So Says Sai

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So Says Sai

 

 

 

There is a temple, where I have installed, twenty one years ago, one such form, which many yearning persons love to picture as their most favourite cup! This is the Sai form, which sat and taught, at Dwarkamayi of Shirdi. It has a shesha (serpent) with five hoods coiled behind it, the idol being in the shadow of the serpent hoods. Now what does that represent? The five hoods are symbolic of the five senses, which have sinister poisonous potentialities. The eyes draw you away into the realm of fleshy charm and sensual beauty; the ears crave for salacious songs; the tongue overloads your digestive system with highly flavoured food; the nose leads you into jungles and laboratories in search of fragrance and scents; the sense of touch seeks softness in silk and velvet, and flounders man in mire.

 

When man is able to master the senses, and direct them along more beneficent channels - the eyes seeing God's footprints in stars and birds and petals of thunder, the tongue tasting God's sweetness in all that appeals to it, the nose discovering fragrance in everything that recalls the glory of God, the sense of touch content to clasp the hand of the forlorn and the distressed as the beloved children of God. Then he can visualize the God installed in the cavity of the heart; that is the lesson the five hooded sesha imparts.

 

 

 

 

Source: Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. IX. P. 56/57.