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Salutations -- The Story of Grinding Wheat and Its Philosophical Significance. According to the ancient and revered custom, Hemadpant begins the work, Sai Satcharitra, with various salutations. (1) First, he makes obeisance to the God Ganesha1 to remove all obstacles and make the work a success and says that Shri Sai is the God Ganesha. (2) Then, to the Goddess Saraswati2 to inspire him to write out the work and says that Shri Sai is one with this Goddess and that He is Himself singing His own life. (3) Then, to the Gods; Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar - the Creating, Preserving and Destroying Deities respectively; and says that Sainath is one with them and He as the great Teacher, will carry us across the River of Wordly Existence. (4) Then, to his tutelary Deity Narayan Adinath who manifested himself in Konkan - the land reclaimed by Parashurama3, (Rama in the