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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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This new rendering of the Sri Sai Satcharitra is humbly offered at the feet of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, our beloved sadguru and our everything. It is through his grace that this work was inspired and completed. With-out his grace, nothing is possible. He is watching over the entire universe and each and every one of us. To understand the mystery of Sai is our blessing and our way. Through listening to and meditating on his life and his leelas our false understanding is removed and we recognize that we are one with him and all that is. There is no greater bliss than to experi-ence his love and living presence among us...
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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It was sometime after 1910 when one fine morning I went to the masjid in Shirdi for darshan (seeing Divinity) of Sai Baba. I was wonderstruck to see the following phenomenon. After washing his mouth and face, Sai Baba began to make preparations for grinding wheat. He spread a sack on the floor then placed a hand-mill there. He drew up the sleeves of his kafni (robe) and put a few handfuls of wheat in the mill and started grinding it. I thought, ‘What business does Baba have with grinding wheat when he possesses nothing, stores nothing and lives on alms?’Others had thought the same thing but none had the courage to ask Baba what he was doing. Immediately, as the news of Baba’s grinding wheat spread into the village men and women began to run to the masjid to watch Baba. Four bold women forced their way up from the crowd and pushed Baba aside, forcibly taking the handle in their hands, and started grinding and singing about Baba’s leelas (divine plays).
At first Baba was enraged, but then seeing the women’s love and devotion, he was much pleased and began to smile...
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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I began to think about why Sai Baba called me by the name Hemadpant. This word is a form of Hemadripant. Hemadripant was a well-known Minister of the kings Mahadev and Ramadev of Devgiri, of the Yadava dynasty. He was very learned, good-natured and the author of many books. He invented and started new methods of accounts and was the originator of the Marathi shorthand script. But I was quite the opposite, an ignoramus, with a dull, mediocre intellect. I could not understand why the name or title was conferred upon me. But thinking seriously upon it, I thought that the title was a dart to destroy my ego, so that I would always remain meek and humble. It was also a compliment paid to me for the cleverness in the discussion...Listen to the full recording of Chapter Two today!
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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The Lord entrusts different works to different devotees. Some are given the work of building temples and maths (organizations), or ghats (cremation grounds) on rivers. Some are made to sing the glories of God. Some are sent on pilgrimages. But I was allotted the work of writing the Satcharitra. Being a jack-of-all-trades but master of none, I was quite unqualified for this job. Then why should I undertake such a difficult job? Who can describe the true life of Sai Baba? His grace alone can enable one to accomplish this difficult work. So, when I took the pen in hand, Sai Baba took away my egoism and wrote his stories himself. The credit of relating these stories goes to him and not to me. Though Brahmin by birth, I lacked the vision of shruti (revelation) and smriti (remembrance) and was not at all capable of writing the Satcharitra. But the grace of the Lord makes a dumb man talk and enables a lame man to cross a mountain. He alone knows how to get things done as he likes. Neither the flute nor the harmonium knows how the sounds are produced. This is the concern of the player. The oozing of the chandrakant (moonstone) jewel and the surging of the sea are not due to the jewel and the sea but to the rise of the moon...Listen to the full recording of Chapter Three today!
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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In the last chapter, I described the circumstances which led me to write the Sri Satcharitra. Let me now describe the coming of Baba to Shirdi.Mission of the Saints
Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, “Whenever there is a decay of dharma (righteousness) and a rise in unrighteousness, I manifest myself. For the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of the vicious and the establishment of righteousness, I manifest myself in age after age.”
This is the mission of the Lord and the sages and saints who are his representatives. They appear
at appropriate times and work in their own way to set matters right by their words and action...
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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Sai Baba began to stay in a deserted masjid (mosque). A saint named Devidas had been living in Shirdi many years before Baba came there. Baba liked his company. Sometimes he stayed with him in the Maruti temple or in the Chavadi. Sometimes Baba lived alone. Then another saint named Jankidas came by. Baba spent most of his time talking with him or Jankidas came to Baba’s residence. Also, a householder saint, Gangagir, always frequented Shirdi. When he first saw Baba carrying pitchers of water to water the garden, he was amazed and said, “Blessed isListen to the full recording of Chapter Five today!
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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Where the sadguru is helmsman, he is sure to carry us safely and easily beyond the ocean of worldly existence. The word sadguru brings to mind Sai Baba. He appears to me, as if standing before me and applying udi (sacred ash) to my forehead and placing his blessing on my head. Joy fills my heart and love overflows through my eyes. Wonderful is the power of the touch of guru’s hand. The subtle body consisting of thoughts and desires that cannot be burnt by worlddissolving fire can be dissolved by the mere touch of the guru’s hand. Karmas from many past births are purified and washed away. Even those who feel annoyed when they hear religious and Godly talk, attain calmness. Seeing Sai Baba’s handsome form chokes our throat with joy, makes the eyes overflow with tears, and overwhelms the heart with emotion. It awakens ‘I am He’ (oneness with the Divine) in us and manifests the joy of self-realization. It dissolves the distinction of ‘I and you’ and makes us one with the supreme Reality.Listen to the full recording of Chapter Six today!
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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Baba’s Actions Were a MysteryListen to the full recording of Chapter Seven today!
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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In this wonderful universe, God has created billions of creatures including Gods, demigods, insects, beasts and men, inhabiting heaven, hell, Earth, ocean, sky and other intermediate regions. Of these, those souls whose merits predominate go to heaven and live there until they enjoy the fruits of their actions. When this is done, they are cast down. Those souls whose sins or demerits predominate go down to hell and suffer the consequences of their misdeeds for as long a time as they deserve. When their merits and demerits balance each other, they are born on Earth as human beings and are given a chance to work for their liberation. Ultimately, when both their merits and demerits are gone completely, they receive their deliverance and become free. To put the matter in a nutshell, souls get their rebirths according to their deeds and intelligence.As we all know, four things are common to all the creatures—food, sleep, fear and sexual union. In the case of man, he is endowed with a special faculty—knowledge—with which he can attain self-realization that is impossible in any other birth. It is for this reason that Gods envy man’s good fortune and aspires to be born as men on Earth to get their final deliverance...
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Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda
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Now to return to the question of mendicancy. A question may arise in the minds of some that if Baba was such a great person—God in fact—why should he have to use a begging bowl his whole life? This question may be considered from two standpoints. First, we must ask who are the people who have a right to live by the begging bowl? Our Shastras say that those who have become free from the three main desires of children, wealth, and fame are fit to live by begging alms. They cannot make cooking arrangements and eat at home. The duty of feeding them rests on the shoulders of householders. Baba was neither a householder nor hermit. He was a sannyasi (renunciate) from boyhood. His firm conviction was that the universe was his home. He was the Lord Vasudev, the supporter of the universe and the imperishable Brahman. So he had the full right to use a begging bowl....Listen to the full recording of Chapter Nine today!
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