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Sairam,

 

 

Baba the merciful father and master is always with us and within us. May He guide us always and protect us at every turn in our life. Today is Thursday, as Baba's children we consider Thursdays auspicious and love our Guru and Master and seek His blessings. We remain very disciplined when we are in front of our Guru. we try to be at our best behaviour and do everything to please our Master and guru. If we take guru as our god, we forget that Guru is all pervading, and is god in fact. Can one hide anything from God. Our thoughts, words and actions done in front of Him or in isolation away from Him are also known to Him. He is within us. We do not go and seek a guru, our guru comes seeking due to our previous relationship with Him and our good deeds. Such guru knows what we dream at night too. How then can we live in misconception that Guru does not know what we do in His physical absence? Here is the message for the week...

 

Sudama's Story When the above story was being narrated, Hemadpant was reminded of similar story of Sudama, which illustrates the same priciple and, therefore, it is given here.

Shri Krishna and His elder brother, Balarama, were living with a co-student, named Sudama, in the ashram of their Guru, Sandipani. Once Krishna and Balarama were sent to the forest for bringing fuel. Then the wife of Sandipani sent also Sudama for the same purpose with some quantity of grams for the three. When Krishna met Sudama in the forest, he said to him - "Dada, I want water as I am thirsty". Sudama replied - "No water should be drunk on an empty stomach, so it is better to rest a while". He did not say that he had got grams with him and that He should take some. As Krishna was tired, He lay down for rest on the lap of Sudama and was snoring. Seeing this, Sudama took out the grams and began to eat. Then Krishna suddenly asked him - "Dada, what are you eating, whence is the sound?". He replied - "What is there to eat? I am shivering with cold and my

teeth are chattering. I can't even repeat distinctly Vishnu-Sahastra-Nama".

Hearing this, the Omniscient Krishna said - "I just dreamt a dream, in which I

saw a man, eating things of another, and when asked about this, he said - "What

earth (dust) should he eat?", meaning thereby that he had nothing to eat? The

other man said - "Let it be so". Dada, this is only a dream. I know that you

won't eat anything without Me; under the influence of the dream I asked you what

you were eating?" If Sudama had known a bit of the Omniscient, Shri Krishna and

His Leelas, he would not have acted, as he did. Therefore, he had to suffer for

what he did. Though he was a chum of Shri Krishna he had to pass his later life

in utter poverty. But when he later offered Krishna a handful of parched rice, earned by his wife with her own labour, Krishna was pleased and gave him a golden city to enjoy. This story should be remembered by those who have the habit of eating things alone without partaking them with others.

The Shruti also emphasizes this lesson, and asks us to offer things first to God and then enjoy them after they are renounced by Him. Baba also has taught us the same lesson in His inimitable and humorous way. --chapter 24 sss.

 

BABA bless us and guide us always.

 

Humble pranams

 

Sairam

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