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Jeeyardaasa
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Swaroopananda saraswathi said in many households, people are worshiping a devil called sai baba. But is there any truth to it logically?
What I can tell is Shirdi Sai baba is a recent phenomenon just like Santhoshi maata, Ayyappa(No valid scriptures gives his mention). But looking more into his history or his charitra points to some facts like
1. He used to kill and eat meat
2. He used to curse in Urdu, there are even stories that 3 marathis created this phenomenon to milk money from the people.
3. Even if one does not care about point #1 and #2, he died of fever and was buried in Islamic style.
His dead body was supposedly buried in Sri Krishna temple replacing the main deity. Let's analyze the point # 3 for a moment, No Vaidika/ a modern (hindu) never worships a dead body. The jagadgurus in our religion are called as jIvanmuktas and they were buried while they were alive and hence we can worship them but no (hindu) worships a dead body as the dead body is the house for Pretas and is treated as such.
Now, as it is said in Vedas essence BG, people who worship what, they reach that. So people who worship pretas will ideally go to Preta Lokas..Seems sad, but I think this is very dangerous for an spiritual aspirant!
Thoughts?
What I can tell is Shirdi Sai baba is a recent phenomenon just like Santhoshi maata, Ayyappa(No valid scriptures gives his mention). But looking more into his history or his charitra points to some facts like
1. He used to kill and eat meat
2. He used to curse in Urdu, there are even stories that 3 marathis created this phenomenon to milk money from the people.
3. Even if one does not care about point #1 and #2, he died of fever and was buried in Islamic style.
His dead body was supposedly buried in Sri Krishna temple replacing the main deity. Let's analyze the point # 3 for a moment, No Vaidika/ a modern (hindu) never worships a dead body. The jagadgurus in our religion are called as jIvanmuktas and they were buried while they were alive and hence we can worship them but no (hindu) worships a dead body as the dead body is the house for Pretas and is treated as such.
Now, as it is said in Vedas essence BG, people who worship what, they reach that. So people who worship pretas will ideally go to Preta Lokas..Seems sad, but I think this is very dangerous for an spiritual aspirant!
Thoughts?