Miracle - Master's Protection

Aum Sairam

Among the Sri Sai bhakta's, it is perhaps the pure in heart who are blessed with the vision and the grace of the Guru-God. Many a man of humble origin with a simple and unsophisticated mind gets similar marks of the Master's favor. Perhaps Sri Sai like men to be simple and childlike in order that they may enter the kingdom of heaven.

What is the rational explanation of these miracles? Is there a duplication of personality? Does Sri Sai himself enter into the physical semblance of a soul? One cannot say. But one can say with utter conviction that these are no ordinary miracles. Such marvels can only spring from a Divine source and they establish beyond all doubt the supreme avatar hood of the Saint of Shirdi.

Although such uncommon wonders occur in the lives of some bhakta’s only, each and every devotee is blessed with some concrete token of the Master's protection and love. Such inner vision and psychic experience are important avenues of Divine help. Through these means Sri Sai is able to create that intense longing for the Divine which nothing can damp-neither delays, nor difficulties, nor disappointments.

Together with these inspiring instances of Sri Sai's innate Lordship may also be recounted the unique phenomena of what is known as Sri Sai's Anterjnana, or Omniscience. Sri Sai himself, at the close of noon aerate one day, made an avowal of this power which he possessed thus: "Wherever you may be, Whatever you may do, remember this always- I ever know whatever you do or say." No matter with what secret thought or desire or doubt an individual confronted him at Shirdi, Sri Sai could read him like an open book. Sometimes he exposed those thoughts as much as to rebuke them: "Oh those of little faith," he seemed to say," wherefore do you doubt?" At other times he started replying to the half formed questions of the casual visitor; often he solved the problems of those who had not even had the time to speak of their needs.

This Anterjnana was not limited to those who were in his actual presence. Baba could express the thoughts of persons, thousands of miles away, foresee events and reveal the past, present, and future as if space and time had shrunk into an all-revealing point of eternity in front of this Omniscient and Omnipresent presence in Shirdi.

Endlessly could we go on recounting the leela's of the Blessed One. Perhaps hearing of his consummate deeds which out-flash all religious theories and rituals, thousands will come within the ambit of his gracious influence opening to the children of men the gates of immortality.

Allah Malik