A Catholic Priest Meets Sai Baba

The universality of Baba is seen in books by American screenwriters, Russian yoga teachers, Italian priests, Brooklyn nuns, San Diego psychiatrist, African Christian. The ocean of Baba can be entered through any one of these books. The translation is by a professor of Romance Languages at Notre Dame. Baba is the first person in history, to my knowledge, to have 30 million (or more) followers (AP said 20 million 15 years ago) who believe him to be an avatar.

Before I read this book I have many questions about the relationship within the teachings and life of Jesus Christ and Sai Baba's. Here, Mario Mazzoleni a catholic priest, tells his personal story with Sai Baba and why he sees in Him the same God that he met as a christian. In simply words, this open-minded priest also tells you the great teachings of Sai Baba. Another MUST-READ for any Sai devotee or anyone wanting to introduce in spirituality. Please, feel free to write me with comments and questions about this book or Sai Baba's teachings.

Myself a former seminarian and devoted Catholic, I identified deeply with the honest and compelling search for truth that Don Mazzolini shares in the first part of his book. When truth-seeking and his deep love for the Church begin to conflict, Don Mazzolini makes a poignant and powerful argument, carefully based in scripture, for openness of mind and heart to God's truth, wherever it should be found. This part of the book should be prayerfully read and studied by Christians of all denominations. The remainder of the book is a clear and loving description of Sai Baba, his teachings, and the effects of his work and message. If Sathya Sai Baba is an incarnation of God for our times, He has a clear message to embed in our heart and minds, and Mazzolini carries that message to the reader powerfully, personally and directly. It was with great sadness that I read of the proceedings which cast Don Mazzolini from the Church he loves so dearly, simply because he could not deny his conscience, which the Church herself says time and again we must follow, above all teachings and dogma she might offer to us. It almost tempted me to send my own letter of resignation to the Pope, yet Sai Baba himself would say, "No. Stay with and practice the religion of your birth and find there the universal truth of God." This book will broaden the mind and faith of those who read it with devotion.

This book is a journey of the inner conscience. Don Mario Mazzoleni's sincere quest for the Divine is revealed in a thoroughly sincere account of his discovery of Baba, his life and his teachings. It's a journey from faith to faith, albeit colored by a different path and a different context, yet in the end revealing the 'sameness' in the teachings of both Jesus and Baba. The attitudes of the Church and the painful consequences of ex-communication just for believing in the presence of a Divine Being becomes irrelevant when the reader gets absorbed in the author's quest for God. In sum, Don Mario's quest is everyman's quest for the Divine.

This book is a journey of the inner conscience. Don Mario Mazzoleni's quest for the Divine is revealed in a thoroughly sincere account of his discovery of Baba, his life and his teachings. It's a journey from faith to faith, albeit colored by a different path and a different context, yet in the end revealing the 'sameness' in the teachings of both Jesus and Baba. The attitudes of the Church and the painful consequences of ex-communication just for believing in the presence of a Divine Being becomes irrelevant when the reader gets absorbed in the author's quest for God. In sum, Don Mario's quest is everyman's quest for the Divine.