Shirdi Sai Satcharitra Chapter 27 - English Audiobook

Shirdi Sai Satcharitra Chapter 27 - English Audiobook You can also read Chapter 27 here: https://www.shirdibooks.com/sai-satch... This chapter covers the following: Granting a Consecrated Book Baba’s Blessings in the form of the Bhagwat and Vishnu-Sahasra Nama Dixit's Vitthal Vision Gita Rahasya  And The Khapardes This Chapter describes how Sai Baba blessed His devotees by granting them religious books, after he had consecrated them, and a few other stories. Preliminary When a man dives into the sea, he gets the merit of bathing in all the sacred rivers. Similarly, when a man takes refuge at the feet of the Sadguru, he gets the merit of bowing to the Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh) and also the Para-Brahma. May victory be unto Shri Sai, the wish-fulfilling tree and the ocean of knowledge who gives us self-realization; Oh Sai, create in us a regard for Your stories and let the readers devour them with the same relish with which the chatak bird drinks water from the clouds and becomes happy. While listening to Your stories, let them and their families get all the sattwik emotions; let their bodies perspire, let their eyes be full of tears, let their prana be steady, let their minds be composed, let their hair stand on end; let them cry, sob and shake and let their hostilities and distinctions vanish. If these things happen, that is a sign of the grace of the Guru dawning upon them. When these emotions develop in you, the Guru is greatly pleased and will certainly lead you on to the goal of self-realization. The best way therefore, to free yourself from the shackles of Maya, is complete and wholehearted surrender to Baba. The Vedas cannot take you across the ocean of Maya; It is only the Sadguru who can do so and make you see the Lord in all creatures. Granting a Consecrated Book The variety of the methods by which Baba imparted advice has already been mentioned in the previous Chapters. In this one, we shall deal with one such method. It was the habit of some devotees to bring religious books they wanted to study, to Baba and to have them consecrated by Him. While reading such books every day, they felt that Baba was with them. Kaka Mahajani came to Shirdi with a copy of the Ekanathi Bhagwat. Shama borrowed the book to read it and took it with him when he went to the Masjid. There, Baba took it from him, touched it and after flipping through a few pages, gave it back to Shama and asked him to keep it with him. When Shama said that it belonged to Kaka and that it had to be returned, Baba said, “No, No. I have given it to you and you better keep it with you for safe custody. It will be of use to you.” In this way, many books were entrusted to Shama. Kaka Mahajani, after a few days, brought another copy of the Bhagwat and gave it to Baba. Baba then gave it back as Prasad and asked him to preserve it well, and assured him that it would benefit him greatly. Kaka accepted it with a bow. Shama and the Vishnu-Sahasra-Nama Shama was a very close devotee and Baba wanted to bless him by giving him a copy of the Vishnu-Sahasra-Nama as Prasad. This was done in the following way. Once, a Ramadasi (follower of the Saint Ramadas) came to Shirdi and stayed there for some time. Every day, He woke up early in the morning, washed his face, bathed and then after wearing saffron-colored clothes and besmearing himself with sacred ashes, read the Vishnu-Sahasra-Nama (a book that gives a thousand names in praise of the Lord Vishnu−held second in importance to the Bhagwad Geeta) and the Adhyatma-Ramayana (the esoteric version of Rama’s story) with faith. After a few days, Baba thought of favoring and initiating Shama with the Vishnu-Sahasra-Nama. He therefore called the Ramadasi and said to him that He was suffering from intense stomach-pain and that unless He took Senna-pods (a mild purgative drug) the pain would not stop. And thus he requested the Ramadasi to go to the bazaar and bring the drug. The Ramadasi closed his book and went to the bazaar. Then Baba descended from His seat, came to where the Ramadasi had been sitting and took the copy of the Vishnu-Sahasra-Nama. Then he returned to His seat and said to Shama, “Oh Shama, this book is very valuable and efficacious, so I present it to you; ................. Bow to Shri Sai - Peace be to all