Absolute Surrender - The Only Approach by Anil Keshavrao Rasal

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Absolute Surrender - The Only Approach

Shri Baba has seldom revealed His ways to bless and push up His devotees on the

spiritual path. However, there are certain broad hints given by Him to devotees

which when followed lead them on to the final goal.

 

The most famous of His utterances is " Look to me; and I will look to

you " . This pronouncement from Him is greatly simple; but it is simply

great in its meaning. Shri Baba has first advised the devotees to look to Him.

His words have always been full of endless meaning of shoreless sea of

knowledge. Looking to Baba implies first and foremost to His first quality i.e.

of His absolute faith in His Guru. He Himself had said that He gave up worldly

ambitions though He had achieved extra-ordinary success even in these matters

(Vide chapter No. 32) to concentrate on His Guru fully. He forgot hunger,

thirst, and thus His Guru's form fixed itself, in His eyes. This intense

concentration on the Guru snapped His attachments to his relations and His Guru

became His all in all and magnetized Baba fully to turn into His likeness.

 

It is an axiomatic truth that what one thinks of intently so one

becomes. In due time i.e. prolonged period of 12 years of patient

waiting upon the Guru resulted in His being blessed by the bliss

supreme. It is thus clear, that by looking to Baba implies looking to

His Sachidananda Swarupa which is unaffected by any outside influences.

 

To attain this highest state, Baba surrendered all His interests to His Guru. He

considered the existence of his mortal frame only for the service of His Guru.

Baba thus attained the supreme goal of life by His absolute surrender to His

Guru, who in turn moulded Baba just like Him transferring all the knowledge and

powers to His best disciple.

 

In this context, it is essential to note here the Upanishadic dictum

that the self reveals its nature of its own choosing and not through

effort or study. So Shri Baba's method of working on His chosen devotees is not

EXTERNAL, but INTERNAL. In point of fact, it is only the cover of unfulfilled

desires, aspirations and worldly attachments which cloud our vision of God

realization. Baba does not change the world but changes us internally through

His full grace when the devotee surrenders everything to Him.

 

In short it is earnestly requested to the sadhakas on the path of Sai

realization that they should surrender their body, mind and wealth

absolutely to Baba so as to allow Him to " ENTER " into them fully and to work for

their emancipation. Absolute surrender is the only approach to have full Sai

bliss.

Anil Keshavrao Rasal

Bombay

(source Shri Sai Leela Magazine June 1985)