The Source of Inspiration

[Guest guest]

The Source of Inspiration

By Justice T. N. Vallinayagam

Mr. Justice I N. Vallinayagam of the Karnataka High Court was with us on

15.1.1999 to release the booklet 'Thus Spake Saipadananda' and we are

pleased to publish excerpts from his speech in the form of an article.

- Editor

Religion exists for the uplift of humanity and is a path to Divinity.

Fundamentally the basic principles of all religions are alike; but the

base ego often perverts them for its own ends. The Vedas and works like

those of Valmiki and Veda Vyasa, the former depicting the life' story of

Lord Rama and the latter of Lord Krishna in the Mahabharata which inter

alia contains the Bhagavad Geetha - the Divine Song - and a code of

conduct for humanity in spiritual, moral and social spheres, are epics

of which one could be justly proud. The great prophet Mohamed and Jesus

Christ propagated religions of peace and universal love.

 

In Kali Yuga, politics and greed have deflected the Hindus from the

teachings of the Vedas and Puranas; the Muslims from those of the Koran

and Christian nations are claiming a desire to establish peace by war!

India is in turmoil despite its proud culture and peace loving nature.

Even nature has become violent and we hear of destructive floods and

earthquakes.

 

For fifty years, the great Master Sai Baba of Shirdi disseminated by

precept and example the religion of faith, truth and love to humanity,

when he was in the mortal coil, and decades after his Mahasamadhi in

1918, his message has progressively rung louder throughout the length

and breadth of India- and even beyond, thanks to the sincere and

untiring labors of His apostles - Poojya Sri Narasimha Swamiji and Sri

Radhakrishna Swamiji. As a humble devotee of Sai Baba, I am proud of his

glory and grace.

 

Sai Baba was 'Parabrahma' but was humility incarnate. He would say: 'I

am a servant of God. " Many instances of His supreme mystic power and

leelas could be cited, but he never paraded them and attributed

everything to Allah and the Guru. There was no distinction with him of

caste, class or creed and the Hindu would do his worship in the mosque

along with Muslim and Parsi devotees and others who offered prayers in

their own way. He never gave up 'Bhiksha' although after 1911 there were

large offerings of fruits and sweets of which He took only little bits.

He used to distribute fairly large amounts of money every day but spent

nothing on Himself. Just before His last breath He took nine coins from

his pocket and gave to Lakshmi.

 

He was an ocean of 'Premamrita' but people looked up to Him more for

worldly benefits than spiritual. He once said that thousands had come to

Him, but those who came for purely spiritual benefit could be counted on

his fingers.

 

Our duty is to vow complete surrender of ourselves to Him and live our

worldly life with as much detachment as possible, and with faith and

love, be living examples of Universal Brotherhood. We have the ideals of

Sri Narasimha Swamiji and Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji and may the Master in

His unbounded Grace make us worthy of Him.

(Source Shri Sai Padananda April 1989)