SAVASANA- YOGA SAMADHI

One day Baba called his devotee MAHALSAPATI on full moon and told him" mama! take care of my body for 3 days,if i come its fine otherwise bury me and put two flags in my remembrance."

On that night at 10:00 he slept on floor, breathing stopped and his body resembled like a dead body. everybody came to know and decided to do cremation, but MAHALSAPATI stopped the people having belief on SAI BABA. he cautioned them not to come near BABA until the three days are completed. He took care of BABA body by keeping on his thigh and didn't let anyone come near it. After 3 days on fine morning at 3:00 BABA came into consciousness started breathing, opened his eyes and stretched his hands and legs. From this incident we can say about BABA yoga power!!!

His present cremation also come under yoga skill only, that is why now also he is giving dharshan to his devotees in different ways and in dreams and helping his devotees in difficult situations. only we need faith and diligence.

MIRACLE OF SAI BABA-LIGHTING OF DIYA WITH WATER

SHRI SAI BABA likes diya and flower. Every day in part of his daily routine he used to ask oil merchants to lend him some oil to lit diya. One day all the merchants decided not to lend oil to sai baba,as it is a plan by all of the merchants didn't lend him oil. for that Baba laughed to himself and returned to masjid. That night all the oil merchants went to masjid and hid secretly to see how sai baba will lit diya without oil. BABA took oily container of his pour water into that he drank and spit into the container and pour that liquid in a diya and lit it. surprisingly diya s are like that whole night. The merchants who observed this miracle begged sai baba to forgive them and he forgave them with kind heart and told them " whatever we give today we will get in future, remember this" and blessed them.

Baba likes chanting of mantras or deity names along with flowers and diya. He gives blessing to the people who always chant " om sai ram"

ROHILLA:

There is a person so called ROHILLA in the SHIRIDI. He used to have harsh voice.Irrespective of timings,he used to recite the verses in the qua ran his holy book aloud, disturbing the people always. some of the people who were unable to bear his harsh voice complained to BABA about it. Baba said " He has a wife who always torturer him. so to escape from her he always recite the qua ran so that she doesn't torture him". and sent the people away. The fact is that ROHILLA has no wife and everyone knows that but, BABA means the wife is nothing but the "difficulties which we face due to our karma" and everyone in their life to prevent these difficulties has to chant the name of GOD. So to remove the difficulties in our life and to obtain peace we should also chant. "OM SAI RAM"

DASAGUNA PRAYAGA HOLY DIP EXPERIENCE WITH SAI BABA:

SHRI SAI BABA never left the place shiridi,but his fame reached all the people over the country. So many devotees from various places visited shiridi and took sai baba dharshan and his blessings. many of devotees use to get peace in there life when they took blessings and vibhuti from SAI NATHA.

One fine day SHRI SAI BABA devotee SHRI DASAGUNA MAHARAJA decided to visit shiridi have dharshan with SAI BABA and then go to the PRAYAGA(where Ganges and Yamuna river meet) to have a holy dip. Indians believe that if they have bath in PRAYAGA they will get bliss in their life.

DASAGUNA MAHARAJA asked SHRI SAI BABA to give permission to let him go PRAYAGA so that he can have bath and obtain bliss in his life, then SHRI SAI BABA said "There is no need to go PRAYAGA if u have faith in me, i ll show here itself" and as soon as the words completed Ganga and Yamuna river water flow from his thumb of his both feet. SHRI DASA GUNA MAHARAJA was surprised when he saw this miracle of SAI NATHA and he worshiped him by chanting his name.

SRIRAMA NAVAMI:

Gopalrao gundu and Damu are the devotees of SAI NATHA. They both are having two wives but are not blessed with children,finally with BABA blessing they both had a boy. In that happiness Gopalrao decided to do held a fair in the shiridi. It was decided to held fair on SRIRAMA NAVAMI.

shiridi has water problem, whole village has only two wells. one well is always dry in summer and other one has salt water. SAI BABA put some flowers in the well and they turned out to drinking water, but that water is also not sufficient so TATYA PATIL made some people to bring water from other villages. They built temporary stalls for the fair and many games and wrestling competition use to be held. AMEER SAKKAR also started chandan utsavam at the same time

CHANDAN UTSAVAM:

CHANDAN UTSAVAM is honored by great Muslim saints, chandan paste is put in the thali and these are carried with band and music in the village and go to masjid and apply the chandan paste on the walls. This is also held on the day of SRIRAMA NAVAMI. In the morning Hindus celebrated the SRIRAMA NAVAMI and in night Muslims celebrated the CHANDAN UTSAVAM with out any conflicts. SRI SAI NATHA decided to celebrate GOKULASHTAMI on that day itself.

