By: Sri Baba Shivarudra Balayogi Swamiji
Sai Baba is eradicating the agony of distressed with his divine powers even after his ‘Mahasamadhi’ in 1918. The aspirants are guided by Sai Baba to meditate, to have compassion and serve mankind as God. His grace comes through deep devotion and faith.
When he was in the physical body, Baba told that selfless renounced life was enough for Mhalsapathi. He enjoined ‘Dhyana’ to Nana Saheb Chandorkar. Pure emotion and intense devotion were adequate but fully rewarding to Megha. Dasa Ganu’s capacity as a ‘Kirthankar’ lead him to liberation. Baba’s kripa was manifold.
Lord Krishna in the ‘Gita’says that it is extremely difficult to cross the river of ‘Maya’ except through surrender to Him (7-14). In his masterpiece ‘Life of Sai Baba’, Sri Narasimha Swamiji beautifully amplifies this assertion using many metaphors.
The river of maya gets filled by the rains in the form of three ‘Gunas’ that cause the flood of delusion. There are many dangers like whirlpools of hatred, big fishes of arrogance, and waves of desires in this river. Someone plunges into the river trusting his intellectual strength but vanishes without a trace. Another one may try to ride a float in the form of the Vedas, but he gets devoured by fish in the form of arrogance. Someone else may try to cross the river trusting his youthful energy, but he gets chewed by a crocodile in the form of sense pleasures. Some try the float of ‘yajnas’, but they get stuck in the rocks of heavenly pleasures. If a sage can understand an evil mind, or if a fish can swallow the hook, or if a ghost will be afraid of a timid person, only then living beings can cross the river of maya!
So, what is the way to cross this river of maya? Sri Narasimha Swamiji says that only those who surrender to the Lord can easily cross this river. Only those who have their ‘Sadguru’ as the boatman in the boat of ‘Self-realization, who have discarded their ego and all the ‘vikalpa’ or doubts, who have given up ‘Moha’ can cross this river of maya.
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