Sai Baba the Master

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Baba’s Teachings

>

> Be the real and true sons of the mother (Dwarakamai)

> and fully stock your magazine. What is to become

> of

> us (i.e. this bodily life)? Earth will return to

> earth, and air (breath) will return to the air.

> This

> opportunity (human body) will not return.***

>

> Give up all desires and dwell in your mind upon

> God-in-all. If the mind is thus concentrated, the

> goal is achieved.

>

> For dhyana, meditate on me as formless, mere ananda.

>

> If that is hard, then think of my form, just as you

> see it here. Think of it night and day. With such

> meditation, the mind dissolves into unity. The

> difference between subject, object and the act of

> contemplation will be lost. This results in

> chaitanya

> ghanatha i.e., Brahma samarasata. The guru’s glance

> is bread and milk for the disciple.

> ***

> If you make Me the sole object of your thoughts and

> aims, you will attain paramartha, the supreme goal.

> Look at me with undivided attention; so will I look

> at

> you. This is the only truth that my guru had taught

> me. The four sadhanas and the six sastras are not

> necessary. With entire confidence, trust your

> guru.

> That is enough.

> ***

> Stick to your own guru with unabated faith, whatever

> the merits of other gurus and however little the

> merits of your own.

> ***

> It is not guru that makes himself your guru. It is

> you who must regard him as your guru, i.e., place

> faith in him. Take a postherd and regard it as your

> guru and see if your goal or aim is reached or not!

> ***

> My guru, after depriving me of everything, asked me

> for two paise. I gave them to him. He did not want

> metallic gifts. What he asked for was (i) faith

> (nishta) and (ii) saburi i.e., patience or cheerful

> endurance.

> ***

> One should not stay in any place where saints (or

> one’s guru) are spoken ill of.

> ***

> If anybody is angry with another, he wounds me to

> the

> quick. If anyone abuses another, I feel pain. If

> anyone bravely endures the abuse, I feel highly

> pleased.

> ***

> If anybody comes and abuses you or punishes you, do

> not quarrel with him. If you cannot endure it,

> speak

> a simple word or two, or else leave the place. But

> do

> not battle with him and give tit for a tat. I feel

> sick and disgusted when you quarrel with others … Do

> not fight with any; nor scandalise any. When one

> talks ill of you, pass on unperturbed. His words

> cannot pierce your body. Others acts will affect

> them

> only and not you. It is only your acts that will

> affect them only and not you. It is only your acts

> that will affect you. If others hate us, let us

> take

> to nama japa and avoid them … Do not bark at

> people;

> do not be pugnacious. Bear with other’s reproach …

> This is the way to happiness. Let others and the

> world turn topsy-turvy, but do not mind that; keep

> on

> to your own straight course. The world maintains a

> wall … between oneself and others. Destroy this

> wall.

> God is the supreme Lord.

> ***

> Have regard to rinanubandha. Whoever or whatever

> creature comes to you, do not drive it away but

> receive it with due consideration. Give food to the

> hungry, water to the thirsty and clothes to the

> naked.

> Then God will be pleased.

> ***

> If anyone begs anything of you, if you can grant the

> request or get it granted, do so, Don’t say ‘No’.

> If

> you have nothing to give, give a suave ‘no’; do not

> get angry with him. If you do not like to part with

> what you have, do not say falsely that you have

> nothing to give. Decline to give it in polite terms

> and say that circumstances or desires stand in the

> way.

> ***

> Work, utter god’s name, read scriptures. If you

> avoid

> rivalries and bickerings, God will protect you.

> ***

> We should never kill it (a snake). Because it will

> never kill us unless it is ordered to do so by god.

> If god has so ordered it, we cannot avoid it.

> ***

> If anyone talks ten words to us, let us answer with

> one word, if we reply at all. Do not battle with

> any

> … Who is whose enemy? Do not say of anyone that he

> is

> your enemy. All are one and the same.

> ***

> Among the six vikaras (ill-feelings) jealousy is the

> easiest to conquer. In this vikara, there is no

> question of (actual) gain or loss to ourselves.

> Jealousy (matsara) is the inability to endure

> another’s profit and prosperity. If another gets

> fortune or power, we cannot put up with it; we

> scandalize him. When he meets with a loss, we

> rejoice. But is this good? When that man attains

> prosperity, what loss have we really suffered? But

> people do not consider this point. If he benefits,

> let us consider ourselves benefited; or let us

> strive

> to attain equal good. That should be our desire and

> determination. What has he taken away of ours?

> Nothing! He received the prosperity that is the

> result of his karma.

> ***

> Never accept gratis the labour (or property) of

> others. This should be the rule of your life.

> ***

> You must always adhere to truth and fulfill all the

> promises you make. Have faith and patience. Then I

> will be always with you wherever you are.

> ***

> Whatever you do, do thoroughly, else do not

> undertake.

> ***

> Adhere to vairagya (dispassion). Women are a great

> danger to an ascetic. Think of god and kill out the

> ego. A person that has not overcome lust cannot see

> god.

> ***

> Do not borrow for celebrating a feast or festival,

> or

> for a pilgrimage.

> ***

> Athithi is whatever creature is hungry and comes to

> you at the lunch time, whether it is a human being

> or

> a bird, beast or insect. All these seek food. The

> real athithi that you get, you do not regard as such

> …

> At kakabali (offering food to crows) time take

> plenty

> of cooked rice outside the house and leave it there.

>

> Do not shout or call for any creature nor drive any

> away. Whatever the creature that comes to eat, let

> not that disturb your mind. You get thus the merit

> of

> feeding lakhs of guests!

> ***

> Eat very little. Do not go in for a variety of

> eatables. A single sort i.e., dish will suffice.

> ***

> The earth bears seeds. Clouds rain on them. The

> sun

> sends his rays, and makes them sprout. When these

> sprout earth, clouds and sun keep on their happy

> course in all directions. They neither exult at the

> growth nor deject at the destruction of the sprouts.

>

> You should be unaffected like these. If you are,

> when

> can sorrow come to you? Mukti (or liberation) is

> this

> absence of sorrow.

> ***

> We are not to bother ourselves about the beauty or

> ugliness of the person, but to concentrate solely on

> God underlying that form.

> ***

> What God gives is never lost and what man gives

> never

> lasts.

> ***

> People wrongly think they are different from one

> another. I am inside you and you are inside me.

> You

> continue to think in this way. Then you will

> realize

> it!

> From saibharadwaja.org

>

On behalf of Mr.Leeladhar Ji.

 

 

 

 

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