SAINATH MAHARAJ & SHRI SAI SATCHARITA ARE ONE & SAME
OVI 139 > Maharaj had told the devotees that "I will manifest myself, among the people, as a child of eight years."
OVI 140 > These are the words of a saint & no one should regard them as futile. Shri Vishnu had done the same, when he took the Avatar of Shri Krishna.
OVI 144 > And the devotees felt sure in their minds that tying the bonds of love in this way, Baba has just gone on a journey & will come back again.
While informally chatting on the above OVIs from Shri Satcharita at Shri Dattatreya Sai Ashram, Kapilash, Dhenkanal, Odisha during the last year's Annual Celebrations Shri Bishnu Prasanna Acharya, Retd Prof from Utkal University had interpreted the above OVIs in his own way & the interpretation was most appropriate I felt & that's why I would like to share through these pages.
Maharaj accorded permission to Anna Saheb Dabholkar to write His Story by collecting His leelas & surrendering the ego at His Feet & called him as Hemadh Pant. Anna Saheb used to collect the leelas & note them on rough piece of papers. Four years after Baba attained Mahasamadhi he started writing Shri Sai Satcharita in the month of Chaitra 1922. On 15th July 1929 at the age of 70 Govind R. (Anna Saheb) Dabholkar alias Hemadh Pant merged in SAI. In the month of Jyestha 1929 Satcharita was completed, but in Chapter 52, the Avataranika i.e the table of contents or review was not found, though Dabholkar referred to it. Therefore, Shri Balakrishna Dev wrote it & Chapter 53 was thus added to the book.
Shri Sai Satcharita was 1st published as a book by Ramachandra Atmaram Tarkhad on 26th Novemeber 1930 & the rights were vested in the Sansthan.
Here Prof Acharya interpreted that from 1922 when Dabholkar started writing Shri Sai Satcharita to 1930 when it was published the period was EIGHT (8) years. So Baba's promise as per OVI 139. He would come as EIGHT YEAR's OLD has thus been fulfilled, SAI as Shri Sai Satcharita has reincarnated. Thus SAI is Shri Satcharita & Shri Sai Satcharita is SAI.
In fact Autobiographies of Saints like Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramana Maharshi & others may contain the details of date of birth, place of birth, educational & family back ground, saint hood & samadhi. But Sri Sai Satcharita does not contained any of these details of Maharaj except His Maha Samadhi, it is compendium of His Miracles, His Philosophy, His Path. The name Satcharita means SAT = Real, Charita = Story, thus Satcharita is a Real Story & the descendants of the people appeared therein are still alive to vouch its happennings.
Further Dabholkar did not complete the Satcharita & he had not witnessed its publication. Perhaps it is Baba's way of saying that Shri Satcharita has no end. Devotees feeling His Presence even after 96 years of His Maha Samadhi is clear example of continuation of Shri Sai Satcharita, which is never ending.
OVI 139 > Maharaj had told the devotees that "I will manifest myself, among the people, as a child of eight years."
OVI 140 > These are the words of a saint & no one should regard them as futile. Shri Vishnu had done the same, when he took the Avatar of Shri Krishna.
OVI 144 > And the devotees felt sure in their minds that tying the bonds of love in this way, Baba has just gone on a journey & will come back again.
While informally chatting on the above OVIs from Shri Satcharita at Shri Dattatreya Sai Ashram, Kapilash, Dhenkanal, Odisha during the last year's Annual Celebrations Shri Bishnu Prasanna Acharya, Retd Prof from Utkal University had interpreted the above OVIs in his own way & the interpretation was most appropriate I felt & that's why I would like to share through these pages.
Maharaj accorded permission to Anna Saheb Dabholkar to write His Story by collecting His leelas & surrendering the ego at His Feet & called him as Hemadh Pant. Anna Saheb used to collect the leelas & note them on rough piece of papers. Four years after Baba attained Mahasamadhi he started writing Shri Sai Satcharita in the month of Chaitra 1922. On 15th July 1929 at the age of 70 Govind R. (Anna Saheb) Dabholkar alias Hemadh Pant merged in SAI. In the month of Jyestha 1929 Satcharita was completed, but in Chapter 52, the Avataranika i.e the table of contents or review was not found, though Dabholkar referred to it. Therefore, Shri Balakrishna Dev wrote it & Chapter 53 was thus added to the book.
Shri Sai Satcharita was 1st published as a book by Ramachandra Atmaram Tarkhad on 26th Novemeber 1930 & the rights were vested in the Sansthan.
Here Prof Acharya interpreted that from 1922 when Dabholkar started writing Shri Sai Satcharita to 1930 when it was published the period was EIGHT (8) years. So Baba's promise as per OVI 139. He would come as EIGHT YEAR's OLD has thus been fulfilled, SAI as Shri Sai Satcharita has reincarnated. Thus SAI is Shri Satcharita & Shri Sai Satcharita is SAI.
In fact Autobiographies of Saints like Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramana Maharshi & others may contain the details of date of birth, place of birth, educational & family back ground, saint hood & samadhi. But Sri Sai Satcharita does not contained any of these details of Maharaj except His Maha Samadhi, it is compendium of His Miracles, His Philosophy, His Path. The name Satcharita means SAT = Real, Charita = Story, thus Satcharita is a Real Story & the descendants of the people appeared therein are still alive to vouch its happennings.
Further Dabholkar did not complete the Satcharita & he had not witnessed its publication. Perhaps it is Baba's way of saying that Shri Satcharita has no end. Devotees feeling His Presence even after 96 years of His Maha Samadhi is clear example of continuation of Shri Sai Satcharita, which is never ending.
Today 84 years ago Shri Sai Satcharita was first released. Come let us worship Shri Sai Satcharita as SAI.
Sachidananda Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki Jai
(Re posted to mark the occasion of Release of Shri Sai Satcharita 84 years ago on this day)
(Re posted to mark the occasion of Release of Shri Sai Satcharita 84 years ago on this day)
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