This is Baba’s approach when responding not only to our mundane everyday needs, but also to our spiritual needs.

If I follow his advice, circumstances turn favorable for me, my needs are fulfilled and the problem is solved. Someone will come at the right moment and advice me. Please help me Baba.” Baba does not place money under my pillow as I sleep. When we pray to Baba - say for example, “I am in dire need of money. We receive Baba’s kindness, mercy, protection and grace from the people around us. Then once we know that Baba is the source of our fulfillment, our focus slowly shifts from the actual object of the desire to one who gives that object – Baba. Baba fulfils all our desires by his power. Our attachment towards Baba grows and which facilitates our transformation. Once we know that it is through Baba that our desires are getting fulfilled he becomes very important in our lives. On the path of Baba, the experience of fulfillment of desires fuels the development of a bond of love. The only thing which runs throughout the gamut of Baba’s life and teachings, is love. When that is spontaneously achieved in Baba's presence, what is the need of any other thing. Teaching is needed to get that experience of fulfillment, to get rid of our helplessness. Nobody felt any lack that Baba did not teach, because they were so fulfilled. So every leela, every incident, every miracle that we see in Baba’s life, every experience that we read, conveys a message. By getting the help they also got the message - the message which some other perfect masters / saints taught verbally.

The moment they went to him they saw the power, they were aware of their helplessness, they sought help and they got it. He was so powerful that the very experience of being in his presence was itself the teaching.

Baba embraced both the Hindu and Muslim faiths in his life and teachings.ĭuring Baba’s lifetime, the devotees around him did not approach Baba as a teacher, or as one with a philosophy too profound. Sai’s life is a literal example of non-duality.

Sai baba shirdi origina