Let Scaling the Heights of Success be Our Goal

A mountaineer aims at the highest peak of a mountain. A devotee should aim at reaching the presence of God from which there should be no coming back. In order to achieve any great purpose in life, toil and trouble are inevitable. We have to face problems and tests. It is easier to walk on the earth for every one. So it is to live a care-free life, eating and loitering. But a heroic man strives and struggles to reach a goal, however hazardous the path might be. Once you set your foot on the path to reach your goal, friends and relatives might threaten you of encountering hazards and failures. Moreover, people would get ready to pull you down once you reach the summit of success. 

We must have complete self-confidence and faith in God in order to accomplish any task we might undertake. Many people fail to achieve anything in their lives and take delight in seeing people flounder in their efforts or bend their heads in shame because of failures. Faith stands them in good stead to those who trust in God. However rugged or thorny the path might be, a man of faith succeeds in reaching the summit of success and indescribable will be the bliss he experiences. It is a state of divine delight. Man's life should not be like that of a frog in a well which leaps and falls down. We should strive to reach the Feet of Sai - the height of illimitable bliss.

❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤ 

"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"

|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|

Sainath's Sacred Foot-Prints

Sri Sai used to sit underneath a neem tree since He entered Shirdi. One day, Krishnaji had a desire to see the Padukas, sacred foot-prints of Saint Akkalkot Maharaj. Before he could start to Akkalkot, the Swami of Akkalkot appeared in his dream and said, "You need not come to Me now. My present stay is at Shirdi. So you go there and have the darshan". Krishnaji believed that Swami Samarth of Akkalkot and Sai Baba were one and the same. Krishnaji went to Shirdi, stayed for six months and wanted to install the padukas of Sai Baba underneath the neem tree hallowed by Baba sitting under it. 

Krishnaji was advised by his friend to ask Dr. Rama Rao Kotare to make the padukas. When the blue-print of the foot-prints were shown to Sri Upasani Maharaj, he added lotus, conch-shell, chakra, the disc on them. They got the padukas made in Bombay. Baba ordered that the padukas be installed on the auspicious Sraavana Pournami day.

Dikshit brought the sacred padukas, keeping them on his head, to Dwarakamayi and placed them before Baba who touched them and declared that the padukas were the Feet of God. He gave twenty-five rupees to meet the expenditure to be incurred for the installation of the padukas. Since then, devotees who visit Shirdi wave the camphor-lit lamp and offer sanctified food to the padukas. It is a sacred service to the Lord of the Universe.

❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤ 

"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"

|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|

Remembering Baba will Remove Our Hardships

God is the Abode of Supreme Bliss and the embodiment of the pure Spirit and the Truth who is not touched by the polarities of pleasure and pain, sin and merit. Sai is the Perfect Master with a pure heart. The Holy Trinity, viz., Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva assumed the form of Dattatreya, whose incarnation is Shirdi Sai. We should know that to have His darshan is to achieve the purpose of life. Baba's heart is filled with kindness and love. He took human birth although He is that Formless Absolute Reality. He moved among the commoners as commoner in flesh and blood and blessed the devotees cross the ocean of worldly life. Baba will indwell as Bliss in the heart of those devotees who have no desires or any trace of arrogance. 

Indeed, for people who would see, think and serve Baba with firm faith, He will appear in everyone as His Divinity pervades every being. When the deed is noble, God would help. Baba Himself declared that there is no difference between His picture and Himself. In this hectic world, we may not find time to sit and meditate. It is enough for a Baba devotee to recall the image of Sai and mentally sing Bhajans to Him. Chanting Sai's name removes all doubts and difficulties. There is no room for fears when we take refuge in Him. We can serenely shed our perishable body and merge with the immortal Baba.

❤ JAI SATGURU SAINATH ❤ 

"Bow to Shri Sai & Peace Be to all"

|ॐ|ॐ|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|ॐ|ॐ|