Think of Sai Baba Always

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Think of Sai Baba Always

 

 

By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji

 

 

 

 

 

A PRAYER

 

It is my joy in life to find

At every turning of the road

The strong arm of a comrade kind to help me onward with my load.

And since I have no gold to give,

And love alone must make amends,

My only prayer is, while I live -God make me worthy of my friends.

- Frank Dempster Sherman

 

Sai Baba is nearer to those who practice in their everyday life, what he

wants to be done, than to those who merely say 'Baba' 'Baba' without

practicing. What does Baba expect his devotees to do? Shraddha, Bhakti,

constant remembrance, an attitude of humble and total surrender and

propagating his message to all as His instrument. Lord Krishna says in

the Gita that none is dear to Him than he, who propagates his immortal

teachings to others.

 

Man is a mixture of animal, human and divine qualities. Namasmaran is a

tapasya which is a process of eliminating the grosser qualities from the

mind till it becomes pure and divine. Human life itself is a tapasya or

life of tapasya from beginning to end. A person who has not entered this

region of tapasya is no better than a corpse. Sankaracharya says, the

undisciplined mind is like a naturally restless monkey made worse by

taking intoxicating liquor.

 

Life is short and uncertain. None can say when the call will come. So it

will be unwise to put off sadhana. God gives us various opportunities

for fulfilling His will. If we conduct ourselves in such a way that when

the time comes for us to shuffle off this mortal coil and stand before

Baba he can take us in his lap and pat us on the back and say: 'well

done children.'

 

Sai Baba is beckoning to each and every one of us, to enter on the most

absorbing and fascinating journey and finding Him -the Supreme Lord of

all, within our own Self. He is the most compassionate and loving Lord,

who is eagerly waiting, to take several steps towards those who take a

single step towards Him. He is like the most loving father and mother

who are eagerly waiting with delicious dishes for the return of their

children from their play.

 

Those who have turned their back on the illusory world of 'Maya' and all

their values it has to offer set their face resolutely on the goal of

finding Him; to see Him but with their eyes, to hear Him just not with

their ears; and to understand Him - but not with their mind. Those who

have found him have dissolved in His glory and none of them survives to

tell the tale, like the salt dolls trying to find the depth of the

ocean, getting dissolved in the process.

 

The easiest and direct way to reach Him quickly is to surrender totally

and unreservedly to His will and allow Him to take us by the hand and

lead us towards himself. If a child catches his father's hand in a crowd

there is likelihood of its being lost. But not, if the father holds the

hand of the child.

 

Real wisdom does not consist in making Baba do what we desire or want

but in praying to Him for strength, faith and light to put ourselves in

harmony with His will and according to what he wants. We do not know

what will secure us the real peace and lasting bliss. I can only pray

'Baba - curb all my desires - do what is best for me'. The water rises

up from the seas as clouds, then falls as rain and runs back to the sea

in streams. Nothing can stop them from returning to their source.

Likewise all jeevas rising from Sai Baba cannot be kept from rejoining

Sai Baba although they may be caught up in many eddies on the way. So

let us always remember Sai Baba and that is the nearest way to Moksha.

 

 

(Source Shri Sai Padananda April 1998)