Yogi Ashwini

A normal human being is bound by his/her five senses. Each sense relates to an aspect of the physically-manifested world, which translates as one of the five senses of the body. The sum total of these five senses is what we call life and whatever surrounds it. A normal human being, because of his limitations, cannot look beyond his

immediate family, business and the health of near and dear ones. That is the precise reason why he is called a normal human being. It is this attribute, limited versus the unlimited, which resides at the core of every individual and determines a human being’s level of evolution.
It would be simpler to say that the more you limit yourself the more normal you are and the more you expand yourself the more special you are. Here the implication of the word expansion goes beyond one’s own body and immediate family, say, maybe, expanding till your neighbourhood, colony, city, country, world... the entire creation. Expansion is directly proportional to your level of evolution — the more evolved you are, the more expanded you are and the more you will care about your surroundings.
Satya Sai Baba was one such evolved, expanded human being. If I am to talk about his good works, be it in the field of education, serving the poor, or development of backward areas... it would require volumes of writings. But I would like to say that the more you shine the more the minor imperfections or hairline cracks in you become visible — the visibility of craters on the moon are directly proportional to its luminosity. The more your glow, the more people look at you and the more the acclaims... the more the critics. Life and death, sunset and sunrise, darkness and light, sound and silence, all the formers are redundant without the latter and vice versa. Similarly, acclaims lose their shine if there is no one to criticise, just like life would loose its meaning if there was no death.
A person who is in vairagya, which is called one of the finalities in Sanatan Kriya, is least concerned about critics or acclaims. He just moves on the chosen path. It’s of no consequence to him who is saying what about him... good or bad. It’s his mission which is important and of utmost concern to him. No matter who says what, no matter what the circumstance, no matter what the occasion, he finds some way to put his point across and that too very effectively.
The stature of Satya Sai is such that on his death rivers of tears were shed by those whom he supported. Thousands of families for whom he was a pillar suddenly now find themselves roofless; the many so-called rationalists who never ceased to malign this great soul are stunned and mourning his death. Friends and foes today stand on the same platform and for once talk in the same tone.
My tribute to the soul of Satya Sai and my salutation to him for his vision on charity. I just hope that his death does not create a vacuum in all the charities which he personally supervised. His legacy should not be the thousands of crores which he has left behind... but the thousands of those whom he was supporting.

— Yogi Ashwini is an authority on yoga, tantra and the Vedic sciences. He is the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation. He has recently written a book, Sanatan Kriya: 51 Miracles... And a Haunting.
Contact him at dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com