Remember him always.......!!! Sai ram

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Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu, Gurur Devoh Maheshwara

Guru Sakshat Parabrahmah Tasmai Shree Guru Veh Namah !

 

Om Sri Sai Ram

Om Sai Jai Sai Jai Jai Sai

 

No Religion was ever intended to be anything more than the Gateway to God as

Truth. Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the Path and the Goal in the

realization of this Truth. Millions of men and women of world’s different

religious faiths are being drawn to the Lotus feet of Lord Sai to live in

love, tolerance and universal brotherhood. Sai devotees are carrying the

torch of Sai’s love today all over the world

 

Religion is an act of vision that guides and leads us to the beyond.

Religion is intuitive. Religion is so near and dear to each of us, so

familiar to our soul and so intimate to our heart, that it requires no

definition. Religion is not fanaticism. Religion, in the purest form, is a

feeling of the universal oneness of Truth. A fanatic never sees the Truth in

its totality, even in his wildest imagination. A fanatic has nothing to

offer the world precisely because he has not kept his heart's door open

wide, and because he lacks the capacity to commune with his soul.

Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness

are the signs of a true religion. If we live in our oneness-heart, we will

feel the essence of all religions, which is the love of Baba.

 

Religious tolerance: Baba looked after the Hindus and Muslims equally. We

can find people of all religions coming to Him. He always preached that all

are one and be alike to everyone. In today’s world there is lot of

intolerance among the people of various religions. People must believe that

all are humans. Faiths may be different but the goal is one. Baba’s

devotees are found to be very tolerant in this aspect. We find Muslims,

Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis etc sharing their views and talking with

each other like real brothers/sisters in Shirdi, Puttaparthi and also at

various Sai centers all over the world. They firmly believe that flowers may

be many but worship is one. Stars may be many but light is one. Similarly

paths may be different but goal is one.

 

Every religion is a lamp, that illuminates the path of truth.

 

Suffering: - In this world, we are always consciously or unconsciously

making mistakes. When we consciously make mistakes, we are quite aware of

it. But unfortunately, we do not realize how many things we are doing wrong

unconsciously. These unconscious mistakes manifest themselves in the

physical world, and the results come to us as suffering. In the case of

ordinary, unaspiring human beings, after tremendous suffering, sincerity

dawns and the soul leads them to knowledge and wisdom. If people who

repeatedly make mistakes have sincere aspiration and want to know why they

are suffering, then the soul's Light comes to the fore and tells them. If we

are spiritual people, consciously we will try not to do anything wrong, but

unconsciously we do many things wrong. We can prevent unconscious mistakes

only through our aspiration, prayer and meditation. If we aspire, then

Baba's grace and compassion protect us.

 

It is not necessary to go through suffering before we enter into the kingdom

of delight. Many people have realized Baba through love. The Father has love

for the child and the child has love for the Father. This love takes us to

our goal. Baba's philosophy emphasizes the positive way of approaching

Truth. We have limited light. Let us increase it. Let us progress from more

Light to abundant Light to infinite Light by the grace of our beloved SAI

MA. The love of mother is peculiar, extraordinary, disinterested and has no

parallel. Bhagwan Baba is also having the same love towards all

 

Belief: - Belief comes spontaneously. Belief comes by effort. In the

spiritual life, a sincere, advanced and surrendered seeker can and will have

spontaneous belief. Belief by personal effort, without the divine grace and

Baba's unconditional protection, cannot be as effective as spontaneous

belief. We have two principal organs: the eye and the ear. Our eyes quite

often, if not always, believe themselves. Our ears very often believe

others. These are our human eyes and our human ears. But the divine eye, the

third eye, will believe only in the vision of Divinity, and the divine ears

will believe only in the truth of reality. When we listen to the inner

command, when we have the capacity to grow into constant obedience to our

Inner Pilot, we feel within and without the presence of spontaneous belief.