SRIRAMA NAVAMI started in the year 1914 and spread all over the INDIA. A devotee named RADHAKRISHNA BHAI with all her efforts established SHRI SAI SANSTHAN with all these thing those are Palanquin,silver vessels, cooking vessels,photos etc. are in the SANSTHAN. on every SRIRAMA NAVAMI SHRI DASAGUNA MAHARAJA took the responsibility to celebrate SHRI RAMA birth by performing kirtan and sing glories of Shri Rama by haridasu. In the beginning it started with 500 devotees and now 7500 devotees are participating in the festival. with SAI BABA blessing festivals were held smoothly without any conflict and diseases.

RESCUE OF DADASAHEB KHAPARDE SON:

SHRI SAI NATHA frequently use to utter these words "When I am here how can my devotees suffer?" Once KHAPARDE son health went bad. doctors told them it is plague disease after some medical tests. KHAPARDE wife became upset when she heard about this and requested SHRI SAI NATHA to cure the disease of her son. SHRI SAI BABA consoled her with some words and lifted his kafni and to everyone surprise baba has two swellings of plague on his hand then SHRI SAI NATHA told "look how i sustained this and i will bear more suffering but never allow my devotes to suffer"

MIRACLE OF SAI BABA:

SHRI SAI NATHA always exhibit his concern to all his devotees whether they are near or far away from him.The below story is the best example of his concern towards his devotees.

Once on Diwali SHRI SAI NATHA, to give warmth in winter was using dhuni to set up fire with the help of some twigs. after some time suddenly to everyone surprise put his hand in the fire,and the hand burnt, seeing this MADHAVARA pulled his hand from the fire and exclaimed "deva!! why did you do like this" for that BABA answered "In a village one lady was cooking and blowing the fire with the help of paper pipe. meanwhile her husband called her, she attended him without noticing the baby in her lap, so to save the baby i put the hand in the fire. my hand got burnt but the baby is safe know and that is my happiness". Hearing the BABA words all devotees were puzzled, but within a week that couple visited BABA to convey their gratitude and asked "SAI on that day you rescued our baby who is our heir. how is your hand, is it burn't?" with this incident we can say that BABA always looks after all his devotees and knows all happening in the world with his divination.

when the hand got burnt BABA rejected to use any type of medicines, but for devotee satisfaction he let the BHAGOJI SHINDE to apply ghee and tie the hand with some leaves. he started on the Diwali on the year 1910 and continued till the year 1918 when BABA went to samadhi state.

BABA PROMISE

There are many other stories and miracles of BABA which will come later in the parayanam.

BABA will always bless the people who read his stories and miracle,and show his concern towards them with this we end the parayanam of Thursday.

" who ever chant my name with love and devotion i will fulfill their desires. their devotion will increase and in all situations i will rescue them. Those who read my miracles will have happiness and satisfaction in their life. who ever always chant my name and keep their mind on myself with faith and devotion i will release them from all bondage. By chanting my name all the sins of yours will be removed"

                                                          First day parayanam completed

SECOND DAY PARAYANAM

                    SECOND DAY PARAYANAM

                                       FRIDAY

BHIKSHA:

SHRI SAI BABA is a great saint who blessed and all people with his happiness with his dharsan. he carried a tinpot and zoli and go to 5 or 6 houses and begged for food. He used to stand near door and say " AKKA give me a bread" All ladies in SHIRIDI waited for BABA to hear his voice while doing their household works. When they serve him food BABA used to say "GOD WILL DO GOOD" and go away. In DWAPARIYUGA ladies waited for SHRI KRISHNA like wise ladies in SHIRIDI waited for SHRI SAI NATHA.

BABA put all the liquid foods like milk,curd etc in tinpot and solid foods like chapati,rice,bread etc in zoli and returned to majsid. He put all the food as prasdam to GOD first. dogs,cats and crows ate all the food but BABA never drove them away. The ladie who swept the floor took 10 or 12 chapatis BABA never said any thing to her and whoever felt hungry ate the food, then BABA ate ther remaining food. BABA tounge has no taste since he acuired control over it and he is satisfied with small piece of bread also..

INSIGHT OF BIKSHA

Food is partaken by sanyasins and the inner meaning behind this act is described, To prepare a meal we follow 5 activities and those are 1. pounding,grinding,smashing.2. milling the grain or wheat 3. cleaning house with broom  4 cleaning the vessels.5.cooking food on stove , all the above 5 activities are called sins but without performing those we cant have food so to avoid the above 5 sins the sanyasins go to householders for food and the sins of the householders are forgiven with their blessing when they offer food to the sanyasins and this is main reason for them to go through BIKSHA, and SADDGURU SAI also followed the same method and this is the insight of BIKSHA.. But  people oppose this and say how come cooking food and eating becomes sin? To the people here i am telling in the whole world except devotion and tranquility each and everything is a sin. Every day in Pooja we have to utter the following mantra to get protection from the GOD.
 " శ్లోll పాపోహం పాపకర్మాహం పాపాత్మా పాపసంభవా "

    " we were born because of karma based on deeds done in previous incarnation.We are doing sins. mentally and physically also and we are pleading GOD to save us".  we are facing sorrow or happiness because of our  good and bad deeds done by us in previous incarnation. The moments  that we enjoy  after facing sorrow is called happiness and  how can we say that happiness is called happiness? because we face sorrows again after happy moments and we are enjoying happiness in the name of sorrow. 

