Satsang Chapter 39 :Sri_Sai_Sat_Charitra_Concise(Version)

Om Shree Ganeshaya Namah
Om Sai Ram

Chapter 39:::
Baba’s knowledge in Sanskrit

One fine day when Nana Chandodkar was massaging
Baba’s legs, Baba told Nana that whatever he was muttering
then could be uttered loudly. Nana too recited that song from
Bhagawat Gita, which was: ‘Thath vidhdhi pranipadhena pari
presnena sevaya/upadeshanthithe jnanam janinaha thathwa
darshinaha.’ He also gave the general meaning of it. Baba
told him to give him word by word meaning, with its
grammatical sense. When Nana started giving meaning,
word by word, Baba started His cross-examination. Especially
for Baba’s queries on ‘Pranipade’, ‘Pariprasna’ and ‘Sevaya’,
Nana started struggling for counter explanation. Baba said
instead of ‘jnana’ (wisdom) ‘ainana’ (lack of wisdom) also would
perfectly suit in the song. Then He asked why Krishna who was
a wiseman Himself asked Arjun to go to wise men. Nana was
dumbfounded. Then Baba explained thus, ‘Disciple should ask
Guru the questions to get knowledge and not to corner the Guru.
That is the difference between ‘prasna’ and ‘paripresna’. One
can use the word ‘ajnana’ because ‘jnana’ is already with all.
Only the ‘ajnana’ that ‘jnana is not there’ should go. He added
that though Krishna was a wise man, He told Arjun to go to
wise men to indicate that He and wise men are one,” On
hearing this, the illusion to Nana and the rest that Baba was
ignorant of Sanskrit was gone and Baba’s true Vedic wisdom
shone forth to them.

Buty one day had a dream while sleeping in the Dixit wada that
Baba directed him to build a wada (mansion) with temple. The
same dream at the same time occurred to Shama also. When
both of them came to masjid, Baba approved the proposal of
Buty to build the wada. When the construction was on, Baba
on His way to Lendi garden would look intently at the building
and say: “After the temple work is over, we shall live there. We
shall all meet together and celebrate happily.” When the main
hall was under construction an order was given for the statue
of Muralidhar to be installed there, but before the same came,
Baba suddenly attained mahasamadhi and as per His wish He
was laid to rest there and it is known to day as ‘Samadhi Mandir’.
By A. Govindakrishnan