Remembrance.......!!! Sai Ram

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Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu, Gurur Devoh Maheshwara

 

Guru Sakshat Parabrahmah Tasmai Shree Guru Veh

Namah

 

Om Sri Sai Ram

Om Sai Jai Sai Jai Jai Sai

 

Remembrance: - A devotee should always, every moment,

remember his soul relationship with Baba and feel

affinity. The more we will remember, the closer we

will feel with Him. This remembrance is like the life

force of all other aspects of devotion, so it is of

first importance.

 

Remembrance of any of the names, leelas, virtues,

abodes, and the associates of Sai can be done singly

or collectively. So, while doing the chanting or while

listening to a chant or while remembering a chant in

our mind we should feel the synonymity of Blissful

sweetness of Baba with the name, and, at the same

time, think of any leela, or feel and imagine the

presence of Baba near us.

 

Bhakti is the selfless remembrance of Baba. It is

accompanied by the feeling of affinity and a desire to

increase longing. Such a devotion purifies the heart

of the devotee and qualifies it to receive the Grace

of Baba. The practical and best way of Baba devotion

to increase the longing for the vision of Sai is to

remember the Divine relationship and to meditate on

the form and the leelas of Shirdi Sai Baba

affectionately.

 

Baba devotees who have read Shri Sai Satcharitra

experience this all the time when they chant His name

and meditate on Him. It brings up nostalgic moments as

if we are in Dwarkamai and He, the graceful and

handsome Sai, standing on the edge of the Masjid and

distributing Udi to each and every Bhakta, with a view

to his welfare.

 

He, Who thinks of the world as an illusion and Who is

ever engrossed in Supreme Bliss before Him, we humbly

prostrate ourselves.

 

Doubt:- It is easier to disbelieve than to believe

because disbelief is an act of descent, whereas belief

is an act of ascent. It is easier to disbelieve than

to believe because disbelief is an act of breaking,

and belief is an act of building. Building is more

difficult than breaking.

 

It is easier to disbelieve than to believe because

disbelief is an act of our self-centered mind, whereas

belief is an act of our self-giving heart.

 

We disbelieve because we are afraid of oneness, afraid

of the vast. We feel that when we enter into the vast,

we lose our identity, we lose our individuality, we

lose our very existence. But we forget the undeniable

truth that when we enter into the vastness, it is

nothing short of the enlargement of our divinized

consciousness.

 

When we disbelieve Baba, when we disbelieve the

reality, Baba remains the same. But what happens is

that ignorance gets the opportunity to envelop us more

powerfully and more completely. When we believe in

Baba, Baba's compassion gets the utmost opportunity to

work in and through us most powerfully.

 

The deeper we enter into the spiritual life, the more

we become aware of the capacity of disbelief and

belief. Disbelief is nothing short of destruction.

Belief is nothing short of a new creation. Each time

we believe in something, we see the face of a new

creator within and without us. And when we go one step

ahead, when our inner faith looms large, then we see

in us a perfected man and a liberated soul.

It is not only the food that we should first prepare

in the spirit of offering to Baba before we take it,

but also everything else we do in life must be an

offering, must be a sacrifice, to the Supreme Spirit.

In that case we will never reap any bad or any good

result out of that, because bad result or good result

bind us to this material world.

 

Whatever we do, just make offering to Baba and let it

be, whatever the outcome, because we are not the body

anyhow. We are not the action. We are not the doers of

anything in this world.

 

Baba has advised us that, before the senses, mind and

intellect enjoy their objects, first He should be

remembered, and if this be done, it is in a way by

making an offering to Him. The senses etc. can never

remain without their objects, but if those objects are

first offered to the Guru, the attachment for them

will naturally vanish. In this way, all the Vrittis

(subtle thoughts) regarding desire, anger, avarice

etc. should first be offered and directed to the Guru,

and if this practice be followed, the Lord will help

you in eradicating all the Vrittis. When before

enjoyment of the objects, you think that Baba is

present, the question, whether the object is fit to be

enjoyed or not, will at once arise. Then the object,

that is not fit to be enjoyed, will be shunned and in

this way our vicious habits or vices will disappear,

and our character will improve. Then love for the Guru

will grow and pure knowledge will sprout up. When this

knowledge grows, the bondage of body-consciousness (we

are the body) will snap and our intellect will be

merged in spirit-consciousness (we are the spirit).

Then we shall get bliss and contentment.

 

To put the matter in a nut - shell, we should not

enjoy any object with our senses etc., without first

remembering our Guru. When the mind is trained in this

way, we will be always reminded of Baba and our

meditation on Baba will grow apace. The Sagun Form of

Baba will ever be before our eyes and then, devotion,

non-attachment and salvation will all be ours. When

Baba's Form is thus fixed before our mental vision, we

forget hunger, thirst and this Sansar (world), the

consciousness of worldly pleasures will disappear and

our mind shall attain peace and happiness.

 

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai – Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!