How to love God
How our Beloved Guru Sri Sai Baba Works on us
Shirdi Sai Baba has touched millions of lives, in his own inscrutable ways. Different spiritual Masters have been doing it since ages. The way of the Shirdi Sai Baba has been peculiar and there is no one way or few ways he touches and works for his most beloved devotees, there are many. However the most apparent is his form and his photos or pictures. As described in Chapters of Sai SatCharitra 18 and 19th Watching Guru's Form is one of the most powerful way of meditation.
And with that Shradha (Faith) and Saburi(Patience), are two most valuable characteristics we the devotees require. I feel great upsurge of elevating energy in my body when ever i gaze on Sai Baba's picture. And each time with the surge of energy seems to work on brain and other parts of body. Sai Baba communicates with his much loved devotees through his pictures. That might be the reason we find so many pictures of Shirdi Sai Baba. In India if one moves around in any city, chances are less that one will not come across the pictures of Sai Baba. And most of Sai Baba's devotees have felt the communication with Sai Baba through his pictures.
Another way is the Sacred Book Sai SatCharitra.
Another way is the Holy Land Shirdi, a small insignificant village once turned into crowded pilgrimage place with lots of hotels and shops, where Sai Baba attracts all his devotees. The Holy land of Shirdi is such a powerful place throbbing with grace of Sai Baba, and SaiBaba calls all his beloved devotees to clean them of their karmas and accumulated Shanskaras and impressions. However each devotee needs different treatment which is very beautifully explained by Bhauji through the story linked. (<<< Click that link read and come back).
I would like to quote Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansha " Pilgrimage becomes futile if it does not enables you to attain love of God. Yes this is absolute truth Sai Baba used to say "I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them". Baba draws his beloved devotees to him. Sai Baba gives his devotees whatever they want, so that they begin to want what wants to give. The love of Baba, only love from Baba, with which Baba is always overflowing. This how i was hooked by Sai BabaSai Baba and whenever i see Sai's picture or Sai Baba's idol, i feel great love flowing for the benefit and growth of his devotees. When i look at Baba the connection felt is so strong it cannot be described in words. We say we go to SaiBaba. The truth is Sai Baba calls us and works on us.
And all we can do is surrender our selves to Sai Baba and let Sai work, let his grace work, let his love work. When we work let Sai Baba's grace, love and remembrance be the guide. Sai SatCharitra be the guide. Each time i open Sai SatCharitra it gives me appropriate directions. I have so much pull towards living in Shirdi, just because working of Sai Baba, the grace and love of Sai is felt so much. While going through tough times, i was praying to Sai Baba of providing me enough so that i can buy a house in Shirdi and pass my life in his devotion in Shirdi. At that time i felt strongly that i was needed at my home. Even though jobless and and in debt, my parents has deep satisfaction of my being at home. My family and other loved ones. I cannot hurt them to be in Shirdi. Yes if provided i can pass two or three months in Shirdi come back stay with them and go again.
Yesterday i came across the following story of Meher Baba, Bhauji told the story on online chat i felt it to be very beautiful and so i asked his permission if i can post it on my blog on Shirdi Sai Baba, which Bhauji readily agreed so here it goes
There is no reason to leave the world. The world will --
leave you, provided you follow His Wish. --
I just give one example. There was one family in Poona, --
and everyone of the family was following Baba --
wholeheartedly. The husband, wife and children...--
if there was any Baba programme, the whole family --
would attend. They had one room in the house –
that they called Baba's room. If anyone wanted to go to pray --
to Baba, they could go and no one could make --
any noise. Once one came to Baba, the wife Hemlata, --
and Baba asked her, "How is your husband?' –
She said "he is alright Baba." Baba asked, "What about the children?" --
They are also alright. I have come to you while they at school. –
And Baba said to her, I am very, very happy to hear this. Now you go and give my love to your husband --
and loving kisses to the children. Be happy and cheerful." She left. –
When she went back, she went to Baba's room, and she closed the room. And she was all alone in the room. The children came back from the school, and they saw that their mother had come. --
Because they saw her sandals outside the room. So they went to another place to play. –
In the late evening, the father came back from his job. He was a police inspector, --
and the children told him that their mother had come back from Baba, and that she was in Baba's room. --
The husband was also very, very happy, thinking how fortunate he was to have such a wife. --
A wife who loves Baba so much. So he cooked the dinner, and served dinner to the children. --
And he himself ate. Hemlata was still in Baba's room. The husband was waiting and waiting, --
but she did not come out. So he did not distrurb her. He slept, and the children slept. --
In the morning, when he got up, he found that his wife was still sleeping. --
He thought, "How fortunate I am that I have such a wife who loves Baba so much. " --
So he cooked the breakfast for the children, and served them their breakfast. He brought out clean clothes for them, --
