RELY ON SAI ALONE

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RELY ON SAI ALONE

 

Our love for Lord Sainath should be whole-hearted. Then it will banish

the feeling of loneliness and gradually diminish our dependence on human

relationships. Ultimately, the companionship of Shirdi Sai alone is

dependable.

It is right that we love others, but our reliance should not be on human

beings, but on Sainath. Anyone else we cling to, we lose. May be it is

because the Lord wants us to know that if we wish for Him, our attention

to Him must be single-minded. It is wonderful to pine for the one divine

beloved of our souls; wonderful to utter Sai Name. Then He is sure to

respond.

In Arabia, there was a great saint know as Ibn-Al-Arabi. Once he sat

down facing the Kaba. After a long time he turned round happily and

demanded his supper, which he received and ate very heartily. When he

was asked aobut it, he told : " I declared to God that I would neither

eat or drink til lthe man imprecating me was pardoned. I recited " LA

ILAHA ILLA ALLAH' seventy thousand time till God pardoned him.

Whether it is agreed or not, that fact is that Allah who is the MALIK of

ALL CREATION has always listened to the prayers and demands of the

saints and pardoned the sinners. The saints intervene on our behalf and

pray to the most merciful Allah to forgive us and in turn Allah very

gladly grants their request. Shri Sai Baba was one such beloved saint.

Sai Baba has clearly told that the person who thinks that Baba is in

Shirdi only has not at all understood him. Baba's mortal body has

disintegrated into its original constituents like air, ether, water,

earth etc. But the real Baba who is the great invisible force still

continues to help people in mysterious ways even after His

" Mahasamadhi " . He is active as before taking care of His children.

Sainath is the divine channel through which the beloved Lord's wisdom

and mercy flow. Like a mother bird that pushes the fledgeling out of the

nest so that it can learn to fly, the Gurudev Sai Maharaj forces the

devotee to establish his own relationship with Almighty. For the same

reason, Sainath takes away from the devotee every human support to

awaken awareness about Him, until the devotee comes to the ultimate

realization : " Sai is my strength. Sai is my Friend. Sai is my beloved,

my only one. When He is absent from me, I am bereft of everything. I am

a beggar. When he is with me, I am filled with love and joy ; I am

filled with courage and strength.

Dear Sai brothers and Sai sisters: If we go to human beings to find

divine solace, divine comfort, we may for a while receive a little

happiness and contentment, but sooner or later the Lord takes those

props away. We have to rely on Sainath alone. He alone is ever lasting,

so He wants us to e strong in our faith in him.

 

Shivajyoti M.Nanjappa

Sub Registrar

Ananthapur Dist A.P

(October 1985)