An understanding to ~ Can you help me?

[Guest guest]

Sai Ram all,

Recently a message on the forum - Can you help me? was received.

To the practical problem of life explained by the devotee, there were quite some

responses. Every response reflected on a personal experience of the writer or

gave sage advise.

But, with the environment we are in where "Can you help me?" type of problems

can be found in every nook or corner. It is not one thing can be blamed for

bringing on this catastrophy on us. TV soaps, newspapers falling of standards

and liberal exposure in films is making us all bolder to step into the

forbidden garden and have a bite at the apple.

When Baba explains 'senses' He ellaborates that a man who does not have his

senses under his control is not worthy of being called a man.

In the Gita Bhagwan says "HE WHO CAN WITHDRAW HIS SENSES FROM THE ATTRACTIONS OF

THE PHENOMINAL WORLD EVEN AS THE TORTISE WITHDRAWS ITS LIMBS IN ITS SHELL - SUCH

IS THE ONE WITH A STABLE MIND."

Now, this is what should be our aim in achieving sense control. Simple - withdraw like a tortoise.

But Bhagwan also cautions in Gita: "A SHIP IN SEA IS TOSSED AND CARRIED AWAY BY

WAVES DURING A STORM, EVEN SO IS DISCRIMINATION SWEPT AWAY BY THE MIND WHICH

YEILDS TO THE ROVING SENSES."

As ellaborated above - sense play on the mind can be devastating - it can

convert the forbidden garden into our own back yard kitchen garden. Permitting

the senses an inch and they will grab a foot and within no time all nine yeads

will be gone.

For the remedy or control for the senses - namasmaran is what everybody suggests

- but, what instigates sense, mind and intellect to the unwanted - it is desire.

Swami says that desire hunts in mind, senses and intellect and where it finds a

hold it smothers wisdom.

Desire has to be crubbed at the roots. Having the forbidden fruit is also a

desire - that too a very strong one - and no amount of succumbing to that

desire will satisfy a person. Swami says that when thirst hits a person they

would drink unbelievable amount of water as if there will be no more water

tomorrow, but within a few hours that person is again thirsty. So fulfilling

desire is no way to rein them.

Thought for the Day today was very important - desire for the forbidden can give

us say 1 cent worth of happiness - Bliss is happiness worth a million dollars -

do you still want that one cent worth of stink.

Source: Radio Sai web site

 

If only men knew the path to permanent joy and peace, they would not wander

distracted among the bye-lanes of sensual pleasure. Just as the joy felt in

dreams disappears when you wake, the joy felt in the waking stages too

disappears when you wake into the higher awareness. Make best use of the

present moment to become aware of the Divinity latent in all. When you die, you

must not die like an animal or a worm, but as a Manava (Man) who has realised

that he is Madhava (God). That is the consummation of all the years you spend

in the human frame.- Baba

Thought for

The divine command is for killing desire to control senses on all fronts. But

how do we do that, I will address that over the weekend for the benefit of all

devotees.

Sai Ram - Be Happy

JP

 

 

For devotees of Sri Sathya Sai Baba - Important Announcement.

 

SAI AT - project, to comemmorate Bhagwan Baba's 80th Year of Advent, has been

launched. For details

http://www.sailopics.com/80th_Year_of_Advent/80th_year_of_advent.htm

You can become project members of this memorable project if you have a SAILOGRAM

or SAI SILVER or SAI GOLD or procure one after reading this.

 

Sai Ram - Be Happy