shirdi sai and dakshinamoorthy

IN THIS POST I WISH TO

HIGHLIGHT ANOTHER ASPECT OF

SAI SADGURU AND I WISH TO

POINT OUT THE SIMILARITIES

WITH DAKSHINAMOORTHI

Dakshinamurthy is an aspect of Shiva as a guru (teacher) of all types of knowledge, particularly the jnana. This aspect of Shiva is his personification as the supreme or the ultimate awareness, understanding and knowledge. This form represents Shiva in his aspect as a teacher of yoga, music, and wisdom, and giving exposition on the shastras. He is worshipped as the god of wisdom, Dakshinamurthi, Lord Siva, as a youthful Guru, has been the symbol of the potency of a silent mind from time immemorial. His exposition of the truth, the 'Brahma Tatva', to elderly disciples was through silence. These disciples had mastered the scriptures but not their essence. Their doubts were set at naught in the vast and all pervading silence of Dakshinamurthi

SAI APOSTLE NARASIMHA SWAMIJI HAS SAID--BABA LIKE DAKSHINAMOORTHI CONVEYED EDIFICATION,LIGHT AND BLISS WITHOUT UTTERING A SINGLE WORD.THE TEACHER SIMPLY GLOWED WITH HIS LIGHT BLISS,THE RADIATION OF WHICH ENVELOPED,SATURATED AND SWALLOWED UP THE SELF OF THE DEVOTEES

WITHOUT ANY EFFORT AT LEARNING OR REPEATING SOUNDS AND GRASPING THEIR MEANING OR FORCE AT ONE STROKE, AS THOUGH

BY MAGIC..THE BEING OF THE DEVOTEE WAS ABSORBED INTO THE BEING OF THE GURU AND BECAME THAT OR PART OF THAT..KNOWLEDGE ,POWER AND SUPEROR NATURE BLOSSOMED OUT

AND HID THE FORMER PETTY ,POWERLESS AND WRETCHED NATURE OF THE DEVOTEE.
In Sai's system, (as Sri Narasimha Swamiji puts it), the Guru undertakes every responsibility for the devotee that surrenders himself. The devotee is there styled 'the Ankita', i.e., the stamped child of the Guru. Everything concerning that pupil is looked after by the Guru, with his wonderful superhuman powers

The Dakshinamurthy stotram (Hymn eulogising Dakshinamurthy), viewed as a form of Shiva is a stotra form of the theory or philosophy ofAdvaita vedanta