Baba Helps Das Ganu

Aum Sairam

Dasganu Maharaj was an ardent devotee of Sri Sai Baba and was
instrumental in spreading the name and fame of Sai Maharaj with his
Kirtans. He was also an author of two books, Bhakta Leelamrut and Sant
Kathamrut. Presumably he wrote these two books in Marathi. From Shri
Sai Satcharitra, we also know that he was trying to translate and write
a commentary Shri Isha Upanishad in Marathi.

Shri Hemadpant explains how brief this Upanishad is [just 18 slokas].
It is a well known fact that the shorter the original message, the more
cryptic it will be. And when we try to magnify a small object into a
big object, a lot of distortion will normally get introduced. So, when
Dasganu Maharaj did not feel satisfied with his intellectual efforts
and when his consultations with other learned scholars did not satisfy
him, he turned to his Sadguru Sri Sai and Sri Sai did solve Dasganu's
difficulty through Kakasaheb's maid servant.

The message which Dasganu got is that the whole world is God's form and
He is all pervasive. And that one must accept in humility what one is
bestowed with by God. Why Dasganu did not think of approaching Sri Sai
in the beginning itself and when he did finally approach, why Sri Sai
sent him to Vile Parle [Mumbai] to the house of Shri Kakasaheb instead
of explaining the philosophy? It is one more of His Leela's. Dasganu
Maharaj got a practical demonstration of the teachings of Shri Isha
Upanishad. And why did he not think of asking Sri Sai in the beginning?
He had to learn and experience the lesson that learning fades before
self realization! In fact, that seems to be the real lesson which Sri
Sai taught him.

Allah Malik