[shirdi_sai_baba_divine_grace] How K.J.Bhishma Composed "Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana".

[N. Sivanandam]

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Subject: [shirdi_sai_baba_divine_grace] How K.J.Bhishma Composed "Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopas
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How K.J.Bhishma Composed “Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopasana”.

Krishnashastri Jageshwar Bhishma was a resident of a village called Bori in
the district of Nagpur. He lived on the income from his farms. After his
second wife died he became restless. His relations and friends advised him
to remarry but he declined. In the month of Shravan in 1908, on the night of
Purnima he had a dream. He saw a person of dark complexion with tripundra
mark on his forehead, sandal-wood paste mixed with saffron applied to his
body and puja offered at his feet. He gave Bhishma a newspaper. Bhishma
enquired of him as to who he was. He did not reply but pointed to the the
newspaper on which “Sat-Chit-Anand” was printed in bold letters. He directed
Bhishma to read. Bhishma looked at the newspaper wherein he saw the words
“Mantra va shikava” which mean “mantra and learn”. Bhishma was intrigued and
wanted to question the dark person, but both the person and the newspaper
had vanished. Bhishma was mystified, but in the meantime he heard a knock at
the door and he emerged out of his dream. He lost no time in recording this
dream. Thereafter he thought long about his dream but was unable to unravel
the mystery. After a few days a sadhu, a devotee of Ganesh, visited Bori.
Bhishma narrated his dream to the sadhu who told him that “Sat-chit-anand
Swami” was his guru, and gave him the mantra “va shikava” combining the
words “and learn”.

After sometime Bhishma happened to visit Amraoti where Dadasaheb Khaparde
asked him whether he would like to accompany him (Khaparde) to Shirdi. He
agreed and in the company of Khaparde arrived in Shirdi. There is a mention
of Bhishma in Khaparde’s Diary pertaining to his second and long stay at
Shirdi beginning from 6th December, 1911. As soon as Bhishma went to the
Musjid for Sai Baba’s darshan, Sai Baba with folded hands exclaimed “Jaya
Sat-chit-anand”. Bhishma was perplexed. He wondered whether the sadhu of his
dream was Sai Baba. However, the sadhu of his dream was a Vaishnav while Sai
Baba appeared to be a Muslim! Yet, why Sai Baba utter Sat-chit-anand? All
Brahmin devotees of Sai Baba took tirtha of his feet but Bhishma did not.
Sai Baba used to smoke the chillim and often invoted others to have a puff
but excluded Bhishma in the beginning. Once while Sai Baba was narrating a
story, a devotee got the chillim ready and handed it to Sai Baba. Sai Baba
held it out to Bhishma and directed him to smoke after merely touching the
chillim to his mouth. Bhishma had a puff and returned it to Sai Baba. Sai
Baba accepted it and remarked, “I rove everywhere, my friend – Bombay, Pune,
Satara, Nagpur; all those towns are filled with the presence of Rama”. Then
he suddenly said to Bhishma, “You eat laddus alone by yourslef without
offering anything to me. At least now give me five laddus”. It is well known
that Sai Baba asked for dakshina from every devotee and spent the amount
collected for charitable purposes.

(to be contd....)
Source Shri Sai Leela September 1985.



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Subject: [shirdi_sai_baba_divine_grace] How K.J.Bhishma Composed "Shri Sadguru Sainath Sagunopas
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Sai Baba’s remark had a strange effect on Bhishma. The distinction between
the Vaishnav sadhu of his dream and Sai Baba disappeared. He knowingly asked
the sevak for Sai Baba’s tirtha and placed his head on Sai Baba’s feet. Sai
Baba put his palm on Bhishma’s head for two full mintues. Bhishma went into
ecstacy. How could he describe the state of his mind except by saying like
Devnath in his famous composition “Gurukrupayka uhnjuna paya mera main janu”
. “The Guru’s Grace I have received I know it from Sai Baba’s feet. Sai Baba
put his palm on Bhishma’s head for two full mintues. Bhishma went into
ecstacy. How could he describe the state of his mind except by saying like
Devnath in his famous composition “Gurukrupayka uhnjuna paya mera main janu”
. “The Guru’s Grace I have received I know it for myself”.

Bhishma returned to his lodging, brooding on how he could prepare five
laddus in a place where he himself was a guest. Even otherwise he would have
had to take the assistance of another person for the purpose and Sai Baba
would have surely known about it. Moreover, why did Sai Baba ask him for
only five laddus and not laddus generally? He spent a day thinking about the
deeper meaning thereof and fell asleep with this thought uppermost in his
mind. Suddenly he woke up and was inspired to compose a stanza. In the
morning while he busied himself with the second stanza, Hari Sitaram
Dikshit, on his way to the Musjid, saw the stanza. After his bath, Bhishma
went to the musjid. Sai Baba reminded him about the laddus. Bhishma kept
quiet but Dikshit replied that laddus were being prepared. On hearing this
Sai Baba fell into a silence. Next day, Bhishma completed five stanzas, and
however hard he tried, he could not compose any more. So he placed the
composition of five stanzas into Sai Baba’s hands. Sai Baba asked him to
recite them. While he was reciting, Sai Baba again blessed him by putting
his palm on his head and Bhishma felt exalted. Thereafter Bhishma would
compose a verse and show it to Sai Baba who would order him to render it.
Thus the booklet “Shri Sainath Sagunopasna” wrote itself and was offered at
Sai Baba’s feet. Dadasaheb Khaparde has the booklet published at his expense
till 1922. Later on in 1923, after Shri Sai Baba Sansthan was founded, with
Bhaishma’s consent a revised edition was planned and published by the
Sansthan with incorporation of more compositions therein.

by V.B.Kher.

Source Shri Sai Leela September 1985.



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