ShirdiSaiBaba

Therefore, God is pleased with and wants only Bhakti or devotion. God is captured by love or prem. The above facts refer to well known bhaktas who received great help or favour from Krishna or God on account of their Bhakti. One’s profession or conduct, that is, whether one is a hunter or Vaideek Brahmin, whether one is younger old, whether one is highly learned or a creature without education, whether one is a high caste person or the son of a slave whether one is a brave man or a coward, whether one has beauty or wealth, none of these are the reasons for God’s help and favour. God is pleased by Bhakti alone and Bhakti can capture Him.

This contains the essence of the doctrine of Bhakti or devotion, and therefore, earnest readers who are anxious to study the history of Sai Baba, who realized in himself the perfection of Godhead by attaining Purna laya, concentrating his mind always on God with intense love from his earliest period of life, and thereby attained Aikya, so that he could say Mai Allahum, that is Aham Brahmasmi could exhibit all the powers of God; would find the use of the above stanzas. Sai identified himself with Krishna and with every other form of God. As the object of everyone should be to please God in Sai form or in any other form, one may note how in point of historical fact, from this biography, numbers of people were drawn to Sai Baba and achieved the love olf Sai Baba, and thereby achieved every object of human existence. The succeeding chapters of this book would deal with the details of a large number of devotees being drawn to and benefiting from Baba, and would fully illustrate the truth of the above verses. At present we have sufficiently satisfied highly sensitive readers who wish to have the essence of Sai Baba’s Marga placed before them, before we deal with the expansion of the Sai movement and the details of persons who approached him, and the problem that arise for consideration in the life of Baba.