Sai Inspires - 6th November 2005 from Prashanti Nilayam

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Sairam

 

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Dear Reader,

 

Loving Sairam from the Heart2Heart Team.

 

Swami today tells us about true spiritual practice.

 

 

Sai Inspires - 6th November 2005

 

 

Develop love for God. All other forms of love are not Prema (divine love), but

are only fleeting and impermanent attachments. It is the greatest folly to

forget one’s divinity. All should realize that they come from God. All

are children of God. Everyone should seek to come nearer and nearer to God.

That is true Sadhana (spiritual practice). You must feel that God dwells in

your heart, and you must develop compassion in the heart, for without it the

heart is just a stone.

- Divine Discourse, 25th Dec 1996.

 

 

Reflection, Reaction and Resound

"Reflection, Reaction and Resound”. This is a phrase often used by Swami.

What does it mean? Let us examine.Man is capable of being conscious of a world

outside himself. In the world outside all kinds of events happen, some of which

affect the individual while others do not. Whether or not there is an effect on

the individual depends entirely on the inner personality of the person

concerned.

Let us say that A is harassing B. What really is happening is that B is paying

for his past misdeeds and that A is the agency or instrument employed for the

"settlement of Karmic debts". Swami gives expression to this as follows:

God is not involved in either rewards or punishments. He only reflects, resounds

and re-acts! He is the Eternal, Unaffected Witness! You decide your own future.

Be good, do good and you get good in return; be bad, do bad and you reap bad

results. Do not thank or blame God. Thank yourself or blame yourself.

In the Gita, Krishna says pretty much the same thing. In the example just

considered, B thinks that A is being cruel to him. This might seem to be true

but only superficially. From an overall perspective, however, the cruelty

inflicted by A on B is merely a reflection of the cruelty earlier visited by B

on others. Thus what happens in the outside world is in this example a

reflection and a delayed reaction of some evil that was within the person,

i.e., B, to start with - the inside is reflected from the outside (with a delay

though), and appears as a reaction.One might concede the concept of reflection,

reaction and resound in cases like the one cited above. But consider now an

entirely different kind of case where the person is not directly involved. A

man sees a snake swallowing a frog; he is upset and angry with the snake. Where

is the question of reflection etc., in this case? To understand that, let us

suppose that this man is an astronomer and discovers that one galaxy is

swallowing another - galaxies are known to do this occasionally.

This astronomer is happy that he has made a discovery and even publishes a paper

on it. In both instances, one entity is annihilating another but in one case the

man/observer is angry whereas in the other he is happy. Where did this anger and

happiness come from? Did, for example, the gobbling galaxy part with a bit of

its joy, (that is, if it did feel some joy)? In both cases, the person or the

observer was reacting based on what was within him. As Swami often says, As is

the thought, so is the feeling.In the world of computers, there is a phrase:

What you see is what you get - WYSIWYG. In spirituality the rule is: "What you

see is what you want to see!"

So Swami always emphasizes on cultivating good thoughts. He says,

“For everything good and bad, it is your own thoughts that are

responsible. Therefore, we should entertain only truthful thoughts, then travel

to the peace that is beyond thought. As is the feeling so is the experience,

for everything is a reflection of the inner being. From whence do you get

peace? It isn’t got from the external world. Peace originates from

within. When a person is beyond thought, he is at peace.”

To start with, let’s start with cultivating selfless thoughts and

developing a sense of compassion in us.

Jai Sai Ram.

 

 

With Love and Regards,

"Heart2Heart"

RadioSai e-Journal Team,

In Sai Service.

 

 

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