Sai, Saakshaath Eeshwar and The world will never know.(Part-3)

Have you ever wondered what happens when a religion ends or is no more followed? What would happen to all those religious heads? More importantly what would happen to the Gods? All the religious heads are either killed or forced to learn, practice and endorse new religion. So there is still life for those who accept the change. But what about Gods? They say "every time someone says they don't believe in angels, an angle drops dead.". Same case with the Gods, they  just vanish. Gods’ lives are linked directly to the prayers or complaints or cries of their devotees not the falsely publicized "Amruth". Once if all the devotees stop following a God, He/She is bound to vanish. 

It is this belief that led all the Hindu religious heads to reach out to council of Hindu Gods to complain about Sai Baba. They were scared of the extinction of Hinduism and it’s Gods. They complained about the ways of Sai Baba in teaching His followers the one God faith and expressed their opinion that this could lead to the extinction. The council then ordered Lord Yama to go for the life of Tatya. But among all this little did the religious heads knew about the identity of Sai Baba and who he actually was. 

After ages of thinking about the bad propaganda against Himself, Lord Shiva had finally decided to put His plan into action. He knew the British intentions of dividing the Indian people based on religion and so thought “Sabka Maalik Ek” should be the motto of His avatar on Earth. First to convey that message He need to earn people’s confidence right from His birth. If He is known to be born to parents from any religion He could never get closer to other religion. So He came to earth as a middle-aged fakir, who now is known as "The Sai Baba". No one knows his origin for sure but just speculates. He chose His attire to be of a Sufi Saint but made His Hindu followers address Him as “Sai-Saakshaath Eeeshwar”. He was known to have sported hair long enough to reach His knees which of course was the same hair where goddess Ganga was captured by Lord Shiva. And thus Lord Shiva who is known as “Aadhi Bhikshuvu”(Main beggar) became Sai Baba and did "bhikshatana"(begging) in the streets of Shirdi cleaning up the sins of the people and thus cleansing his own image as the angry God and easily appeased by Asuras. 

If everything happened according to His plan Sai Baba would have been last known avatar of Hindu Gods onto Earth after Lord Venkateswara. But it did not happen that way. It was 15^th October 1918 and in Shirdi people were so concerned about Tatya’s health. He coughed all day from past two days and lost lot of blood. Everyone had felt that he only had few more hours. Even Sai’s health was not right from past two days. He rejected to visit Tatya even when Shama approached Him with the news of Tatya’s deteriorating health. He reassured Shama that He has more responsibility than any others to save Tatya and He is doing more than He can by staying in His mosque. He recalled how Baijabai has served Him right from His initial days and how Tatya continued the same unconditional dedication. 

Hindu mythology had defined Vijaya Dasami as the celebration of victory of good over evil and this was the very reason why the Hindu God council had chosen this day 15^th of October in 1918 for this finale. It was a celebration of victory of Hinduism over One God philosophy. But utmost details were also worked out for this day so that the final moment of Sai is on ekadasi and not on Vijaya Dasami which would otherwise make all Sai followers who are Hindus think of VijayaDasami as bad day. And all the while Sai knew about this. He told Shama that Tatya would be alright after the ekadasi turns in. He even requested the God's council to save Tatya like he had done with the earlier followers. 

But it was rejected and was suggested that He sacrifice His own life to end His avatar as Sai. He was also forced to take His true identity as Lord Shiva to the grave with Him. He even tried talking to Lord Yama but Yama was already prepared well for this situation by His peers in the council. Sai was even told that the most selfless Bhaijabhai’s last request was also a plot by the council to put Him in this particular situation. This was all, a secret known only to the council and now Sai. He almost thought He ran out of all the options. He knew if He reveals His identity Tatya would be immediately killed but if He takes all the pain from Tatya then He was not sure if He would be in any position to reveal this to all His followers. 

So finally knowing the only outcome, He took over all the pain from Tatya in the initial moments of ekadasi and He knew He only had very few moments left. He then immediately grabbed Baija Appaji Patil and whispered something in his ears. Just then Tatya arrived there all well and healthy. Only few moments later Sai Baba took his last breathe and most powerful revelation of Hindu mythology or for that matter humanity is lost forever except if Appaji would ever dare to reveal this secret, the one which even Sai, Saakshaath Eeshwar could not reveal and The world will never know now.

