Sai Baba Supported Swami's Preaching

[The divine experience of Shri. C. B. K. Murthy is given below in his own words.]

Swami is Sai Baba (Datta)

In the past, Swami appeared as Sai Baba to several devotees. Recently He appeared as Shirdi Sai Baba to Shri. K. Lakshman with smell of camphor. Next day, a devotee from Hyderabad (Smt. Ch. Sarada) came to see Swami. In her house, letters in Telugu (dotted structures visible to all) appear in milk kept before Sai Baba. Devotees copied all those letters written by Sai Baba in milk and those writings were brought here. Surprisingly what Swami said in his discourses was exactly the essence of those letters. This proves that Swami is Sai Baba i.e., Lord Datta. We told the same to Swami. Swami said like this ‘I am a dog at the feet of Sai Baba. He says ‘Allah Malik’ and I say ‘Sai Malik’. Generally, Swami speaks reverse like this, which is the characteristic way of Lord Datta. But Swami also says, ‘Datta is Jnana (Knowledge). Vinaya (submissiveness) is the fruit of Jnana. So Datta is always humble and speaks with all submissiveness. Datta will not stay where egoism exists’.

Swami often says that He is the dog at the feet of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba. Devotee felt for it and requested Swami not to speak like that. Swami said, ‘If you see the left extreme, it is DOG. If you come to the right extreme it is GOD. If a person full of egoism and jealousy comes to Me, I say that I am the DOG. If a devotee with full faith comes to Me I say I am the GOD. So the pointer of the egoism – jealousy meter shifts from 0-100 according to the people coming to Me and the meter appears to My eyes. Accordingly, I play the cassette. I have five cassettes, which speaks that I am a Dog, Devotee, Messenger, Incarnation, and God. If the jealousy and egoism of the visitor is 100%, I say that I am a DOG. If it is 75%, I say that I am a Devotee. If it is 50% I say that I am a Messenger. If it is 25%, I say that I am the Incarnation. If it is 0%, I say I am God. Like this there is a gradual transformation from Dvaita to Vishishtadvaita and to Advaita. According to the visitor’s level of absorption I have to play the cassette. If the visitor has 100% egoism and jealousy and if I play the 5^th cassette which speaks that I am God, the visitor will go at once shouting that I am mad and egoistic’.

I am just comparing one small discourse of Swami with the writing of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba in milk. The discourse of Swami is ‘God comes down in human form only. The Gita says the same as ‘Mānuṣīm…’. The Gita also says ‘Bhūtejyā yānti…’ i.e., if you worship stones, you will be born as stones. The Veda says ‘Na tasya pratimā…, i.e., God is not dwelling in the statues. Worship (Sixteen upachaaras) is only for the human incarnation and not for the statue. Statue is only for seeing the past incarnation as said by the Veda ‘Draṣṭavyaḥ’. It is just like seeing the photo of a person who is no more here. The photo is required because it is difficult to imagine clearly the person who is not before you’.

Sai Baba’s Writing In Milk:- (Written in Telugu as it is)

Nirakarun, akaramu leni nanu – madi nilputa kasthamanuchu pratimal chitramulan, ekagrata kuduru okarupuniga nilpi pujinchamatanna purthin verrulai nenocchi akaramu dalchi yeduta nilchi spurthi nicchinan, aa silalan kolthuru chitramunu nilpedaru nanu gurthincha leni mimu kani chitramaitiraa.

Translation Of The Above Poem:-

‘I asked you to meditate upon the statues and photos, because it is difficult to concentrate on God who is beyond imagination. But you are mad. Even though I have come down in human form to preach, you leave Me and still worship those statues and photos. You are not recognizing Me in the human form. So, I have become a photo (I died) according to your madness’.

Swami said ‘My discourses show authority from the Vedas, the Shastras and the Gita. Scholars can understand and appreciate but common people cannot appreciate so much. So, to give authority to My discourses in the eyes of laymen, Shirdi Sai Baba has written these poems in the milk since most of the people are the devotees of Shirdi Sai Baba. They will believe My discourses now easily’.

Concluding Remarks By Swami On Miracles

The whole universe itself is a miracle, which is the modification of His mind called Maayaa. The mind is His energy or power. This power is the substance that pervades all over the world. This Maayaa (mind) is the water and all the objects of the world are only waves of this Maayaa. Since the Maayaa is inseparable from the Lord, you can say that the Lord (Brahman) is modified into the world. When you imagine the city, you are not modified into the city. Only your mind is modified. As the mind changes the city changes. Therefore, according to the Maayaa anything can take place in this world. The Maayaa is under the full control of the Lord. The wish of the Lord itself is Maayaa. All the miracles are only the wishes of the Lord. The Lord may wish to follow certain rules, in such case, there is no miracle. But when the Lord wishes to break the rule, the miracle happens. Therefore, the miracles are not the real characteristic signs of the Lord and they are transferable from the Lord to anybody. The miracles are only associated characteristics of the Lord like jewels. The Lord may exhibit His jewels or may remove and hide them. Krishna exhibited miracles and Rama did not exhibit. A cow should be recognised by the special layer of skin below its neck, which is not present in the case of any other animal. Similarly, the Lord must be recognised by His characteristic signs only like Jnana, Prema and Ananda (knowledge, love and bliss). If you recognise the cow by a bell-belt, it is not the correct sign. The bell-belt can be transferred to a donkey. The donkey cannot be the cow. The donkey can never have the special layer of the skin below its neck. Therefore, the Lord in human form can be recognised only by special knowledge (Prajnanam) as said in the Veda. Such prajnanam alone can generate love and bliss in your hearts. But the miracles are useful to distinguish the Lord from a scholar. A scholar may also generate a trace of love and bliss and sometimes may be misunderstood for the Lord. Sometimes the scholar also may perform some miracles. Ravana was a scholar and also performed the miracles. But his knowledge can never generate infinite love and infinite bliss in the heart of anybody. Therefore, the true and infinite knowledge that generates infinite love and infinite bliss in your heart is the only characteristic sign of the Lord. You can also decide the Lord by the miracles, which are performed whenever there is real necessity. Ravana performed miracles as exhibition. Rama changed the stone into Ahalya and also broke the bow of Lord Siva. He also removed the pride of Parashurama. All these are miracles of Rama with necessity and dignity.

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