Sai Inspires - 9th October 2005 from Prashanti Nilayam

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Forwarding the message received from "Heart2Heart" RadioSai e-Journal Team, Prasanthi Nilayam.

 

Sairam

 

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Dear Reader,

 

Loving Sairam from the Prashanthi Nilayam.

 

How to imprint the Lord in our hearts? Swami tells you today.

 

 

Sai Inspires - 9th October 2005

 

 

 

When you yearn to have My picture in your heart, you must turn the lens of your

camera towards Me, shouldn't you? Turn your intellect, your emotion, your

feelings, your activities towards Me, then certainly My picture will be

imprinted in your heart. If your lens is facing the world and worldly things,

how can it be imprinted upon your heart.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.VIII.p.159.

 

 

Loving Sai Ram and greetings from Prashanti Nilayam. As in the recent past, this

year also, a seven-day Yajna for World Peace and Harmony is being performed by

Swami in Prashanti Nilayam.

Gandhi says, “Yajna is a word full of beauty and power.” The

question might be asked: “What power does the Yajna have?” Swami

gives us the answer by reminding us why the ancients performed the Yajna. He

says:

The sages used to perform Yajnas for gaining mastery over the senses. The real

nature and meaning of Yajna is the overcoming of all our bad tendencies,

throwing them into the fire of sacrifice.

What is sacrifice? What is that one must give up? Is it the transient wealth that one has?

Sacrifice means giving up one’s desires, greed and extreme miserliness.

Unless you sacrifice desire, anger, greed and so on, you cannot attain

Divinity.

Seen in this light, Swami performs the Yajna, to enable us to concentrate on the

sacred fire and burn our undesirable qualities in that fire. That is the power

of the Yajna – it has the power to cleanse us spiritually and morally.

Who can deny that if everyone does that, the world would not be a better place?

 

We would also like to say a few words about the elaborate Vedic chants that go

on during the Yajna. Many mistakenly believe that the Vedas are exclusively

associated with Hindu rituals. While it is true that the Vedas are chanted

during Hindu rituals, the fact is that the Vedas focus on a MYSTICAL ETERNAL

SOMETHING that is beyond this world, beyond this Universe, beyond Space and

Time itself, and is changeless. It is that Something beyond words and even the

Mind that the Vedic seers were in quest of, and with good reason too.

Indeed, across the ages, several seekers have been engaged in this very quest,

though by different means. Einstein was one of them, and he gives expression to

this beautifully. Explaining why he pursued Science, Einstein once said:

A knowledge of the existence of Something we cannot penetrate, which only in

their most primitive forms are accessible to our Minds – it is this

Knowledge and emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, I am a

deeply religious man.

Einstein tried to catch a glimpse of Cosmic Infinity through Science while the

seekers of the Vedic age sought that very same ETERNITY via the path of

devotion and Spiritual inquiry.

In summary, Swami performs Yajna regularly in Prashanti Nilayam, with the

specific purpose of promoting Universal Peace and creating an intense yearning

for God in all of us. And, the chants heard at that time are all in adoration

of the Supreme One beyond everything, bowing to whom alone we can establish

peace and harmony.

Thank you for allowing us to be with you for a few brief moments, and see you again next week.

 

 

With Love and Regards,

"Heart2Heart"

RadioSai e-Journal Team,

In Sai Service.

 

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