Sri Sai Baba's Mahasamadhi

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Sri Sai Baba's Mahasamadhi

(We deem it a great privilege in reproducing a message sent to Sri Sai

Samaj and its devotees by His Holiness Swami Sivananda Saraswathi

Maharaj, Founder-President of the Divine Life Society Rishikesh, years

ago on the eve other Maha Samadhi Day Celebrations of Sri Sai Baba. It

is remarkable that the message to the devotees is so eternal that it has

served as a Jilting upadesh to those who have taken part in the 26th Ail

India Sai Devotees Convention and the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Sri

Sai Samaj, Bangalore.)

 

The Saints and godly men are blissful children of the Divine Mother sent

in need to the earth of man to radiate Her Divine Light and show the way

to perfection and bliss by leading the divine life of selflessness

devotion, meditation and self-realisation. One such blessed divine soul

of the great Mother we have in Sri Sai Baba. Even the manner of his Maha

Samadhi is highly significant and symbolic. He has cast away his mortal

form and entered his Infinite spiritual nature or swaroopa upon the

Vijaya Day, i.e., the day of victory thus signifying, that, to transcend

the Nama Rupa and attain Satchidananda, is the ultimate victory to be

aspired for. His Maha Samadhi significantly synchronizes with the

celebration of the 'Seemollanghan' or the crossing of the border

observed in the Maharashtra country. It symbolizes the transcending of

the barriers of relative existence and attains the grand experience of

the Absolute.

 

Thus you first remember that in the very manner of his Maha Samadhi Sri

Sai Baba symbolized in the supreme ideal of the ultimate goal, the goal

our life as god-realisation. Go beyond the limits of phenomenal life and

attain the limitless experience of the Sachidananda.

 

Beloved aspirants! Awaken to this inspiring message. Go beyond the

limits of sorrow and attain the eternal bliss. The action of this great

soul upon the eve of his Maha Samadhi during the last moments of his

earthily life, is a divine object lesson to one and all. Sai Baba did

not cast away his mortal coil and his physical body lying in bed.

Instead, towards the end, he sat up and expressed a desire to do charity

by offering Dhana and sending for a devotee he offered to her nine

rupees and soon entered into Maha Samadhi. He fulfilled by this most

significant act, the loving dictum of dharma -'Paropakaram idam

shareeram.' He also taught " Be to the very last breath ceaselessly

engaged in thoughts of doing good to others. Thus through his Maha

Samadhi this great God-Man, showed you both the supreme goal of life as

also the way of attaining it namely, by living a life of

Self-realisation, ceaseless service and paropakara unto all His

creatures. To ever give oneself up for the welfare of others is the

pathway to Saint-hood and self-realisation.

 

I congratulate the Sai Samaj of Bangalore for working with Devotion to

keep alive the spirit of this great personality and his loving Upadesh.

I rejoice that this spiritual association, this Sai Samaj has completed

years of spiritual work and propagation of the divine ideals. May the

grace of the Divine Mother be upon you all. May the blessings of Sri Sai

Baba be upon you all. May the Ashirvad of God and Guru bestow upon you

all health, long Life, prosperity and Kaivalya Moksha!

(Source 26th Convention of All India Sai Devotees held at Bangalore)