What is the philosophical significance of grinding the wheat grains by Shirdi Sai Baba?
What is the philosophical significance of grinding the wheat grains by Shirdi Sai Baba? The philosophical significance of grinding the wheat grains – Saibaba lived in Shirdi for about sixty years. During this period, he would grind grains almost every day, not with wheat alone but the sins, physical and mental afflictions, and His innumerable devotees’ miseries. The afflictions are of three kinds – Adhibhautik (miseries inflicted by the five elements, the body and mind itself); Adhidaivik (those inflicted by the deities or other living entities); and Adhyatmik (which is natural disturbances due to the past Karmas and is connected to spiritual). The two stones of the quern consisted of Karma (duties) and Bhakti (devotion), the former being the lower and the latter the upper one. The handle with which Sai Baba worked the quern is Knowledge (Jnana). It was Sai Baba’s firm conviction that the knowledge of the truth or self-realization is not possible unless there is the pr...