Are you on the Correct Path?

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Are you on the Correct Path?

 

Think Again and again on the following ideas

 

Why do you come to the temple of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba? Is it because

 

You love Baba so much that at least without His symbolic presence,

life seems meaningless to it.

 

Take some time out of your busy schedule and come to Baba's temple

for generating a better state of mind by praying, singing aarti and

doing pooja (worship) etc.

 

You have too many problems around you in the practical world

surrounding you and cannot fight it and therefore run to the temple

for getting blessings of Baba.

 

You have problems and want to solve it through Baba's grace within

the desired period and in the desired method.

 

Do you remember Baba having said that all the seeds planted need not

necessarily become trees. Are you prepared to believe that you may

not get as much result as you wish by coming to the temple.

 

Whatever you offer to Baba, are they out of your honest income?

 

Do you think it is proper to make presents to Baba out of the

dishonest income.

 

Don't you remember that Baba had refused to take Gold and silver

presents from a queen who had come in a palanquin but had accepted a

single roti with an onion from an old lady.

 

Are you coming to temple to satisfy your sentimental requirements at

the cost of your family members and other dependants? Don't you

remember Baba had forced Mhalsapati to go and stay with family

because he was coming and staying at Dwakamai.

 

Do you come to the temple to socialize because you have known people

there and to gossip about things. Don'' you think it is useless

wastage of time to talk, discuss topics pertaining to issues other

than that of Baba.

 

Don't you think that it is better to spend tour time in meditating

on Baba, praying, participating in aarti or by reading books like

Sai Satcharitra etc.

 

Since no one is perfect, Don't you think it is improper to think of

the imperfection of others or gossip about them in the temple? Don't

you remember that Baba had told one person in the temple that like a

pig eating dirty food, some people find fault in others.

 

Do you think that your devotional level is higher than that of

others and therefore criticize about others way of worshipping.

 

Don't you agree with Shri Sai saying that we meet people and face

problems because of rinanubandh i.e. debt of the past life. If we

believe in this saying of Baba then isn't it required of us to

accept our own problems and not always cry and fret about the same.

 

Do you have the amount of Patience (Saburi) and Faith (Shraddha)

needed to come closer to Baba. Do you think that your Shraddha is

constant or it changes with problems and situations?

 

Baba always advised people to develop qualities of kindness,

impartiality, sympathy, tolerance and sacrifice to others. How much

sacrifice do you do for others at your own cost? Do you think that

whatever little sacrifice you think you do is enough?

 

Do you remember Baba having said that that when two persons are

fighting, the person that doesn't hurt the others or tolerates the

negatives is dearer to me. Do you do so?

 

Do you think that unbridled sentimentally which includes crying and

shouting etc. are required in the spiritual path? Don't you know by

such sentiments, you, at time cause harm to others and contaminate

good atmosphere. Is it not better to contain your emotionality

within yourself and not make a public display of it to establish

your devotional fervor.

 

You want yourself to be sympathetically dealt by others and also to

be understood. Don't you think that others also would be expecting

the same from you. Do you do so?

 

Do you think that by being jealous about others improvements even in

the devotional field, you gain anything?

 

Whatever work you do for Baba, are you doing it honestly and with

intensity i.e. purity of thought, or do you do it in a casual manner?

 

We want Shri Sai to take care of all our problems but do we equally

try to even do a fraction of his work perfectly for his cause.

 

Do you think the blessings of God will come to you when you don't

qualify for it, breaking the law of karma i.e. action and reaction

syndrome?

 

Don't you think it is proper that you first work for his cause,

which qualifies for his blessings.

 

If you really want to have the blessings of Baba and life peacefully

along with your fellow men, at first improve your own qualities on

the lines indicated in the preceding paragraphs.

 

Think, Think, and Think… and again can you get an answer?

 

Baba Said

 

" There will never be any dearth or scarcity, regarding food and

clothes, in any devotees, home. It is My special characteristic,

that I always look to, and provide for the welfare of those

devotees, who worship Me whole-heartedly with their minds ever fixed

on Me. "

 

Baba is every where just feel him and keep on saying `Om Sai Ram' to

whom so ever you meet.

 

OM SAI SRI SAI JAI JAI SAI!!! Let us pray at the lotus feet of

Bhagwan Baba who is the incarnation of all gods and protector of

all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him

 

Jai Sai Ram

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai-Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!