Satsang What Is Baba's Mission

Satsang What Is Baba's Mission

What Is Baba's Mission
By H. H. Sri Saipadananda Radhakrishna Swamiji
Mysticism denotes that attitude of mind which involves a direct Immediate,
intuitive apprehension of God. It signifies the highest attitude of which
man is capable, namely, a beatific contemplation of God 'and its
dissemination in the society and the world.
- Gurudev Ranade
All roads lead to Rome. All paths margas lead to Sri Baba, Sri Krishna, and
Sri Rama are all divinely gifted or perfected souls and expressions of
divinity transforming every one who comes into contact with their divine
personality - especially those who are drawn through Rinanubandha by their
divinity and that are the purpose or mission of their lives. So, Baba has
not one mission, but a hundred missions. Protecting the good (virtuous)
punishing or reforming the wicked, establishing Dharma (virtue) or its hold
on the people, are the functions of divine personalities and Baba was
performing all these functions. A mission may come in. as a part of these
functions.

Saints expound all the margas and find which marga or combination of which
margas would suit each approaching devotee and give the same to him. Thus
Baba adopted every marga but in particular one may not that predominance in
his methods was neither for ritual nor for Vedic study, but for living in
consonance with the supreme manifestation of Divinity in Him. His mission is
to help every one; that means, of course, every one capable of benefiting —
not persons who come in an unreceptive mood. Baba quoted occasionally his
master's or Guru's behest that "as he has received liberally from his
master, he must similarly distribute liberally amongst those that approached
him." Baba was distributing not merely wealth, worldly relief and comforts
but also spiritual blessings to all and sundry those were capable of
receiving those benefits.

To us Sai devotees, Baba is not only a teacher but a controller from within
the ever watching Guardian Angel. He regulated the lives of those who wholly
surrendered to him. While doing service incidentally the work of conveying
moral teachings was carried on by Baba and he gave occasional talk about
morality.

‘Behave properly,’ 'Behave with integrity and probity. Hurting others is
sinful was the advice given by Baba to Shama and Rao Sahib Galwanker which
will suit us too. Baba expected people to act us to this teaching.

(to be contd...)

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