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Shirdi Sai and Sathya Sai are One
and the Same
By Arjan D. Bharwani
49. THE RECLAMATION
Accumulated merits of past lives,
the good samskaras of this life and the sathwic traits that one
develops, can alone bring one in the physical presence of Divinity
Incarnate. Such people are indeed doubly blessed, for they
repeatedly have the good fortune of contact with successive
manifestations of The Divine.
Man has strayed away from the Divine
Path, down the ages. One purpose of the current series of Avatars
is, to bring back man to the Pathway to God. There seems to be an
uniform pattern in this return to the Right Road. There are many
instances where the link has been established, to draw back the
prodigal, first to Shirdi Sai and then onwards to Parthi. Hilda
Charlton is one among the fortunate. She first tame to Shirdi.
Falling into the pattern, she learnt there about Sathya Sai and
moved on to Parthi.
AIf Tidemann Johanessen, Arthur
Osborne (The Author of 'The Incredible Sai Baba'), H.H. Gayathri
Swami, E.K. Kulkarni of Poona, C.Ramachandran of Kirkee, Dr.
Kushmun Billimoria and her family and Yogi Suddhananda Bharati are
but to mention a few such reinstatements. This return to nativity
is echoed forth in the statements of the following.
Dr. M. Chenna R eddy, once during a
speech at Prasanti Nilayam said that he had been to Shirdi, a few
weeks prior to coming to Puttaparthi and added, "I consider my
coming to Puttaparthi, so soon after that, as a piece of good f or
tune, for the sai Baba of Shirdi has taken Avatar here as Sri
Sathya Sai Baba".
His Excellency Shri Govind Narayan,
I.C.S. Governor of Karnataka, narrates that when he took charge of
his first posting (significantly in the year 1540) in Faizabad, in
U.P., he was presented with two pictures of Shirdi Sai Baba, by a
visitor who was a devotee of Shirdi Sai. The Governor says that he
has always preserved those pictures and considers that, that was
the beginning of his journey to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba,
which fructified in 1976 with darsans and his first ever interview
with Baba Ever since he has been blessed with many interviews and
Baba's Divine Grace has been conferred on him in abundance.
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