Message for the week.

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Sairam,

 

Happy BABA's day to you all. BABA bless us and guide us always.

 

We all know that repeating gods name will remove all our troubles and gives us liberation. We as followers of BABA do understand and acknowledge this. We also take HIS name when things are going right. But remembering HIM when we are in trouble is the actual test. Do we remember god when we are troubled. Do we repeat HIS name, do we trust HIM enough to endure the pain knowing that when time comes BABA will relieve us of the problem? Well that is the actual test, and let us each one analyse this week to see if we can actually repeat HIS name during our every awake minute. This can be possible only with the grace of BABA. Pray to HIM to enable us to remember HIM in our worst time. Here is the message of the week...

 

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The Easiest Path

Hearing the stories of the Saints and Being in their Company:

 

Though Sai Baba acted outwardly like an ordinary man, His actions showed

extraordinary intelligence and skill. Whatever He did, was done for the good of

His devotees. He never prescribed any asan, regulation of breathing or any rites

to His Bhaktas, nor did He blow any mantra into their ears. He told them to

leave off all cleverness and always remember "SaiSai". "If you did that" He

said, "all your shackles would be removed and you would be free". Sitting

between five fires, sacrifices, chantings, eight-fold Yoga are possible for the

Brahmins only. They are of no use to the other classes. The function of the mind

is to think, it cannot remain for a minute without thinking. If you give it a

Sense-object, it will think about it. If you give it to a Guru, it will think

about Guru. You have heard most attentively the greatness, grandeur of Sai. This

is the natural remembrance, worship and Kirtan of Sai. Hearing the stories of

the Saints is not so difficult, as the other Sadhanas mentioned above. They

(stories) remove all fear of this Samsar (worldly existence), and take you on to

the spiritual path. So listen to these stories, meditate on them, and assimilate

them. If this is done, not only the Brahmins, but women and lower clases will

get pure and holy. You may do or attend to your worldy duties, but give your

mind to Sai and His stories, and then, He is sure to bless you. This is the

easiest path, but why do not all take to it? The reason is that without God's

grace, we do not get the desire to listen to the stories of Saints. With God's

grace everything is smooth and easy. Hearing the stories of the Saints is, in a

way, keeping their company. The importance of the company of Saints is very

great. It removes our body-consciousness and egoism, destroys completely the

chain of our birth and death, cuts asunder all the knots of the heart, and takes

us to God, Who is pure Consciousness. It certainly increases our non-attachment

to sense-objects, and makes us quite indifferent to pleasures and pains, and

leads us on the spiritual path. If you have no other Sadhana, such as uttering

God's name, worship or devotion etc., but if you take refuge in them (Saints)

whole-heartedly, they will carry you off safety across the ocean of wordly

existence. It is for this reason that the Saint manifest themselves in this

world. even sacred rivers such as the Ganges, Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri etc.,

which wash away the sins of the world, desire that the Saints should come to

them, for a bath and purify them. Such is the grandeur of the Saints. It is on

account of the store of merit in past births that we have attained the feet of

Sai Baba." Chapter 10 Satcharita.

 

Humble pranams

Sairam

 

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