Mystery of Birth

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MYSTERY OF BIRTH

 

1. Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi helps those who help themselves with faith in HIM

independently surrender, dedicate and meditate on HIM with purified

devotion.

 

2. Every one knows that a man or woman, born or dropped into this universe,

is from an atom of Brahman, the GREATER. But what for? You should know it

is only to think of HIM, meditate on HIM and surrender to HIM with purified

devotion, so that you can go back to HIM. Yes, to go back and rejoin HIM is

the purpose for which you have come into this mundane world. To pray HIM

and reach HIM back, you should pray. To pray, you should possess sufficient

physical energy, strength and concentration to meditate and dedicate and

thus surrender at HIS LOTUS FEET. To obtain this strength, you should eat

but not live to eat. To eat you should have food and to get food you should

earn. To earn you should toil hard honestly.

 

3. Thus you have been given a test in the world to see how far you are firm

and faithful to Brahman, and to see how you stand the vigour of test-an acid

test - indeed and how you can attain the goal by vanishing or killing

temptation for material benefit without any attachment to the mundane

objects. That is the cause of your birth but not to forget this purpose and

get lost in the mundane world, manifest with the illusion shadowing around

with a veil, challenging you with all wicked forces dragging and drifting

you away from good. Thus make a victim of situation, circumstances and

environments in the filthy atmosphere for worldly desires of amassing

illgottom wealth. Power, pomp, false glory and lust with an ego, which is

transient are mainfest in man.

 

4. Man least realises, though he is endowed with the power of realisation

and discretion that the mundane objects and acquirements are illusion and

that the body decays and dies (the Atom leaves) or the Atom casts off its

Kavacba or covering and takes a new form or creation according to its past

Karma. Your possessions and your self perish but not the INNER SOUL, THE

ATHMAN, which is ever glowing Sacred, sublime and supreme light, since the

Athman is from Brahman, which is ever existing and never ending; and so, the

Athman seeks to go back and join the Brahman, when its mission is finally

over in the world. Like the water of the sacred rivers, where much of

impurity is mixed, but their water remains pure.

 

To be continuted......

(Source Sai Leela Magazine December 1976)