July -2021 Sri Naga Sai Darshan

1 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 Sri Naga Sai Darshan Sri Saibaba Darshan - Shirdi Samadhi Mandir 2 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 Sri Naga Sai Tamil New Year Darshan 2021 3 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 Contents 5 Sai Baba and Communal Harmony 6 Hemadpant – Govind R. Dabholkar 9 Sri Naga Sai Mandir Events 18 Published By Sri Naga Sai Trust NO.1262, Mettupalayam Road, Coimbatore – 641043, Phone: +91- 422 – 2440688 & 4385980, Website: http://www.srinagasai.com | Email: [email protected] Disclaimer : Editorial team does not accept responsibility for the views expressed in the published articles. 4 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 " " " " 5 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 Sai Baba and Communal Harmony By Sri Narasimha Swamiji Change Yourself! tect their individual religious tenets and unbending stubborn attitude, crossing as a Men are so busy changing conditions that block, to the idealistic thinking and attempts they have no time to change themselves. Un- of Baba to establish unity of a Universal Re- til man is prepared to change himself, any ligion. Baba’s solution to this problem was to other change is futile! Unity and universali- humor them and leave them to themselves ty of religion with an emphasis on the Hin- as otherwise any confrontation with them du-Muslim aspect of it is the most vocally was like disturbing the hornet’s nest. demonstrated precept but the least practiced one. In the process, the problem of National The Ramanavami festival marked the finale Integrity and Communal Harmony has be- of Baba’s project of ‘Unity’ which continues come a national calamity. to date at Shirdi. The Kirtankar Das Ganu Maharaj, besides the annual Shirdi event, Sainath, in His most subtle mannered way, was doing his Harikathas elsewhere mak- educated His devotees by telling them, ‘if ing Baba’s ///as also a part of it, by which he what you donate for a mosque or temple became Baba’s unofficial ambassador of car- is for God, whether you are a Hindu or a rying the message of Muslim-Hindu unity Musalman, please give until your fingers cause to every corner he went, thusensured pain and thus help mutually a worthy cause the unity message of Sai getting to the mass- of your brothers from other religions with es everywhere. the least thought of the religious base com- ing in its way’. By this advice, He paved the Sai Baba had very successfully inculcated in way for national integration. Sai diverted the His devotees of all classes that one common Hindu-Muslim thought into a natural com- principle that all religions are true and each mon thinking channel of ‘Service to God’ community conservatively should keep up which invariably led to the unification of all to its own creed, faith, etc., peculiar to its re- religions. ligion’ and most important, not mind about other religions practicing their rituals inside The Unity project is not a one-day-affair but Dwaraka Mai Masjid as permitted by their spread over Baba’s lifetime as His whole- religious tenets.’ This clearly demonstrated time life mission with the precept and prac- the existence of a world unity with its people tice so well synchronized and reflected in at large which is the beginning and process the personal life He led. The first hurdle was of Baba’s religious mission entrusted to Him the intellectual fanatics in both Hindus and by the Almighty. Muslims what with their individual religious rigidity and fundamentalism. They were al- Sai Baba made His devotees get accustomed ways in a warring mood each trying to pro- to the differences and variations as a perma- 6 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 nent unavoidable basic feature of all religions to be accepted as a part of the ritual and thus make it a channel to find permanent joy and peace in Heaven with due emphasis on the part played by mutual love and affection during the process. Baba was careful to advise His devotees not to desert the religion in which they were origi- nally born but keep it up and find a way to practise Saism through it, as otherwise it would tantamount to disowning the Father. Baba also demonstrated to the devotees of the great possibility of becoming one-world-cit- izen and as of one family, and achieves the socialistic pattern of ideal society only on the principle and practice of Love and Universal Brotherhood. Sri Naga Sai Tamil New Year Darshan 2021 7 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 Sri Naga Sai utsav murti Tamil New Year DarshanSri Naga 2021 Sai Darshan 8 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 Hemadpant – Govind R. Dabholkar