DIVINE ADVICE - BIRTH AND DEATH ARE POORVA KARMA

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DIVINE ADVICE – BIRTH AND DEATH ARE ACCORDING TO POORVA KARMA.

 

One more instance of Baba's reducing "Moha" of "mineness" is this: We

might mention also what Baba taught Nana as to Karma to weaken Moha

on the same occasion. The Moha that sways practically everyone of us

is the attachment we feel to our children and to other members of our

family and the feeling that we cannot be happy unless they are always

with us. Birth and death are serious things, which condition our

happiness.

 

We have already referred to Baba's help in the case of Minatai's

difficult labour. Unfortunately within a few months after its birth,

her child died. A short time before delivery, the husband of Minatai

also had died. Minatai was very young. The whole family was in gloom.

They went to Shirdi and sat in sullen silence before Baba.

 

Baba asked, "Why are you so sullen?"

 

Then Nana said, "Baba, you know everything. While we are under your

care, these calamities have befallen us; bereaved of child and son-in-

law etc.,

 

Baba: If you care for child (or son-in-law) and come to me for that,

you are mistaken. You should not come to me for these. These are not

in my power. These (i.e., birth of child and death of relatives) are

dependent on poorva karma. Even Parameswar, the great God who has

created the world cannot alter these. Do you think he can tell the

sun or the moon, "Rise some two yards farther away from your usual or

appointed place. No, he cannot and will not do that. That would

produce disorder, chaos."

 

Nana asked, "If that is so, how is it that you tell some one, "You

will have a son" and he gets a son and you tell another "You will get

employment" and he gets an employment. Are these not Chamatkars of

yours?"

 

Baba answered, "No, Nana. I do not do any chamatkars. You have your

village astrologers. They work at three or four days ahead and give

out their predictions, some of which come true. I look further ahead.

What I say happens. My art is also a sort of Astrology. But you do

not understand this. To you, my words look like chamatkars, because

you do not know the future. So you regard events as proof of my

miracle working power, and you turn your reverence on to me. I, in my

turn, turn your reverence on to God and see that you are really

benefited.

 

Baba thus weakened his Moha or unconditional and excessive attachment

to relations.

 

Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B. V. Narasimha Swamiji

(Vasuki Mahal Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Trust, Coimbatore-641025, India)