Belief is the reality of our inner obedience. This is divine belief. Belief

is power. A real seeker of the infinite Truth knows this. An insincere and

unaspiring seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot

go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted

and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power,and he has this

power as his very own. We see a tree. The tree bears flowers, and soon

afterwards we see fruits. The flower is the harbinger of the fruit. In the

spiritual life, belief is the flower. Belief is a divine angel which enters

in to us as the harbinger of the Lord Supreme. If we do not have belief, we

can develop belief by mixing with sincere spiritual people who care more for

Baba than for pleasure. There are also people who care only for Baba in

human beings, and if we mix with those people we can cultivate belief. When

we have belief, we can walk with Baba in His Garden of Light and Delight.

 

Relationship between God and Man: - God and man - this is the eternal

question and the eternal answer. God is the living Breath and that living

Breath is in man. Man has a goal and the name of that goal is God. When we

say "Father," We do not exclude the Mother. God is both masculine and

feminine. It is only that the term "Father" is more familiar in the Western

world because the Christ always said "Father." In the East we approach the

feminine aspect quite often. We think of the Supreme Goddess, the Divine

Mother. Again, He is neither masculine nor feminine; He transcends both. He

is what He eternally is: His vision and His reality. This reality transcends

both the masculine and the feminine form and, at the same time, it embodies

both the masculine and the feminine. We can please God by offering Him what

we have and what we are. What we have is gratitude what we are is

inspiration. If we want to please him more, than we must never consider our

life a sad failure, but rather a constant experience of His. If we want to

please Him most, not only in one but every aspect of life, than we must feel

that, unlike us, He sees our life, inner and outer, as the Song of His own

Life-Breath, the song of His own Perfection, growing into His perfect

Perfection absolute. God is with form; He is without form. He is with

attributes; He is without attributes. If an individual wants to see God as

an infinite expanse of Light and delight, God will come to that person as an

infinite expanse of Light and delight. But if he wants to see God as a most

brilliant, most luminous being, then God will come to him like that.

 

Individuality: - God does not want us to discard our individuality, but

ordinary individuality and real, divine individuality are two different

things. God Himself is, at the same time, One and many. He has produced

infinite human beings, human souls. He is one, but in the field of

manifestation He has become many. He has selected each person as His chosen

instrument that is to say each human soul is His chosen instrument. This

kind of divine individuality which God has given to us is not the

ordinary individuality which is determined by the ego: "I am this, you are

that." God's individuality is a unique manifestation of His reality. There i

s no clash, there is no jealousy, there is no fight, no battle. God Himself

is manifesting Himself in a unique manner in you, in me and in others. That

kind of individuality, different from the individuality of the ego, God

retains for humanity. It is a unique expression of the Divine in His

multiplicity. Each one is a chosen instrument of God, but without ego,

without pride, without vanity. It is just like the petals of a lotus; each

petal has its own beauty and its own uniqueness

 

 

 

Aspiration & Desire: - It is most important for us to try to develop a

genuine hunger for Baba's love, Baba's compassion and Baba's blessings.

There are two ways to increase one's inner hunger. One way is to cry for

Baba like a helpless child crying for his mother. The other way is to offer

one's actions to Baba while keeping a cheerful attitude. With both these

ways the seeker will make real inner progress. Desire is a wild fire that

burns and burns and finally consumes us. Aspiration is a glowing flame that

secretly and sacredly uplifts our consciousness and finally liberates us.

Thirst for the Highest is aspiration. Thirst for the lowest is annihilation.

Desire is expectation. No expectation, no frustration. With desire killed,

true happiness is built. Aspiration is surrender. Surrender is man's

conscious oneness with Baba's Will. We aspire through proper concentration,

proper meditation and proper contemplation. Aspiration covers both

meditation and prayer. There were many saints who did not care for

meditation; they realized God through prayer. He who is praying feels he has

an inner cry to realize Baba, and he who is meditating also feels the need

to bring Baba's Consciousness right into his being. The difference between

prayer and meditation is this: when we pray, we talk and Baba listens; and

when we meditate, Baba talks and we listen. We are a seeker. When we pray,

concentrate and meditate, we have to feel that each second is infinitely

more important than we thought it was previously, before we entered into the

spiritual life. This second we can use either for meditation or for gossip

or for cherishing impure and undivine thoughts. When we consciously aspire

in all parts of our being, we will be able to accelerate the achievement of

liberation.