By Vinny Chitluri worked in Bandra, Mumbai. As per Gov- Govind R. Dhabolkar, known as Anna- ernment rules, he could not be posted there saheb Dhabolkar or Hemadpant is most again. However, something unexpected notably known for being the author of the happened. Suddenly, the Deputy Collector beloved work, the Sai Satcharita. He lived in of Bandra passed away due to a heart attack. Bandra, Mumbai. He was a self-made man There was an urgent need to station a trust- who studied only upto the fifth grade and worthy and responsible person in Bandra. passed the public service examination and The same Commissioner who had earlier went onto hold senior posts with the Gov- declined Hemadpant’s transfer, sent a tele- ernment. gram to summon him to Bandra. He was a Government servant until 1936 When he was to go to meet Sai Baba in 1910, where he was a resident magistrate. Before he boarded the wrong train. A Muslim ac- retiring in 1916, he was lucky to have con- quaintance met him and asked him where tact with Baba. He was a poet at heart and he was headed and the gentleman correct- he began the most notable work in 1922 and ed him saying the Manmad Mail did not completed it in 1926. It was Baba who called stop at Dadar. He suggested, Hemadpant him Hemadpant, after a well known first go to Victoria Terminus and from 13th century poet. there, board the Manmad Mail and there is sufficient time Meeting with Sai Baba: to get a ticket. It was that path he finally adopted. Had Hemadpant was working in a that incident not taken place, place called, ‘Anand’ in Guja- Hemadpant would have been rat in 1910, when Kakasaheb disappointed and probably re- Dixit wrote to him describing turned home in doubt. the leelas of Sai Baba. Hemad- pant was very impressed and He confesses himself, ‘Baba’s wanted to go for a dar- hand has been visible in shan at the earliest. He moulding my fate from applied for a 30 day leave, the beginning.’ During which was rejected by the his first visit to Shirdi, he commissioner. Hemadpant had a 30 minute discussion thought that getting transferred with Balasaheb Bhate, an old friend to Maharashtra might make it easier for of his, on the question of whether a Guru him to visit Shirdi. is necessary or not. Dhabolkar was of the opinion that a Guru was unnecessary and He did apply for the transfer, but it was re- that free will is required for everyone to fused on the grounds that he had already adopt their own path. 9 Nagasai Dharshan July -2021 writer, with great command over Marathi But, Bhate contested him. Bhate said there is verse and prose, wished to write out Baba’s no free will at all and the only thing is des- leelas. This would be on the lines of Saras- tiny. On the question of a Guru, he said, “A wati Gangadhar’s Guru Charitra and would Guru is absolutely essential.” After a heated give peace and happiness to those afflicted 30 minutes, there was no result/ conclusion with sorrows. It would also impart knowl- reached upon. Dhabolkar’s mind was rest- edge and wisdom on temporal and spiritual less. They then went to the Masjid and when matters. The leelas would be both interest- they prostrated before Baba, Baba pointed to ing and instructive (like the Vedas) and if Dhabolkar and said, “What talk was going meditated on, they would bring about laya on there at the wada? And what did this He- or union with Brahma. madpant say (pointing his chin to Dhabol- kar)?’ So, he made up his mind that he should collect these stories and treat the publica- Dhabolkar’s name was not Hemadpant. He- tion as his upasana of his Guru. It would be madpant was a great genius, who in the me- especially valuable to those who could not dieval age wrote grand works and while in see Baba. Baba’s teachings and expressions one way this was a compliment; in the oth- were the outcome of his boundless and nat- er it was a reference to a mere literary skill. ural self-realisation and Baba himself (so Anyhow Dhabolkar was impressed by the Dhabolkar thought), put this idea into his fact that Baba without being told of any- mind to collect and render them as Baba’s thing, knew that there was a discussion, and life or chronicles. Then, he wanted permis- that he (Dhabolkar) had engaged in it with all his literary ability and dialectical skill. However, Baba’s influence did not stop with that. Permission to write the Sai Satcharita: Dhabolkar was not very proficient about saints. However, his destiny was to compel him to become a Sai bhakta. By constant as- sociation with devotees, he got wider and more correct ideas as to the functions of Gu- rus. He gradually resigned himself more and more to be dealt with by Baba.

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