Mrs Tarkhad did not understand this too which Sai Baba explained as follows. In the afternoon when she went to the Masjid and sat at some distance, Sai Baba said to her “Mother, you have fed me sumptuously My famished Pranas (life-forces) have been satisfied. Mrs Tarkhad got up at once and threw a piece of bread that the dog gulped with great relish. At noon meals were ready and being served when a hungry dog turned up there and began to bark. Once, Mrs Tarkhad was staying in a certain house in Shirdi. The following example from Shri Sai Satcharita illustrates that “Sai lives in all beings”. All the insects, ants, the visible, movable and immovable world is My body or form.”

Nothing will harm him, who turns his attention towards Me, but Maya will lash or whip him, who forgets Me. I envelope all the creatures, the moveable and immovable world, I am the controller – the wire puller of the show of this universe, I am the Mother – origin of all beings – the Harmony of three Gunas, the propeller of the senses, the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. I am the inner ruler of all and seated in your hearts. “Be wherever you like, do whatever you choose, remember this well that, all that you do is known to Me. One day at noon, after Aarti, baba gave the following advice:. Hence, if Sai is worshipped in Manifested (Sagun) form, devotees start getting a glimpse of his Unmanifested (Nirgun) form. Some say that Shri Shirdi Sai Baba was a devotee of the Lord, others say he was a great devotee, but people and saints of yore like Shri Upasani Maharaj and Shri Mehar Baba have confirmed that Sai was God Incarnate.

As man has got a form our love and devotion do not develop, unless we worship Sagun Bramha for a certain period of time, and as we advance, it leads us to worship (meditation) of Nirgun Bramha. As stated in the Gita (chapter XIII) the worship of the latter is easy and preferable. Some prefer to worship the former, some the latter.

The Nirgun is formless, while the Sagun is with form, though, both denote the same Bramha. As per Shri Sai Satcharita, “There are two aspects of God or Bramha (a) the Unmanifested (Nirgun) and (b) Manifested (Sagun).

Shri sai baba shirdi