Swami teaches... Contrary actions in society. Spiritual regulations

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Sai Ram

 

Light and Love Swami teaches.... (5 - 8 July 2005)

 

Contrary Actions in Society. Spiritual Regulations

The recent antihuman events in London served an occasion to consider roots of

violence and terrorism in view of Swami's Works. If we all are carriers divinity

and the divine love within, why then in the world existed and exists the

opposite actions directed to kill other divine persons? Is it such a code of

life? How to overcome the crying injustice?

Human is the child of immortality. All the fundamentally Atman; the love

for the Atman and the endeavour to realise it are the birthright of each

individual. There must be mutual love and there must be universal aanandha,

resulting from this mutual love.

However, the reality on the Earth is opposite. From ancient times is known

that God is a witness; He can act through humans' conscience, through human's

inner state of awareness. When there are no faith and awareness of unity all

human beings, God cannot act because the 'background' for God's actions has

rejected by humans' blind decisions and desires.

Swami teaches humanity about 70 years. But the delusion of human beings is

jet deep; seems there is no end to violence. The Golden Age predicted by Swami

today really exists in hearts of His devotees. Many devotees have reached to

this state and the number of them is increasing every day. When the most of the

Earth's habitants will acknowledge the principles of Swami's Teaching and will

practice them as their life style, then the Golden Age can arrive to

humanity. Today the Golden Age exists in the form of internal state in minds of

people who have faith to Swami and His Teaching.

 

Whatsoever injustice and misery is caused by mankind itself, its selfish

actions, not by any extraneous agency. Having all the instruments of joy and

contentment in one's possession, if human is miserable, it is only due to one's

perverseness, stupidity.

The wheel of time revolves relentlessly with no interval. The evil of one

day emerges as the good of another day; the morals of one sect becomes in the

eyes of another, immoral. What is right for one is wrong for another. One man's

foe is another's friend. Caught in this trap of duality human swings like a

pendulum, unaware of the underlying unity; one struggles with many a fall, many

a blind search, stumbling along the track of life. One weeps and laughs,

rejoices and regrets, halts and hastens - since the beginning of humans'

history. This is the tale of human's sojourn on this world.

The happenings in the world are quite contrary. What shall we say of human

behaviour, what shall we say of the daily bickerings and troubles? What of the

conflict of opinions and arguments? What of the lootings and killings? What is

the cause of all this? All are our own; all are ourselves. We are pointing the

knife against ourselves; is this a sign of purity of mind? What has happened to

the injunction laid down in the Vedhas?

What is the reason for this state of affairs? Is it defective effort, or

the very law of activity? Or, is it the fundamental nature of the world itself?

Or, is this failure due to the spirit of the times? No, a little thought will

convince that no one of these surmises is true. The real cause is "absence of

faith in the victory of the good." That faith can come only with the growth of

devotion to God.

At present, there are many who declare they will reform the world. They

shout from platforms, thumping the tables, that the world is in a bad condition

and that they have the remedy ready with them. But, the result of theirefforts

make the world more seriously ill. Here anger is also dangerous. It brings a

long trail of camp-followers, each of whom adds its share to the final ruin.

You must conquer this passion, when it arises in the mind, by reminding

yourself of the Omnipresence of God, of God as the inner motivator of all.

For individual Swami advises to overcome anger by trying to think of

something else than the circumstances that roused anger, do some Naamasmarana,

lie down in bed, go on a long walk, drink some cold water - struggle with

yourself, until you win. Do not fight with others; fight with your own urges.

What is to be done to improve matters? The fault lies in wrong diagnosis and

wrong treatment. The illness is unlimited freedom. That has brought about the

state of uncontrolled passions and the resort to weapons of destruction.

Liberty has to be enjoyed within certain limits; otherwise it becomes licence

or evenlicentiousness. The limits of liberty are called disciplines. The

discipline has to be exercised in all fields of activity.

Serve people with no thought of high or low; no service is high, no service

is low, each act of service is equal in the eye of the Lord; it is the

readiness, the joy, the efficiency, the skill with which you rush to do it that

matters. Train yourselves to serve God by serving man, in whom there is God

installed in the heart. Convince yourselves that the service of man is worship

of God. Remember the persons whom you serve are temples, where God is

installed. Worship them with the flowers of good words, timely help, and

vigilant care.If you send away some one who runs towards your house for shelter

from the rain back into the open street, you are inhuman, if you do not do all

that lies within your power to alleviate the pain that you find another is

suffering from, you are unfit to be called human. Be at least human, even if

you do not aspire to become divine.

Help others as much as lies in your power; if you cannot give them

adequately, at least, feel the agony. "Alas! How much is the suffering they

undergo! Lord, relieve it soon," pray thus with all your heart, Swami advises.