  IN DEVI  BHAGVATAM  SRI SUKH YOGINDRA SAID " In this  house hold life we have sorrows because of birth,death,disease,greed,excessive desire,kids,love. and whatever we do and everything in this household life is full of sorrows. So remove our sorrows from our lives we have to pray 

 SHRI SAMARTHA SADDGURU SAINATHA WITH THIS SLOKA  GIVEN BELOW

 "సాయిశరణంసాయిశరణం సాయిశరణం సాయిశరణం 

  సాయిశరణం దుఃఖహరణంసాయిశరణం సాయిశరణం"

     

UNIVERSAL POWER- SAI BABA

SHRI SAI BABA  used to say " The  persons who does not belong to me ( no faith on me) they can't come". Devotees were unable to leave SHIRIDI without SAI NATHA permission. Devotees used to face problems when they don't listen the advice and warnings of  SAI BABA. some stories are shared  below

    One day TATYAKOTE PATEL went to the Masjid and asked for SAI NATHA permission to visit KOPERGAV fair and BABA said " Don't leave SHIRIDI now, wait for a few minutes" but TATYAKOTE PATEL didn't listen and started to KOPERGAV. On the way one of the horse legs sprained and the cart fell down, but TATYA was safe, he regretted for not listening to SAI BABA advice. One more incident also happened like this and he faced a problem.

One day an older person from EUROPE visited SHIRIDI to see SAINATHA. He asked BABA permission to leave SHIRIDI but SAI said " Today you stay in SHIRIDI and leave tomorrow" but the European didn't obey BABA words and started his journey. After his cart crossed SAVUL BHAVI the horses were frightened because of a rickshaw and they ran and cart fell down. He fell down and had minor injuries and joined in KOPERGAV hospital.

 This is a story about AMIR SAKKAR. He lives in BHANDRA and he does commission business. He is suffering from knee pain so he visited SHIRIDI and met SAI BABA. BABA ordered him to stay in chavidi and he stayed there for 9 months. When the pain was reducing he was bored and left SHIRIDI without taking permission from SAI BABA and stayed in choultry for that night. But his bad luck followed him because in that choultry, one person is about to die and  died  after SAKKAR gave him water to drink and he was afraid of the police because they may arrest him and say he is the murderer and he regretted for leaving SHIRIDI without BABA permission and went to chavidi and continued to stay there.

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KAKAMAHAJANI is the devotee of SHRI SAI BABA. 

 Once he visited SHIRIDI to spend there for a week and go. When he went to see BABA, he asked him " when are you leaving?" To that KAKAMAHAJANI replied " As per SAI order i will leave" then BABA said " Then leave tomorrow only" So as per BABA Order though he wanted to stay for a week he left SHIRIDI next day. Next day when he went to office his boss is waiting for him because he has to do work of another college since he is not feeling well. Boss sent letter to SHIRIDI for KAKAMAHAJANI to return but as he obeyed SAI NATHA order that letter also returned from SHIRIDI.

  VAKEEL BHAAVUSAHEB DHUMAL is the devotee of SHRI SAI NATHA 

   Once DHUMAL on his court work should go to NIFAD, since SHIRIDI  is on the way he thought to stay for a day and leave but SAI NATHA didn't allow and asked him to stay in SHIRIDI for a week and then go to NIFAD. DHUMAL was worried about the case which he had to argue and reached there but the case got postponed because the magistrate is not feeling well.

NIMONKAR is devotee of SHIRIDI SAI

 He settled in SHIRIDI only doing divine service to SAI NATHA along with his wife. His Son lives in BHELPUR and he was not feeling well. His wife thought to spend with his Son and relatives and stay for 4 day and return but NIMONKAR ordered her to return next day only.She went to BABA for permission and bow near him and he blessed her saying " Go soon without delay and spend with your son and relatives, stay for 4 days and return" with this NIMONKAR  told her to do same and send her.

  SAI BABA IS FOND OF HONESTY

   I wish SHRI SAI NATHA miracles should prosper forever in devotees hearts. SAI BABA  says telling a    lie is a fault and doesn't like people who lie and  he says that if any vow made by devotee is not fulfilled is also called lie.If any devotee thinks to offer anything to him and they forget he will somehow remember them and receive the offering or vow, henceforth save his devotees from the fault of telling lie and bless them,given below is story of illustration


    SAI devotee AATMA RAM is resident of BANDRA. His wife once thought to offer 3 items to SHRI SAI NATHA and they are brinjal chutney ,brinjal fry and kova.
 
