The banks of the Godavari River in the Ahmednagar District are very fortunate. And Sai Baba also arrived on earth with the same mission.
In this way, many saints− Nivritti, Jnanadev, Muktabai, Namdev, Gora, Gonayi, Ekanath, Tukaram, Narahari, Narsi Bhai, Sajan Kasai, Sawata, Ramdas, and various others− appeared at various times to show people the right path. They serve us as beacon-lights and show us the right path for us to follow. For instance, when spiritual preceptors are humiliated, when nobody cares for religious instructions, when everybody thinks himself very learned and when people begin to partake of forbidden food and intoxicating drinks when under the cloak of religion, people indulge in malpractices when people belonging to different sects fight amongst themselves the orthodox forget their religious practices, when Yogis neglect their meditation, when people begin to think that wealth, progeny and wife are their sole concern, and thus turn away from the true path of salvation then Saints appear and try to set matters right by their words and actions. Saints are His representatives and appear here at appropriate times and help in their own way to fulfill that mission. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagvadgita (Chapter IV, 7-8), “Whenever there is a decay of Dharma (righteousness) and an ascendancy of unrighteousness, I manifest Myself, for the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of the vicious and for the establishment of righteousness I thus manifest Myself age after age”. Let me now describe the first advent of Sai Baba in Shirdi, with Baba’s grace. In the last chapter, I described the circumstances which led me to write the Sai Satcharitra.
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