Bhakta Leela Amrut by Das Ganu Maharaj

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Nanasaheb Chandorkar and Nimonkar, both Sai devotees, once went to Shirdi

for Baba's darshan. Nanasaheb fell at Baba's feet and said: "O Sai Maharaj,

I am sick and tired of this mundane life. The Shastras say that this world

of ours is meaningless, an illusion. Help me. O brother of the helpless, to

break the fetters that bind me to this mundane life, the more one looks for

happiness in this world, the less one finds it. Misery seems to be man's

lot. Wretched hope that springs eternally in us sends us from place to

place.. I am sick and tired of it. I do not want to get involved in it."

 

Baba laughed at this and said:" Where do you get these crazy ideas from,

Nana? You really are a simpleton. What you said about mundane life is true

but you can not escape it as long as the body exists. Nobody can escape it,

not even I". Our mundane life affects the body in various ways," continued

Sai Maharaj. "Desire, envy, avarice, pride, hatred and anger are part of our

mundane life; so are the senses of sight, hearing and taste. So indeed are

our imagination and our bodily needs. They are all inextricably mixed: they

are like a mixture the component parts of which are inseparable, like a knot

that nobody can untie. People say that one's wife and progeny are also of

one's mundane life. You too believe so and find it difficult to get on with

them. What with one's wife and children and other relatives like brothers,

nephews etc, life is full of problems but you cannot get rid of these."

 

Nana said, "My previous lives were evidently ordained by the Lord but my

concern is with my present one. I do not want any more of it bedeviled, as

it is by too many problems, too many woes. Help me to rid myself of this."

Baba laughed at these words of Nanasaheb and said. "You are responsible for

this life as well. You are the one who caused it. Now, then, can you get rid

of it? This body of yours is the fruit of the accumulated karma of the past.

Karma is the root cause of all our miseries. All those that are born -

whether men, birds or beasts -suffer from the effects of their previous

karma. Unless one bums down the effects of one's previous karma, one cannot

be rid of the body.

 

(To be contd...)

Source http://www.saileelas.org/books/4chap.htm