Food for Thought Part 03

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Food for Thought Part 03

 

 

" Doubt "

 

Do not admit doubt into you. Want of faith or steadiness is not as

destructive as the venom of doubt.

 

Sai Baba GV- P 97

 

 

Doubt grows wild in the absence of faith. Faith can be established only when one

grasps the inner significance of each incident and remark.

 

 

Sai Baba SSS.vol. IV P31

 

 

Have faith: faith will grant you all that you need.

How can you build your faith on a mound of sand?

The deeper you dig in sandy soil, the greater the risk of slides slipping

down and burying your faith in doubt and denial.

Listen to the call from within; believe that is the call

from Mathura. (Krishna’s birthplace)

 

Sai Baba-SSB 1973 p8

 

Faith is very breath of Seva; doubt is death. Sai Baba SSV vol IX p 13

 

As the saying goes,’ Like the mole in the eye, the stone in the shoe, the

thorn in the foot, the faction in the home; is this doubt in the brain’. When

such doubts assail Arjuna, who is the representative Man, it means they are

Humanity’s own doubts. They can be solved only by Madhava

who is beyond and above Humanity.Sai Baba GV-P61

 

This doubt is truly a component of the Raakshasa (demonic) nature, for it eats

into the vitals of Bhakthi. It clips the wings of joy, it dampens enthusiasm, it

tarnishes hope. Such men cannot attain the goal even at the end of a thousand

births. When doubt assails you, welcome the chance to see and experience and

clear the doubt. But do not later deny the very truth of which you were once

convinced and listen again to the voice of

hate or foolishness. Do not put faith in the words of men into whose

hands you will not entrust your purse; as a matter of fact, it is the

words of such men that are now leading many astray. Really, this is

a pitiable state of things, is it not?

 

Come to Me, eager to learn, to progress, to see Yourself in Me, and I shall

certainly welcome you and show you the way. You will indeed be blessed. All

scriptures, all texts, the Geetha which is the milk of all the Upanishadhic

Cows, are intended to instil this thirst into you.

 

Do not vacillate and change Name and Form

 

The thirst has to be like that of the creeper for the tree-trunk,

of the magnet for the iron, of the bee for the flower, of the waters

for a fall, of the river for the sea. The pangs of separation must

gnaw the heart; the entire being must yearn for union. Do not

vacillate or change or try a series of Naama and Ruupa (Name and

Form). That will only fritter away time and energy. Ceaseless

contemplation of the Lord will give ceaseless taste of Amritha to

you.

 

If you do not follow this path, you are doubly to blame; for

you have contacted Me. The Form usually creates doubts, for when

only the Name is there, you can build around it all your fancies, all

that you want, to complete the picture. Do not be misled by such

doubts when the Form has come before you; make the moment

useful, the life worthwhile.

 

28-12-1960 Chitravathi River Bed, Vaikuntha Ekaadhashi,

Source: SSSvol 3