Shri Sai Satcharithra - Chapter 43 & 44

Shri Sai Satcharitra - A Telugu Devotional Podcast

Chapters 43 and 44 continue the story of Baba's Passing away, and therefore they are taken together It is the general practice amongst the Hindus that when a man is about to die, some good religious scripture is read out to him with the object that his mind should be withdrawn from worldly things and fixed in matters spiritual, so that his future progress should be natural and easy. Everybody knows that when king Parikshiti was cursed by the son of a Brahmin Rishi and was about to die after a week, the great sage Shuka expounded to him the famous Bahagwat Puran in that week.This practice is followed even now and Gita, Bhagawat and other sacred books are read out to dying persons. Baba being an incarnation of God needed no such help, but just to set an example to the people, He followed this practice. When He knew that He was to pass away soon,He ordered one Mr.Vaze to read Ramavijaya to Him. Mr.Vaze read thebook once in the week. Then Baba asked him to read the same againday and night and he finished the second reading in three days. Thuseleven days passed. Then again he read for three days and was exhausted. So Baba let him go and kept Himself quiet. He abided on His Self and was waiting for the last moment.