Om Sai Ram!!!

Bhimaji, who had serious chest disease, asthma, tuberculosis, etc., Baba first told Shama, ‘Shama, in bringing this thief to me what a load of responsibility you are placing on me!’ Baba meant that the tuberculosis, asthma, etc., from which Bhimaji suffered were the result of Bhiinaji’s karma in a previous janma consisting of theft. Bhimaji felt Baba’s declaration a blow. At once he surrendered himself to Baba and said, ‘Helper of the helpless! I am helpless. Pray show thy pity and grace to me’. Then Baba’s tone changed. Baba told him, ‘The Fakir (God) is merciful, and your disease will be cured’. He was suffering from the results of karma, but that could be mitigated, and so the man was sent to live and sleep in a wet verandah. Bhimaji did so. There, he had two very dreadful dreams. In one dream, he was mercilessly birched by a school master. For, in the dream he fancied he was a boy and the master was birching him. So, he felt the pain in the dream and he roared out. In the second dream, it was even worse. He felt that some one was placing a stone roller and rolling it over his breast. He suffered all the horror of instant death approaching him. All the pain of a hanging sentence and whipping sentence were endured by this man in the course of one night. Baba thus changed the punishments, which he had earned by his previous karma, and told him that he was thus free from karmic effects. He then recovered his health. The above instances go to show that most of our conceptions about karma are nebulous and ungrounded, and that the safest course for us to follow would be to be guided by the dicta of Satpurushas like Sai Baba.”

Jai Sai Ram!!!

 Once Baba was sitting in the Masjid. A devotee sat in front of Him, when a lizard tick-ticked. Out of curiosity, the devotee asked Baba whether this tick-ticking of the lizard signified anything; was it a good sign or a bad omen? Baba said that the lizard was overjoyed as her sister from Aurangabad was coming to see her. The devotee sat silent, not making out the meaning of Baba's words. Immediately, a gentleman from Aurangabad came on horse-back to see Baba. He wanted to proceed further, but his horse would not go, as it was hungry and wanted grams. He took out a bag from his shoulders to bring grams and dashed it on the ground to remove dirt. A lizard came out therefrom and in the presence of all, climbed up the wall. Baba asked the questioner devotee to mark her well. She at once went strutting to her sister. Both sisters met each other after a long time, kissed and embraced each other, whirled round and danced with love! Where is Shirdi and where is Aurangabad? How should the man on horse-back come there from Aurangabad with the lizard? And how should Baba make the prophesy of the meeting of the two sisters? All this is really very wonderful and proves the omniscience -- the all-knowing nature of Baba.

एक बार बाबा मसजिद में बैठे थे कि उसी समय एक छिपकली चिकचिक करने लगी । कौतूहलवश एक भक्त ने बाबा से पूछा कि छिपकली के चिकचिकाने का क्या कोई विशेष अर्थ है । यह शुभ है या अशुभ । बाबा ने कहा कि इस छिपकली की बहन आज औरंगाबाद से यहाँ आने वाली है । इसलिये यह प्रसन्नता से फूली नहीं समा रही है । वह भक्त बाबा के शब्दों का अर्थ न समझ सका । इसलिये वह चुपचाप वहीं बैठा रहा ।

इसी समय औरंगाबाद से एक आदमी घोडे पर बाबा के दर्शनार्थ आया । वह तो आगे जाना चाहता था, परन्तु घोड़ा अधिक भूखा होने के कारण बढ़ता ही न था । तब उसने चना लाने को एक थैली निकाली और धूल झटकारने कि लिये उसे भूमि पर फटकारा तो उसमें से एक छिपकली निकली और सब के देखते-देखते ही वह दीवार पर चढ़ गई । बाबा ने प्रश्न करने वाले भक्त से ध्यानपूर्वक देखने को कहा । छिपकली तुरन्त ही गर्व से अपनी बहन के पास पहुँच गई थी । दोनों बहनें बहुत देर तक एक दूसरे से मिलीं और परस्पर चुंबन व आलिंगन कर चारों ओर घूमघूम कर प्रेमपूर्वक नाचने लगी । कहाँ शिरडी और कहाँ औरंगाबाद । किस प्रकार एक आदमी घोड़े पर सवार होकर, थैली में छिपकली को लिये हुए वहाँ पहुँचता है और बाबा को उन दो बहिनों की भेंट का पता कैसे चल जाता है-यह सब घटना बहुत आश्चर्यजनक है और बाबा की सर्वव्यापकता की घोतक है ।

SAI BABA'S LEELA~~~

Sai is not finite or limited. He dwells in all beings, from ants and insects to the God Brahma. He pervades all. Sai was well-versed in the knowledge of the Vedas, as well as in the science of Self-realisation. As He was proficient in both these, He was well-fitted to be the Sad-guru. Any one, though learned, but not able to awaken the disciples and establish them in Self-realisation, does not deserve to be called a Sadguru. Generally the father gives birth to the body, and death invariably follows life; but Sadguru does away with both life and death, and so he is more kind and merciful, than any body. 

Sai Baba often said that-let His man (Devotee) be at any distance, a thousand koss away from Him, he will be drawn to Shirdi like a sparrow, with a thread tied to its feet.

श्री साई अनंत है । वे एक चींटी से लेकर ब्रहमाणड पर्यन्त सर्व भूतों में व्याप्त है । वेद और आत्मविज्ञान में पूर्ण पारंगत होने के कारण वे सदगुरु कहलाने के सर्वथा योग्य है । चाहे कोई कितना ही विद्घान क्यों न हो, परन्तु यदि वह अपने शिष्य की जागृति कर उसे आत्मस्वरुप का दर्शन न करा सके तो उसे सदगुरु के नाम से कदापि सम्बोधित नहीं किया जा सकता । साधारणतः पिता केवल इस नश्वर शरीर का ही जन्मदाता है, परन्तु सदगुरु तो जन्म और मृत्यु दोनों से ही मुक्ति करा देने वाले है । अतः वे अन्य लोगों से अधिक दयावन्त है । 

श्री साईबाबा हमेशा कहा करते थे कि मेरा भक्त चाहे एक हजार कोस की दूरी पर ही क्यों न हो, वह शिरडी को ऐसा खिंचता चला आता है, जैसे धागे से बँधी हुई चिडियाँ खिंच कर स्वयं ही आ जाती है ।