Faith and Patience are the two Paths to Reach God Sai Baba

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Faith and Patience are the two Paths to Reach God Sai Baba

 

 

Sai Baba, the sage of Shirdi, has been pouring out his divine love and

blessings to thousands and hun-dreds of thousands since 1845. The

unending stream of devotees at Shirdi day in and day out is but a

manifestation of divine Love, Compassion and Pitv. Sai Baba is the most

powerfull sage, who bears all the burdens of humanity.

Like all great teachers Sai Baba has rightly been claimed as the Mother

of all virtues. Baba often told his devotees ''Your servant's servant l

am. lam your debtor " . I am purified by your darshan. It is a great grace

on your part to have given Me the sight of your feet " .

Lord Sai Baba often preached that the attitude of " I " and " Mine'' are

the result of ignorance. The right attitude born of knowledge is that

God is the Master and that all things belongs to Him - Once Rama asked

Hanuman " How do you like on me? Hanuman replied. " 0 Rama, as long as I

have the feeling of " I " , I see that you are the whole and I am a part,

you are the Master and I am you " . Thus the first step in the life of a

devotee is humility.

Self surrender marks the next step of a devotee. A devotee has to

surrender to God himself wholly and exclusively, including his five

senses-Then he beco-mes a personal servant of God. The entire

responsi-bility for his Maintenance and protection is taken up by the

Lord. In BHAQVAD GlTA Lord Kriehna said

" 0 Arjuna. take refuge in Me. I shall deliver you from all sins " . Lord

Sai Baba also said, " Cast all your burdens on Me and I shall bear

them',. Also as prea-ched by Lord Krishna to Arjuna, Baba also said, " Do

your duty and leave the rest to me " Because once the devotee becomes

free from sin and misery, as all his actions are performed as divine

duty without a thought for the result. Let all the works be God's works

all the thoughts, words and deeds are centered in God. Everyone should

see God in every thing and every thing in God, loves all beings in the

universe as manifestation of God. Thus, the natural results of this self

surrender are intense devotion towards God and love towards all beings

in the universe, such a devotee has no disappointments in life and has

no fear of death.

BABA often used to say that once a person has faith in God, he has

achieved everything. There is nothing greater than faith. The devotee's

heart is full of virtues like forgiveness, spirit of non-vio-lence,

Compassion and love. Thus, these are the virtues of the hero and the

characteristic of a true devotee is a courageous patience or Saburi as

Sai Baba has put it. Sainath said " surrender yourself comp-letely your

body and soul to God.'' One, who has abundant faith (Nishta) and

courageous patience (Saburi), will achieve anything what they want

through the attainment of God Sai Baba

Hence, Faith, Patience and Love are the ways to fulfill our Material

goals as well as to reach 'Moksha'

By Ch. SURYANARAYANA

 

(As appeared in the Dwarakamayi Magazine Published from Hyderabad August

1989)