Swami teaches... God you worship is resident in your own heart

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Sai Ram

 

Light and Love Swami teaches.... (20 - 23 June 2005)

 

God You Worship Is Resident in Your Own Heart

 

All things in Creation are subject to the law of change and human too is not

different of that. Human should use the law for progress, and not for sliding

lower in the scale. Human has been endowed with buddhi (intellect), so that one

might at every turn decide what is beneficent for observance and what is

detrimental.

The Intellect has to be kept sharp, clear and straight. There are four

varieties in which the intellect guides human:

1.Swaartha-sukha-buddhi. This indicates the fully egoistic nature, where the

individual does not care for even own family but, is eager to fulfill personal

needs first and foremost.

2. Swaartha-paraartha-sukha-buddhi, this allows some consideration for the

happiness of othersalso. Birds feed their young and undergo great exertion to

bring them up.

3. Paraartha-buddhi. Those who have this, seek for others as much happiness

as they seek forthemselves. They are prepared to undergo any trouble to secure

for others too what they feel willgrant them happiness.

4. Aadhyaathmic-buddhi (spiritual intellect). This leads human ever on the

path of renunciation and service, for, they alone lead to Spiritual

advancement.

The Aadhyaathmic intellect recognises the Unity of creation and so, what the

other person feels is felt by the individual too, to the same degree.

 

Between the hill of individual life and the region of the Universal, there

is the flooded river of Nature, with all its confusions and complexities. It is

difficult to discover where it comes from, how it accumulates all that uproar

and where it ultimately ends. But fortunately, we have in every human community

bridge-builders,who help people to cross.

This river of Nature is ever in motion; be it human society or 'society' of

planets or galaxies or other objects, energies... Below is a pictorial example

from our Solar System.

This weekend Mercury, Venus and Saturn are going to crowd together in a

patch of sky. Astronomers call it a "conjunction" and it's going to be

spectacular. The show will begin on Saturday evening, 25 June 2005 and lasts

about three days. Look west toward the glow of the setting Sun. Venus appears

first, a bright point of light not far above the horizon. As the sky darkens,

Saturn and Mercury pop into view. It is the bridge-builder Sun, what 'directs'

harmony in the motion of planets. Such pairings of bright planets are literally

spellbinding and serve as appearance of some order in cosmic space by flooded

river of Nature. (See picture NASA:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/images/spectacular/westlake.jpg).

(Here are some facts of these planets. These facts show that pure science

knows far not all even about planets of Solar System.

The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury, is not the hottest. Venus is. The

surface temperature of Venus is 870 F (740 K). The planet's thick carbon

dioxide atmosphere traps solar heat, leading to a runaway greenhouse effect.

Venus is so bright because the planet's clouds, made of sulfuric acid, are

wonderful reflectors of sunlight.

At noontime, the surface temperature of Mercury reaches 800 F (700 K). Radars

on Earth have found icy reflections near the planet's poles. How can ice exist

in such heat?

Some researchers also think Mercury's scarps are like wrinkles in a raisin, a

sign of shrinkage. A shrinking planet? Weird.

Galileo Galilei discovered Saturn's rings almost 400 years ago. Saturn's

rings are improbably thin. If you made a 1-meter-wide scale model of Saturn,

the rings would be 10,000 times thinner than a razor blade. They're full of

strange waves and spokes and grooves. And no one knows where they came from. Is

it possible to know without integration science and spirituality)?

 

God cannot be identified with one name and one form. You appear as separate

individual bodies because the eye seeks only bodies, the outer encasement. When

you clarify and sanctify your vision and look at them through the Atmic eye that

penetrates behind the physical with all its attributes and appurtenances, you

will see other beings and objects as waves on the ocean of the Absolute.

 

What concern to the human society then everyone should respect all others as

one's own kin, having the same Divine spark, and the same Divine nature. Then,

there will be effective production, economic consumption and equitable

distribution, resulting in peace and promotion of love. Human being has to

worship God in the form of human. God appears before him as blind beggar, an

idiot, a leper, a child, a decrepit old man, a criminal or a madman. You must

see even behind those veils, the divine embodiment of love, power and wisdom

and worship through selfless service.

 

You are sharing the joy of serving others, doing good to others, according

to your capacity and skill. The main objective which you must always keep

before you is to help human to recognise the Divinity that is inherent in

everyone. This Divinity is latent; it is veiled; it is not always apparent to

oneself or others. If you serve with your whole heart, the result will be

Aanandha (the Divine Bliss) for you; half-hearted work will give only

superficial joy or fame. The God you worship by service is resident in your own

heart. Others may or may not see; but, the ever present God sees and notes all

that you do or feel. He meets out to you the consequence, in full, of whatever

you do or feel.

The real saadhu is one whose deeds are in accordance with the words of

advice he utters. Devotion cannot tolerate in the devotee the slightest trace

of envy or jealousy. Render your life worth-while through service to human and

service to society. That is the most important aspect of surrendering the Self.

