Fear not Sai is living with us

Aum Sairam

Saints never die, they visit this earth, regulate the society and
leaving the earth after satisfactory completion of the task given by
God to them. Several devotees were frightened at the idea of Sri Sai
Baba leaving them to themselves by leaving His body. Sri Sai Baba told
one of the Mumbai ladies, Mrs. Tarabai Sadasiva Tarkhad, Mother, I do
not die. Wherever you are, if you think of Me, I am there at any time
you please [whether I am in the body or out of it], and in Shri Sai
Satcharitra, we have read Sri Sai Baba had given similar assurance to
Damodar Rasne. Both the above blessed children of Sri Sai Baba
experienced Sri Sai Baba's presence even after Mahasamadhi. Shri Rasne
saw physical, living and moving body of Sri Sai Baba with his own eyes
any number of times and talked with that body. Mrs. Tarkhad said, 'Sri
Sai Baba has not altogether vanished, He is still living with us now
and gives ample proof of his powers and protecting care in many matters
off and on, though the impressions about these, because of His body
being invisible, are not so great as those that the devotees enjoyed
when they sat in his presence at Shirdi.'

Abdullah Jan, originally of Tarbella, Mazra district near Peshawar, was a Pathan, living at Korhale, near Sakori - once expressed his fear that Sri Sai Baba would expire and that all His work and influence would pass away with Him. Sri Sai Baba said, 'Turban Hun Danda Hani', which is the Marathi expression for from within the tomb I will beat with sticks.' This statement is further strengthened with the following incident, which happened 18 years after Sri Sai Baba's Mahasamadhi. Imam Bhai Chote Khan, aged about 65 years residing at Vijapur, Aurangabad district, told H.H B V Narasimhaswamiji. About 1936, Chote Khan and Madhav Fasle were at the Mosque one night. Chote Khan heard Sri Sai Baba's voice Ye Madhav. Get up, I want to pass urine.' But Madhav in his deep sleep did not get up. Early in the morning, both of them found in the hollow at the place where Sri Sai Baba used to sit, scented water. The hollow was filled water. Sri Sai Baba had passed urine and it had become scented water.

In our life everyday we are coming across so many incidents that Sri Sai Baba is still living with us and helping to ward off our troubles and calamities. Fear not - Sri Sai Baba is living with us, simply follow his doctrines "You need not go far in search of Me. Barring your name and form, there exists in you as well as in all beings, a sense of Being or Consciousness of Existence. That is Myself [Shri Sai Satcharitra Ch.XLIII] Always worship Me, who is seated in your heart as well as in the heart of all beings [Ch.XV]. Hence Sri Sai Baba is within us, helping us and guiding us.

Allah Malik