Baba is a great Educator and World Teacher

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Baba is a great Educator and World Teacher. Revealing His identity He declared on Mahashivaratri day of 1970:

Na ham manushyoNa cha deva yakshahNa Brahmachari na grahi vanasthaNa Brahmana Kshatriya Vaishya SudraAham SathyabodhakahSathyam Sivam Sundaram

That is, I am not a human being nor a god or a superman. I am neither a brahmachari, a householder nor a vanaprastha; nor am I a Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya nor a Sudra. I am the Teacher of Truth; I am Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

The teacher of Truth can be Truth alone. And Bhagawan is Truth personified. This Truth is the core of every being. Its nature is Truth, Goodness and Beauty. Truth is eternal and immutable. Hence man is basically divine and his nature of truth, goodness and beauty has to be maintained at all costs. This is the lesson He wants to teach the whole world.

Baba often reminds us that it is the presence of this Truth, the Atma in us that gives us a feeling of permanency. So is the case with the other two aspects. If anyone dares to say to another that he is not good or he is bad, at-once he rises in revolt. If one is called a liar something hidden in him immediately revolts. Because these are not in his original nature, for he is atma pure and eternal.

Man is endowed with a very powerful instrument, the mind, which is supposed to take guidance from the intellect as it possesses the power of discrimination. But, though powerful, because of its fickle nature the mind remains in the clutches of senses which drag it to every wanted and unwanted object through various desires of their tastes. So the power of the mind goes to bind man to his desires and their fulfilment instead of helping him to reach the realms of the atma through the sense of discrimination provided by the intellect. The result is that man is badly afflicted in his race for fulfilling the desires. Baba therefore advises to lead a spiritual life providing satvic food for all the sense organs so that the mind remains pollution free. Such a mind can take us to the realm of the spirit which alone is the source of Bliss.

The very first lesson that Baba had taught the world was to 'meditate in the mind on the feet of the Guru that can take one across the turbulent sea of samsara'. In other words constant remembrance of the Lord who alone is the best Guru can ward off all miseries in life. Baba always exhorts His devotees, especially students, to keep good company, i.e. satsangh. 'Sat' means eternal and therefore constant company of the 'Sat' or the Self which is eternal is implied. He tells us of Adi Sankara's famous sloka in his Bhaja Govindam

Satsangatwe nissangatwamNissangatwe nirmohatwamNirmohatwe nischalitatvamNischalitatve jiwanmuktih

In other words He advises us to have 'Sarvada, Sarvakaleshu, Sarvatra Harichintanam' so that the link between the Atma and the Paramatma which is the source, remains continous and constant. It is this inseparable, irrevocable and immutable relationship that is implied in the pithy remark of Bhagawan Baba that 'I am God, you are also God'. The realisation of this relationship and its practical application in day to day life is the lesson He has come to teach us. That is why while laying down the objective of the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation emphasis has been given to 'Fatherhood of God and brotherhood of Man' and to bring out this awareness by awakening the divinity in man

 

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