Sai Baba's Method

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Sai Baba's Method

By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji

" LORD "

Lord, Bless me fill thy Light in My Heart and Soul

Let me feel your presence in and around me everywhere

Beauty of the nature sooths my eyes and gives relief, it is all them

creation

Bhakti, Bhajans and Meditation are the ways to merge in you thou dwell

in everybody's Heart.

Prayer is always for you to be with me everywhere and all the times.

I surrender at your Lotus Feet with my body and soul.

Jai Sai Ram

- G. K. Bharadwaj

 

The subject of Sai Baba of Shirdi is an extremely interesting one and at

the same time one of great complexity and difficulty. Sai Baba is a

living force and the Sai Movement is growing, expanding, and developing

in its nature as time goes on and though Sai Baba passed away in 1918,

it is quite correct to say that we are too near the trees to see the

forest. Sai Baba's movement is growing around us and we cannot feel sure

that we have seen most of it, much less of it. Baba's Life is also so

full of mystery that one cannot be sure that one gives an accurate

account of Baba. Yet we shall follow the legacy (the unearthed treasure)

stored up by our Sri Narasimha Swamiji, the founder of Baba's world.

 

In the first place, Sai Baba is absorbing the attention of an

increasingly large number of people, and that is the meaning of the

growth of the Sai movement. The subject of Baba's life and the history

of his movement are of romantic interest and far surpass the interest

which we have in reading fiction like Arabian Nights, etc. The

oft-quoted saying that truth is stranger than fiction is best

illustrated here. Taking the mere question of the life of the Saint,

that itself is incredible and marvelous.

 

When he got into Shirdi, he was ripening his process of love in

solitude. Vairagya, Dhriti and interest in all creatures were developed

unnoticed and in obscurity by Baba, and the benefit to the world came

through the intrepid courage of a Goldsmith (Mahlsapathy) who was

anxious to get the best of saints for his Guru. Mahlsapathy, a highly

devout and dispassionate worshipper of Khandoba found that Baba who had

come as an unknown fakir was really a remarkable gem of the highest

virtues and was most fitted to be his own Guru. So he started the

worship of Baba in the mosque itself where Baba was living. His example

was followed by others slowly. Now it has developed so vastly in all

parts of the country and Baba's worship is going on individually and

collectively. This is a well known fact.

(to be contd...)

(source Shri Saipadananda Special Magazine)