Das Ganu's Prayer to Sai Baba By S. Mani

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Das Ganu's Prayer to Sai Baba

By S. Mani

 

Religion always takes three steps. The first is dualism. Then man gets

to a higher state, partial non-dualism. And at last he finds he is one

with the universe. Therefore the three do not contradict, but fulfill.

- Swami Vivekananda

 

Of King of Sadgurus, Your prowess and Leelas are inscrutable. You are

the mercy boat by which the Jada Jeevas would cross the ocean of

samsara.

 

(1) You became for me Lord Krishna and took me to Prayag to bathe me in

the Ganga-Jamuna waters dripping from Your two toes.

(2) You yourself have become Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh and stride the

wide earth.

(3) Your lips utter deep wisdom like Brahman personified and at times

ascending Tamo Guna, You assume the fierce aspect of Rudra.

(4) Sometimes you play childish pranks like Shri Krishna and converting

the devotees' minds into pools of water, sport in them like the swan.

(5) If one were to take you to be a Yavana (i.e., non-Hindu), you

delight in sandal-paste; if one were to regard you to be a Hindu, You

always reside in a Masjid.

(6) If one were to take you to be a wealthy person, You beg Your

livelihood. If You were to be taken as a mere Fakir, You shame Kubera

(Croesus) by Your liberal gifts.

(7) If Your abode is taken for a Masjid, a Fire burns there perpetually

in a Dhuni from which You give Udi (holy ash) to all and sundry.

(8) From early morning Your humble devotees worship You and at mid-day

they perform Your Aarati.

(9) On all Your sides, Your devotees gather like multitudes of

insentient things and wave the chowries and chamaras to keep You cool

and comforted.

(10) There is then a din of sounds of horns, sahnais and other musical

instruments and the gong sounds the loudest, and orderlies pace to and

for yelling out to keep order.

(11) When the Aarti is being performed, You look like Vishnu sitting on

His shining throne. In the evening, sitting near the Dhuni, You burn

Your worldly likes and desires.

(12) Such Leelas of the three Gods, You show everyday and thus project

to us the image of Baba Sai.

(13) Though a witness to such Leelas, my mind restlessly wanders all

around. Now, I pray, You please still and steady it.

(14) I am the meanest of the mean sinners and prostrate at Your feet.

Now, Guru Raj, relieve Ganu Das of the triad of afflictions, adhyatmic,

adhi-daivic and adhi-bhautic to which he is heir " .

 

 

Shirdi Sai Baba - Our Guru - God

H. H. Narasimha Swamiji has said " It is necessary for us to diffuse as

much knowledge about Baba as possible. Facts must be marshaled and

pressed home time and again. Everyone has a duty to propagate and

publish all useful and inspiring facts about Baba. Everyone must feel it

a service of the right type to speak about the worthy facts of divine

acts of Baba and put them in print. " The Swamiji wanted that Sai must

permeate the country from one end to the other.

 

Following the release of the book, Shubhra Marga Shirdi Sai Baba, in

November 99, Shirdi Sai Baba Satsang, adhering to the sermon of Sri

Narasimha Swamiji, will soon be releasing a new book, portraying Shirdi

Sai as our Guru-God.

Source Shri Sai Padananda Jan 2001 issue