Satsang How K.J.Bhishma Composed "Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana"

Satsang How K.J.Bhishma Composed "Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana".

How K.J.Bhishma Composed “Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana” .
Krishnashastri Jageshwar Bhishma was a resident of a village called Bori in
the district of Nagpur. He lived on the income from his farms. After his
second wife died he became restless. His relations and friends advised him
to remarry but he declined. In the month of Shravan in 1908, on the night of
Purnima he had a dream. He saw a person of dark complexion with tripundra
mark on his forehead, sandal-wood paste mixed with saffron applied to his
body and puja offered at his feet. He gave Bhishma a newspaper. Bhishma
enquired of him as to who he was. He did not reply but pointed to the the
newspaper on which “Sat-Chit-Anand” was printed in bold letters. He directed
Bhishma to read. Bhishma looked at the newspaper wherein he saw the words
“Mantra va shikava” which mean “mantra and learn”. Bhishma was intrigued and
wanted to question the dark person, but both the person and the newspaper
had vanished. Bhishma was mystified, but in the meantime he heard a knock at
the door and he emerged out of his dream. He lost no time in recording this
dream. Thereafter he thought long about his dream but was unable to unravel
the mystery. After a few days a sadhu, a devotee of Ganesh, visited Bori.
Bhishma narrated his dream to the sadhu who told him that “Sat-chit-anand
Swami” was his guru, and gave him the mantra “va shikava” combining the
words “and learn”.
After sometime Bhishma happened to visit Amraoti where Dadasaheb Khaparde
asked him whether he would like to accompany him (Khaparde) to Shirdi. He
agreed and in the company of Khaparde arrived in Shirdi. There is a mention
of Bhishma in Khaparde’s Diary pertaining to his second and long stay at
Shirdi beginning from 6th December, 1911. As soon as Bhishma went to the
Musjid for Sai Baba’s darshan, Sai Baba with folded hands exclaimed “Jaya
Sat-chit-anand” . Bhishma was perplexed. He wondered whether the sadhu of his
dream was Sai Baba. However, the sadhu of his dream was a Vaishnav while Sai
Baba appeared to be a Muslim! Yet, why Sai Baba utter Sat-chit-anand? All
Brahmin devotees of Sai Baba took tirtha of his feet but Bhishma did not.
Sai Baba used to smoke the chillim and often invoted others to have a puff
but excluded Bhishma in the beginning. Once while Sai Baba was narrating a
story, a devotee got the chillim ready and handed it to Sai Baba. Sai Baba
held it out to Bhishma and directed him to smoke after merely touching the
chillim to his mouth. Bhishma had a puff and returned it to Sai Baba. Sai
Baba accepted it and remarked, “I rove everywhere, my friend – Bombay, Pune,
Satara, Nagpur; all those towns are filled with the presence of Rama”. Then
he suddenly said to Bhishma, “You eat laddus alone by yourslef without
offering anything to me. At least now give me five laddus”. It is well known
that Sai Baba asked for dakshina from every devotee and spent the amount
collected for charitable purposes.
(to be contd....)
Source Shri Sai Leela September 1985.