Dikshit replied that laddus were being prepared. On hearing this

Sai Baba fell into a silence. Next day, Bhishma completed five stanzas, and

however hard he tried, he could not compose any more. So he placed the

composition of five stanzas into Sai Baba’s hands. Sai Baba asked him to

recite them. While he was reciting, Sai Baba again blessed him by putting

his palm on his head and Bhishma felt exalted. Thereafter Bhishma would

compose a verse and show it to Sai Baba who would order him to render it.

Thus the booklet “Shri Sainath Sagunopasna” wrote itself and was offered at

Sai Baba’s feet. Dadasaheb Khaparde has the booklet published at his expense

till 1922. Later on in 1923, after Shri Sai Baba Sansthan was founded, with

Bhaishma’s consent a revised edition was planned and published by the

Sansthan with incorporation of more compositions therein.

 

by V.B.Kher.

Source Shri Sai Leela September 1985.