Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - Anguished Yearning for the Lord's Presence

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

November 17, 2003

 

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Anguished Yearning for the Lord's Presence

 

Besides his weakened physical condition, he was also suffering from

extreme anguish because he felt that he wasn't singing properly and

therefore the Lord did not respond. He was sure that it was because

of his own shortcomings in his songs that the Lord did not come to

partake of his food. And so with great determination and devotion he

continued to practice his singing, thinking that in the end he would

surely win the grace of the Lord.

 

In his weakened condition he reached the forest. He was feeling

extremely exhausted but he was determined not to eat unless his

offering was accepted by the Lord. Now his prayerful song poured out

of him in a most melodious and sacred way. The boy just kept on

singing and singing all the time, imploring the Lord to come down

and accept the food and drink that he was offering with so much

yearning. When there was perfect harmony in the feeling, in the tune

and in the content of the song, the Lord descended. How did he

appear before that cowherd boy? He came as a boy of the same age,

wearing the simple ochre cloth of a saddhu, a mendicant holy man.

 

The young cowherd asked the boy he saw standing before him, "Please,

dear friend, may I know who you are? Are you a traveler passing

through this forest?" The holy boy answered, "I am the Lord. I am

Narayana. You prayed to see me and so I have come to give you a

vision of myself." Remembering that the Lord liked the sweet sound

of music, the cowherd boy continued his questioning in the form of a

most melodious song, "But you don't conform to the description given

of the Lord, who is dark complexioned, who wears a white mark on his

forehead and who rides a white eagle. The preacher said that is how

we can know the Lord. But it doesn't seem to be true. O, dear one,

if you are really the blessed Lord, please resolve my doubt and let

me see you in your true form."

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita049.html

 

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