In just a few centuries with science and technology, humanity has moved from feeling largely at the mercy of the Creation to a world-view where we thought our power was limitless. We have searched the Earth for all its resources and let our population and societies expand without limit; while dumping our wastes and polluting…
Month: February 2020
Dried Trees
Purandare loved Baba as himself. When Baba suffered from something, he felt the pain in his own heart. It grieved him that Baba had to walk in the blazing sun to the Chávadi building or Lendi garden every day. With great difficulty, he hauled a few saplings from Mumbai; he wanted to plant them along…
साईं तेरे हर नीति वचनों
तेरे हर नीति वचनों का मान रखा है हमने उसका पालन कर …
We Are Out Of Oil
SaiRam dear friends, you must have read this story or event from the life of Baba for sure. However, it is always an amazing experience to read again and learn something new. Hope the story provides us with new learning & insights. The Maharaj used to go round and get oil from the grocers, with…
Sai Baba’s Sermons: part 2
After a few days Chandorkar Nana came to Shirdi again, he prostrated in front of Baba and clasped his feet. ‘Baba, please teach me what you promised to teach the last time I came here.’ Baba was pleased with Nana’s eagerness to learn. He said: Pay careful heed to my words. The destruction of the…
Sai-Baba’s Sermons
KARMIC EFFECTS Nanasaheb Chandorkar and Nimonkar, both Sai devotees, once went to Shirdi for Baba’s darshan. Nanasaheb fell at Baba’s feet and said: “O Sai Maharaj, I am sick and tired of this mundane life. The Shastras say that this world of ours is meaningless, an illusion. Help me. Oh, brother of the helpless, to…
A lawsuit for Appa
Appa Kulkarni of Shirdi was a great devotee of Sai Baba. He was once charged with embezzling government money, maybe because of his past karma. God alone knew whether the charges were true or false but people started whispering that Appa was a cheat. Appa was scared that he might be taken to court and…
My Experience with a Dancing Girl
My master often told me, “This entire world is a theatre of learning. You should not depend on me alone to teach you, but should learn from everything.” One time he instructed me: “Now, my boy, go to Darjeeling. Outside the city, there is a stream. There is a cremation ground on the bank of…
Practice Makes Perfect
Once when I was teaching about life and death a swami quietly came in and sat with my students. I thought he was a beginner, so I treated him as I treated the others. While the others were carefully taking notes, he only smiled, and that annoyed me. I finally asked, “Are you listening to…
The Greater Grief Pales Lesser Grief
When Dasaratha, the emperor died, there was no one at hand to perform the obsequies and so, they sent word to the two younger sons, Bharata and Satrughna, who had left for their kinsman’s capital. They were not informed of the death, and when they came and saw the body, they were too shocked at the inert silence of…