Sai Baba’s Advice to Upasani Maharaj
Sai Baba desired to make Upasani a ‘Sadguru’ and transfer all his spiritual treasury. For this purpose, he put him on an internship. He had strictly instructed him not to stir out of Khandoba Mandir for forty-eight months. Upasani agreed to comply Baba’s instructions rigidly.
Initially Upasani had hallucinations. His dead grandfather appeared before him and muttered the word ‘Ahmednagar’ again and again in a peculiar style. Upasani thought that his grandfather is instructing him to leave Shirdi and go to Ahmednagar. Then he split the word emphasizing accent on every of its components and divided it as ‘Aham-Madan-Gar’ which in Sanskrit Aham means ego, Madan means lust and Gar means poison. Actually, Sai Baba had appeared in the form of his grandfather to point out that ego and lust are obstacles to spiritual progress!
Besides this, while sitting idle in Khandoba temple he perceived a number of mystic visions before his eyes. Sunrays entering his head and emerging out still brighter from the other side, dazzling and revolving circles moving before his eyes, in those rays a black person ‘Kali Purusha’ and a fair complexioned person ‘Sath Purusha’ competing with each other to push him into a valley of sins or merits, finding himself among many women himself being devoid of gender sense, sometimes feeling himself as a woman, vision of Sai Baba, formation of universe by atoms and molecules, fast moving universe himself being an independent entity and other bewildering hallucinations! Khandoba Mandir was also infested with snakes and other reptiles freey movng over Upasani! Upasani used to get frightened and run to Baba! Baba would reassure him with affectionate words of consolation!
“Baba, why do you go to that house? That boy insults you every day. Come here – I alone can give you as much food as you want it!” (Source – ‘The Sage of Sakori’)
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