SHIRDI BABA'S MISSION STATEMENT
A devotee objected to people going to Baba for temporal benefit e.g., employment, money, children, cure of disease.
SAI BABA: Do not do that, My men first come to me on account of that only. They get their heart's desire fulfilled; and comfortably placed in life, they then follow me and progress further.
I bring my men to me from long distances under many pleas. I seek them and bring them to me. They do not come (of their own accord). I bring them to me.
However distance – even thousands of miles away - my people might be, I draw them to myself, just as we pull bird to us with a string tied to their foot.
(From Baba's Charters and Sayings, #56)
