BABA'S SAYINGS AND HAPPENINGS

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baba's sayings and happenings

By T.A. Ram Nathen

 

First give up all ideas of enjoyment in this world and the next, care

only for God and Truth. We are here to know truth, not for enjoyment.

Leave that to brutes that enjoy as we never can. Man is a thinking being and

must struggle on until he conquers death, until he sees the light. He must not

spend himself in vain talking that bears no fruit. Worship of society and

popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time.

 

Swami Vivekananda says here, that happen there, so said Sai Baba. And

how? Only a saint knows another saint and his ways. Avatar Meher Baba

has enlightened us on the mysterious ways of Sai Baba's sayings and

happenings. Meher Baba has said: " ....... the Jivatma in the gross

sphere uses the mind through gross matters; in the subtle sphere, He

uses the mind directly without the aid of gross and subtle means. "

 

Strictly speaking, unless and until the mental sphere is reached, none really

knows what the mind actually is much less to do things through the medium of the

mind itself to bring our tangible results.

 

Suppose a pilgrim in Egypt reaches the mental sphere and conceives the idea of

visiting America, the pilgrim has not even to think about

America; but simultaneously with a wish on his part to be there he will find

himself actually there speedier than the time it takes to think about America in

the ordinary way. And how does the pilgrim travel faster than the thought

itself? Because he does not, strictly speaking, travel as the mind is

everywhere. The pilgrim in the mental sphere, whom we address as 'Mahaan',

'Vali', 'Maha Yogi', can be anywhere he likes without availing his gross and

subtle organs.

 

In the gross and subtle spheres, the souls work with full consciousness through

the media of the mind, gross and subtle organs. While in the mental sphere, the

soul works with full consciousness through the mind itself without necessarily

using the gross and subtle organs. If the room is dark, the constant feeling and

repeating of darkness will not take it away, but bring in the light. Let us know

that all that is negative all that is destructive is bound to pass away. It is

the positive, the affirmative, the constructive, that is immortal, and that will

remain forever.....

 

-Swami Vivekananda