Sai Baba

[Guest guest]

Hi Tony,

 

I've written to you before re Sai Baba and you were kind enough to

forward much information re his being a"fraud"

 

My experience with him started when I picked up the book Man of

Miracles. It was the word miracles that caught my attention. I've

read several books on him after that/ I needed to know if these

miracles were real. I was a real sceptic. Anyway, I met at least

three people who witnessed these miraclels, and two of them became a

devotees. I was more of ajnani and not a bahkti and so couldn't

surrender myself completely to him.

 

The quote I most remember from him is that the reason I could not see

him as divine is because I did not believe in my own divinity which

was true. He also kept telling people not to stop with his form, for

he is not the form,etc.

 

Anyway, one mid-afternoon I was taking a nap and had a dream in which

I was in an empty auditorium with a huge poster of his face on the

stage. I was lifted up somehow from my seat and was floating towards

his face in order to kiss his lips. As I approached his face, ready

to kiss him, I was thrust through the poster and ended up walking

through a quiet park, saying to myself that all this is very pleasant

but I need to wake up because I have to fix my son a snack when he

comes home from school. At which point I woke up.

 

To me this dream meant for me not to stay with SAi Baba, the form.

And I didn't. I started getting more involved with advaita (Ramana

and Nisargadatta) and also with another book with the word miracles

in it - A Course in Miracles. And that, Tony, is how I ended up

being a Course student which is exactly right for me.

 

So every step was important for me to be where I am today..just as it

has been for you. Mary