GURU CULT OF SAIBABA

Aum Sai Ram.

The Guru cult of Baba was unique and extraordinary. It was different from the traditional manners of teaching and educating disciples.

Baba's guru fed Him with the food of Gnyana, Karma, Bhakti and Yoga through the portals of faith, loyalty and perseverance.

His guru gifted Him with all the merits of his lifelong penance through his look of grace. He encased Baba's all Karmas in a brick and indemnified Him from effects of Karma and prarabdha.

This divine love was freely distributed by Baba to his Bhaktas who remembered him incessantly, sang His name and His glory and meditated on His form.
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Baba used to say in clear and unequivocal terms to sadhaka bhaktas: - 'You practise Mantra, Tantra, Japa, Tapa; Yoga, Yaga, Gnyana, Dhyana or do not follow any such practice.

Ultimately you have to come to Me for the fulfillment of your Sadhana. You can reach the Mukti by dint of firm faith, and absolute surrender to Me. This faith and dedication is the mother of grace.
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Baba used to add further:- "Bhakti will lead you to Bhavavastha, Dhyana will elevate you to Sahajavastha, Unattached dutiful karma will raise you to Naishkamya stage.

Yoga will gear you upto casual body. But you cannot progress any further without My grace. All your efforts will be insufficient without the help of automatic gears of Guru's grace or God's mercy.

The automatic support of grace will put you on the higher level of unmani, beyond turiya stage. The divine area lies beyond casual body.

Here chidakasha lifts you upto Mahadakasha or supra casual level. You will enter the Nirvikalpa only with the motor force of my personal love and grace. The nada, bindu, kala and the ultimate illumination is not apart from My supreme self".
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The Ritambhara genius roused by the touch of Baba's grace has unfolded His precious upadehsa to me in rhythmic poetry.

Drinking the honey of Baba's auspicious vedas and unbound mahima my heart is intoxicated with celestial joy and bliss. Call this 'Divine love' or 'Nityavadhana' (constant awareness of Atman).

It gives me depth of Devotion, equal vision of Dnyana, Dedication of Karma, and merger of prana and mona which is Yoga. I see with the eye of Sanjaya and hear the dialogue of Baba and his choicest devotee.
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Partake of the feast of knowledge served in the following paras.

Baba : I am moksha incarnate, I am the Gurumantra and Gurus' command. Bear this in mind, my dear Devotee.

Devotee : You are the source of Ananda. you are the full moon of grase. I am your chakor, 0 Sai.

BABA : I am the image of liberation I am the mantra of moksha myself. I am the commandment given by Guru. I have no other upadesha. Bear this in mind.
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* All sacred waters are whirling round My feet. Ail shashtras are stuffed in My words. All sadhanas are worshipping Me. My message to you is that you should know for certain that I am yours and you are Mine. Infuse this teaching in your heart as My choicest sermon to My dear devotee.

* This thread of kinship is pulling you to Me. This bond of love is weaving our births together in a beautiful garland of unity. It is for this endearment that I have donned the robe of a Fakir, a man of compassions and renouncement.

* My loving look is like a female tortoise protecting her young ones from a distance by the touch of her sight. My eyes are looking at you caressingly without even a wink. They pierce the curtain of time and space.

* When the bond of samsar is broken and falls asunder - by the magic touch of My look of grace, the iron walls of separateness fall down and the shower of Amrit drenches the soil inside.

* Do not step into purposeless wordy warfare of philosophies, do not follow shashtras and puranas. Do not drift in blind devotion. Do not isolate yourself in penance or japa recitations. The singular sadhana you should resort to is of absolute surrender at My feet. This will carry you to the desired goal.

* Fix your eyes on My feet, merge your mind in My recollection, immerse your intellect in My contemplation. Cast away the identity of your individual body, mind and entire existence and merge consciousness in My form.

* Throw of all sankalpas and vikalpas, all designs and doubts. Stabilize your mind in unruffled peace. Entrust the helm of your life boat to Me. I am but a servant of a Bhakta, whose faith is unequalled and implicit. You should not doubt over this declaration of Mine.

* I am the miraculous merger of prana and mana. I am the sonorous sound of beating of Anahata drums. I am the lustrous flame of Atman. Hold fast to My arm and enter the portals of unfathomable void in My company.

* I am the fragrance of the thousand petaled lotus in the head, t am the drop of Amrit oozing down the Satravikala. I am the unqualified supreme state of Ananda. I am the omkar sound rising up the navel to the crest point. My residence is the point in Kailasa part of the brain, where source of Amrit is Stored,
You are the Full Moon of Grace
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Devotee:* You are the full moon of grace. I am your thirsty chakor. You are the source of delight and the root of Ananda.

* You are the throb of supreme light, which I cannot perceive with my blind eyes.

* You are the sound of Anahata, beating its echo in mundane world. You are the mystic wave of ecstacy in my heart. You are ocean of compassion and bliss.

* You are the magic touch of grace which converts distress into joyful exhuberance.

* You are haven of peace while I am seething restlessness. You are divine rhythm of Ananda, whereas I'm volatile buoyant words. You reside in my prana, mana, buddhi and ego, illumining my entire existence and infusing Brahmananda within.

* The rhythmic words dance in a symm3trical gait in my songs of devotion for you.

The wall of resistence around the flood of love in my heart has been dismantled by you.

* You have blown the fragrance of bliss. The bondage of samsar breaks at your touch of grace, I remain at Your feet as an end-product of Supreme Ananda", .

(Adapted from Shri 'Saigeetayan' by author Shri Chokar Ajgaonkar).
CHAKOR AJGAONKAR, M.A.
14, Girisameep, Shrinagar
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