Allah Is My Doctor says Sai Baba

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" Allah Is My Doctor " says Sai Baba

Reference to context: In the year 1910, Baba was sitting near The Dhuni

on Diwali, and warming Himself. He was pushing firewood into the Dhuni,

which was brightly burning. A little later instead of pushing logs of

wood, Baba pushed His arm into The Dhuni. The arm was scorched and

burnt. This was noticed by the errant boy Madhava and also by Madhav Rao

Deshpande (Shama) They, at once, ran to Baba and Madhava Rao clasped

Baba, by His waist from behind and dragged Him forcibly backward and

asked, " Deva, for what you have done this? " Then Baba came to his senses

and replied, " The wife of a Blacksmith at some distant place was working

the bellows of a furnace, her husband called her, forgetting that her

child was on her lap, she got up hastily and the child slipped into the

furnace. I immediately thrust my hand info the furnace and saved the

child. I do not mind My arm being burnt, but, I am glad that the life of

the child is saved " . In the same chapter VII, same page 42 of Shirdi Sai

Satcharitha under the Caption " Leper Devotees Service " it reads:

 

" On hearing the news of Baba's hand being burnt from (Shama) Madhavrao

Deshpande, Mr. Nanasaheb Chandorkar accompanied by the famous doctor

Paramanand of Mumbai with his medical outfit, consisting of ointments,

lint and bandages etc., rushed to Shirdi and requested Baba to allow Dr.

Paramanand to examine the arm and dress the wound caused by the burn.

This was refused. Ever since the burn, the Leper devotee, Bhagoji

Shinde, dressed the arm. His treatment consisted in massaging the burnt

part with ghee and then, placing a leaf over it and bandaged it tightly.

Mr. Nanasaheb Chandorkar solicited Baba many a time to unfasten the

bandages, get the wound examined, dressed and treated by Dr. Paramanand,

with the object that it may heal fast. Dr. Paramanand himself made

similar requests, but Baba postponed, saying that " Allah was His Doctor "

and did not allow His arm to he examined.

 

Now, if such things (burning our hands or we suffer from the ailment,

injury etc, to our bodies) we run to a doctor to get cured from the

malady. This is all due To our body consciousness (deha abhiman).

 

But, Saints have no body consciousness. They always abide in the self.

(Spirit consciousness) Bodies are like shadows to them if we cut the

shadow or torture it, nothing happens. So, nothing happens to their

bodies.

 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says: " Let the disease and the body look

after each other. Oh, Mind, you always be happy (in Bliss) (by with

drawing from The worldly activities & abiding in the self) " Sri Ramana

Maharishi's thigh was operated umpteen times. But, he was calm and

composed, (never bothered about his body) Why? Because he had no body

consciousness and firmly abided in the Self, (became one with Clod, like

our Baba) Sri Sivanesa Swamiji of Shirdi died of cancer. Before leaving

the body, he was continuously meditating on Baba. When devotees from

Hyderabad went to see him, he told them not to worry about his health

condition (suffering from cancer) but advised them to do " Nama Japa " (Om

Sai Sri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai) constantly.

 

We mortals have no control over our body, senses and mind with the

result they control us. (We have become slaves to them, instead of

becoming slave to God) So, we are in the grip of Yoga Maya (Illusory

power of God).

From the Mind, the first thought (the ego, I) starts functioning the

bundle of thoughts follows it (all worldly). Maya is God's illusory

power, Parashakti.

 

Lord Krishna says to his friend and disciple Arjuna in Bhagavadgeeta

Text.4-r> that " Intelligence, Knowledge, freedom from doubt and

delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses and mind,

happiness and distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, nonviolence,

equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, fame and infame - all these various

qualities of living beings are created by Me alone "

 

So, God (His Power- Parasakthi) is the doer, but due to ignorance, we

think that we are the doers (body consciousness) and thus entangle

ourselves in endless miseries and sufferings (Punarapi Jananam, Punarapi

Maranam). What is the remedy to get over (to come out of this illusion

of Maya) and attain salvation?

 

The one and only way is that we should surrender tan, man, dhan (body,

mind all possession) to our Samartha Sadguru Sainath Maharaj and always

remember him think over his sayings, read his stories (Leelas) meditate

on Him, always chant his taraka mantra " Om Sai Sri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai "

which is the easiest path to attain salvation in this Kaliyuga (iron

age)

 

Om Tat Sat

 

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantihi!!!

 

R. Radhakrishnan

 

(Sai Jeevi)

(Souviner 28th All India Sai Devotees Convention)