Shirdi Sai Ashtotramala –Meaning, Meditation and Miracle
Day -67. “Om Shri Sai Sookshmaya Namaha.”
Meaning:
Humble salutation to Him who is
personification of subtlety. (Shirdi Sai Trust).
Meditation:
“He is
there everywhere. He is even in that pillar. He is even in this small speck”.
This was
the reply given by the child Bhakth Prahlad when asked by His father –Hiranya, “Where
is Vishnu, your God”?
When prahlad prayed God to appear, He appeared
from the pillar and the rest of the story we all know.
Right
from the small cell phones to the powerful gates of the Nangal Dam opening the
great and powerful flow of the water of the River Sutlej, it is the Electricity
that make things work across the world. Just by pressing a switch on, incredible
things do happen. Yet it is invisible. It cannot be touched, it cannot be felt,
it cannot be seen, tasted or heard, using any of the five sense organs. But its
effects are so powerful, so influencing our lives. Only one should know its
presence, its power switch to seeking its presence. We understand the subtle
electricity, the cause, by its effects.
The
Brahmam God or Guru is there, making the universe tick. The Sun rises and sets,
the stars appear, the new born takes its
first breath without being taught, the seasons change, the flowers blossom. All
by that subtle power, the Brahmam. The switch is the realisation, meditation
and prayers to turn the power on.
Like the
child Prahalad, with that intensity and thirst in search of God.
The great power appears, from the unseen
untouched unfelt Sookshmaya status and we all wonder at the Leelas and
miracles.
Baba took Maha Samadhi on 15th October,
1918. Hemadpant writes:
“Thirty two years before this, i.e. in 1886 Baba made
an attempt to cross the border line. On a Margarshirsa Pournima (Full moon) day,
Baba suffered from a severe attack of Asthma. To get rid of it, Baba decided to
take His Pran high up and go into Samadhi. He said to Bhagat Mhalsapati,
“Protect My body for three days! If I return, it will
be all right, if do not, bury My body in that open land (pointing to it) and
fix two flags there as a mark!” After saying this, Baba fell down at about
10pm. His breathing stopped as well as His pulse. It seemed as if His Pran left
the body. All the people, including the villagers came there and wanted to hold
an inquest and bury the body in the place, pointed by Baba. But, Mhalsapati
prevented this. With Baba’s body on his lap, he sat full three days guarding
it. After three days passed, Baba showed signs of life at 3 a.m., His breathing
commenced, the abdomen began to move. His eyes opened and stretching His limbs,
Baba returned to consciousness (life) again.
From this and other accounts, let the readers
consider, whether Sai Baba was the three and a half cubits body that He
occupied for some years, and that He left thereafter or He was the Self inside.
The body, composed of the five elements, is perishable and transient but the
Self within in the thing- Absolute Reality, which is immortal and intransient.
This pure Being, Consciousness or Brahma, the Ruler and Controller of the
senses and mind is Sai. This pervades all things in the universe and there is
no space without it. For fulfilling His mission He assumed the body, and after
it was fulfilled He threw away the body ( the finite aspect), and assumed His
infinite aspect Sai ever lives, as also the previous Incarnation of god
Dattatreya, Shri Narshima Saraswati of Gangapur. His passing away is only an
outward aspect, but in reality He pervaded all animate and inanimate things and
is their Inner Controller and Ruler. This can be, and is even now experienced
by many, who surrender themselves completely to Him and worship Him with whole-
hearted devotion.
Though, it is not possible for us to see Baba’s form
now onwards, but, if we go to Shirdi, we shall find His beautiful life-like
portrait adorning the Masjid. This has been drawn by Shamrao Jaykar, a famous
artist and well- known devotee of Baba. To an imaginative and devout spectator
this portrait can give even to-day the satisfaction of taking Baba’s darshan.
Though Baba has no gross body now, He lives there and everywhere, and will affect
the welfare of the devotees even now, as He was doing before, when He was
embodied Saints like Baba never die, though they look like men, they are in
reality God Himself. ( Shri Sai SatcharitaCh:44).
He is there everywhere, running to the devotee when called with
extreme devotion. He is being experienced through His Leelas every time,
always. He is Sookshmaya.
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