Shri Sai Sat Charitra-Chapter XXII-Part I

Rescues from Serpent-bites - (1) Balasaheb Mirikar (2) Bapusaheb Booty (3) Amir Shakkar (4) - Baba's Opinion Regarding Killing of Serpents.

Preliminary

How to meditate on Baba? No one has been able to fathom the nature or the form of the Almighty. Even the Vedas and the thousand-tongued Shesha are not able to describe it fully; but the devotees cannot but know and look at the form of the Lord, for they know that His Feet are the only means of their happiness. They know no other method of attaining the supreme goal of life, except meditating on the Holy Feet.

Sai Ram. No one can fathom the form of God because He / She / It, has both manifest and unmanifest aspects. In the manifest form, God is this whole Universe and thus all of us are God's form. In the unmanifest form, God (Para Brahma) is Nirgun and cannot be perceived through senses. Since all the emotions are sensory (affected by senses and also affecting senses), worship and meditation has to be carried out and Guru's Feet are the best means since Guru (Acharya) is the one who walked on the path and is thus capable of leading us on the path.Sai Ram

suggests an easy way of devotion and meditation as follows:-

As the dark fortnight of every month wears out gradually, the moonlight also wanes in the same degree and on the newmoon day, we do not see the moon at all, nor do we get her light. Therefore, when the bright fortnight begins, people are very anxious to see the moon. On the first day, the moon is not seen and on the second day also she is not clearly visible. Then the people are asked to see the moon through an opening between the two branches of a tree, and when they begin to see through this aperture eagerly and after concentrating, the distant small crescent of the moon comes, to their great delight, within their ken.

One can follow the aforesaid method, to try to see Baba's light. Look at Baba's posture, how fine it is! He is sitting with His legs folded,the right leg held across the left knee. The fingers of His left hand are spread on the right-foot. On the right toe are spread His two fingers-the index and middle ones. By this posture Baba means to say, as it were-if you want to see my light, be egoless and most humble and meditate on my toe through the opening between the two branches-index and middle fingers-and then you will be able to see my light. This is the easiest means of attaining devotion.