Are You God by Mr.Chugani

[Guest guest]

AUM SAI RAM

"Whatever

God or Form you worship, see 'That God or Form' in everyone and everything"-

Baba.

Thank you,

Mr. Chugani, for supplementing my posting with the divine pearls of wisdom of

Our Lord Baba, borrowed from the author Howard Murphet. Incidentally, I was

reading another author, Grace J. Mc Martin, who has devoutly reported on the

teachings of Bhagawan Baba too. Her book 'Baba: The Breath of Sai' is a must

read for all. I purchased the book in Prasanti Nilayam in 1997 and I use it as

a Sai encyclopaedia. Everything and anything one wants to know about the Sai

Religion is subtlety hidden between the pages thereof.

I found the

following interesting story as told by Baba in the above mentioned book and surprisingly I think that it is an example of an instance where one of the two characters failed to see God in the other-

There was

once a learned scholar who had mastered all the Vedas and scriptures. He set

out one day for a neighbouring village. On the way, he had to board a boat to

cross a river. To pass time, he began to ask the boatman a few questions.

"Can you

tell the time by looking at a watch?"

"No!" was

the simple reply.

The

arrogant scholar laughed at the boatman and told him mockingly that a quarter

of his life was wasted in the river.

The next

question was-

"Can you

read a newspaper?"

The poor

boatman had to confess that he was illiterate, to which the scholar added-

"Half your

life has been wasted in the river!"

"Now tell

me, can you sing a song?" pursued the proud scholar.

Upon giving

a negative answer for a third time, the boatman was derogatorily told that three- quarter

of his precious life was sunk in the river, as it were.

After some

time, a fierce storm having broken out, the boat was being thrown hither and

thither by the swirling waters of the river. The boatman then asked-"Can you

swim, Sir?"

The hapless

scholar could not swim!

"If you

can't swim, Sir, the whole of your life has been wasted!"

All his

pedantry and scholarship failed to come to the rescue of the scholar at the

hour of need and he was swept away by the current. The illiterate boatman who

could swim like a fish crossed the river and reached the other bank safely.

The lesson

one has to learn from this story is summarised in Baba's own enlightening

words-

"Samsaragara

is the ocean of life. For crossing the ocean of life safely, a person should

develop faith in the Universal God! Spiritual awareness alone will enable us to

swim across the perilous ocean of life."

 

God is the

Universal Absolute. The goal of humanity is to attain that Absolute.

At the

Lotus Feet of Sai

Anita