BABA'S HUMILITY: GURU BABA IS NOT AND IS GOD.

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BABA'S HUMILITY: GURU BABA IS NOT AND IS GOD.

Baba (in 1917) had with him Mrs. T and her son Master T.

Baba: Boy, give me eight Rupees Dakshina.

Boy (M.T): Baba, I have not got Rupees eight.

Baba: Go and get it from Bapu Sahib Jog.

(Master T went to Jog and found him reading Dhruva Charitra and

commenting on it. Jog said " Saints, though not God, have some powers

derived from Him etc., " the boy angrily started back and came to Baba)

M.T.: Baba, why did you send me there?

Baba: What is the matter?

M.T.: They are vilifying you there, saying that you are merely a man and

not God.

Baba: Then what is the untruth in that? Hello! What am I? A petty fakir!

I am not God. How great is God! No one can compare with him.

M.T.: You deceive us by speaking thus. We fully believe you are God. If

anyone belittles you, how can we endure it? Is it not true that we

should not stay even a second where saints are derided.

Baba: Yes.

M.T.: God is not angry, if He is spoken ill of. But He will not endure

it, if His devotees are spoken ill of. Is that not so.

Baba: Yes.

M.T.: Then what is the good of listening to a discussion whether such

and such a saint is great, and such other is not so?

Baba: You should not stop even one second at a place where anybody talks

ill of a saint.

Baba: (stroking the boy's head affectionately) " Read Pothi. have Nama

Japa.

M.T., " If I break off in the middle, I incur sin. So, I will not.

Baba (to the lady): Mother, I have to take the entire responsibility for

your son.

Lady: For all of us, it is you that take care. (Both bowed to Baba. Then

some other came.)

Baba (to those): I have to take thought for my devotees. and if a

devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands, and by four, four

hands lift him and support him thus. I will not let him fall.

M.T.,: Baba, just now you said you are not God but a petty Fakir. How

then can you have four hands?

(Baba did not reply, but smiled and looked at M.T., with love and

approval.)

A. Baba's humility; Devotees: Baba, this G.G. Narke says you are a man.

Baba: What he says is true. But you devotees should not say that. You

have to get all your benefits from me.

(Source Sai Baba Charters and Sayings)

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