Faith & Perception

Aum Sairam

Is Sri Sai Baba God or could that be He was just a man with a few
unique powers and peculiarities? This was also a question raised about
two thousand years ago with Christ, was Jesus Christ a man or a
magician? Discussions on the father, the son and the Holy Spirit' is
still a popular topic at churches all over. Where does the answer lie
to the question whether Sri Sai Baba was an ordinary man with a few
powers or the manifestation of the supreme conscious that eludes common rationale?

As to how Sri Sai Baba is to be regarded, there is wide divergence of
views not merely among religions, sects and people, but also within
one's stage of the spiritual growth. Many regard Him as both God and
man, just as in case of Jesus Christ.

Thou seemest human and divine
The highest holiest manhood thou.
Our wills are ours, we know not how
Our wills are ours, to make them thine

There are many who are hovering about this level, in their view of Sai
Baba now, disposed to submit and surrender, and pray to Him as God,
again disposed to regard Him as a highly developed personality acting
as their guardian angel or at least as a benevolent but more gifted
man, with human frailties and other human peculiarities. Some devotees,
if they analyze their perception from time to time, might discover that
they can not fix themselves to one particular view of Sri Sai Baba
always, but are involuntarily moved from one to the other viewpoints
mentioned above and even to pass beyond these, even to the extent of
doubting whether Sri Sai Baba is or is not good and powerful. Such is
human weakness that one need not be ashamed to discover his own
position in the last named class. But commonsense and higher impulses
naturally drive us to quit such a useless, nay, pernicious state and
strive to reach higher levels of faith and perception.

Allah Malik