and he told them to go to school after they changed their clothes. –
And he left for his job. But in the evening, when he returned from his job, he found Hemlata was still in Baba's room. --
Then he started thinking, "What to do now?" I am happy that she loves Baba so much. --
But at the same time, I am facing practical difficulties. --
So he wrote a letter to Baba saying, "Baba, my wife Hemlata loves you very much, and I am very, very happy, but now I find --
that since the time that she has returned , she is not coming out of Your room in the house. –
This is not my complaint against Hemlata. On the contrary, I am happy that she loves you so much, --
but I am facing practical difficulties. " When the letter was received, Eruch read his letter to Baba. --
Baba said, "Send a telegram immediately, and call the whole family immediately, including the children." -
He did it, and the next day the police inspector, his wife Hemlata and the children came to Satara. –
And Baba embraced each one, and asked them to sit down. They were sitting in front of Beloved Baba, --
And Baba embraced each one, and asked them to sit down. They were sitting in front of Beloved Baba, --
and Baba said to Hemlata, "Hemlata, I am very, very happy with your love. You love Me so much. --
And you make Me happy. But I am happy with your love in you." And then Baba looked at the children. --
"But I am not happy in them. I don't get food on time. I don't get clean clothes, and of course, I wait for you in them." –
Then Baba looked at the husband, and Baba said, "Oh! I am very, very unhappy in him. I have to go to my job, and my job is so difficult. --
I cannot come back home on time. I don't get food. On the contrary, I have to cook food for the children. –
very, very unhappy in him. But Hemlata, I tell you the truth. I am very, very unhappy in them. --
But I am happy in you. But can you not make me happy in them, too? You make me happy only in you, and you make my unhappy in them. –
But I am happy in you. But can you not make me happy in them, too? You make me happy only in you, and you make my unhappy in them. --
Just have mercy on Me. Do you like to make Me unhappy in them?" And she immediately said, "No, Baba, I don't want to make any of them unhappy." –
So Baba said, "I give you this husband and the children, knowing fully well that you will make them happy in you and happy in them. but you make Me happy in you, and unhappy in them. How miserable I am in them." --
And Hemlata said, "Baba, I will no more do this. Forgive me Baba, I did not think that you would be –
unhappy in them. I want you to be happy in all. " --
Then Baba said, "Then love Me, and love Me in the same way in them. And because I have --
so much confidence in you, I just gave these children and husband to you." And Hemlata said, --
Baba, forgive me, I will love them, and I will make You happy in them, too." And then Baba embraced her twice –
and then kissed the children and the husband. So this is family life. Baba does not want that we should make –
any members of the family unhappy. It is my responsibility."
I also feel like linking How To Love God By Meher Baba as it is the best way to love our most beloved Shirdi Sai Baba
Sadaguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai
How our Beloved Guru Sri Sai Baba Works on us
And with that Shradha (Faith) and Saburi(Patience), are two most valuable characteristics we the devotees require. I feel great upsurge of elevating energy in my body when ever i gaze on Sai Baba's picture. And each time with the surge of energy seems to work on brain and other parts of body. Sai Baba communicates with his much loved devotees through his pictures. That might be the reason we find so many pictures of Shirdi Sai Baba. In India if one moves around in any city, chances are less that one will not come across the pictures of Sai Baba. And most of Sai Baba's devotees have felt the communication with Sai Baba through his pictures.
Another way is the Sacred Book Sai SatCharitra.
I would like to quote Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansha " Pilgrimage becomes futile if it does not enables you to attain love of God. Yes this is absolute truth Sai Baba used to say "I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them". Baba draws his beloved devotees to him. Sai Baba gives his devotees whatever they want, so that they begin to want what wants to give. The love of Baba, only love from Baba, with which Baba is always overflowing. This how i was hooked by Sai BabaSai Baba and whenever i see Sai's picture or Sai Baba's idol, i feel great love flowing for the benefit and growth of his devotees. When i look at Baba the connection felt is so strong it cannot be described in words. We say we go to SaiBaba. The truth is Sai Baba calls us and works on us.
And all we can do is surrender our selves to Sai Baba and let Sai work, let his grace work, let his love work. When we work let Sai Baba's grace, love and remembrance be the guide. Sai SatCharitra be the guide. Each time i open Sai SatCharitra it gives me appropriate directions. I have so much pull towards living in Shirdi, just because working of Sai Baba, the grace and love of Sai is felt so much. While going through tough times, i was praying to Sai Baba of providing me enough so that i can buy a house in Shirdi and pass my life in his devotion in Shirdi. At that time i felt strongly that i was needed at my home. Even though jobless and and in debt, my parents has deep satisfaction of my being at home. My family and other loved ones. I cannot hurt them to be in Shirdi. Yes if provided i can pass two or three months in Shirdi come back stay with them and go again.
