Sai Inspires - 22nd April 2007 from Prashanti Nilayam

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Sai Inspires -

22nd April 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spirituality does not

mean performance of ritual worship. It calls for the removal of the animal

traits in man. Only then sacred feelings will arise in him. That is real

spirituality. Regard all beings as children of God. Bear no ill-will

towards anyone. It is because of hatred and ill-will that mankind is

plunged in violence and bloodshed. Man's blood is inherently pure, divine

and unsullied. To misuse that blood in wrong ways is a sign of animal or demonic nature.

- Divine

Discourse, November 23, 1993.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spirituality is spirit of love. -

Baba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE CORRECT WAY OF LIFE

 

 

 

 

For this Sunday, we have

an excerpt from the book ‘Satyopanishad’ written by Prof. Anil

Kumar.

 

Question: Swami! As we think of the way in which our life

is going, we find it confusing and disheartening. We also doubt if it is

going in the right direction or not. You are our only refuge. Kindly guide

us.

 

Bhagavan: You know mridangam, the South Indian

musical instrument, which like a drum, has to be beaten on both the sides

as you play. Your life is like a rat caught in that mridangam. If

the mridangam is beaten on one side, the rat runs to the other

side and, vice versa, as there is no way out for it.

 

Similarly having been fed up with this world, you think of God. When God

tests you, you again drift towards the world. Your movement between the

world and God is like that of the rat. This is not the proper way.

 

A small example. Two students competed with each other in a tournament of

eating bananas. One student wanted to eat the outer skin of every fruit

first so that he could finish eating the soft pulp part next. The other

student planned to eat the soft part first and the skin next. Accordingly,

they started eating. The first student having eaten the outer skin of every

fruit first had his belly full of that stuff and he could not eat any sweet

pulp. So he was defeated, and suffered from stomach-ache and indigestion.

The second student ate a belly-full of the pulp of every fruit and hence

couldn't eat the skin of the fruits. So, he too lost in the competition.

All the same, he remained healthy.

 

Similar is the case with those people who are after worldly desires and

sensual pleasures. They will have to end their lives in misery finding no

cure for bhavaroga, the ailment of worldly attachment. This is

equal to the condition of the first student who ate only the outer skin of

the banana first in the tournament. But those who think of God are like the

second student who ate the soft pulp. They grow stronger in divine

life.

 

Life should start from the point of dasoham, “I am your

servant”. Fill its middle with the relentless enquiry, koham,

" Who am I? " End it with full awareness of the identity of

the individual self with God soham, “I am God”. This

is the correct way of life.

 

Man should realise that the happiness and peace he essentially needs are

not present in this mundane world. A simple example. A person went to a

hotel. The bearer asked him, " What shall I serve for you " ? The

person said, " I want idli and sambar (south Indian

vegetarian dishes) " . Then the bearer taken by great surprise,

said " What Sir! Have you not seen the board hanging over there! This

is a military non-vegetarian hotel, Sir! " Likewise, how can you expect

items like Palav, Biriyani and Chicken in an

Udipi Brahmin vegetarian hotel?

 

In the same manner there is a board attached to this world, anityam

asukham lokam, " This world is temporary and full of misery. "

How do you expect peace and happiness in this world? That is why in the

Bhagavad Gita Krishna says, 'mam bhajasva' meaning,

‘Think of me or worship me or be immersed in me or surrender to me'.

You should lead your life in full knowledge of these facts.

 

Jai Sai Ram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Heart2Heart" Team.

 

 

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