Sai001. Life Of A Saint Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

The life story of Shirdi Sai Baba every Indian may know. as too many temples in his name have come up in India and across the world too. After his departure from this Earth on 15-10-1918, I was born on 13-07-1931 and became his devotee from a very young age. I had a high fever when I was just 10 years old in the year 1940-41, which was the peak period of World War II. Sai Baba saved my life miraculously and that is a big story to tell here. Today I am nearing my 90th Birthday, as Sai Baba has been helping me now and then during my troublesome life period. I am glad to write his life story, in brief, for the reading pleasure of poetry lovers.

SHIRDI SAI BABA

Many wonders are taking place,
In this stupendous world of ours,
For which we can find no reasons,
But still, they happen before our eyes.

In one's life, how much one has learnt,
The Poetess Avvaiyar says in her couplet,
*"It's that much of the handful sands,
Yet to learn is the world-full-sands."

For the reason, each sand has a tale to tell,
Where it was born and then came to settle,
It was made of what kind of material,
And how it fills this earth and is useful?

@Also he says, "If there's a good man,
For his sake, for all, pours the rain, "
Thus benefitting the entire world,
Consisting of people, good and bad.

So, the world is a book by itself,
To study this big book in a single life
May not be sufficient to complete,
Also, it is next to impossible, in fact.

The silent majority of the world
Are good, but aren't seen outside,
But the much spoken of minorities,
May not follow similar moral values.

For a Saint like Sai Baba anything,
Easy or hard task, it means nothing,
As a God's gift to him, he takes it,
And with equanimity he does it.

A man going in the hot sun indeed
Knows well the value of shade,
Similarly, Saints' lives remain hard,
Only to have a close touch with God.

The simple life of Sai Baba teaches
Everyone "What's kindness" means,
Who will, in his turn, show kindness
Always to all God's creations.

He had himself many times exhibited,
That he was a messenger sent by God,
To say religions run in different paths
But "God is one" every religion means.

Sometimes he said, "Allah hu Akbar, "
Another time quoted from Bhagavad Gita
He showed himself to be a Krishna,
When someone wanted to go to Dwaraka.
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*கற்றது கைமண் அளவு,
கல்லாதது உலகளவு.

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