        BANDRA resident and BABA devotee PURUANDAR started to SHIRIDI with his family,then AATMA RAM wife came to know this and gave brinjal to his wife and asked her to cook brinjal chutney and fry and offer SHRI SAI NATHA. As she requested she cooked chutney and sent to BABA at lunch time and RADHA KRISHNA MAI served the chutney then BABA asked to serve brinjal fry also and then RADHA KRISHNA MAI thought how to get brinjal then SHRI SAI NATHA asked from " where did you get the brinjal chutney" and everyone came to know that brinjal chutney came from AATMA RAM wife so BABA also wants fry which she thought to offer.  If devotees think to offer anything to him with faith and love he waits with eagerness to receive the offerings.

         One day BANDRA resident and BABA devotee BALARAM MANKAD started to SHIRIDI AATMA RAM wife came to know about this and gave kova to him and requested him to offer SHRI SAI NATHA  showing her devotion and love towards SHRI SAI NATHA. MANKAD reached SHIRIDI took blessings from him but forgot to offer the kova given by her. BABA waited till evening and finally asked him"what did you bring for me?"  he told nothing then BABA said " don't tell lie, AATMA RAM wife sent you kova with you know?" then MANKAD regretted and offered the kova to SAI NATHA.
BABA shows so much love and attachment to the devotees and their offerings.

THE OMNIPRESENT-SAI NATHA

One afternoon a hungry dog barked near TARKAD wife and she gave one bread to that dog, he ate the bread showing affection. That evening she went to Masjid and BABA told " I m satisfied  with the food offered by you and " and she replied " BABA  I m depending on others for my food then how can i offer food to you?"  than BABA smiled and said " you offered bread to the hungry dog when it came to you and remember that dog and me are equal likewise ants and remaining living beings are all equal to me and i m present in all of them and i ll be everywhere. The people who can see me in all the living beings are my true devotees and keep in mind that SAI BABA and all the other living beings are same and every time first serve the one who is hungry and eat later". listening to the above words the devotee felt so happy and cried in that happiness,took blessing from SAI NATHA. In all Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavadgita and in all sacred books there is a great statement "ప్రాణులు యందున పరమాత్మను చూడము" and BABA explained it so easily.Let us all try to follow the BABA words and pray him to provide virtue for us.

 DEEDS OF SAI NATHA ARE UNIQUE

SAI devotee NANASAHEB  gave a wooden table of 4 feet length and 1 feet width for BABA to sleep on it. He thought BABA will use it on floor but SHRI SAI NATHA changed the table as swing with the help of old clothes which are tied to all corners of the table and tied the table to the hook of Masjid and started to sleep on the swing.The clothes which  are used to tie the corners of table are of thin material and every one wondered how come it bears the weight of table as well as BABA also! it is a strange and BABA s miracle. In this miracle only two more unusual happenings are there and those are BABA used to keep diyas on all corners of table and sleep comfortably on that small table and with 4 diyas!.That;s why HEMADPANTH said " Angels also should watch the unique sleep of BABA." meanwhile everyone out of curiosity used to assemble to notice how BABA climb the swing and get down  after sleep. seeing this BABA got irritated , broke the table and thrown it away.

MIRACLE OF SAI NATHA -DEVOTEE  DISEASE IS  CURED IN A DREAM

In the year 1909, BHEEMAJI PATIL used to suffer with tuberculosis disease, he came to SHIRIDI and prayed SHRI SAI NATHA and asked him to cure his disease. seeing is pain BABA showed sympathy on him and said, 

" Don't worry, i ll remove your sorrow and difficulties. whoever with so many pains and problems come to Masjid same moment their problems will be solved and they will be happy. The fakir in the Masjid is kind and loving person. I ll cure the disease and save them."  

   Before he entered Masjid he spitted blood for every 5 mins but in the presence of SAI NATHA he didn't spit one time also. Baba ordered BHEEMAJI PATIL to take rest in BHEEMA BHAI house which has no suitable means for a tuberculosis patient. While BHEEMAJI PATIL is in sleep he got a dream in which when he is student in a school, teacher hit him because he didn't recite the poems. in the other dream he felt some big stone on his chest was moving up and down and hurt him.with the help of these two dreams the PATIL disease was cured by SHRI SAI NATHA. Strange! how come the disease get cured in dreams?  people may get this doubt. Everything is possible for divinity , all the SAINTS and SADDGURU are also powerful as GOD. SHRI YADGIRI NARSHIMASWAMY , SHRI ANJANEYA SWAMY and so many others gave there darshan in their devotee dreams and blessed them in the past and present also!
In the same way SHRI SAI NATHA removed sorrows of his devotees in all times by blessing them in their dreams. BHEEMAJI PATIL started SAI SATYAVRATAM in MAHARASHTRA to show his gratitude and tradition is followed by them till now. 