Yesterday i came across the following story of Meher Baba, Bhauji told the story on online chat i felt it to be very beautiful and so i asked his permission if i can post it on my blog on Shirdi Sai Baba, which Bhauji readily agreed so here it goes
There is no reason to leave the world. The world will --
leave you, provided you follow His Wish. --
I just give one example. There was one family in Poona, --
and everyone of the family was following Baba --
wholeheartedly. The husband, wife and children...--
if there was any Baba programme, the whole family --
would attend. They had one room in the house –
that they called Baba's room. If anyone wanted to go to pray --
to Baba, they could go and no one could make --
any noise. Once one came to Baba, the wife Hemlata, --
and Baba asked her, "How is your husband?' –
She said "he is alright Baba." Baba asked, "What about the children?" --
They are also alright. I have come to you while they at school. –
And Baba said to her, I am very, very happy to hear this. Now you go and give my love to your husband --
and loving kisses to the children. Be happy and cheerful." She left. –
When she went back, she went to Baba's room, and she closed the room. And she was all alone in the room. The children came back from the school, and they saw that their mother had come. --
Because they saw her sandals outside the room. So they went to another place to play. –
In the late evening, the father came back from his job. He was a police inspector, --
and the children told him that their mother had come back from Baba, and that she was in Baba's room. --
The husband was also very, very happy, thinking how fortunate he was to have such a wife. --
A wife who loves Baba so much. So he cooked the dinner, and served dinner to the children. --
And he himself ate. Hemlata was still in Baba's room. The husband was waiting and waiting, --
but she did not come out. So he did not distrurb her. He slept, and the children slept. --
In the morning, when he got up, he found that his wife was still sleeping. --
He thought, "How fortunate I am that I have such a wife who loves Baba so much. " --
So he cooked the breakfast for the children, and served them their breakfast. He brought out clean clothes for them, --
and he told them to go to school after they changed their clothes. –
And he left for his job. But in the evening, when he returned from his job, he found Hemlata was still in Baba's room. --
Then he started thinking, "What to do now?" I am happy that she loves Baba so much. --
But at the same time, I am facing practical difficulties. --
So he wrote a letter to Baba saying, "Baba, my wife Hemlata loves you very much, and I am very, very happy, but now I find --
that since the time that she has returned , she is not coming out of Your room in the house. –
This is not my complaint against Hemlata. On the contrary, I am happy that she loves you so much, --
but I am facing practical difficulties. " When the letter was received, Eruch read his letter to Baba. --
Baba said, "Send a telegram immediately, and call the whole family immediately, including the children." -
He did it, and the next day the police inspector, his wife Hemlata and the children came to Satara. –
And Baba embraced each one, and asked them to sit down. They were sitting in front of Beloved Baba, --
And Baba embraced each one, and asked them to sit down. They were sitting in front of Beloved Baba, --
and Baba said to Hemlata, "Hemlata, I am very, very happy with your love. You love Me so much. --
And you make Me happy. But I am happy with your love in you." And then Baba looked at the children. --
"But I am not happy in them. I don't get food on time. I don't get clean clothes, and of course, I wait for you in them." –
Then Baba looked at the husband, and Baba said, "Oh! I am very, very unhappy in him. I have to go to my job, and my job is so difficult. --
I cannot come back home on time. I don't get food. On the contrary, I have to cook food for the children. –
very, very unhappy in him. But Hemlata, I tell you the truth. I am very, very unhappy in them. --
But I am happy in you. But can you not make me happy in them, too? You make me happy only in you, and you make my unhappy in them. –
But I am happy in you. But can you not make me happy in them, too? You make me happy only in you, and you make my unhappy in them. --
Just have mercy on Me. Do you like to make Me unhappy in them?" And she immediately said, "No, Baba, I don't want to make any of them unhappy." –
So Baba said, "I give you this husband and the children, knowing fully well that you will make them happy in you and happy in them. but you make Me happy in you, and unhappy in them. How miserable I am in them." --
And Hemlata said, "Baba, I will no more do this. Forgive me Baba, I did not think that you would be –
unhappy in them. I want you to be happy in all. " --
Then Baba said, "Then love Me, and love Me in the same way in them. And because I have --
so much confidence in you, I just gave these children and husband to you." And Hemlata said, --
Baba, forgive me, I will love them, and I will make You happy in them, too." And then Baba embraced her twice –
and then kissed the children and the husband. So this is family life. Baba does not want that we should make –
any members of the family unhappy. It is my responsibility."
I also feel like linking How To Love God By Meher Baba as it is the best way to love our most beloved Shirdi Sai Baba
Sadaguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai
