The
little green plants make the surroundings beautiful and give happiness
to people. The lovely flowers, like the hearts of good souls, please
the eyes of the on-lookers. Trees provide shelter to many birds.
They protect living beings from sun-stroke and comfort them under
the shade. The group of trees is called a garden. In such beautiful
gardens like the Naimisaranya, several ascetics did penance and
became the blessed ones. Likewise, our Shirdi Sainath groomed a
garden and named it 'Lendi garden'. On seeing Baba as a gardener
carrying a pot-full of water, some saints praised Him as, 'the Great
Soul who is not for Shirdi alone but a Jewel for the entire World'.
In the Lendi Garden, Baba Himself lit an eternal lamp and kept a
grill around to safeguard it. He called it an Eternal Lamp that
burns out the layers of illusion clouding the human mind.
Everyday Vaman Tatya, the potter, used to offer two unbaked earthen
pots to Baba. Sai used to regularly water the plants. By evening
He kept the pots upturned underneath the neem tree and they got
broken the next day. A beautiful garden came up in a short period
of time. Sai raised the beautiful garden to reveal us that the human
heart and universe is the Lendi bagh, the Garden of God's abundant
love and that every soul, as a fragrant flower, has to be offered
to the Feet of Sainath.
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