Sri Sathya Sai Baba

March 1st, 2010 |

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Shrī Sathya Sāi Bābā is the leading spiritual figure of the world. Devotees from virtually every inhabited continent and almost every country of the world come to His Āshram in India, known as Prashānti Nilayam—the abode of highest peace. The location of Āshram is around 125 KM from Bangalore in an earlier-small-village known as Puttāparti, which now has become the world’s major hub of spiritual pilgrimage. The village now has world-class facilities of super-specialty hospitals, universities, aero drums, planetariums, and world class indoor and outdoor stadiums for sports activities. What you will not find in the whole of India, you will be able to get it in Puttāparthi.

Shrī Sathya Sāi Bābā is the incarnation of this Iron Age, and He has Himself declared that one more incarnation has to come in the series of Sāi—the first one was Shirdī Sāi Bābā, the present one is Shrī Sathya Sāi Bābā and the next one would be Prema Sāi. He took birth in the village itself, blessing a pious couple, who surely had observed highest forms of penance to be able to achieve the highest award of being the parents of the incarnation. The parents of this body, as Shrī Sathya Sāi Bābā Himself calls them, named the newly born boy as Sathyanārāyana, which is the famous name of Lord Vishnu.

: A view over the Hill View Stadium

As recorded in His official biography “Sathyam Shivam Sundaram”, His grandmother was offering her worship to Lord Vishnu in the form of Sathyanārāyana: ladies throughout India keep fasts to propitiate Lord Vishnu in this form and at the end of their fasts, they offer worship to the deity. It is also recorded that when she was reported about the labour pains of the “mother of the incarnation”, she refused to quit her worship and believed that Lord to whom she was offering her worship would take care of the child and the mother also. In the meantime, the baby was born, and it was named with the name of the deity, which was believed to be the protector of the delivery. It is interesting to note here the prophecy that comes in the famous “Shrīmad Bhāgwad Purāna”; it states:

अथासौ युगसंध्यायां दस्यप्रायेषु राजसु।
जनिता विष्णुयशसो नाम्ना कल्किर्जगत्पतिः।।

The lines convey that at dusk of the Iron Age, the incarnation that will come will be known with the name of “Fame of Vishnu”, which points to the name that Shrī Sathya Sāi Bābā bore—Sathyanārāyana.

Right from the birth, Shrī Sathya Sāi Bābā has been engaged in the betterment of humanity, and it makes almost millions of stories of love, care, and help if you go in search of them around the world. He has touched the most down-trodden people on earth, and at the same time has blessed the high official and successful persons. He often says: I have not come here to collect my devotees. I am here to give you bliss and love, which you have forgotten in pursuits of your worldly madness.

He has done what nobody else have ever even thought of, and He continues to do so. He has provided free health services, education, drinking water, homes for destitute children and mothers, and above all, the assurance to the humanity that God exists, and It Does. There is no place that is unaccessible to Him, there is no knowledge, no thought, no motive and no feeling that He does not know about–there is nothing in this world that He can’t do. He Himself is the creator of this world, who has deigned to come on this earth and to lead humanity on the path of Godward Journey.

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