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Dharma simplified so that it can be easily put into practice. Just do whatever

you want keeping in mind the Indweller in your heart and offer everything to

Him - that automatically becomes Dharma. "My Krishna is Suffering!" When

Krishna was suffering from a headache He asked for dust from the feet of His

devotees to cure it. There were intellectuals and scholars who recoiled at the

possible blasphemy - but the Gopikas did not listen to this. They said, "My

Krishna is suffering! All that I want is just to carry this dust and to place

it lovingly on His head!" The scholars argued with them saying, "How dare you

do this? It is sinful? You will end up in hell for all the remainder of your

lives for having done such a thing!" But the Gopikas replied "We don't mind

spending the rest of our lives in hell! But if it gives a moment of joy to our

beloved Krishna, that is enough!" What can be greater Dharma than pleasing

God?Top Marks From God! Once it so happened that the examinations in the

Institute were going on. A boy who was on his way to the examinations hall

found an old woman who had met with an accident lying in a pool of blood! Not

knowing what to do, He prayed to the Lord within His heart; He prayed to His

Dearest Swami. He then took the lady to the General Hospital and made sure that

she received treatment. He then ran to the examination centre. By then, most of

the time which was allotted for writing the paper had elapsed. He wrote

whatever he could for the paper and then went to the Mandir. That day Bhagavan

called him and said: "Good boy! You will get top marks!" Needless to say, that

boy got top marks! One's Own Heart…The Simplest Guide Thus, to the question

"What is Dharma?" there arises the simplest of answers. Follow whatever pleases

the Lord most. If one ponders what is the means by which the most complicated

dilemma of Dharma can be understood, it can be realised that the devotee's own

heart is the simplest of guides. PEACE When one practises Dharma it leads to

the next level of the Human Values…Peace. When one practises Dharma to the

extent that he surrenders himself totally at the Lotus Feet of his Lord… Sarva

Dharman Parityajna Mam Ekam Saranam Vraja Aham Tvan Sarva Papebhyo Moksha

Yisyami Ma Suchah. (One who surrenders to Me forsaking all, I will take care of

Him and even grant Him liberation). That Moksha, the Peace that he feels, is

the Peace which is mentioned as one of the Four Pillars of Human Values. The

Temple of a Thousand Bells! A traveler once heard that under the ocean lay

buried a temple of a thousand bells. He was gripped by a wish to find this

temple and so he went to the ocean. Day after day, he put his ear to the sands

to listen for the faintest tinkle of a bell. But he never came across any sign

of this. After searching for many days he finally decided to give up. And on

the last day he was standing on the seashore one final time, just looking at

the magnificent ocean as the waves came crashing onto the shore; and he gently

lost himself in the symphony produced by the waves. He slowly went deeper and

deeper inside that experience. And in that depth, he heard a small bell ring.

And then he heard two…and then three…and then thousands of bells ringing! So

much so that he did not hear the voice of the ocean - he only heard thousands

of bells ringing all around him. LOVE - The Ultimate Purpose! Similarly, when

man loses himself totally in what God is telling him…what he hears, and what he

feels is Peace - the Voice of the Lord. And that Peace leads him to the

Ultimate Love. I used to wonder, God is such a poor businessman! He does not

know how to barter! How could He barter a few handfuls of puffed rice and

shower boundless wealth on Sudamma? How could He take a piece of cloth from

Draupadi's sari and

shower an infinite number of saris when she needed help? How could the Lord eat

the berries eaten by Shabari? How could the Lord eat banana peels which had

been already partaken by Vidura? I could see the material actions but there was

a hidden aspect behind - the aspect of Beautiful Love! Once a T.V mechanic went

to a particular devotee's house. And as he was repairing the T.V., he saw the

Bhagavan's photograph there. He asked the owner, "Do you believe in this

person?" The devotee humbly said, "He is my Master…my Guide, my Everything."

The mechanic said, "Mine too!How can you say that?" said the devotee. The

repair man gave a very simple answer, saying, "If I have ten rupees in my

pocket, I would see it to it that come what may this ten becomes a hundred, the

hundred into a thousand, and the thousand into ten thousand. But here is God

Who is giving away whatever He has! Sometimes in the form of a Super Specialty

Hospital, sometimes in the form of a Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning,

sometimes in the form of a Water Supply Project…and His projects never end! One

after another, even before a project can come to an end another project starts!

It is impossible for an ordinary human being to do all this - He can only be

God, our Bhagavan! In what way can one measure Thy Love!? Saint Francis of

Assisi once said, "Oh Lord! All through the day I searcheth for You! And all

through the night, as I dream, You searcheth for me! When, when shall this

dream come to an end and I shall meet You?" There was once a boy who had newly

joined the hostel and had been brought up in luxury at his home. He had never

learnt the art of sweeping and one day he found that it was his turn to sweep

the

room. With great effort, and with whatever courage and talent he could muster,

he swept the room. At the end of it and with the broom in one hand, and the

dust-pan in the other, he went in front of Bhagavan's photo and said, "Swami, I

have accomplished such a great task! Now give me my reward!" But then, at the

following Darshan, Swami came right in front of him, materialized Vibhuti and

gave it into his hands saying, "This is the reward for the great task that you

accomplished this morning." Sweeping the room is such a small thing; does it

require any merit or any talent? But what transpired was just Love! Anything

that can make us become better human beings and a little more evolved, maybe

sweeping, maybe mopping, helping in some way - that is dear to the Lord! And

when He sees that, He does not mind to come down to our level and reward us

even for sweeping! That is the Love of God! After Love, What Next? Finally,

what does this lead to? What does Love lead to? Once, there was a disciple who

was always at his prayers. His Master took him to task "How long will you keep

praying like this?" The disciple replied, "Master, it is you who taught me to

pray like this! It is you who taught me that I should lean on God as He will

solve our problems." The Master retorted, "When will you learn that God is not

a person to lean on? He is the one who rids us of our tendency to lean. He makes

us realize that we are no ordinary human beings. We too are Divine! The day you

learn that lesson, you will no longer lean." Lord, I would like to close with a

prayer inspired by a story which Shri Ramakrishna Parmahansa beautifully

narrated. It is about a small salt doll that tried to measure the depth of the

ocean. It went into the ocean and it found that it could measure nothing. It

just dissolved. Let each one of us, who are simply puppets, merge into the

Fathomless Infinity, into the Fathomless depths of Love that You are! Jai Sai

Ram! Source:

http://www.radiosai.org/Journals/Vol_04/01JAN06/our%20journey-to-love-with-love.htm"

target=_blank>http://www.radiosai.org/Journals/Ram ChuganiKobe, Japan

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