“Everything on earth is liable to change

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……“Everything on earth is liable to change or

mitigation and if we remember this, we shall be very

often able to meet 'the objections sometimes raised to

Sai Baba’s statement about karma. In the very opening

Charters of Baba’s Charters & Sayings, we find the

statement of Baba. ‘If one puts his foot on Shirdi

soil, his karma is abolished’. Many a man wonders

whether that is possible, especially in view of the

dictum quoted above, “Avascyam Anubhoktavyam”. Baba

also told Chandorkar that certain broad decisions

arrived at as to the birth and death of people are

treated as facts resulting from previous acts of

inviduals.

 

Regarding birth of a child, death of son-in-law, etc.,

about which Chandorkar was anxious to make Baba work

on his behalf, Baba declared that they were the result

of previous karma and could not be altered. In a sense

that is true. Certain births and certain deaths are

all fixed by series of antecedent events, but yet Baba

is able to mould these and shape these at certain

stages and modify these for the benefit of the

concerned devotees.

 

When talking of Dr. Chidambaram Pillai, Baba explained

the correct doctrine. Dr. Pillai had intense suffering

from guinea worm. He told a friend to go and report to

Baba that his sufferings were intolerable and to

request Baba to transfer these sufferings to some ten

later births of his and leave him free from the

sufferings in this janma. When this was reported to

Baba, the latter sent for Pillai and told him, ‘What!

you want ten janmas? What has to be endured in ten

janmas can be crushed into ten days by the power of

satpurushas.’

 

So Baba ordered him to remain with his legs

outstretched at Dwarakamayee and he told him that a

crow would come and peck at his wound and cure him. In

a few days, Abdul, Baba’s permanent attendant,

carelessly put his foot down upon Pillai’s wound and

crushed all the guinea worms out of it, merely by

accident as he (Pillai) would have thought. But

nothing done at the Mosque to Pillai could be

considered as an accident, and Baba said that Abdul

was the crow, and that no further crow was wanted to

peck at Pillai’s wound. Pillai was then asked to go

home, and in ten days, the entire suffering from

guinea worm was cured.

 

In another case, that of Bhimaji, who had serious

chest disease, asthma, tuberculosis, etc., Baba first

told Shama, ‘Shama, in bringing this thief to me what

a load of responsibility you are placing on me!’ Baba

meant that the tuberculosis, asthma, etc., from which

Bhimaji suffered were the result of Bhiinaji’s karma

in a previous janma consisting of theft. Bhimaji felt

Babas declaration a blow. At once he surrendered

himself to Baba and said, ‘Helper of the helpless! I

am helpless. Pray show thy pity and grace to me’.

 

Then Baba’s tone changed. Baba told him, ‘The Fakir

(God) is merciful, and your disease will be cured’. He

was suffering from the results of a karma but that

could be mitigated, and so the man was sent to live

and sleep in a wet verandah. Bhimaji did so. There, he

had two very dreadful dreams.

 

In one dream, he was mercilessly birched by a school

master. For, in the dream he fancied he was a boy and

the master was birching him. So, he felt the pain in

the dream and he roared out. In the second dream, it

was even worse. He felt that some one was placing a

stone roller and rolling it over his breast. He

suffered all the horror of instant death approaching

him. All the pain of a hanging sentence and whipping

sentence were endured by this man in the course of one

night.

 

Baba thus changed the punishments which he had earned

by his previous karma, and told him that he was thus

free from karmic effects. He then recovered his

health. The above instances go to show that most of

our conceptions about karma are nebulous and

ungrounded, and that the safest course for us to

follow would be to be guided by the dicta of

Satpurushas like Sai Baba.”……

 

 

 

 

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