Each one has come embodied into this world of joy and grief, of growth and

decay, of hope and despair, in order to discover the way home, to get back to

the source from which he has strayed into this wilderness. But, human is

attracted by the phantom lights and noises of the wilderness, by the seeming

sweetness of its impact, and he ignores the call of destiny. The senses lead

him on and on, deeper and deeper into the maze, until he dies with a moan and a

whimper, instead of with a smile and a gesture of gratitude. The years between

birth and death are spent in wasteful acquisition and worthless achievements -

the heart is sore with unsatisfied desires and unhealthy emotions. This is the

delusion, the maayaa (illusory power) that has been shadowing the Divinity that

is human's essence. Human's ego exults or bewails; it laughs and weeps; it

competes and mopes; it swings like a pendulum between joy and grief. It gives

no moment of rest, of equanimity. It is agitated when the fruit of the activity

is less than expected, or even when it is more, or different, or distorted. That

is why the divine scriptures prescribe that everyone should dedicate all his

activity

Famous saint Shankaraachaarya used to live on alms. In the old days,

Imperial princes, who studied in the hermitages had to seek alms and live on

what they collected thus. This is for the removal of silly egoism.

The vitamins for spiritual enlightenment are sathya, dharma, shaanthi and

prema (truth, righteousness, peace and divine love). Assimilate them into your

character and conduct and through your enlightenment you shine with fine mental

and physical health. When two people meet, it is considered good manners that

each should inquire about the health of the other. This is true of the peoples

of both East and West. You ask each other, 'How do you do?' It is as indirect

reminding and instructing the other person to use the available present for

realizing the God within the Universe and within oneself. It is the as the call

to see yourself and hear your inner voice, urging you to discover your own

truth. Swami is prompting you to discover your Reality. That is His Mission.

You should not be saved by the demon of doubt. Doubt comes only from

ignorance; it disappears when knowledge dawns. Conclusions drawn on flimsy

grounds are always subject to revision. You are born for your own sake. You

have to cure yourself of the disease of ignorance, just as you have to cure

yourself of the disease of hunger. No one else can save you from both. "Save

yourself by yourself," says Swami.

God is in you, but like the woman, who fears that her necklace has been

stolen or lost, recognisesthat she has it round her neck when she passes a

mirror. Similarly human too will recognise that God is in him/her. Science to

recognize God within was explored by sages and laid down in clear and simple

terms from ancient times. Not to know it and not to practise it is the greatest

loss that humans in different countries suffers from terrorism, violence,

wars...

 

You must surrender your judgement to the Lord; then, the Lord will assume

full responsibility and be the guardian, guide and motive power. The Divine is

recognized by gifted people as the vast, the magnificent, the beautiful, the

mighty, the majestic, the awesome. But, for the generality of mankind, the

consciousness that each one is a miracle sustained by God, that each breath is

a witness of God's Providence, that each event is proof of His Presence, comes

but rarely in life. However, the faith in God and power to recognise Divinity

are added to human faculties. Then only can the human mind be turned from the

world to the Master of the Worlds.Goodness is the most efficacious specific for

the illness that lays humanity low. Goodness is the reservoir ofeven

immortality. Goodness confers great contentment; Aanandha confers great

freedom from fear. In fact, when life becomes merged in the thought of God, it

is fixed on the pole star.

Be a true bhaktha and become so small that you wriggle out of the shackles

of the senses or be a true jnaani and become so huge, that you escape by

breaking the shackles.

 

But, there are many who doubt or question the very existence of God to whom

all the intelligence, the vitality, the virtue, the urges which lie beneath

activity are to be offered in worshipful activity. For such, the Divine

occasionally, out of innate Grace, reveals Itself, through the marvellous

manifestation of glory, beyond the limits of the human. The doubters receive

without asking; the door is opened without even a knock; the answer is

proclaimed for all to hear. (Reet's compilation by Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 4.

"You are born for your own sake," Chapter 47; Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 6. "The

pole star," Chapter 41; Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 7. "Moving Temples," Chapter 31

and "The miracle of love," Chapter 32; Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 10. "Amazing

appendix," Chapter 37). Namaste - Reet

[Guest guest]

om sai ram

The real cause is

"absence of faith in the victory of the good." That

faith can come only with the growth of devotion to

God."-devotion the essence of our life.

 

"When there are no faith and awareness of unity amoung

all human beings, God cannot act because the

'background' for God's actions has rejected by humans'

blind decisions and desires."

We can get HIS grace if we have faith.

Thanks Reet!our beloved sai is enacting through you to

help us to come up.

with love and light

sai ram

[Guest guest]

Sister Reet is hundred percent correct that the Golden Age Of SAI is not

somewhere in the future. It is here Right now in the hearts of the realized who

revere the Human Body as the True Gift Of God to realize the Atma within as a

continuos stream of the thread of Love with many illusions created at the

Physical Level. Through the sincere efforts of the truly GOD BOUND people the

Universal Consciousness will rise in each individual. The Bestial qualities

will be left and the Pure Soul and it's expression will take place.' The divine

Sankalpa is there when all HIS People from All Faiths are brought to gether and

start showing the expression of the Universal Consciousness through their Light

and Love. It is planned very carefully by the Ascended Masters and The ultimate

reality (SWAMI). They all are helping these souls through their teachings and

stand by them in the hour of testing at the physical level.

Every hardship and obstacle race to this God Realization is a filtering process

for the Divine Masters.Love

Meena ChintapalliReet <reet.priiman (AT) neti (DOT) ee> wrote:

 

Sai Ram

 

Light and Love Swami teaches.... (5 - 8 July 2005)

 

Contrary Actions in Society. Spiritual Regulations