ABDUL RAZAK BABURAO KORBU, a Muslim devotee wrote a sweet book on Baba. It's called "SAI SATHYA SAKHA (Sai - My True Friend)". It is available online here:
http://sss.vn.ua/sss_engl.htm
I just started reading it yesterday night. I am copy-pasting an extract from it below:
Extract start:
After darsan was over, Baba came straight to me and the following conversation took place on the veranda between Baba and me.
Baba – "What is your First name, sir?"
(Why Baba Calls me by "sir" I understood later on.)
I – "Abdul Razaak."
Baba – "What is the meaning of Abdul?"
I – "A devotee."
Baba – "What is the meaning of Razaak?"
I fumbled and could not answer immediately. Then Baba himself said.
Baba – "Razaak means Allah. What is the meaning of Allah?"
I – "God."
Baba – "That is not quite correct. Allah means all high – above all, that is the meaning of Parameshwar – Param Ishwar. No difference – Allah and Parameshwar are one – this whole existence – this vishwa!"
For the first time Baba talked so much with me in the veranda. Everyone in the veranda was listening to Baba. Sri Gokak, Kasturi, Bhagavantham etc. I became blank, almost hypnotised.
Then Baba said, "Come!" and started walking.
I could not understand and got confused.
Sri Kasturi was standing nearby. He could realise my condition and came to my rescue saying, "Swami has decided to give you a solo interview. Very fortunate. Go into His room."
I got up and started walking towards Baba's room. He was standing near the door. I went near him and stood bending forward with folded hands. (It is my opinion that no one, even Baba's critics can not stand straight in His close proximity)
Sri Gokak was also there, and he was watching us smilingly. Baba looked at Sri Gokak and pointing towards me said to him, "Poor man, I love him."
Extract End.Ok, enough of third person narration :) Now, let me continue. When I read this statement of Baba "Poor man, I love him.", I just shouted to Baba, "I am also a poor man, my Baba! Love me! Tell me that You love me, please!!" Baba did not show any response from the picture on my desk. So, helplessly, I continued reading....See now below the continutation of the extract:
Extract- continuation:Then facing towards me Baba said in Hindi, "Andar Jao Abdul. (Go inside the room, Abdul.)"
I went inside, then Baba came in.
Baba switched on the fan and sat on his special chair.
I sat at his feet and started weeping profusely.
Baba – "Sit properly and do not make noise by your weeping. Why fear when I am here. You are Abdul – my Abdul, and I am your Razak – you know, is it not?"
Extract End.
And I was in tears here. He loves me. :) Yes, He does. :)My full name is Pardha Saradhi. :) And I hear Baba telling me exactly same words as above!
"Sit properly and do not make noise by your weeping. Why fear when I am here. You are Pardha – my Pardha, and I am your Saradhi – you know, is it not?"
:))))) Happy, very happpy.
The dialogue for Abdul Razzak is: You are Abdul-my Abdul, I am your Razzak
The dialogue for Pardha Saradhi is: You are Pardha-my Pardha, I am your Saradhi
(Pardha is the name of Arjuna. And his Saradhi, charioteer is Krishna. And that's what my Swami is to me, my personalized Krishna :) And ya....I have never learnt to drive. Why does Arjuna need to, when he has his charioteer? :))
12 comments:
Sairam! fantastic..at last swami had to give him an interview!! to let u know..how much more swami can do for u..sandesh!!
Jus wanted to share with you that, during my C.A days, He was the first one to assure me (in my dreams)that i would get through the exam (even before the result was declared).
Happy to tell you that am blessed to share his birthdate.
Hey Raaj...What a blessing indeed to share birthday with God! :) I would never forget to wish you on your birthday anymore :)
By the way, if you did not know this - On the day Baba was born, Sri Aurobindo was in deep meditation and came out of it and said, "Krishna has descended on to earth". He seems to have missed the fact that Raaj also did :)
And ya...I had many similar experience of His pre-assurances about forthcoming results. However I was not surprised by that, though I was amused - for He is only the conferer of results. Sometimes He just leaks His decisions unofficially to our joy ;)
Very well said. But frankly am still finding it difficult to approach him as God "without second thoughts". Lets see, He will nly shw some way.. one day
sai ram dear brother that was really heart touching.........
Pardhu, my Sai brother, that was beautifully narrated Sairam!
Thank you for providing the link to the complete experience by Sairam Abdul.
Raaj, dear Sai brother, you are indeed fortunate. I have personally witnessed a few miracles in life, and he will continue to show more to prove that he is universal, and is part of us. May his light continue to illuminate us.
