Book Review : SHRI SAI SAROVAR FROM SHRI SAI LEELA FEBRUARY 1988
This unique life history of Shri Sai Baba consisting of 1500 pages in demy size and in two volumes has been recently (i.e. on 12 July 1987) published in Gujarati language. So far such a big book on Shri Sai Baba has not been published in any language. All the information about Sai Baba and His devotees collected by Shri Dabholkar, H.H.Narsimha Swamiji, Shri Dadasaheb Khaparde, Swami Sai Sharananand and found in their books/diaries in Marathi, Gujarati and English, has been included in this book. In addition, information found in books of Shri Amidas Mehta, Shri Balkrishna Dev Mamalatdar, Prof. Narke, Shri Wamanrao Gokhale – all these not much known – has also been presented in this book. There are detailed life-sketches of Shri Upasani Maharaj, Shri Mota, Shri Rang Avadhoot, Sant Shantavanji Maharaj, Swami Shri Rambaha and host of other saints who were connected with Shri Sai Baba or Shri Dattatreya. There are not only extracts from Marathi and Sanskrit “araties”, bhajans and stotras recited in Shirdi which have been quoted at appropriate places with translation in Gujarti, but Shri Sai Ashtottarshat Sankiratan of Shri Dattatreya composed by Shri Rang Avdhoot Maharaj has also been fully included with explanations in Gujarati. The author has interviewed a number of devotees who had personally seen Shri Baba in His life-time and collected some quite interesting details not known or published hitherto. In short this book is so comprehensive in its presentation of information regarding Shri Baba and His devotees that I could very well considered and worshipped as “Shri Sai Mahabharat” or “Shri Sai Encyclopaedia” – although the caption “Shrii Sai Sarovar” also means a big lake of information and knowledge about Shri Sai...........Read More on
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