How to Conquer Your Senses

April 1, 2008

Inquest of lust or sex

Two ladies wearing veils came to have darshan of Baba, Nana was sitting

with Baba. Nana tried to get up and go away.

Baba: You better remain. If they wish to take darshan let them come.

The ladies came. The older removed her veil and took darshan of Baba.

Next, as the younger removed her evil took darshan and renewed her evil.

Nana smitten with her beauty thought of himself " Shall I have one more

opportunity of seeing that angelic face? " but he did not express

anything. Baba struck him on his thigh. Then the ladies left.

Baba: Nana, do you know why I struck you?

Nana: How can I hide anything from the nescience of my guru? But I do

not understand of such low thoughts should sway my mind, when am in your

immediate presence.

Baba: You are a man after all. Are you not? The body is full of desires,

which spring up as soon as a sense object approaches. But, are temples

with lovely and well coloured exterior scarce in the world? When we go

there, is it to admire the exterior or see the God within? When you are

seeing the God in the Shrine do you care for the outside beauty of the

building or for the fact of the image of the Paramathma within? Does God

remain only in temples? Is He not found in every object in the world as

in temples? We are not to bother ourselves about the beauty or ugliness

of the exterior, but to concentrate solely on the form taken by and

revealing God.

There is nothing wrong in looking at the exterior, but as one looks at

it, he must think how clever and powerful the God that produced such a

beautiful abode is. How He resides therein and how nicely ornamented

He is. Nana, if you had directed your thoughts in this way, you would

not have had the desire to get one more look at the lady's face. Keep

this always in mind.

(An Anthology compiled from Sri Sai Baba's Charters & Sayings)

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