Story of Sai Baba his life and teachings

MAY SAI BABA BLESS US ALL


STORY OF HIS LIFE AND TEACHINGS
WRITTEN BY S.V.TANAVDE[an humble devotee]

Rendered in English
by T.V. PARVATE.

well today, i am writing this post so that the people of other countries can read the treasures of India... [this is not advertising type]
i want u to read. thats it.. no harsh feelings for the other caste or their holy books. 

happy reading.


let me begin....





1. Unknown  Precedents.



His Holiness, Shri Sai Baba is a widely  venerated saintly figure throughout India. Yet nothing is definitely know as to what family he sprang from, what his religion,caste and birth- place were.  His case appears to be of Immaculate Conception like that of Jesus Christ.Just as saint Namdeo, the Maharashtra saint is said to have been born in a mother of pearl, Kabir, the Northern India saint in a lotus flower, Sai Baba was discovered as an unclaimed child under the shade of a Neem tree.

Some say that he was first seen as a child of three years. some others say that he was five years old, some said, that he was seen first as sixteen years youth!

Whatever that may be, when he was seen he was a handsome, bright and knowledgeable figure.

At the age of 16 or 17 , he revealed himself at Shirdi in Ahmednagar District. Nobody knew from where he hailed. Some says that he came to Shirdi in marriage party of C hand Patil's newphew. Chand Patil was a Mussalman and the bride of the newphew belonged to Shirdi.

People of Shirdi found a young boy of sixteen under the shade of a Neem tree.  His dress consisted of a white robe , a belt and a white scarf round about his head.  He had a couple of alumunium pots with him. He was barefeeted.  No one took any notice of him because he seemed to be a lunatic as he drank waste water and concealed himself in shrubs in the Lendi garden.  But some discerning people were struck by his brilliant countenance and inquired who he was but he never gave any consistent replies.  Sometimes he only used to say that he had come there from a long distance.  In all the seasons of the year, whether hot , cold or rainy, he stayed and slept under the shade of the neem tree.  He used  to dig the earth, make a ditch and fold himself in it when he wanted to go to sleep. He had no other clothes except those he had on his person. The earth below and the sky above formed his bedding material.

Some people believe that he was an incarnation of Lord Shiva, others that of the Maratha Saint Ramdas and still others as that of the tenth sainth among the Nathapanthis.  But that he was a Divine Pessonage , was the belief of all who came in his contact.

Sai Baba is regarded as a Hindu by some and Muslim by others.  He always lived in a dilapidated mosque,but  behaved like an old hindu sage of antiquity.  There was a live fire constantly in the mosque and a frequent sound of the conch and the bell.  Worship, meditation and prayer in the Hindu style was a distinct feature of his behaviour and he also applied sandal paste to his forehead like a Hindu.  Those who have seen him ever that both his ears were pierced like those of every Hindu.

Some people regard him as an incarnation of Kabir. He was a disciple of a Hindu saint known as VYANKUSA or GOPALSWAMI. Some Hindu disciples of Gopalswami did not approve of their Guru's having taken a Muslim disciple and they pelted a brick-bat at him, but the brick-bat hit the saint Gopalswami like a boomrang and protected his Muslim disciple.  Sai Baba later took possession of the brick and preserved it with him for all the time.

Some people hold that Sai Baba was the babe of a Brahman couple, blessed by a Faqir. It was presented to the Faqir by its Brahman father and mother and then the Faqir took care of it thereafter and that child was SAI BABA.

At the age of eight , he came to public notice,but no definite information about his parentage.  Once a disciple insisted on getting  this information, but SAI BABA  only said that Brahma was his father and Maya was his mother.

Whatever, that may be, that he was a Divine Being was the faith of all his disciples among whom there were Hindus,Muslims,Christians,
Parsees.  He is know to have met his disciples in the form of their revered deity.  Among his disciples were well know physicians, surgeons, vakils, barristers, solicitors, Government Officials and merchants.  Any one whether an atheist, agnostic, or godless, became a believer in God after he had cone in contact with him.  He developed faith in Sai Baba and became his devotee.  Everyone believed that he was gifted with special powers of a Divine, miraculous character and this belief was based on personal experience.

well...
next chapter will be

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