 

To escape the pull of these alien attractions and material pleasures, faith

in God as your Inner Reality and the source of immense power is essential. The

Divine Self - Atma is the reality of everyone,however, distinct they may appear

in physical form and mental equipment. The One Supreme effulgence is the origin

and source of all particularised effulgences. The same wind is referred to as

breeze, whirlwind,storm, typhoon, hurricane etc. The same God is referred to by

different names and appearances.

Let teachers tell the children what they cannot learn by themselves, by

observation, namely, the stories of Raamaayana, the Bhaagavatha, and the

Mahaabhaaratha. Let they tell them also stories from the Bible,the Buddhist

texts, the Zend-Avesta and the Quoran, the importance of Om - meaningful

symbolic sound and its significance, as the basic sound of all creation. That

a horse has four legs is a fact which one need not teach the child, who can

discover it in a moment.

The teachers and devotees would not imagine that their task is to propagate

Swami and speak of Sathya Sai and His Message. The real aim is at the promotion

of Godliness and of Faith in God (the Self) through Swami's Teaching. Create the

spiritual attitude and promote spiritual discipline. It does not matter what

name you use, or what form they concentrate upon.

 

Swami's powers are such that they are not given to anybody else. Nobody has

the ability to take powers from Swami, nor the ability to give them to someone

else. Swami's powers are not given like that, and you should not be led away by

such statements. Each one's power is within; it is not possible to give such

power to another person. We must be able to follow one thought, one own path.

Develop it in yourself, such spiritual power is in you! You don't have to run

for it here and there. God is not external; God is not outside you; God is

inside you. You are God yourself. You are not one person, but three, the one

you think you are (physical); the one others think you are (mental); and the one

you really are spiritual is God. When you are able to realise that, and when you

are able to develop the spiritual power from within you, then you will see God.

You are going in the path of worldly consciousness. When you take the path of

superconsciousness, you will get realisation, and you will be able to see the

AtmicTruth.

 

The first thing you have to do is to develop Self-confidence and have your

physical body steady. If the body is moving all the time, then the mind is also

moving. We should not keep moving our body and our limbs in an aimless manner;

this is essential part of practice of meditation. We should sit quiet and the

body should be steady. If you cannot control your body, how can you control

your mind?

Many people think that concentration is the same thing as meditation, but

there is no such connection between concentration and meditation. Concentration

is something which is below your senses, whereas meditation is something which

is above your senses. Concentration is something which we use involuntarily in

our daily, normal, routine life.

What we have to practice is something which is beyond these normal senses. We

must rise from being below the senses (that is the state of concentration) to

the senses (that is, the middle position, called contemplation); and from there

we must rise above the senses, that is called meditation. Between

concentration and meditation there is border area which covers both and that is

the areaof contemplation. To be in that area of contemplation is to free

yourself of worldly attachments. If you break away all the worldly attachments

you will enter the region of contemplation. When you have completely broken

away all your attachments, you break through this area of contemplation and you

get into the area ofmeditation. These steps can also be described as starting

from Self-confidence, and then getting Self-satisfactionand then Self-sacrifice,

and the last step is Self-realisation. The ultimate step of Self-realisation

depends upon the base of Self-confidence. Peace and bliss are within you.

 

Desires when fulfilled breed further desires; when unfulfilled, they lead to

further instalments of life in order to calm the urge. The only method by which

the delusion of desire can be destroyed is to dedicate all activities to God

and engage in them in a spirit of worship; leaving the consequences to Him and

ceasing to attach yourselves to them. Look upon everyone as the embodiment of

the Divine and worship each, by offering love, understanding, and service.

The joy one gets while promoting another's joy is incomparable. Your heart must

melt in compassion when the eye sees another person suffering. That is the sign

of the Saathwik (pure or noble) individual; the Thaamasik (ignorant) individual

will be indifferent, he is too dull, too bovine, to be affected. The Raajasik

(passionate) person will rush to punish the person who caused the suffering and

might even forget to relieve the misery of the person affected! Callousness is

the root cause of all the cruelty that defaces the human's Divine nature in all

lands on the Earth.

Avoid excess, in all places. Human being has elementary needs - physical,

mental and intellectual, these have to be fulfilled. But, there is no need to

encumber oneself with unwanted food, superfluous furniture and multi-roomed

mansions. Luxury enervates and enslaves. An ounce of practice is worth more

than a ton of preaching. You must transform your lives into examples of the

ideal you preach. Parents must set good examples for children; teachers must

set good examples for students; leaders must set good examples for those whom

they expect to follow them. (Reet's compilation by, Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 13.

"Not twice, but thrice!" Chapter 2, "Advice to seekers," Chapter 6, "The

middle path," Chapter 8 and "Himaachal," Chapter 9):

PS: Spelling as it is in original texts.

Namaste - Reet