The text mentions that living on alms isn't for everyone. What specific spiritual qualifications made it appropriate for Sai Baba to beg?

📖 Chapter 9

As explained in Chapter 9, the right to live on alms is reserved for a very specific type of spiritual being, and Sai Baba perfectly met these qualifications. Firstly, one must renounce the three primary desires: the desire for sons, for wealth, and for fame. Only one who is free from these attachments should wish to live on alms. Secondly, one must have the firm realization of being one with the universe, seeing it as their home and understanding themselves as 'Vasudeva, the sustainer of the world.' Chapter 9 clarifies that because Baba was a pure sanyasi from childhood who held this universal consciousness, his practice of begging was not just appropriate but commendable.


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