 SHRI SAI NATHA IS UNIQUE DOCTOR
    

 In one of the posts I mentioned that he used to look after some patients in his daily life. His way of treating  patients with various disease is really so strange at times and below i m sharing some stories after reading them you will also think the same.

A devotee named BALA GANPATI SHIMPHI  used to suffer with malaria disease. He took so many medicines but it didn't cure, so one day he came to SHIRIDI to visit SAINATHA and prayed him then BABA said " you offer curd rice to the dog near Lakshmi Devi temple" he did the same, his malaria cured permanently!

One day in SHIRIDI, a person eyes got swollen and became red. His neighbors took him to SAI BABA.Generally in such cases the treatment would be with mild solution to remove irritation on eyes but BABA smashed some black cashew seed and prepared tablets with them, placed on his eyes and tied with a cloth.everyone was scared seeing this treatment but nobody asked BABA. next day when patient came he removed the cloth and pour water continuously on his eyes and they are cleaned and became normal.

A devotee BALARAMDHURANDARU is suffering with asthma for so many years. He visited SHRIDI took BABA darshan and did service but never told about his asthma to him. but  SHRI SAI NATHA knows everything and once he gave chilum ( earlier days they used take tobacco in this form)  to him and asked him to inhale, he doesn't have the habit but to obey his orders he inhaled only once and immediately his asthma was cured.

Once BAPU SAHEB BUTTI suffered with cholera. Then BABA told " soak badam,pista and acrota and boil them with milk and sugar and take it as a medicine" doctors said it can't be cured like this and it may get severe but BUTTI has faith on him and obeyed BABA order and his disease was cured!

A devotee of SAI on one day was suffering with diarrhea. Having faith on him he thought BABA will  somehow cure his illness and decided not to share his problem with anyone. but he didn't stop his service. he used to bring  mug of water and keep it in a corner and used it whenever he needs it. The omniscient BABA, one day gave some peanuts to him and asked him to eat and drink water after that and said " your loose motions are controlled and you can do your work happily" but as per doctors if we eat peanut condition gets worse but strangely it was cured! and this is miracle of BABA.

BLESSING OF SAINATHA IS BEST MEDICINE

 In the previous post i told you about the strange medications done by BABA. and we can also notice  blessing and words showed more effect than a medicine and the medicines only work when BABA tells to use it, otherwise disease gets worse.

once a devotee suffered with some disease than BABA gave one medicine to him and it cured for him. later after 2 yrs he got the same disease but without BABA permission he took the same medicine and disease became more for him,than he went to Masjid and took blessings from BABA and it cured again.

BAVU SAHEB BUTTI devotee of SAI once suffered with vomiting s and BABA asked others to convey him that he should come to Masjid, though it is severe BUTTI somehow went to Masjid. Than SHIRIDI SAI made him sit opposite to him and threatened him with his forefinger and said " be careful you should not vomit again" and at that moment it is cured! 

Once a Sanyasin lived in PUNE and he has severe ear pain. operation was over but pain didn't get reduced. so he visited SHIRIDI  and SHRI SAI NATHA blessed saying " అల్లా అచ్చా కరేగా". after sanyasin returned PUNE , in a week he sent a letter to SHIRIDI and it is written as " with BABA blessings my ear pain got reduced"  BABA blessings are the best medicines.

A devotee of SAI lives in HAARDHAA and used to suffer stomach pain since 14 yrs.he took so many medicines but it didn't cure. BABA blessed him and gave vibuthi and it got cured he never faced that problem again.    

 RATAN  EXPERIENCE WITH SAI NATHA

RATAN JEE was a business man who is rich and have everything in his life but he is worried that he didn't give birth to a child so on advice of DASAGUNA MAHARAJA he went to SHIRIDI to take blessing of SHRI SAI.

when he went BABA said " you have to give me 5 rs and you already gave 3 rs 14 paisa give me remaining 1 rs 2 paisa". RATAN JEE offered the amount but this is the first visit to SHIRIDI and thought how he offered the remaining amount? he took blessings and returned to his place. After some days while checking his accounts he noticed that he gave 3rs 14ps to a saint who asked for journey to SHIRIDI. and was surprised and faith on him increased. In a period of time with BABA blessings he gave birth to a child.

A STORY OF LIZARDS

One day BABA and devotee are sitting in Masjid then a lizard on a wall made some noise then devotee with curiosity asked " what is the reason behind noise made by lizard" BABA told " Her sister is coming to see her from AURANGABAD that why in happiness she is doing like that" devotee was puzzled with answer and kept quiet.

