What our Divine Lord Sai told us - Swami's messages for eternity and our salvation

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Om Sri Sai Ram 

MAANASA BHAJARE GURU CHARANAM

 WHEN I was at Uravakonda studying in the High School, you know I came away one

day and threw off my books and declared that I have My work waiting for Me. The

Telugu Pandit (scholar) described the incident of that evening to you all in his

speech. Well, that day when I came out publicly as Sai Baba, that first song I

taught the gathering in the garden to which I went from the Telugu Pundit’s

house was:

"Maanasa Bhajare Guru Charanam

Dhusthara Bhava Saagara Tharanam"

I called on all those suffering in the endless round of birth and death to

worship the Feet of the Guru (spiritual preceptor), the Guru that was

announcing Himself, who had come again for taking upon Himself the burden of

those who find refuge in Him. That was the very first Message of Mine to

Humanity. "Maanasa bhajare.Worship in the mind!" I do not need your flower

garlands and fruits, things that you get for an anna or two; they are not

genuinely yours. Give Me something that is yours, something which is clean and

fragrant with the perfume of virtue and innocence, and washed in the tears of

repentance! Garlands and fruits you bring as items in the show, as an

exhibition of your devotion; poorer devotees who cannot afford to bring them

are humiliated and they feel sorry that they are helpless; they cannot

demonstrate their devotion in the grand way in which you are doing it. Install

the Lord in your heart and offer Him the fruits of your actions and the flowers

of your inner thoughts and feelings. That is the worship I like most, the

devotion I appreciate most.

Re-education of man persists in all eras

In shops, things are kept in separate packets and each one specialises in some

particular article or sets of articles. But in an Exhibition, hundreds of shops

join to make all varieties of things available and there is a great deal of

window-dressing, arrangement and display. I have been all these days generally

giving individual advice, like the packets available in shops and giving

answers to individual questions. This 'speech' today, is a new experience for

you. I am addressing a gathering today; but even though it may be new to you,

for Me it is not new. I have given advice to large gatherings before, though

not in this Appearance. Whenever Niraakaara (formless) becomes Sakaara (one

with form), it has to fulfill the Mission and it does so in various ways. But

the one purpose, the re-education of Man persists, whatever the Yuga (the era),

The first sixteen years of this Life have been, as I have often told you, the

period when Bala Leela (divine child sport) predominated and the next sixteen

is being spent mostly in Mahimas (miracles) in order to give santhosha (joy) to

this generation. Joy and contentment are short-lived sensations; you have to

catch that mood and make it a permanent possession: Ananda (bliss). After the

thirty-second year, you will see Me active more and more in the task of Upadesh

(spiritual instruction)- --teaching erring humanity and in directing the World

along the path of Sathya, Dharma, Shanthi and Prema (Truth, Righteousness,

Peace and Love). Not that I am determined to exclude Leela and Mahimas from My

activity after that. I only mean that re-establishing Dharma, correcting the

crookedness of the human mind and guiding humanity back to Sanathana Dharma

(eternal universal religion) will be My task thereafter. Do not be led away by

doubt and vain argument; do not question how and whether I can do all this. The

cowherds of Brindavan also doubted whether the little boy who grew in their

midst could lift Govardhana Giri and hold it aloft! The thing needed is Faith,

and yet more Faith.

Secret of Spiritual Success

Once Krishna and Arjuna were going together along the open road. Seeing a bird

in the sky, Krishna asked Arjuna, "Is that a dove?" He replied, "Yes, it is a

dove." He asked Arjuna, "Is it an eagle?' Arjuna replied promptly, "Yes, it is

an eagle.No, Arjuna, it looks like a crow to Me. Is it not a crow?" asked

Krishna. Arjuna replied, "I am sorry, it is a crow beyond doubt." Krishna

laughed and chided him for his agreeing to whatever suggestion was given. But

Arjuna said, "For me, your Words are far more weighty than the evidence of my

eyes; you can make it a crow, a dove or an eagle and when you say it is a crow,

it must be one." Implicit faith is the secret of spiritual success. The Lord

loves, not the Bhakta (devotee) but his Bhakti, remember. The Lord's Grace is

like rain, pure water, falling equally everywhere; but its taste gets changed

according to the soil through which it flows. So also the Lord's words are

sweet to some, bitter to others. The Lord's ways are mysterious; He blessed

Vidura with the words, "Be destroyed" and Dhusshaasana with the words, "Live

for a thousand years;" He meant that Vidhura's 'I' will be destroyed and that

the wicked Dhusshaasana will have to suffer the ills and tribulations of this

world for ten centuries. You do not know the real reasons behind the actions of

the Lord. You cannot understand the motives of other men who are almost like you

in everything, actuated by the same motives and having the same likes and

dislikes! But yet, how easily you discover the motives of One who is far, far

above the level of Man! How glibly you talk and judge of something that is as

strange to you as atmosphere to a fish!

