ShirdiSaiBaba

8.13 – Guru Worship
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The best illustration is found in some Tamil puranas. One Aruni was a pupil who went to live with his Guru. The Guru had a wet-land. The boy was told to go and see the Guru’s land one day. The boy found that the water needed for irrigating the Guru’s field was running away on account of a breach in the clay ridge. He had no stones with which to fill up the breach. Thinking that the loss was too great, he put his own head and body in to the breach and stopped the leakage. As a result, he was dead. That Aruni is an excellent illustration of the extent to which the love between Guru and sishya could go.

Guru Gita says: “The true disciple’s body, wealth, skill, action, merit and life are the Guru’s. The love of Sai Baba towards his Guru was exactly similar to this. In ancient days, return of love of the Guru was equally strong. The Guru is a Samartha. He had power, including the power to ward off death or revive the dead. It was the Guru’s duty to use his power to save his pupil from death.

In Baba’s own case, his Guru Venkusa averted his death from a brick hurled at him by making the brick stand still in mid air. Baba himself averted death in the case of a good number of persons such as Nana Chandorkar, Santi Kirvandhikar, S.B.Nachne, G.S.Kahapharde, Balwant K. Nanaram. Baba expressly mentioned these.