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Sai, Saakshaath Eeshwar and Markandeya to Lord Curzon(Part-2)

The term ”Bhola Shankar” could not have been coined by some humans or sages. It is the word that conveys not just that Shiva can be easily appeased but that it is also a bad quality of His. It is such bad propaganda that always pestered Shiva. Yes Shiva had given powers to Asuras(Demons) but the same way He had also went out of His way , made enemies out of His own and helped great devotees. Mostly who prayed for Shiva’s darshan and got powers from Him have always suffered. Bhasmasura, Ravanasura and Gajasura all have been killed later by Lord Vishnu’s avatars and it was termed as triumph of good over evil. But there is one such purana that depicts how Lord Shiva helped one of His devotees, a non-asura to gain endless life.

Mrikandu rishi and his wife Marudmati prayed to Shiva for a boon to have a son. All versions of this purana that are available suggest that Shiva gave the couple a choice to choose from a long living less intelligent son and an intelligent son with short life. If Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are responsible for Srishthi(Creation) , Sthithi(Continuation of life) and Laya(End) how is it possible that Shiva would have given such a boon to the couple. He can only decide the life span but not the intelligence. It can be argued at this point that not all the times boons were given without consulting the whole council of Gods. This was also one such case where Shiva was just the representative of the decision given by the council.

Markandeya was thus born as intelligent son for Mrikandu and Marudmati with only short life span of 16 years. He also became an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva and as he grew up with the intelligence he was given, he understood that Srishthi and Sthithi karakas were the ones responsible for his life and intelligence. So he thought only Lord Shiva needs to be appeased now so that he can live long life. And so he started praying to Him. All this while he was ignorant that it was not Shiva’s decision to grant him short life. Nevertheless his prayers were answered when Lord Shiva obstructed Yama, God of death, from taking the life of Markandeya. Shiva was so pleased by Markandeya that he went out of his way to wage a war against Yama. As a result Markandeya was granted endless life but Shiva had short-lived this victory as He soon had to face so many complaints against Him in council of Gods. Of all the things He learnt then, one thing He promised Himself not to forget was to never go against His own even for devotees. 

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Baija Appaji Patil is another devotee of Sai Baba who had seen so many miracles done by Sai. Over the years of his devotion to Sai he became a close aide to Him. He would later become one of those cursed devotees who witnessed the end of Sai. 

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Lord Curzon’s plan of dividing Bengal was almost successful and it wrote the beginning of an era of Hindu-Muslim strained unity which would later go on and make two nations enemies for the rest of humanity. Stopping this was the main motive of Sai’s entry into Shirdi or what has been publicized as re-entry. 

Sai with His prophetic powers found out recently that Tatya, son of Baijabai is dying on October 15 1918. Baijabai on her death bed made Sai promise that He will take care of Tatya. So Sai told to Himself that saving Tatya on that day would be an easy task for Him as He had done that already for few devotees. So He kept Tatya’s health on the back burner for now. He started focusing more on reading scriptures, sayings from holy books like Quran, Ramayana etc. He insisted to His followers to believe in oneness of the God and suggested that the essence of Upanishads and Tawhid is the same. He told them to detach themselves from religion as a person is soul and not the body and human soul is above all the religions. His followers though opposed of this side of Sai Baba , never doubted Him and His divineness.

So Sai was happy now that once His true identity which was never known to anyone is revealed He would find universal approval for his philosophy of “Sabka Malik Ek”. But there were few people that were not happy with this, the council of Gods. Them being what they are and knowing the true identity of Sai Baba, they knew the adverse effects of Sai’s revelation. It would destroy Hinduism and for that matter all the faiths of the world. There would only be one God and He would be Sai Baba. Time has come for the council to come into picture and take the matter into their hands. They summoned Lord Yama (God of death) and ordered him to go personally to take the life of Tatya. Yama from his past experiences was scared at first but He was given the required courage from rest and explained how this time it’s not His life that is at stake.

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Sai, Saakshaath Eeshwar and The plan.(Part-1)

Note: This is neither my belief nor my viewpoint. It is purely a fictional view on Sai Baba.

