Swami teaches...Spiritual Truths of Vidya

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Sai Ram

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Swami teaches... (15 January 2005)

 

Spiritual Truths of Vidya

Nothing is uncaused in the universe. Every being, object, incident has been

caused by the primal cause and its direction or guidance. The Shaasthras

(spiritual sciences) yearn for the discovery of that unseen principle.

Life is as a dream. In the dream, you experience joy and grief; but when

you realise that both joy and grief are unreal, when you awake into the

consciousness of the Aathma, you will no more have the thrill of joy or the

despondency of pain.

Human being alone has the ability to understand the phenomenal world around

him. He can grasp the ways and waywardness of the world; he can delve into its

evolution and involution, its contraction and expansion. Therefore, he has to

give it only a relative value, and follow as his only goal, the search for the

Aathma and the attainment of the Aathma. Boundless spiritual potential is in

every being and expresses itself as Jnaana (supreme wisdom).

 

A person is not just the body, with its limbs and other mechanisms. The

Aathma is the divine person. The soul is the personality. And the person

realises Aanandha only when the Aathma is cognised. This achievement cannot be

won through riches or authority of office, scholarship or status, fame or

force. The mind is the architect of your progress or decline. For the fool, the

mind is a formidable dinosaur; for the intelligent, the mind is an angle. The

Vedhas teach how to purify the mind and render it a useful tool.

 

The Pandiths and scholars must teach the people the principle of the Aathma,

and themselves shine as inspirers through their own practice of what they teach.

Immersed in Sath-Chith-Aanandha (sheer bliss in the total awareness of the

supreme reality) themselves, they must communicate that joy and that wisdom to

others. Plant in every heart the seed of truth.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Jayadeva, Gouranga, Tukaram, Tulsidas, Ramdas,

Kabirdas, Saradadevi, Meera, Sakkubai, Mallamma - those holy persons spoke what

they had in their hearts, exactly as they felt or experienced. They had not

mastered the objective commentaries and elucidations of the many sciences and

scriptural texts; yet, this day they are adored by followers of all faiths,

adherents of all creeds and natives of all lands. The reason obviously lies in

their unshaken faith in the Atma, won through the purification of the mind.

Vidya alone conferred on them the purity and the clarity.

When the mind is thus polished clean, the effect will be, as the poet says,

"A Mahatma has as his sign, one thought, one word, one deed." These three being

in harmony is the best proof of the worth of man.

This unique worth is now being disclaimed by man through his own volition.

For, he is unaware of Atma Vidya. Human being has thrown his "humanness" into

the crater of cruelty forgetting his best interests, under the influence of

hatred, envy, conceit and power. He has cast aside the expanse of his culture.

As a result peace has flown from the heart of man, from the fold of society and

the boundaries of nations.

The truth that spiritual, moral and behavioral values are the very crown of

human achievement however, today it is not recognised in most cases. Often

educated scholars speeches from bookish platforms where practice is paralysed.

It is easy to advise in a million ways without even one thing has practiced.

Every event in the world has a special cause that brought it about, namely,

knowledge. Of course, without things to be known, there can be no knowledge.

Knowledge itself is of two kinds: patent and latent, direct and indirect,

Pratyaksha and Paroksha, real and apparent. Pratyaksha or A-paroksha, (the

patent knowledge) is gained through the ear and other sense organs and through

the words of others. The paroksha (for the latent), the real knowledge, knows

no plurality; it analyses and understands the attractions and objects which

haunt the mind. It purifies the mind and widens the vision of the heart.

Vidya instructs you to remember yourself first. After transforming yourself,

try to reform others; that is the advice offered by Vidya. The delusive

attachment to the objective world can be uprooted by means of selfless service

rendered as worship to the Lord. Devotion to the Motherland, Love of the

Motherland, these are to be reckoned as far less than love and devotion towards

all humanity.

Your nature is revealed by your acts, your gestures, your looks, your

speech, your feeding habits, your dress, your gait. Therefore, pay attention to

ensure that your speech, your movements, your thoughts, your behaviour are all

right and full of love, sathwic, and devoid of wildness and waywardness.

You have to develop the humility to believe that you have much good to learn

from others. Your enthusiasm, your strong ambition, your resolution, your

capacity to work, your store of knowledge, your wisdom - these have to be

related to all others and not utilised for you alone.

(Reet's compilation from: Sathya Sai Baba. Divine Discourse "To three Pandits,"

3 Dec 1972, Prasanthi Nilayam and Sathya Sai Baba. Vidya Vahini, Chapter I, pp.

6 - 7; Chapter VIII, p. 29).

 

Namaste - Reet