LUST CONQUEST

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LUST Conquest

 

Two Moslem

ladies wearing veils came to take darshan of Baba at

the mosque and NGC (Nanasaheb Chandorkar)

was sitting by him. NGC tried to get up and go away.

Baba: You had

better remain. If they wish to take darshan, let them

come.

The ladies came.

The older removed her veil and took darshan. Next, as

the younger removed her veil, took darshan and

resumed her veil, Nana, smitten with her beauty, thought to himself

“Shall I have one more opportunity to see that angelic face?”, but

he said nothing. baba struck

him on the thigh. Then the ladies left.

Baba: Nana, do

you know why I struck you?

Nana: How can I

hide anything from the omniscience of my guru? But I do not understand how such

low thoughts should sway my mind, when I am in your immediate presence.

Baba: You are a

man after all. Are you not? The body is full of desires, which spring up as

soon as a sense object approaches, but are temples with lovely and well coloured exterior scarce in the world? When we go there, is

it to admire the exterior or see the God within? When you are seeing the God in

the shrine, do you care for the outside beauty of the building or for that of

the image or Paramatama within? Does God remain only

in temples? Is he not found in every object in the world as in temples? We are

not to bother ourselves about the beauty or ugliness of the exterior, but to

concentrate solely on the form taken by and revealing God.

Of course there

is nothing in looking at the exterior, but as one looks at it, he must think

how clever and powerful is the God that produced such a

beautiful abode, how he resides therein and how nicely ornamented he is.

Nana, if you had directed your thoughts to this way, you would not have had the

desire to get one more look at the Moslem beauty’s face. Keep this always

in mind.

(Source Sai Baba Charters and Sayings)

http://www.saileelas.org/books/babasayings.htm