Pains indicate birth of new life

There are four types of persons; the 'dead,' who deny the Lord and declare that

they alone exist, independent, free, self regulating and self-directed; the

'sick,' who call upon the Lord when some calamity befalls them or when they

feel temporarily deserted by the usual sources of succor; the 'dull,' who know

that God is eternal companion and watchman, but who remember it only off and on

when the idea is potent and powerful; and lastly, the 'healthy,' who have steady

faith in the Lord and who live in His comforting creative presence always. You

proceed from 'death' to 'life' and from 'illness' to 'health' by the experience

of the buffetings of the World. The World is a very essential part of the

curriculum of man; through the agony of search is born the infant, wisdom. The

pains are worthwhile; they indicate the birth of new life. From Asanthi

(restlessness) you get Prashanthi (absolute peace), from Prashanthi to

Prakaanthi (bright spiritual illumination); and from Prakaanthi, Paramjyothi

(Supreme Divine radiance). It is like the alternating of night and day, this

recurrence of joy and grief. Night and day are twin sisters, both are necessary

to increase the fertility of the soil, to activate and refresh Life. They are

like summer and winter. There are some who ask Me, 'Baba! Make this summer less

hot!' But in the heat of summer the Earth takes in the needed energy from the

Sun, so that when the rains come, she may yield a plentiful harvest.

Shine forth in your real nature

'Cold' and 'heat' are both in the Plan of God and yours is only to know this and

treat both as valuable. Thorny plants and thornless plants are both there in

nature; the wise man knows the value of both; he plants the thornless one and

surrounds it with the thorny ones, so that what he fosters is left unharmed.

Activity can save, as well as kill; it is like the cat, which bites; it bites

the kitten in order to carry it in its mouth to a place of safety; it bites the

rat in order to kill and eat. Become the kitten; and work will rescue you like a

loving Mother. Become a rat; and you are lost. God draws the Individual towards

itself; it is the nature of both to have this affinity, for they are the same.

They are like the iron and the magnet. But if the iron is rusty covered with

layers of dirt, the magnet is unable to attract. Remove the impediment; that is

all you have to do. Shine forth in your real nature and the Lord will draw you

into His Bosom. Trials and tribulations are the means by which this cleansing

is done. That is why Kunthi prayed to Krishna, "Give us always grief, so that

we may never forget Thee." They are like the dietary and other restrictions

that the doctor prescribes to supplement the effect of the drug of Naamasmarana

(remembrance of God).

Do not give up sadhana

Sai is Sarvajanapriya (beloved to all people) and so any name which gives you

joy, you can take up. Tastes differ according to temperament and the character

one has earned by generations of activity as a living being in this world. The

proprietor of a coffee house goes to the nearby druggist for a pill to ward off

his headache, and the druggist when he gets a headache goes to the coffee house

for a cup of coffee which he thinks will cure him. Men are like that; loko

bhinna ruchih (tastes of people differ). The Jnani says, "Sarvam Brahma mayam:"

In God is All;" another, a yogi, says all is energy; a third, who is a Bhakta,

says all is the play of Bhagawan (the Lord). Each according to his taste and

according to his progress in sadhana (spiritual practice). Do not hurry or

ridicule them, for they are all pilgrims trudging along the same road. Sadhana

is most required to control the mind and the desires after which it runs. If

you find that you are not able to succeed, do not give up the Sadhana but do it

more vigorously, for it is the subject in which you did not get passing marks

that requires special study, is it not? Sadhana means inner cleanliness as well

as external cleanliness. You do not feel refreshed if you wear unwashed clothes

after your bath, do you? Nor do you feel refreshed if you wear washed clothes,

but skip the bath. Both are needed, the baahya and the bhaava (the external as

well as the internal). Children believe your words when you say that the

policeman will catch them or the ghost will beat them. They are full of fear,

fortitude and faith! But having grown old and stuffed your heads with all kinds

of doctrines and dogmas and theories and arguments, you have now to use your

Viveka (discrimination) and discover God the hard way. This I will tell you,

there is no escaping it; all creatures have to reach God some day or other, by

the long route or by the short route.

Prashanthi Nilayam, Vijayadashami, 1953

Source: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. I

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