 In the meanwhile a person who came from AURANGABAD  on his way to destination, halted in SHIRIDI to take darshan of  SHRI SAI NATHA  . His horse was hungry and tired so he didn't start immediately. while he is cleaning his horse saddle one lizard fell down and it went to the other lizard and devotee noticed all this. both the lizards played with happiness, and devotee is puzzled again.

With this story we can say that BABA is omniscient.   let us pray with faith and devotion and i hope everyone will have his blessings and remove our sorrows and problems. 

 CHOLKAR  EXPERIENCE  WITH SHRI SAI NATHA

I wish SAI blessing will be there in all times. who ever prays SAI with faith and devotion , he will notice there  problems with concern and bless them, regarding this i want share a story with you.

CHOLKAR is a devotee of SAI and once prayed to BABA and made a vow like this " I m suffering with poverty if i pass the government exam with your blessing I will come to SHIRIDI ,do service and distribute kova to everyone in Masjid". with BABA blessings he get passed the exam and he got permanent job and he was happy. he was eager to fulfill his vow. As he is in poverty money was not sufficient for journey to SHIRIDI. he saved money by having  tea without sugar and went to SHIRIDI took his blessing distributed kova to everyone and gave one coconut also. while he was in SHIRIDI he stayed in BAPU SAHEB JOGU house, when both of them are about to leave Masjid BABA told JOGU " give tea with more sugar to your guest" on hearing this CHOLKAR felt surprised how come BABA came to know the secret act of his savings and felt happy and cried before him then BABA said 

"when you pray with devotion and faith i will be there. physically i m here but i can see everything and i know   what are you doing even you are beyond sea .wherever you go ill be always with you. ill be in your hearts whoever finds me in all the living beings they are true devotees and lucky".


                                                       Second day paryanam completed.

                       THIRD DAY PARYANAM 

                                  SATURDAY

 DIVINE KNOWLEDGE

BABA enlightened  and cleared  the  devotees  confusion on divinity  in various ways, varies according to the person and situation.  some times he used to preach directly , sometimes he used to tell indirectly with help of others, some devotees are helped with religious books or paryanam,some devotees questions are answered in their dreams and some used to experience it and learn. Here a story is shared,

One day rich man who is a miser came to Masjid and asked BABA "  Enlighten me with divine knowledge of Brahma ". then BABA with pleasure said " So many devotees came to my Masjid and prayed  to remove their different problems based on financial , health, employment, diseases etc. no one ever asked like you to give divine knowledge and with so much interest. definitely  I ll give you, he asked one boy to bring 5 rs from a person but boy returned with empty hands likewise he sent the boy to 5 places to borrow 5 rs and every time boy returned with empty hands. Seeing all this man, impatiently said " BABA quickly tell me otherwise i have to pay more money to the horse cart for extra time." then words by BABA are

   "Oh my friend everything i did till now is to show you about divinity.  I sent the boy to 5 places to borrow 5 rs and you didn't offer 5 rs thought you are having 25  rs with you." then man checked his purse and he has 25 rs with him and he regretted, asked to forgive and give the blessing. then BABA said " forget all the desires you have. whoever are attached to the worldly pleasures like money and to the relations like wife and children , who are arrogant and over confident and always worries about worldly pleasures and emotions can never understand the words of SADDGURU. To get the divine knowledge we should have ability to forget everything and leave all the worldly pleasures, relations, emotion etc then only he can reach GOD. Those who want to reach DIVINE LORD they should have 4 qualities they are

 1. one who always speaks truth 2. meditation 3. single without any relations 4. self observation. without these one cannot reach the LORD."

" In this world we have two things. one is good for us and we get happiness with other thing. first one belongs to lord and second one belongs to worldly pleasures. clever people go with good things and remaining opt the second one. whoever fulfills his responsibility his mind would get peace than he can analyze what is important and permanent then only he can reach the LORD.  we cant get divine knowledge by ourselves we nee SADDGURU and blessings of LORD. when we leave  these 1. life 2. worldly pleasures 3.desires 4. arrogance 5. intelligence unless we leave the above qualities we cant get divine knowledge. whatever is sufficient for us we should take and that leads to satisfaction, then we can get remaining all abilities to gain divinity and reach LORD."

ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD

SAI devotee DASA GUNA MAHARAJU translated ISHAVASYA UPANISHAD into MAHARASHTRA language.but he didn't understand the content of the UPANISHAD properly and was not satisfied with translation so he asked BABA to clear his doubts and explain properly, to that SAI NATHA said " your doubt will be cleared by a small girl who works at KAKA SAHEB DIXIT house which is in VILLI PARLE." DASA GUNA  and others wondered how can a small girl explain the UPANISHAD which are not understood by pandits also. As BABA said DASA GUNA stayed in KAKA SAHEB house.

