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Shri
Sai reiterated the essentiality of complete surrender to the ‘Guru’
with his own example when he said pointing to his physical frame, “This
body is my house. I am not here. My Guru (Master) has taken me away”.
One who reaches the feet of fully realized spiritual masters, must
surrender his body, mind and soul to the Guru. The spiritual benefit
accruing to an aspirant of the path is in measure in which the surrender
to the Master is done. The more he gives himself the more he receives. The
maxim coming from Perfect Master is ‘Give us all you have, we will give
you all we possess’ Infact, the spiritual mentor works harder to help
the aspirant to make a total surrender to himself. At times Baba adopted
shock tactics to weaken or eliminate the ego of the seeker. There was a
supreme peerless quality in Baba’s personality which made all those who
came in his contact, feel the urge to surrender to him. Sai Baba was in
the truest sense a Guru incarnate, who naturally attracted people and they
were willing and anxious enough to surrender to him. He said, ‘Keep
still and I will do the rest.’ The tremendous power of the Guru is
working, all that the seeker has to do is to refrain from obstructing it !
This is only possible if the surrender is complete.
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