Whitefield Darshan May 16, 2005 - expressions of mind

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Whitefield Darshan - expressions of mind

 

There were many who had re booked their flights, train journey and

bus travels after Swami's body's fall. We'll for "good" reason since

they came for Darshan of Swami and now prevising Swami wouldn't be

able to give Darshan - why stay? O' this mind again or should we

call it monkey mind - it can really play tricks with our decisions

and judgment. Can a mere injury stop the Lord? It is beyond the

scope of this mind to understand all aspects of Lord in great

depth. Dear reader lets close our eyes for a moment and visualize

Swami's lovely form. Wonderful Darshan!! What is Darshan? It is the

grace-bestowing view of Divinity inside or outside.

 

Lord is coming "regularly" on the mobile throne (specially built car

chair) that gets wheeled onto the stage's side lift and then on to

the centre of the stage. As a matter of fact devotees are going to

have an opportunity to see (Darshan) more of the wonderful Lord due

to Maha Yagna. His whole day is packed with activities – selfless

activities. Meeting the visiting dignitaries, divine directions to

the officials administrating ashram, giving updesha to the students

besides, He thoroughly enjoys the bhajans, keeping beat with His

left hand, given that the right hand is hurt. Everyone is enjoying

the wonderful Darshans in fact devotes are more concentrated now

since they know that Swami's body is suffering and He still

comes/drives to Ramesh Hall for us, there is a sense of admiration

and irresistible devotion for Swami. Singing Bhajans while looking

at the His lotus eyes, O mind pray that He should look at us, deep

into our soul and transform us as He wishes, let thy will be done.

THY WILL: O' mind you are always deliberating do you work for God or

God works through you? let me give you some advise when we work for

God, we are depending on our strength and abilities. When we let God

work through us, we are depending on His strength and abilities.

 

A Maha Yagna for at least two days is in progress at Brindavan

ashram in the Divine presence of our Lord. The sacred fire is

burning (left side towards the beginning of ladies sitting place)

along with offering of many other sacred articles and scared chants

by the Veda chanting group. The sacred smoke has a distinctive color

similar to that of a clear unclouded sky & a sweet delicate scent,

A definitive purification process is on its way.

 

Yagna is usually an offering or sacrifice whereby priest or priests

(Pandits) appeals to the planetary beings/nature/gods for grace and

intervention on behalf of the person requesting the yagna. In the

course of the yagna, the priest lights a sacred fire with special

wood, incense, and pours pure ghee (clarified butter) into the

flames. However, this is merely apparent definition, here is what

our lord Sai explains: "However careful and thoughtful a man may be

and however much he may want to lead a faultless life, five faults

always stick to him in spite of his care. While breathing air, while

walking on the ground and while making domestic fire and while

drinking water, we do cause great harm to Jivas and sometimes we may

even have to exterminate several Jivas. Because of these five

actions of ours where we use our working organs, we kill and destroy

various Jivas, the Vedas have prescribed Yagnas to recompense for

the faults that we commit in these actions of ours. The Yagna

relating to the Devas, the Yagna relating to the ancestors, the

Yagna relating to the Rishis, the Yagna relating to the lives of

various Jivas around us and the Yagna relating to the guests are the

five different Yagnas prescribed by the Vedas. If you perform these

Yagnas it will be possible for you to remove the sin of the faults

that you may have knowingly or not knowingly committed in these five

different actions.

 

The Deva Yagna or the Yagna relating to the Devas consists of your

reciting the Vedic Mantras, the Upanishads and involving yourself in

various ceremonies associated with Agni and your reading the

Bhagavata and other sacred texts. All these actions constitute the

Deva Yagna. All work and all actions which relate to God - thinking

of God and turning over the aspects of God in your mind - will

constitute the Deva Yagna. Pitru Yagna relates to the ancestors, in

particular it deals with the task of gaining the goodwill of your

father and mother, to look after the welfare of your father and

mother and seeing that no harm comes to them, constitutes the Pitru

Yagna. Rishi Yagna stands for your understanding the aspect of

Dhyana which was the normal action of their Rishis. The process of

Sravana, Manana and Nididhyasana of the various things which the

Rishis have handed over to us constitutes the Rishi Yagna. To be

able to participate in Japa or Kirtana which have been handed over

to us by the ancestors would also be a part of Rishi Yagna. Bhuta

Yagna relates to your attention and your service to living things.

For example in one's own house, there may be cattle living, there

may be pet birds, there may be pet cats and the process of attending

to them and feeding them will be called Bhuta Yagna. There may be

people in the hospital who need your help and to do such things

which will relieve the sorrow of living beings will be called Bhuta

Yagna. Thus Bhuta Yagna consists of serving and satisfying all

living things. They may be suffering form various kinds of sorrow

and to relieve their sorrow and make them happy will be an aspect of

Bhuta Yagna. Since it is not possible to spend all your time in this

kind of service, it has become the tradition in our country that

once or twice a year we either feed poor people who are in need of

food or we distribute clothes to the poor. It has become the

tradition to distribute such clothes or give such service

occasionally. It is in this context that they have said 'There is no

gift greater than giving food to a hungry man'. There is no other

person to whom you can show greater respect than to your father and

to your mother."

 

O mind did you not find peace and bliss after reading the above

words on Yagna of our Lord Sai, how only He can explain the most

difficult of spiritual truths in such a ordinary way that the

ignorant, learned and the illiterate all understand and find harmony

and understanding. O mind lets continue our Sai-focused journey with

all the readers.

 

I LOVE YOU SAI

 

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