Month: March 2021

Sai always advises His devotees to focus on the duty allotted to them. He cautions them not to think about anything else, especially about duty given to others as it may disturb the overall discipline and create hard feelings. Devotees too have spent so much time with Sai, that they understand and appreciate these values and concentrate on the work given to them. Their hearts are filled with love and joy and with these feelings they serve the people at large during camps and bhandaras.
At the end, Sai always sits with them to eat, using same plates, saying that we are all one family. When one Saint surprisingly asked Him as to how He takes food from same common plates used by His devotees, Sai smilingly replied, “Even Lord Krishna had eaten from common dishes, then why not me?”

Bhandara is organised on every Satyanarayan at Darbar Sahib Halani, Ajmer. Once, on one such occasion, Sai were overlooking the preparation including cooking, distribution, etc and remarked that everything is going on well.
One devotee asked Sai, “I have heard that while distributing prasad, Kalyug makes an entry and people break the line, start fighting, etc. But here I observe that no such thing is happening, all are standing in the queue quietly and there is no crowding or unrest. Even the sewadhsris are standing alert in their position without any flutter!”
Sai replied in a clear voice, “Why will Kalyug come here? It is seen at many places that there is discrimination and favouritism either during meals being served to Saints or to guests or the sewadharis often favour their known people. Due to such reasons, Kalyug enters. We here have thrown Kalyug out. It only enters where there is falsity and discrimination, here in our Darbar there is always truth and equality!”

Sai says that selfless service, nishkam seva, never goes a waste.
Citing an example He said, once while travelling from Ajmer to Jaipur, His taxi broke down near a place called Dadu. It was winters and evening time. Sai tried to stop some vehicles, but no one stopped. Sai waived and tried stop one jeep which was going towards Ajmer, but he too did not stop. After going ahead about 200 meters, he turned back, as during those days it was not 6 lane roads or there were no dividers as such. He got down, came and asked, “Are you the Saint from Halani Darbar Sahib? Forgive me I could not recognise you because of your coat and in a hurry went ahead. Please order me, where is it you want to go.”
Sai told him that His taxi broke down and He is in a hurry to catch a flight from Jaipur. That person loaded the luggage in his jeep and while talking to Sai during the journey, told Sai that both his parents had undergone the eye surgery in the camp organised in Darbar and they were very pleased with the seva there.
After reaching the destination, when Sai asked him as to how much to pay, he refused to take anything, saying that, as it is my jeep was going empty, and we are also indebted to you! But inspite of this, Sai gave him the fare and then left!

Once during the Ulhasnagar camp, one lady had come to meet Sai. When she saw the sewadharis so involved and busy in their seva, she told Sai, “Please give me the addresses of these devotees, so that when we organise a camp, I can write to them and call them.”
Sai smilingly asked her, “Do you know who they are? They are all disciples of our Darbar. They have left aside their work, business, etc and come here. They are not paid employees, they are all well off with their own cars, etc and at home they probably don’t even fill their own glass of water! They are here because of their devotion for their Guru and dedication for seva. I do not take work from them by ordering or treating them like servants. They come here on their own due to their love, I never call them. In fact, many of them are on my waiting list, eager to come.”
After listening, the lady felt ashamed and walked away with her head down.