Over the thousands of years of Hinduism, there was one God who was not getting the due credit He deserved because all the good He did was weighed against the over publicized bad or wrong deeds. Even His two sons are revered as highly significant Gods in few communities. But why not Him- Lord Shiva? It’s as if His name itself has some negativity attached to it. This was the thought that was bothering Lord Shiva for ages. But one thought that had hit Him very recently made Him very happy and He couldn’t wait to put it to execution.

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It is the early years of 20th century and it was the time British were coming up with all possible ways of dividing Indian unity. One such plan was hatched by Lord Curzon to divide Bengal and to weaken the hindu’s war for freedom in Bengal. But there was one person with all His worldly knowledge and divine power foresaw that this was the first step in straining the relation between Indian Hindus and Muslims. He had to act fast. Even His persistence of “One God” to all His devotees seems to have been going in vain as He sees them fighting for just one reason, religion. He thought to himself that the time has come for the revelation He had waited to reveal for so many years now and that would change the faith of many hindus and muslims. What’s stopping Him and what went wrong in this good intent long scripted divine plan?

When He first stepped in Shirdi as Fakir, He had all the right moves like projecting himself as Sufi Saint and also making a hindu priest naming Him as Sai which meant “Saakshaath Eeshwar”. Even though He was at first thought to be just a fakir, over the years He became Sai Baba the Guru who eased all His devotees of all the earthly troubles and sufferings. And in return He was constantly teaching them the “One God” or famously know “Sabka Malik Ek” philosophy. He was confident that this was the only thing that would keep them together in the dark years to come and stop them from fighting over religion. He stressed on this on all possible occasions and even when it didn’t affect all of His devotees He used to think His final revelation would do the trick for them.

Shirdi Sai Baba owed so much of this Godly status to Baijabai. She was not just one of His earliest devotees. He treated her like His own sister and she too reciprocated the same. She used to search the whole village to find Him and make sure He took His food on time. She was more like a mother to Him and her son was bound to be close to Sai. One mistake that constantly pained Sai was this relation. Baijabai and Tatya were the only personal ties He had and He never realized that would affect His divine plan. He never could understand why such a selfless devotee like her would ask for the well-being of her son on her death bed.

Sai always wanted to do the revelation on His death bed so that the credibility of His story is not lost and that was the perfect plan. No one would deny a person on death bed and that too a Divine person like Sai. But Sai was more concerned about Tatya who was supposedly dying on Oct 15 1918. Sai had to take care of him before He ended this earthly human form and He was trying all the known ways to save Tatya. Somehow nothing seems to have worked except one way, sacrificing His own life for Tatya. But why? Sai who saved so many from near death situations, could have saved even Tatya the same way. Why He had to sacrifice His own life? What are those powers that were out of Sai’s control that forced Him to die without revealing His true self, the revelation He thought would keep Hindus and Muslims together for the darkest times to come......To be contd at..... 
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Confessions of a forced bachelor

Caution: You can relate to this blog and agree with me only if you still share at least a cordial relation with your spouse.

Yes it is true and not a myth. A forced bachelor cherishes his freedom more than a true bachelor even though it has an expiry date. It is also ironical that no FB wants to extend his freedom beyond a time. Coming to the point of cherishing the freedom a FB is like a kid who is asked to look after his parents candy store while they are away. Though the kid wants the candy badly, he wants the pride more- pride in proving to his parents that he has lived up to their expectations.

This is the time wherein the FB gets to understand that it was not his wife that stopped him from doing all the things he did not do even though he wanted to. It was his conscience that was stopping him from doing the things his wife disliked. This is also the time when he gets the full burden of house making and bread earning both. Again the expectations are set to reach both by corresponding managers.

Lots of to-dos, not-to-dos, and how-to-dos fill this time totally. And we still haven’t talked about the emotional pressure of missing your spouse. That literally kills if you still fall under the categorization mentioned in my caution. Either you start feeling like a patient of attention seeking syndrome or your spouse does.

The former case is easier to handle as it results in only few arguments. But the latter is more dangerous as it will have a various degrees of questionnaire, tons of how-could-you-forget-me and innumerable you-only-remember-me-when-I’m-with-u. Let me put it straight I don’t have a solution for this. I am just another FB dealing with all these syndromes, consciences and a big candy store where I am trying not to eat even a single candy.