Divine Love

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Service of the poor is worship of God. Mark the words of Rabindranath Tagore

: " What does thou do in the dark corners of the temple, chanting the hymns

and counting the beads ? Open Thine eyes, God is not before thee. He is

there With the tiller of the soil and the stone cutter. So work and serve

the ,poor. Work is worship. Meet thy God in the sweat of thy brow,"

So, duty forms an integral part of Our Sadhana, It is an act that is done

not under obligation, bat as a sacrifice Out of intense love for the Lord

and His creation. In discharging our duties we should not commit sinful acts

and harm others. Do thy duty and leave the rest to God. Feel that you are an

instrument in the hands of God. Get rid of' I.' Duty is selfless loving

service and submission to the will of God,

" Blessed is he who works with love in his heart. His work is beautiful, is

radiant, because it reveals love.

Does he grind the corn ? He does it in the aspiration that his beloved may

bake the bread and bless it.

Does he build a hut ? He does it that his beloved may some day dwell in it

aad make it beautiful with his presence,

Does he decorate his room with a picture of the beloved ? He does it that

the beloved may bless the room with a breath of his spirit," So sang a

saint.

To know God and the Atman, our Sastras have prescribed threefold margas. The

Gnana Marga or the path of knowledge is very difficult. It is not easily

accessible to all. All cannot acquire adequate knowledge of the infinite,

the endless, the in' Comprehensible one. It is the privilege of a fare few.

The Karma Marga, the path of action, is within the reach of some. It is

equally difficult, for to tread the path of action one must renounce all

desires for fruits of action. Who can say that he has renounced desires for

all fruits of action?

? Very few.

 

The Bhakti Marga is the easiest of all. Man is weak. Love, Bhakti, devotion

is the secret, which can, with less difficulty, be seized by the average man

of the age in which we live. Neither knowledge by itself nor Karma-action,

but Bhakti, living faith or love can draw man the quickest to God. So Sai

Baba's upadesh is that we should sit before our Ishta Devata, whatever it

may be, Baba, Rama, Krishna, Allah, Jesus, Siva, or Sakti and offer our

prayers.

When we sit in meditation we enter into the presence of God. He meets us in

the depths. We Hve on the surface. In the depths

 

(Adopted from the Book Pearls of Wisdom by His Holiness Swami Kesavaiahji)

 

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