ARE YOU IN THE CORRECT PATH?

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ARE YOU IN THE CORRECT PATH?

 

Think again and again on the following ideas

 

1) Why do you come to the temple of

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a) You love Baba so much that atleast without his symbolic presence, life

seems meaningless to you?

 

b) You take some time out of your busy schedule and come to Baba’s temple

for generating a better state of mind by praying, singing aarti and doing puja

etc?

 

c) You have too many problems around you in the practical world

surrounding you and cannot fight it and therefore run to the temple for getting

blessings of Baba?

 

a) You have problems and want to solve it through Baba’s grace within the

desired period and in the desired method ?

 

2) Do you remember Baba having said that all the seeds planted need not

necessarily become trees?. Are you prepared to believe that you may not get as

much result as you wish by coming to the temple ?.

 

3) Whatever you offer to Baba, are they out of your honest income?

 

4) Do you think it is proper to make presents to Baba out of the dishonest

income?

 

5) Don’t you remember that Baba had refused to take gold and silver

presents from a queen who had accepted single roti with onion from an old lady?

 

6) Are you coming to the temple to satisfy your sentimental requirements

at the cost of your family members and other dependent? Don’t you remember Baba

had forced Mhalaspati to go and stay with family because he was coming and

staying at Dwarkamai?

 

7) Do you coming to the temple to socialize because you have known people

there and to gossiping about things Don’t you think it is a useless wastage of

time to talk, discuss topics pertaining to issues other than that of Baba?

 

8) Don’t you think it is better to spend your time in meditating on Baba,

Participating in aarti or by reading books like etc?

 

9) Since no one perfect, don’t you think it is improper to think of the

imperfections of others or gossip about them in the temple? Don’t you remember

that Baba had told one person in the temple that like a pig eating dirty food,

some people find fault in others?

 

10) Do you think that your devotional level is higher that that of others and

therefore criticise about others way of worshipping?

 

11) Don’t you agree with Shri Sai saying that we meet people and face

problems because of rinanubandh i.e. debt of the past life. If we believe in

this saying of Baba, then isn’t it required of us to accept our problems and

not always cry and fret about the same?.

 

12) Do you have the amount of patience (saburi) and faith (shradha) needed to

come closer to Baba?. Do you think that your shradha is constant or changes with

problems and situations?

 

13) Baba always advised people to develop qualities of kindness,

impartiality, sympathy, tolerance and sacrifice to others. How much sacrifice

do you do for others at your own cost? Do you think that whatever little

sacrifice you think you do is enough?

 

14) Do you remember Baba said that when two persons are fighting, the person

that doesn’t hurt the others or tolerates the negatives is dearer to me. Do you

do so ?

 

15) Do you think that unbridled sentimentality, which includes crying and

shouting etc., are required in the spiritual path? Don’t you know that by the

demonstration of such sentiments, you, at times, cause hard to others and

contaminate good atmosphere. It not better to contain your emotionality within

yourself and not make a public display of it to establish your devotional

fervor?

 

16) You want yourself to be sympathetically dealt by others and also to be

understood. Don’t you think that others would be expecting the same from you.

Do you do so?

 

17) Do you think by jealous about others improvements even in the devotional

field, you gain anything?

 

18) Whatever work you do for Baba. Are you doing it honestly and with

intensity i.e purity of though, or do you do it in a casual manner?

 

19) We want Shri Sai to take care of all out problems. But do we equally try

to even do a fraction of his work perfectly for his cause?

 

20) Do you think the blessings of God will come to you when you don’t quality

for it, breaking the Law of karma i.e action and reaction syndrome?

 

21) Don’t you think it is proper that you first work for His cause which

qualifies for his blessings?

 

If you really want to have the blessings of Baba and live peacefully along with

your fellow men, at first improve your own qualities on the lines indicated in

the preceding paragraphs.

 

-- C. B. Satpathy Ji

 

Arun Reddy Nukala

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