Gems from Sai Leela

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Starting from this week, I will be posting articles that appeared in old issues

of Sai Leela, and this will be called Gems from Sai Leela, I thank my friend

from Canada who has encouraged me to do this work. I also thank Sai for giving

me this opportunity.I take this opportunity to request Sai Devotees to spare me

a photo copy of Old Sai Leela Magazines, if they have.

This article was written by Col G.N. Gopalkrishnan of Srinagar in Sai Leela

October 1985.

WHAT ARE TRUE RICHES

Shri Sai Baba is Sagun Brahman. There are many saints who renounce the world and

live in solitutde for their own salvation. Shri Sai Baba was not such a type. He

lived in the society and taught all the people how to act and behave in the

world. Shri Sai has said several times to His devotees to listen carefully to

His Stories, understand their significance, meditate ont hem and then only the

devotee can assimilate their spirit. Daily reading of Shri Sai Satcharita with

devotion is essential for Sai devotees to assimilate Baba's teaching.Shri Sai

Baba taught us to cultivate the habit of eating food in a worshipful manner.

Food is God. Everything that keeps us going is God. Food is a manifestation of

God outwardly. Within us the vital force is God. All things that sustain life

are expressions of God. The great life force is God. Therefore, we must not

treat food in a contemptuous way, in an angry mood or in a mood of displeasure.

So food should not be eaten with disregard or

in a huff or in a criticizing manner. "What is this food you have put upon this

plate?'. We must not be in such temper when we eat food. We must eat food in a

worshipful manner and must not waste food. This is what Baba taught us by

telling Shri Hemandpanth through his Leela described in chapter 24 of Sri Sai

Satcharita to remember Him always before eating. Remembering the Sagun form of

Baba will bring in us the mood of worship before eating, and our mind shall

attain peace and happiness. The Upanishadic teaching that "Anna Brahma" was

taught to us by Baba through his stories for the quest for Guru described in

chapter 32 of Sri Sai Satcharita. In this, Baba has stressed again that "Do not

discard offers of food. Offers of bread and food should be regarded as

auspicious sign of success". How beautifully Baba taught us through the purport

of this story to accept and eat food in a worshipful manner and what great

results one can achieve thereby.Let us now see how Baba

taught us what true riches are. If we begin to desire immediately we admit our

poverty. Desire is poverty. Desire is a feeling of inadequacy and when we begin

to desire we are a beggar already. The secret of prosperity is to affirm our

true nature. Be always contended and put a notice on the mind. "No admission

for desire". The moment a desire arises just reject it and say "Desire get out"

and then we will being to experience that the desired object comes by itself to

us. As long as we run after a thing we cannot get it. The moment you turn away

from a thing it follows us by itself. This is an eternal law. This is a law

which has been proven in the lives of all those who have discovered it and

applied to themselves.Baba has taught us this great Brahma Sutra through the

illustration of the story of the servant maid of Shri Kaka Saheb Dixit in

Chapter 20 of Shri Sai Satcharita. The happy temperament of the maid servant

when while wearing torn rags on her person and the expression

of joy on getting a new sari and the following day the contentment shown by her

by wearing her old sari reveal clearly to all of us that the secret of

happiness is to assert our true abundant nature.Let me conclude this with the

saying of Sri Hemandpant in Chapter 2 of Sri Sai Satcharita that "The life if

Sai Baba is as wide and deep as the infinite ocean and all we can dive deep

into the same and take out precious gems of knowledge and Bhakti and distribute

them to all"

With humble pranams to Sai Baba and Col G.N. Gopalkrishnan of Srinagar

Om Sai Sri Sai Jai Jai SaiWith humble pranam

Leeladhar V.V.

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Gems from Sai Leela

Dear Sai Devotees

Starting from this week, I will be posting articles that appeared in old issues

of Sai Leela, and this will be called Gems from Sai Leela, I thank my friend

from Canada who has encouraged me to do this work. I also thank Sai for giving

me this opportunity.I take this opportunity to request Sai Devotees to spare me

a photo copy of Old Sai Leela Magazines, if they have.

This article was written by Col G.N. Gopalkrishnan of Srinagar in Sai Leela

October 1985.

WHAT ARE TRUE RICHES

Shri Sai Baba is Sagun Brahman. There are many saints who renounce the world and

live in solitutde for their own salvation. Shri Sai Baba was not such a type. He

lived in the society and taught all the people how to act and behave in the

world. Shri Sai has said several times to His devotees to listen carefully to

His Stories, understand their significance, meditate ont hem and then only the

devotee can assimilate their spirit. Daily reading of Shri Sai Satcharita with

devotion is essential for Sai devotees to assimilate Baba's teaching.Shri Sai

Baba taught us to cultivate the habit of eating food in a worshipful manner.

Food is God. Everything that keeps us going is God. Food is a manifestation of

God outwardly. Within us the vital force is God. All things that sustain life

are expressions of God. The great life force is God. Therefore, we must not

treat food in a contemptuous way, in an angry mood or in a mood of displeasure.

So food should not be eaten with disregard or in a huff or in a criticizing

manner. "What is this food you have put upon this plate?'. We must not be in

such temper when we eat food. We must eat food in a worshipful manner and must

not waste food. This is what Baba taught us by telling Shri Hemandpanth through

his Leela described in chapter 24 of Sri Sai Satcharita to remember Him always

before eating. Remembering the Sagun form of Baba will bring in us the mood of

worship before eating, and our mind shall attain peace and happiness. The

Upanishadic teaching that "Anna Brahma" was taught to us by Baba through his

stories for the quest for Guru described in chapter 32 of Sri Sai Satcharita.

In this, Baba has stressed again that "Do not discard offers of food. Offers of

bread and food should be regarded as auspicious sign of success". How

beautifully Baba taught us through the purport of this story to accept and eat

food in a worshipful manner and what great results one can achieve thereby.Let

us now see how Baba taught us what true riches are. If we begin to desire

immediately we admit our poverty. Desire is poverty. Desire is a feeling of

inadequacy and when we begin to desire we are a beggar already. The secret of

prosperity is to affirm our true nature. Be always contended and put a notice

on the mind. "No admission for desire". The moment a desire arises just reject

it and say "Desire get out" and then we will being to experience that the

desired object comes by itself to us. As long as we run after a thing we cannot

get it. The moment you turn away from a thing it follows us by itself. This is

an eternal law. This is a law which has been proven in the lives of all those

who have discovered it and applied to themselves.Baba has taught us this great

Brahma Sutra through the illustration of the story of the servant maid of Shri

Kaka Saheb Dixit in Chapter 20 of Shri Sai Satcharita. The happy temperament of

the maid servant when while wearing torn rags on her person and the expression

of joy on getting a new sari and the following day the contentment shown by her

by wearing her old sari reveal clearly to all of us that the secret of happiness

is to assert our true abundant nature.Let me conclude this with the saying of

Sri Hemandpant in Chapter 2 of Sri Sai Satcharita that "The life if Sai Baba is

as wide and deep as the infinite ocean and all we can dive deep into the same

and take out precious gems of knowledge and Bhakti and distribute them to all"

With humble pranams to Sai Baba and Col G.N. Gopalkrishnan of Srinagar

Om Sai Sri Sai Jai Jai SaiWith humble pranam

Leeladhar V.V