70: “The Masjid has collapsed. All the grocers and oil mongers of Shirdi troubled me a lot, so I am leaving that place”.
71: “Therefore I have come here. Cover my body with Bakhkhal flowers. Fulfill this desire of mine. Come quickly to Shirdi ”.
76. Why did Baba like Dassera only? Because it was one out of the three and a half auspicious days in the year (when there is no need to find out the ‘muhurat’ or auspicious time). All know very well that an auspicious time for departure is valued or chosen.
77. It is also not proper to say this. One who is beyond birth or death, how could there be a departure for him or the necessity of an auspicious time for it?
78. One who is not bound by religion or otherwise; one who has control over all attachments; one who has no ascending of his vital life force – what is Niryan for him?
79. ‘Brahmaiva Sanbrahmapayeti’. For Sai Maharaja this description is applicable. So he has no beginning nor end. What is ‘Niryan’ status for him?
80. Whether the sun is seemingly traveling to the north or the south, he who has not to undertake the journey at all, and whose life force merges with the Supreme where he is, it is like the light of the lamp being extinguished and it becoming dark.
115. Sai pervades, perpetually, all that is visible and invisible, and is also the Supreme Spirit beyond that. Sai is He that is Unborn and Eternal.
140. When the oil of the span of life finished, the flame of life dimmed. The body found rest on the lap of Bayaji (Appa Kote).
141. He did not fall on the ground nor did he lie on his bed; but sitting quietly on his seat, doing charity with his own hands, he threw off the mortal coil.
142. Nobody knew Samartha’s mind or heart’s secret. He left the body in no time and became one with the Supreme Spirit.
143. Wearing the cloak of the body, from Maya, the Saints manifest in the world. Soon after their work of upliftment is completed they merge with the formless.
145. He who manifested for the benefit of the people ended the Avatar as soon as his mission was complete. Could he be bound by life and death, who takes a form by his own divine sport?
146. How can there be a possibility of death for him whose glory is the Supreme Spirit? He who is the embodiment of detachment, how can existence or non-existence have any effect on him?
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