Discourse of Sathya Sai Baba

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Jada and Chaithanya Discourse of Sathya Sai Baba, Akhanda Bhajana, Bangalore, 10 July 1959 Published by Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust Web posted at Jun 17, 2001Various Types of Bhakthi You should see

and wonder at the Nithyam (eternal) in all this Anithyam (temporary). This drama has only two actors, Jada and Chaithanya (the insentient and the supreme consciousness), who play a million roles. Just as violinist Chowdiah here who played ten Ragas (musical tunes) now and can play 400 Ragas on the four strings, Jada and Chaithanya together play all these roles. Out of a mere 26 letters of the alphabet all the words in the dictionary are formed and millions of books get written, read and understood. But you should see through this drama and discover the director who is none else than God. This can be done through Bhakthi, based on Nishkaama Karma (desireless action). Bhakthi is of various types, according to the Samskaara (purificatory acts) of the devotee and the state of his mind and the stage of his development. There is the Shaantha bhakthi (peaceful devotion) of Bheeshma, the Vaathsalya bhakthi (parental devotion) of Yashodha, the Madhura

bhakthi (sweet loving devotion) of Gouranga and Meera and the Anuraaga bhakthi (deep attachment) of the Gopees. Of these, the Dhaasya (devoted servant) attitude is the easiest and the best for the majority of aspirants at this time. It means Sharanaagathi or Prapatthi (total surrender). It grows out to Shaantha bhakthi. Bhakthi has to be developed by several means or indeed by all means. The mind and the intellect have to be trained and controlled, that is the aim. They can take you as far as the Visishtaadhwaitha (qualified dualism); later, Adhwaithic (non-dualistic) experience depends upon His grace; the Saayujyam (merging in the absolute) is in His hands. The chief means are Sravanam, Keerthanam, Smaranam, Paadha sevenam, Vandhanam, Dhaasyam, Sneham and Aathma nivedhanam (hearing, singing and remembering the Lord's name, prostration, salutation, servitude, friendship and self-offering). Sneham (friendship) is placed just before Aathma nivedhanam

(offering of the self), because between friends, there is no fear, no doubt or disbelief or hesitation. Mission on which the Lord comes on this Earth It is to clear the path of spiritual progress of man that the Avathaar (divine incarnation) has come. The Ashaanthi (restlessness) in which man is immersed has to curbed. That is what is meant by, Parithraanaaya saadhoonam - "the saving of Saadhus," the saving of all goods Jeevis (individual beings) from the tentacles of Ashaanti (grief) caused by want of knowledge of the relative unimportance of worldly things. All Jeevis must get Shaanthi and Santhosha; that is the mission on which the Lord comes again and again on this earth. He selects a place full of Pavithrathwam (holiness) and Dhivyathwam (divinity) and takes on the human form, so that you may meet Him and talk, understand and appreciate, listen and follow, experience and benefit. The tragedy is that

when Godhead is invisible, formless, you concretise it as you like and pray to it and get consolation and strength out of it; but when it is before you, concretised in human form, you doubt and discuss and deny! People fall before the stone Naaga (snake) and pour milk on it and wash it lovingly with sacred waters; when it materialises into an actual cobra, they flee in fear! But a true Bhaktha has no fear or disbelief.http://heritageofshirdisai.org/