Song of My Life by Jeannette Caruth. Chapter XV and excerpts by Swami

09-22-2004, 07:38 AM

Light and Love
"Song of my life" continues... with reading the Book of Life what is
impermanent and not important before the Awareness of Eternity, everlasting
Love.
CHAPTER XV

Divine Longing burns my heart and Its Glow warns all obstacles to flee
I hasten to tell 'distractions' to please distance themselves and
'distinctions' not to visit me I ask 'attractions' not to seduce me and
'pains' not to worry me I admonish 'attachments', begging them to pass
by my binding mind and urge 'desires' to take root elsewhere For Never
do I wish for anything to stand in my way of walking beside You, my Lord

"Noble are your thoughts and purifying their workings," He says, "but
.... much work is not needed Life in the world is like a book You
have simply forgotten that you are merely reading it! The heavy chapters of
'distractions and distinctions' do not need to linger on Just read the
chapter and close the book! With amusing interest watch the characters of
'attractions and pains' and let 'attachments and dislikes' play their
roles Harmless creatures in a temporary play ...! Do not let the words
of the book blind you

Close the book and take a deep breath Little by little the stature of
these characters becomes less in size Their pranks lose their intrigue
for you, for no longer are they an important issue
To fight them is not necessary Let them play happily ... they are
not important for you because you can close the book!

Rest your eyes and let us dwell for now in the ever new contemplation
of Foreverenss
The book of your life is bound by covers limited by the numbers of
pages but ... endless is My wordless Expanse and vast Its
immeasurable Contents Glorious are the moments when you close your book
for it is then that you gaze into My Eyes and together we leave aside
the Dance with the Relative Existence and we enter the Rich Stillness of
the Absolute where we exalt in Being, embracing Infinity Fortunate
is the soul whose awareness seeks the taste of Eternity He is not
dismayed by the book of life He reads it with little interest and is
not so eager to understand it

for its value is too temporary for him He acknowledges its existence
but he closes the book whenever he wishes to do so and forever dwells in
the Boundless Ocean of My Existence

You see, My anxious one, do not be obsessed with the book for many
dangers lurk in such franticness Unfortunate are the ones who wish to
control the words written They lengthen each page by their worrisome
speculations, adding file after file with their meaningful statistics
meanwhile creating 'systems' which they feel compelled to keep and life
after life they re-enter the world in order to take meticulous care of
their findings and recordings Circling around and around Fixated by
hasty conclusions Suffocated by disillusioning solutions Blinded by
counting Time Do not use the book in this sad manner You will have
misunderstood its purpose mistaken its fragmental existence for a static
presence

Forever joyful is the Awareness of Eternity where Love is everlasting
Actions inspired by the Vision of Infinity are ever so sweet for the
soul

Unhindered by temporary worries undistracted by the mesmerizing plot
of the Book of Life Blissfully rooted in the thought of Foreverness
Silently expanding Ceaselessly deepening the rich Emptiness in the face
of the Fullness of Forever Join this Wave of Perpetual Wealth Direct
your thoughts and actions with this in mind Happily and care-free they
shall weave together the Golden Cloth of Eternity coloring your every day
with the Glow of My Infinite Love"

Continued...
Source:
Jeannette Caruth. "Song of My Life: A Journey to the Feet of Sathya Sai
Baba." Published by Leela Press, 1996, 118 pages. ISBN: 0962983586.

Excerpts from Swami's Works what helped to me more impressively acknowledge
the meaning of impermanent Life Book and permanent Infinite Love. Maybe for
someone influence of Swami's excerpts are the same source of enjoy and Divine
wisdom.

"The Divine is the base, the Divine Will is the superstructure. For the
entire world of living beings, God, the permanent, omnipresent, Parabrahma, the
Supreme Divine consciousness, is the base. This is the reason why it is
proclaimed in the Vedas, 'He who knows Brahmam becomes Brahmam Itself'. This
awareness is the awareness of the Reality." (Excerpts from, Sathya Sai Baba.
Sutra Vahini, p.18).

"Being (God) is behind the Becoming and Becoming merges in Being. This is
the eternal Play." (Sathya Sai Baba. Sathya Sai Vahini. Prefice III).

"Joy and Grief, good and bad belong to the realm of the Mind, not to you.
You are not the doer or the enjoyer of the fruits of the deeds. You are
ever-free. Virtue is dharma; Vice is Adharma. These are products of the Mind,
strings that bind the heart. When Man experiences this higher Truth, he becomes
free from both, and achieves the vision of Reality. As the silk worm gets
entangled and imprisoned in the cocoon that it spins around itself, so Man too
spins a cocoon of wishes around himself and suffers." (Excerpts from, Sathya
Sai Baba. Upanishad Vahini, XII Brahmanubhava Upanishad).

"You are the cosmic personality; you are boundless. You, however, are the
atma which is birthless and deathless. You are not a limited individual,
subject to the passage of time. You are that most effulgent form which has
conquered and mastered time itself. Discriminate between the permanent and the
impermanent! Inquire into wisdom and ignorance!" (Excerpts from, Sathya Sai
Baba. Sai Baba Gita, XXXIV, p. 346).
Namaste - Reet