Jai Sai Ram.
Raaj, a few thoughts that triggered in me, I wanted to share with you but somehow forgot :)
I have known Baba from past 10 years, met hundreds of devotees, most of all I observed how I myself have progressed on this path. Somethings that I understood are:
The more deeper I dive in Baba, the more deeper, mystic and profound I find Him. The thing that "Baba is God", as I understand, is definitely not a yes/no kind of thing. It is not a fact to be proved by means of some experiments. It is an experience that grows in the body, mind and soul.
For example, Baba says: "I am God, the Creator, sustainer and terminator. I am the in-dweller in every atom in the Universe, Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient."
I believe in the above words very much and I had incredibly miraculous experiences of His Love and Power - but even to this day, I do so many things which Baba does not approve! How can I then proclaim that I believe in His words?
Suppose I am drinking something and you come to me and tell me what I am drinking is poison. If I truly believe in your words, will I ever drink it again? And if I vouch before the entire world that I believe in your words, I vouch that you are my best friend and then if I continue to drink the same, will there be any credibility/value to my words?
I have seen many who live around Baba yet do not make use of His teachings. I have seen people who still struggle a lot on the path of spirituality though Baba literally saved them from death and proved His Omnipotence and Love in so many ways ways.
If a person believes in His Omnipresence and Omnipotence totally, and understands well that all the world is just a drama running as per what Baba wrote, there will never be any anxiety in him. Supreme peace and bliss will dawn on him. And I definitely agree that this is not a thing to be achieved in one day. It might take years or decades or a few million lifetimes.
What Baba says is "I and you are one". To attain 100% unity with this thought is an experience and not definitely something that can explained in a few words or in an essay. It is an experience which a soul knows and cannot be expressed. Like for example, "sweetness" is known to the tongue but it cannot be explained.
Agreeing to the statement that Baba is God is definitely one good step, but what I wish to emphasize here is that doubts keep coming again and coming even after years are being with Him and experiencing Him in several ways. The very nature of human mind is so.
According to me, believing Him "Without second thought" is the end of the journey itself. When you believe in His words "I and you are One" without second thought, you have only thought and that is the Unity with Him and that's the end of the story :)
Will be happy to know your thoughts.
There was a European who was put up by my side during my stay at Baba's abode in last August. I used to speak a lot with him. He chose to listen mostly. And then one day when I was kind of depressed, I said to him, "Please share with me any of your experiences". He said, "Shall I tell you about the interview?"
"What? You got an interview with Swami?" I was wonderstruck and asked.
"Yes, in 1996", He said.
"Friend, you allowed me to yap all these days, keeping precious things with you! Please tell everything about it."
This is what my friend shared. In 1996, on the last day of his trip to India, he prepared a list of questions, which he intended to ask Baba, incase he gets an interview. He actually wrote them on a paper but forgot to bring the paper with him while he came to Darshan. And while sitting in Darshan, he was looking at Baba and said to himself in his heart: "All say that You are God. But I need a proof that you know what's in my mind. I need to have a personal experience. Call me please for an interview, otherwise this will be the last time I come here."
And then Swami, who had already passed him, suddenly turned back and pointed to him and said, "Go!"
That means he was called for an interview :)
So, he went in along with his wife and then Swami came in too. Without even his opening his mouth, Baba brought up 10 things and discussed them with him. The 10 things Baba brought up were exactly those he wrote on the paper to ask Baba (the paper which he forgot in the room) and exactly in the same order in which he wrote :)
After that Baba asked them to wait outside, called in two other Indian couples and after that he called my friend inside again. This time he called him in alone. He closed the door and spoke to him for a long time so lovingly. I asked my friend what Baba told him.
He replied, "I cannot tell you what he spoke to me. They are most personal to me which no one else on this earth knows than me. He pointed the good things in me, and the mistakes I was doing and what all He says is only out of Love.
I cannot tell you beyond this but what I understood from that interview is: He knows "every little thing" about you. And what all He says is for your sake, He says it out of love and just love."
This is what he told me :) and then I said to him, "Friend! you are lucky. You have a personal experience. I still am yearning for an experience."
He replied, "I am too....as badly as you do. I am no different."
That reply was indeed a lesson for me. The quest never ends until you realize God is within you! It starts from "Baba is God" but there is no peace of mind until the experience of "I and Baba (God) are one" happens.
:)
Wonderful incident..
Thanks for sharing,
-Sucaritha
Sairam Brother
Really nice to hear your experiences. May Baba bless you with more and more divine experiences!
Keep posting
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