 

Faith: - Faith is not credulity or blind belief. It does not mean that we

must constantly believe in the impossible. No, that is not faith. Faith is a

spontaneous feeling. It does not care for human justification. It is the eye

that visions the future, and it is always in tune with a higher Truth. The

door of faith is always open to the Truth beyond, and by virtue of faith, we

transcend ourselves

 

Faith makes us believe that there is somebody around us who does not want

anything from us, but simply wants to see joy in and around us. There is

somebody who does not want anything else from us except joy, inner joy and

outer joy. He wants us always to swim in the sea of joy and delight. If we

remain in joy - we do not mean outer joy, that is, going here and there,

mixing with people, buying material things - but if we can have real joy, if

we can feel the source of it, then we will automatically have faith in Baba.

When we are worried, or are afraid of something, we immediately try to

create a kind of self-imposed faith in Baba. This is not true faith. In

danger, we say, "Baba, save me, save me!" But we say this only to avert

danger. This is an escape. This kind of faith does not last.

 

Spontaneous faith can come when we have inner joy, inner fulfillment.

Everything is inside the person - his joy and his fulfillment. Who is the

possessor of this inner fulfillment? It is Baba. We are just His devoted

instruments. So when we feel spontaneous inner joy as part and parcel of our

life, we can then have faith in Baba, the possessor of infinite joy. From

now on, let us try to feel our own inner joy. In regard to our outer

frustrations, let us not try to unite them with our inner joy. Please

separate our inner joy from the outer happenings. Then alone we will be able

to strengthen our faith in Baba.

 

Message of the week - Remember Him always….!!!

 

Loving adorations to revered and beloved Bhagwan Sri Sai Nath in whose

spiritual presence we are at this moment, and whose spiritual presence

surrounds us from without as multifarious scopes for our spiritual evolution

in our chosen field of spiritual sadhana! Whether it is selfless service,

devotion and prayer, concentration and meditation, inner discipline in the

form of japa and kirtan, or enquiry, discrimination, analysis and

investigation through a keen, subtle intellect, sharpened by study and by

listening to the same teachings, his spiritual presence draws us from all

sides towards our highest blessedness, our greatest good, the supreme and

successful fulfilment of our earth life. That presence also prompts us from

within to a life of goodness, prompts us, urges us, inspires us towards a

life of truthfulness, purity of conduct and character, and of compassion and

kindness. And, by the power of his own lofty, inspiring example as well as

his dynamic, awakening teachings, to be saintly, to be a good Samaritan, to

be holy in our thought, word and deed.

 

If you are conscious and aware of this presence, his presence is a

hundredfold more; you feel it a hundredfold more. If you are either in a

state of forgetfulness or a state of distracted attention, with your

thoughts elsewhere, then his presence does not lessen one bit, but you

deprive yourself of his presence to that extent. You deprive yourself of his

uplifting, inspiring spiritual support, of his elevating influence, even as

one can deprive oneself of fresh air. If one tightly closes all the doors

and windows of his room, the air will soon become stale. Not that there is

not enough fresh air and light. It is there in plenty, but we deprive

ourselves of it if we foolishly bar its entry by not understanding what we

are doing. It is not sufficient for a farmer to just sow the seeds,

important as that is. He must follow it up with great labor, unlimited toil,

day after day until he reaps the harvest. It requires ceaseless vigilance to

protect that which he has sown. Therefore, cultivate the consciousness of

the permanent and perennial presence of the Guru: “He pervades all my life.

He prevails throughout my being and throughout the living of my life. He

always prevails. He is with me morning, afternoon, evening and night. He is

with me wherever I go, not merely when I go to his temple in Puttaparthi or

Shirdi. I am myself a living temple of his presence, and in and through me

he continues to live and to shine. He draws me in the right direction from

without, and he urges me in the right direction from within.”

 

Bow to Shri Sai – Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!

 

 

Swamy Mahadevan