Next day morning when DASA GUNA woke up he heard a small girl who is a maid in his house was singing a nice song about a red saree and doing her work happily, he noticed this and felt pity on her. so he gave a red saree to her the next day , the girl felt so happy seeing the saree wore it and played with her friends all the day. Next day she came to work but with the old clothes and kept the new saree in her house but there is no sorrow in her face and started to sing song happily as she does everyday. DASA GUNA observed  happiness of the girl and thought deeply again and he got the answer. In reality she is a poor girl, the saree which she received is not permanent all through her life she understood this fact so she was happy though she  wore the same old clothes. and DASA GUNA understood that we will be happy if are satisfied with what we have by analyzing what is permanent and what is temporary in our lives and his doubts about ISHA VASYA UPANISHAD and BABA words became true.

This is unique way of preaching.If you have any doubts don't approach anyone immediately "first think and then try to get answer with experience and your doubts will be cleared. If you are not capable regarding this then only you approach SADDGURU or in other ways"

                                                 ఓం శ్రీ సమర్థ సద్ద్గురు సాయి నాథ మహా రాజ్ కి జై

ANANTH RAO PATAMKAR

SAI devotee named ANANTH came from PUNE took blessings from BABA and asked " I read all the Vedas and Upanishads but i don't have peace in my life, i heard that after listening to your witty words many got peace of mind in their lives". then BABA said " I think you understood that book knowledge is not useful,now listen to me long ago one merchant like you came to me for peace of mind then a lady horse in front of him pour dung and it fell in 9 places , that merchant took all those with him and he got peace of mind what else can i say?"

Ananth didn't understand the words of SAI BABA so he asked DADA KELKAR then he clarified that lady horse means LORD blessing dung means devotion,and they are in 9 ways,

1. sravanam ( to listen) 2. keertnam ( to sing) 3. smaranam ( repeating sacred mantra) 4. paada seva 5. pooja 6. namskarichatu (praying) 7. dasohamanuta 8. sakyamu 9. aatma niveedanamu. we have to follow any one of these with faith and devotion. 

  some may get doubt BABA can tell ANANTH about the 9 ways of devotion directly, but ANANTH asked BABA to tell in his witty words so he gave the words like this. devotee took the blessing and went with peace of mind.

OMNIPRESENT-SAI NATHA

In previous posts i shared some stories saying BABA is omnipresent. i want to share two more stories.

A devotee named V.H. TAKUR was a accountant in revenue office, he went BELGAM on some office work. Than he met a Kannada yogi  APPA. Yogi gave him a book " VICHAR SAGAR" written by NICSHAL DAS and asked him to read and told " your desires will be fulfilled ,when you go in east you will meet a great yogi , and he will bless you with good future". later TAKUR got transferred to JUNNURU. In JUNNURU he has to cross a hollow place in a hill and they should go on elephant only and he did the same. Then he was transferred to KALYANA village. over there he met NANA SAHEB and came to know about SAI NATHA  and came to SHIRIDI to take his blessing then BABA said " here method is not so easy as told by APPA YOGI or as elephant ride on the hollow hill, you have to put effort to know the spiritual values". when TAKUR heard this wondered how come BABA knows this secret which is only kept to him and prayed BABA with more devotion . Then SAI NATHA told " reading is not sufficient we have to implement and explained everything and blessed him" 

 One day a devotee who is a advocate came to SHIRIDI from PANDARI PURAM for SAI NATHA darshan. He prayed ,took the blessing after offering dakshin he went to a corner and sat. Then SHRI SAI NATHA looked at him and said " people are so cunning they will respect us but on our back they speak bad about us". BABA words are not understood by other, but advocate regretted hearing those words.Then the advocate told KAKA SAHEB DIXIT that " So many days ago our judge was not well , so he came to SHIRIDI to recover from the illness with his blessing. then some advocates discussed that if we are sick we have to visit doctors, we should not trust such kind of BABA or his vibuthi , and i  also took part in  that discussion".

 This incident happened long ago and that too far away from SHIRIDI, That too in rest room of pleaders. BABA made him remember this incident and taught some moral values. we should never blame other. we should never cheat who trust us blindly. whoever we may avoid now or leave them we may need them in our future so we should be careful and never hurt others with our words and it is a fault. people should know this that is the reason he warned him. SHRI SAMARTHA SAI will always save us from our faults and bless us.

