Look To This Day!

Sai Maharaj cast off his mortal coil on 15th October 1918 at the auspicious moment when Vijaya Dashami changed to Ekadashi. This is an occasion to celebrate Sai Baba, who was confined to three and a half cubic feet of physical body and is now merged with the universe. We will commemorate the 106th ‘Maha Samadhi’ in October 2024.

Baba’s Maha Samadhi is a matter of ‘ANAND’. Anand or bliss is an unlimited, everlasting inner joy undisturbed by external circumstances. It is not a synonym for happiness or pleasure, which are derived from sense objects, from things outside the self, which are temporary. In bliss, no event makes you sad or ecstatic. When you are in the company of friends, for example, you enjoy that thoroughly; when not, that silence makes you dejected.

With Baba’s ‘Ashirvad’ as you observe his ‘Punya Tithi’, you are not numb; instead, you are so centered and in the present moment that you are perpetually high on life. Worry, anxiety, guilt, fear — none of these demons catch you. You will be happy.

Anxiety and worry snap at you only when you go off the present grid of Baba’s ‘Ashirvad’. As Das Ganu Maharaj puts it, Sai Maharaj can carry your burden, when you fully surrender to him however hard. Things get difficult when we pile up yesterday’s sorrows and tomorrow’s anxieties. Baba has taken Samadhi to take care of you. So, surrendering to Sai Maharaj is the key.

According to Anna Saheb Dabholkar, the author of Sai Satcharitra, “Sai Ashirvad from Baba’s Maha Samadhi is the energy that helps us recognize the conditions of happiness that are already present in our lives”.