Offering with all intensity

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Dr.Samuel H.Sandweiss.M.D...Krishana temple...offering with all

intensity.

 

" With Love Man is God Dr.Sandweiss,M.D " OFFERING ALL WITH ALL

INTENSITY

 

Seeing Sai in the world means being with him all the time and

offering everything to him. By always asking, " Is this what Swami

wants? " he becomes a constant companion and closest friend.

 

To accomplish this closeness, our efforts must be intense,sincere,

and steady even through adversity. Dr. Hislop once asked

Swami, " Why, after many years of sadhna (Spiritual discipline) have

I not yet attained self-realization?

 

Swami answered with one word, " INTENSITY " .

 

Sai Baba spoke about an unusual incident that happened about one

hundred years ago in India. It illustrate that all consuming

closeness with God can actually make us one with Him. This closeness

with God can actually make us one with Him. This closeness is

achieved when we offer everything to God with no other thought and

with renunciation of all attachment to the self. It also cautions us

that that the path can be trying.

 

Swami told a poor woman who took to the task of cleaning her humble

abode in a disciplined manner everyday. She would sweep the floor of

her house with a dung ball, which had antiseptic properties. When

she was finished, she took the remaining ball of dung in her hand

and threw it out of the back door with a prayer on her lips,offering

it to Lord Krishna with all love.

 

She thanked Him for giving her strength to clean her house, for the

cleanliness in her house, and for the means by which she could clean

her house.

 

At the same time that the woman offered the dung ball to Krishna in

this manner, a strange event occurred in the temple in the middle of

the town. In this temple, there was a small statue of Krishna

hanging on the wall. The priest was amazed to see that each day at

the same time, out of thin air, a dung ball mysteriously flew

through the air and splattered all over the Krishna's statue.

 

The priest was incensed by such an occurrence and could not

understand from where the dung ball came. Thinking that someone in

the village must be behind this incident, he searched the village

night and day for the culprit.

 

He heard of a woman livening nearby who threw a dung ball out of the

back door of her home at the precise moment that dung splattered on

the Krishna statue.

 

The priest hid behind tree and watched the woman's home few days.

Sure enough, each day he saw her sweep her home with the dung ball

and throw it out of her back door into the yard. He concluded that

she must be the culprit.

 

Infuriated, he picked up a stick, Jumped over the fence of the yard,

and fell upon the woman, beating her badly. The woman's arm was

broken and bleeding and she wept in pain. The priest satisfied that

he had protected Krishna, proudly walked back to the temple.

 

He was sure that the statue would be clean this day. However, to his

surprise, the arm of Lord Krishna had been broken and appeared to be

bleeding. The woman had beaten was none other than than Lord Krishna

Himself!

 

Her selfless and holy offering to Krishna made her one with Him. Not

understanding this, the priest has actually attracted his Lord. Now

aware,the priest fell at the statue's feet and prayed for

forgiveness. He learned that offering done with a pure heart reach

the Lord and those selfless act's merge the two into one. He also

learned that God resides in the hearts of all.

 

This story narrate by Bhagavan.

(Sharing with Sai Love)

 

Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan

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