One afternoon The Late Sri N.Kasturi and Sri Indulal Shah were doing Pada
Seva of Bhagawan in a room on the first floor of Prasanthi Mandir. They noticed
Bhagawan was drawing a sketch on a piece of paper. After some time, He handed
over that piece of paper to Sri Kasturi. To their surprise, they saw the
symbols of five religions drawn in a circle while in the center there was the
back portion of Bhagawan's own head mostly depicting its matchless hair.
Sri Kasturi asked, "Swami, why the back of the face and not the front?"
Baba explained, "So that you may not keep the paper in the safe and do nothing
about it!" Bhagawan then clarified the point. "This will be the symbol of the
Sai Organisation-five religions in the circle with the symbol of Prashanti viz,
the Lotus in the centre."
This was the birth of the Sarva Dharma symbol, which we all adore in
every Bhajan Center, display at every function and exhibit whenever we intend
to carry the Sai message.
Source: Diary 2004 - Religion of Love.