SAI NATHA IS A SAFEGUARD TO HIS DEVOTEES

In KOPARGAV  a devotee MIRIKAR went to some place and on return he went to Masjid for darshan then BABA said " do you know tall BABA ? means snake " he showed the snake with the help of his both hands " it is dangerous but, how can it harm my devotees? when i am there what harm will that snake do?"no one understood the words of BABA. later with permission of BABA MIRIKAR took SHYAM to the village. when  they reached they halted at ANJANEYA SWAMY TEMPLE to take rest , then MIRIKAR was reading newspaper then snake was on his lap and he didn't notice but one person heard the hiss sound and shouted " snake snake " . MIRIKAR was frightened. every one came with sticks but snake came down without doing any harm , later it was killed. BABA knows the danger before so he cautioned them with the words and sent SHYAM along with him. MIRIKAR prayed to BABA with more devotion 

One day in Masjid BAVU SAHEB BUTTI was so worried because one astrologer told him ,

" you may die".but he came as usually and took darshan then BABA consoled him and said " why do you worry and fear when i am there to protect you i will see how death will come to you?". That evening when BUTTI went somewhere and he saw a snake. servant tried to kill her with help of stone but BUTTI sent him to bring a long stick. before he bought the stick snake didn't do any harm and went away. BUTTI remembered BABA words and felt happy and prayed with more devotion.

One midnight in Masjid BABA was accompanied with AMIR SAKKAR to sleep. while he was sleeping, BABA shouted in sleep " oye AMIR some snake is coming near to harm me look come and save me " then AMIR went near BABA but he didn't see anything and he thought may be it was a bad dream of BABA and returned to his place to sleep then he saw a snake in the lantern light and shouted . people gathered and snake went away but BABA was still in sleep. BABA cautioned AMIR while in sleep only by shouting , otherwise AMIR would be harmed by the snake. so BABA safe guards his devotees in his sleep also.

I wish everyone faith will be doubled after reading such stories.

BABA RESCUED SHYAM FROM SNAKE POISON

One day a snake harmed SHYAM. the snakes poison passed all through his body so quickly. In the SHIVA temple they cure such type of emergencies so his friends thought to take him over there but,SHYAM said SAI NATHA will only save me please take me there so everyone went to Masjid when BABA saw him he warned " oh coward Brahman you don't come up if you come i will see....go away " hearing the angry words of BABA ,SHYAM was disappointed and fell down since he came to him with so many hopes.after few seconds BABA returned to normal position and consoled saying " SHYAM don't worry this kind fakir will save you. you go home and take rest have faith on me" he told TATYA PATEL" let him eat but he should not sleep and stay in the house only , he is fine now" and sent him along with SHYAM. the words became true and SHYAM recovered in few hours only.

some may get doubt why BABA showed anger on SHYAM. actually BABA anger was not on him but about the poison snake only. he ordered poison not to pass through out his body. SHRI SADDGURU SAI words are enough to save ones life

DEVOTEES SHOULD SHOW AFFECTION TOWARDS PEOPLE BUT NOT ON THINGS

A devotee of RAMA used to  read VISHNU SAHSRANAMAM everyday in Masjid. he spends all the
time in devotion only, but he has more affection on thing and always say " its mine", " its not yours" so to remove this  thinking of him BABA thought to teach him a lesson.

One day BABA purposefully gave VISHNU SAHSRANAMAM book to SHYAM. He was afraid to take because he doesn't like argument with him, but BABA forced him to take the book. after some time Rama devotee returned Masjid and noticed that his book is with SHYAM and started argument with him. he scolded him then BABA seeing his anger said " oye if you have some money you can buy the book again but if you hurt them with harsh words that person will never talk with you. when you are reading the book since so many years you must have know everything by now then what is the use of the book? why are you so bothered if some other reads your book? remember one thing everyone should not say " this is mine or that is mine" affection on things. but you should have affection towards people and all the living being. intentionally I gave your book to SHYAM please calm down and think properly".

After listening BABA words also he didn't change. he started argument again and said " tell him also the same way as you told me. If i ask him to give his books does he give me?" to that SHYAM replied surely i ll give you tell me what books do you want? and the Rama devotee felt bad, then BABA said " now see the difference between you and him". affection should be towards people but not on things this is another beautiful message from BABA.

HARIDASU SHOULD BE SIMPLE- ADVICE OF BABA

In MAHARASHTRA HARIDASU don't appear like simple haridasu as in our state ANDHRA PRADESH. they used to wear a long coat over shirt, kanduva and dhoti with a big hat on their head called as " peta" over there and hold an instrument tambura.

One day DASA GUNA also dressed up in the same way and went to BABA for permission to give harikadha presentation in SHIRIDI. BABA looked at him and smiled and asked " you are looking like groom with this dressing where are you going" to that he replied " i am going to tell harikadha" then BABA said " why are you wearing all the garments? remove all of them with hat also. haridasu should be simple and should not wear any garment like others" immediately DASA GUNA removed them and took blessings. later he never dressed like that. he used to wear only garland and hold the tambura and recite all harikathas. HARIDASU is the resemblance of NARADA MAHA MUNI who chants HARI mantra and travel from one place to other. so BABA advice to haridasu is to be simple and recite with devotion.