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

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

Sai Baba’s remark had a strange effect on Bhishma. The distinction between
the Vaishnav sadhu of his dream and Sai Baba disappeared. He knowingly asked
the sevak for Sai Baba’s tirtha and placed his head on Sai Baba’s feet. Sai
Baba put his palm on Bhishma’s head for two full mintues. Bhishma went into
ecstacy. How could he describe the state of his mind except by saying like
Devnath in his famous composition “Gurukrupayka uhnjuna paya mera main janu”
. “The Guru’s Grace I have received I know it from Sai Baba’s feet. Sai Baba
put his palm on Bhishma’s head for two full mintues. Bhishma went into
ecstacy. How could he describe the state of his mind except by saying like
Devnath in his famous composition “Gurukrupayka uhnjuna paya mera main janu”
. “The Guru’s Grace I have received I know it for myself”.
Bhishma returned to his lodging, brooding on how he could prepare five
laddus in a place where he himself was a guest. Even otherwise he would have
had to take the assistance of another person for the purpose and Sai Baba
would have surely known about it. Moreover, why did Sai Baba ask him for
only five laddus and not laddus generally? He spent a day thinking about the
deeper meaning thereof and fell asleep with this thought uppermost in his
mind. Suddenly he woke up and was inspired to compose a stanza. In the
morning while he busied himself with the second stanza, Hari Sitaram
Dikshit, on his way to the Musjid, saw the stanza. After his bath, Bhishma
went to the musjid. Sai Baba reminded him about the laddus. Bhishma kept
quiet but Dikshit replied that laddus were being prepared. On hearing this
Sai Baba fell into a silence. Next day, Bhishma completed five stanzas, and
however hard he tried, he could not compose any more. So he placed the
composition of five stanzas into Sai Baba’s hands. Sai Baba asked him to
recite them. While he was reciting, Sai Baba again blessed him by putting
his palm on his head and Bhishma felt exalted. Thereafter Bhishma would
compose a verse and show it to Sai Baba who would order him to render it.
Thus the booklet “Shri Sainath Sagunopasna” wrote itself and was offered at
Sai Baba’s feet. Dadasaheb Khaparde has the booklet published at his expense
till 1922. Later on in 1923, after Shri Sai Baba Sansthan was founded, with
Bhaishma’s consent a revised edition was planned and published by the
Sansthan with incorporation of more compositions therein.
by V.B.Kher.
Source Shri Sai Leela September 1985.