Complete Surrender - by Shri M. M. Amingad (Sai Leela Magazine August 1974)

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An insane, imprudent, an indiscriminate and viscious mind will always fall

an easy prey to these senses and adheres to the state of being actuated by

mere animal appetites, brutishness, ruthlessness, and sensuality and gives a

wrong twist and turn to the intellect and this forces the mind to fall into

spoils and to follow the path of his own genesis, the animals. His line of

thinking always drags him towards, ruin, distraction and damage to the life

and property of the poor and innocent souls. He constantly and invariably

prides himself in ruining and in the ruins of others Thus he not only mars

his own life but mars the life of those around him. Here his intellect works

like a knife in the hands of a murderer that wroughts the hedious, murderous

and inhuman act of treachery. Here this inanimate object-the knife-feels

very sorry for having seen the light of the day and being possessed by an

inhuman creature, to suffer the hell for having done some inhuman act. Thus

such a man becomes a nuisance and an obnoxious person to the society.

The root cause of this inhuman behaviour is the Ego, 'the I-feeling*. The

Ego I all through the life of a man right from the cradle to the grave

completely pervades and incessantly dictates the human mind and paves the

way for a hedious hell. This Ego ‘I' makes him forget all the invaluable

values attached to the sense of honesty, faithfulness, truthfulness,

sincerity, compassion, love, non-violence and thereby giving place to

unauthenticity, disloyalty, falsehood, frivolity, fraud, distrust, cruelty,

hatred, malice, and violence at last. The treasure of all the good qualities

is disappearing from the dictionary and vanishing from the human mind and

soul.

 

This I feeling goads a man to tresspass over the rights of others just for

the sake of satisfaction of his own 'selfish instincts. The states and

countries also will never prove an exception to this egocentric instinct.

The very frequent clashes between nations and nations even with the coming

up of U. N. O. with a very benevolent desire to pave the way for universal

peace, are the very valid and outstanding proofs of this inhuman act. As

long as man is under the spell of egocentrism he runs after a shadow. Once

he throws off this false guise and frees himself from the clutches of

illusion then only he begins to think of the substance, the reality. But he

gets this spark in him only when he completely submits and surrenders

himself at the holy feet and sweet will of Sadguru Sai Baba.

 

The prudent man will never give any undue value to this illusory and

deluding world and this perishable and muddy body. He will always feel that

this life is a peregrination between life and death and he himself a

traveller resting for a while in this earth, the caravanserai till his

journey's end serving the human souls for which he is sent for and to return

to his real and eternal home, the Heaven. This is one way of looking at the

life.

 

Another way of looking at life is that this Universe is a vessel in which he

is journeying in the sea of mundane existence the driver of which is Baba

the Almighty and the-all-pervading. Here he submits himself completely to

the sweet will of Baba the God either to take him safe to the shore or to

drown him half way in the sea as we completely surrender ourselves to the

sweet will and fancy of the driver of a bus, a train or plane when we are

travelling during the course of our daily routine life either to take us

towards the destination or to meet with some sudden disastrous accident half

way.

 

This sort of complete surrender and submission to Sadguru Sai Baba will only

help the poor suffering souls to attain salvation from the wheel of life

revolving on the axis of birth and rebirth.

 

By Shri M.  M. Amingad

Gulunche, Tal; Purandhar, Dist: Pune

 

(Source Sai Leela Magazine August 1974)

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