Attraction towards Sai’s clothes

 

Om Sai Ram !

SatChitAnand Sadguru Shri SaiNath Maharaj Ki Jai !

Bow to Sadguru’s holy feet !

 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsha in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna has said in Chapter 5

"Thus Brahman and Śakti are identical.  If you accept the one, you must accept the other.  It is like fire and its power to burn.  If you see the fire, you must recognize its power to burn also.  You cannot think of fire without its power to burn, nor can you think of the power to burn without fire.  You cannot conceive of the sun's rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays.

"What is milk like? Oh, you say, it is something white.  You cannot think of the milk without the whiteness, and again, you cannot think of the whiteness without the milk.

"Thus one cannot think of Brahman without Śakti, or of Śakti without Brahman.  One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.”

"The Primordial Power is ever at play.  She is creating, preserving, and destroying in play, as it were.  This Power is called Kāli.  Kāli is verily Brahman, and Brahman is verily Kāli.  It is one and the same Reality.  When we think of  It as inactive, that is to say, not engaged in the acts of creation, preservation, and destruction, then we call It Brahman.  But when It engages in these activities, then we call It Kāli or Śakti.  The Reality is one and the same; the difference is in name and form.

"It is like water, called in different languages by different names, such as 'jal', 'pani', and so forth.  There are three or four ghats on a lake.  The Hindus, who drink water at one place, call  it 'jal'.  The Mussalmans at another place call it 'pani'.  And the English at a third place call it 'water'.  All three denote one and the same thing, the difference being in the name only.  In the same way, some address   the Reality as 'Allah', some as 'God', some as 'Brahman', some as 'Kāli', and others by such names as 'Rama', 'Jesus', 'Durga', 'Hari.' "

 

God and God’s shakti or power are one. One cannot exist without the other. I sometimes get peculiar attraction towards Sai Baba’s clothes. Just now while reading wherever the name Sai Baba or Sadguru is mentioned, i have a vision of Sai Baba’s clothes emitting amazing graze and power. That is all i see and feel. Many a times while Meditating on Sai Baba picture or even casual loving look towards Sai Baba’s picture the clothes of Sai Baba seems to be emitting divine love and grace an becomes a source of attraction.

In nights these days when the mind tries to go astray. What i do is visit Shirdi, maybe Samadhi Mandir, Dwarkamai, Gurusthan. Do pradakshina while chanting the name. Even the mental visits are so powerful that it feels nearly the same. Yesterday i was in MasjidMai and getting all attracted to Sai Baba’s clothes kissing the same, bowing to it and praying it as the source of infinite, the ParamAatma.

Although these days the attraction is towards His chest asking for the deep connection of His heart with mine. The respond is instant and deepens on watching it for longer time, with mental chanting coming from the depth of my heart. Even during performing Sai Baba Arati. The mind is attracted to His chest area seeking deep connection with His heart to mine. Response from Sai Baba is so good that with choked throat the end of the Arati is sung only by the other family members while i watch His heart.

In Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan, there is a museum where clothes of Sai Baba are placed. It’s worth a visit for those who visit Shirdi. Even there Sai Baba’s clothes have so much presence.

In a Gujarati book Sainath ne Sarane an autobiography of a spiritual devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba, Shri Sai SharanAnand. At one place he writes his experience. He was sitting in Shirdi and one devotee who was presented with Sai Baba’s attire by Baba himself, had hung the clothes to dry after the was. Swami SharanAnand says that he heard his Sadguru Sai Baba’s words, “Why am I hung here?” Swami Sharanand further writes that Sai Baba’s voice clearly came from the clothes.

Many of us feel the presence of Sai Baba while chanting Sai Baba’s name or mantra, reading Shri Sai SatCharitra, being in His temple, being in Shirdi. Sai presence is everywhere and Sai’s presence and  Sai are same. Even when we get clothes consecrated at Samadhi Temple or Dwarkamai, they carry the divine presence of Shri Sai Baba.

Hanging on to the relative we have to reach the absolute. The SatChitAnand. The divine truth consciousness and bliss. Love towards Sai Baba’s picture of articles with His divine presence takes us deep within us. That is where the source SatChitAnand is. The infinite absolute bliss. That’s what Baba says and that should be our goal. The goal we cannot reach. We have to seek the Sadguru’s love and grace, which can make us melt and merge in the infinite absolute bliss.

Today i received a Sai Baba story through sms.

Ramchandra Sitaram Dev once prayed to Sai Baba that He be his Guru.

Sai Baba replied, “It is not necessary that we make someone Guru. Everything is within us. What we sow we reap. What you give that comes to you in return. There is no need for Guru! Everything is in you. Try to listen to the voice of the inner soul, and whatever guidance you get, follow it. We have to look at our own self. That is the Guru.

I replied to him that i was on doing exactly that and Sai Baba attracted me and told me that Guru’s love and grace is most important see my first experiences with Sai Baba. Only Sai Baba knows his leela.

Chant from the depth of heart and being the holy name Sai Baba Sai Baba and feel the difference in your consciousness. Seek His divine love and grace because nothing is greater than that. In love comes everything. Whatever is needed is taken care of.

Om Sadguru Sainathaya Namaha !