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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

HISTORIC DECLARATION OF SATHYA SAI BABA







HISTORIC DECLARATION OF 6TH JULY, 1963


Shirdi Sai, Sathya Sai and Prema Sai are the Avatars of Shiva, Shiva-Shakti, and Shakti respectively


I must tell you about Myself, about something I have not disclosed so far, something which I was keeping within Myself for the last 37 years.  The time has come to announce it.  This is a sacred day (Guru Purnima) and I shall tell you.

You know I declared on the very day when I decided to disclose My Identity, My Mission and My Advent, that I belonged to the Apastamba Sutra (Code of conduct) and the Bharadwaja Gotra (lineage).  This Bharadwaja was the great sage who studied the Vedas for full one hundred years; but, finding that the Vedas were ananta (endless), he did tapas for prolonging life, and from Indra, he got two extensions of a century each.  Even then, the Vedas could not be completed, so he asked Indra again for another hundred years.  Indra showed him three huge mountain ranges and said, "What you have learned in three centuries form only three handfulls from out of the three ranges, which the Vedas are.  So, give up the attempt to exhaust the Vedas.  Do a Yagya (ritual sacrifice) instead, which I shall teach you, that will give you the fruit of Vedic study, full and complete.

Bharadwaja decided on performing the yagya; Indra taught him how to do it.  All preparations were completed.  The sage wanted that Shakti must preside and bless the yagya.  So, he went to Kailasha but, the time was not opportune for presenting his petition.  Shiva and Shakti were engaged in a competitive dance, trying to find out who could dance longer.  Eight days passed thus before Shakti noticed Bharadwaja standing in the cold.  She just cast a smile at him and danced along as before!  The sage mistook the smile as a cynical refusal to notice him; so he turned his back on Kailasha and started to descend.  To his dismay, he found his left leg, hand and eye put out of action by a stroke.  Shiva saw him fall; He came up to Him and consoled him.  Bharadwaja was told that Shakti had indeed blessed him and his yagya.  Then, Shiva revived him and cured him, sprinkling water from the Kamandalu.  Both Shiva and Shakti granted the Rishi (sage) boons.  They would both attend the yagya, they said.

After the yagya was over, They were so pleased that They conferred even more boons on the sage.  Shiva said that They would take human form and be born in the Bharadwaja Gotra (lineage) thrice; Shiva alone as Shirdi Sai Baba, Shiva and Shakti together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baba and Shakti alone as Prema Sai, later.  Then, Shiva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon Bharadwaja at Kailasha on the eighth day of the waiting in the cold on the ice.  He gave another assurance, "As expiation for the neglect which Shakti showed you at Kailasha for 8 days, this Shakti will suffer the stroke for 8 days, when We both take birth as Sathya Sai, and on the 8th day, I shall relieve her from all signs of the disease by sprinkling water, just as I did at Kailasha to cure your illness.

It was the working out of this assurance that you witnessed today, just now.  This had to happen, this stroke and the cure.  The assurance given in the Treta Yuga had to be honoured.  I may tell you now that the poor forlorn bhakta who had to get the stroke which I took over was a convenient excuse which was utilized.  You see, a railway engine is not made available to haul just one bogie; they wait until a number of bogeys are to be taken along and then they put the engine into action.  So too, the disease had to be gone through, the Bhakta had to be saved, the assurance to be carried out, the mystery had to be cleared, the Divinity had to be more clearly announced by the manifestation of this Grand Miracle.  All these were accomplished by this one incident.

Let Me tell you one more thing : Nothing can impede or halt the work of this Avatar.  When I was upstairs all these days, some people foolishly went about saying, "It is all over with Sai Baba" and they turned back many who were coming to Puttaparthi!  Some said I was in Samadhi, as if I am a Sadhaka!  Some feared I was the victim of black magic, as if anything can affect Me!  The splendour of this Avatar will go on increasing day by day.  Formerly when the Govardhanagiri was raised aloft by the little boy, the gopis and gopalas realized that Krishna was the Lord.  Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted.  You will see!  Have patience, have faith.



Divine Declarations by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (6.7.1963)

O LORD, TAKE MY LOVE

O Lord, take my love, and let it flow in fullness of devotion to Thee;
O Lord, take my hands, and let them work incessantly for Thee;
O Lord, take my soul, and let it be merged in One with Thee;
O Lord, take my mind and thoughts, and let them be in tune with Thee;
O Lord, take my everything, and let me be an instrument to work for Thee.

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