Remembrance.........!!! 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

 

Remembrance: - A devotee should always, every moment, remember his soul

relationship with Baba and feel affinity. The more we will remember, the

closer we will feel with Him. This remembrance is like the life force of all

other aspects of devotion, so it is of first importance.

 

Remembrance of any of the names, leelas, virtues, abodes, and the associates

of Sai can be done singly or collectively. So, while doing the chanting or

while listening to a chant or while remembering a chant in our mind we

should feel the synonymity of Blissful sweetness of Baba with the name, and,

at the same time, think of any leela, or feel and imagine the presence of

Baba near us.

 

Bhakti is the selfless remembrance of Baba. It is accompanied by the feeling

of affinity and a desire to increase longing. Such a devotion purifies the

heart of the devotee and qualifies it to receive the Grace of Baba. The

practical and best way of Baba devotion to increase the longing for the

vision of Sai is to remember the Divine relationship and to meditate on

the form and the leelas of Shirdi Sai Baba affectionately.

 

Baba devotees who have read Shri Sai Satcharitra experience this all the

time when they chant His name and meditate on Him. It brings up nostalgic

moments as if we are in Dwarkamai and He, the graceful and handsome Sai,

standing on the edge of the Masjid and distributing

Udi to each and every Bhakta, with a view to his welfare.

 

He, Who thinks of the world as an illusion and Who is ever engrossed in

Supreme Bliss before Him, we humbly prostrate ourselves.

 

Doubt:- It is easier to disbelieve than to believe because disbelief is an

act of descent, whereas belief is an act of ascent. It is easier to

disbelieve than to believe because disbelief is an act of breaking, and

belief is an act of building. Building is more difficult than breaking.

 

It is easier to disbelieve than to believe because disbelief is an act of

our self-centered mind, whereas belief is an act of our self-giving heart.

 

We disbelieve because we are afraid of oneness, afraid of the vast. We feel

that when we enter into the vast, we lose our identity, we lose our

individuality, we lose our very existence. But we forget the undeniable

truth that when we enter into the vastness, it is nothing short of the

enlargement of our divinized consciousness.

 

When we disbelieve Baba, when we disbelieve the reality, Baba remains the

same. But what happens is that ignorance gets the opportunity to envelop us

more powerfully and more completely. When we believe in Baba, Baba's

compassion gets the utmost opportunity to work in and through us most

powerfully.

 

The deeper we enter into the spiritual life, the more we become aware of the

capacity of disbelief and belief. Disbelief is nothing short of destruction.

Belief is nothing short of a new creation. Each time we believe in

something, we see the face of a new creator within and without us. And when

we go one step ahead, when our inner faith looms large, then we see in us a

perfected man and a liberated soul.

It is not only the food that we should first prepare in the spirit of

offering to Baba before we take it, but also everything else we do in life

must be an offering, must be a sacrifice, to the Supreme Spirit. In that

case we will never reap any bad or any good result out of that, because bad

result or good result bind us to this material world.

 

Whatever we do, just make offering to Baba and let it be, whatever the

outcome, because we are not the body anyhow. We are not the action. We are

not the doers of anything in this world.

 

Baba has advised us that, before the senses, mind and intellect enjoy their

objects, first He should be remembered, and if this be done, it is in a way

by making an offering to Him. The senses etc. can never remain without their

objects, but if those objects are first offered to the Guru, the attachment

for them will naturally vanish. In this way, all the Vrittis (subtle

thoughts) regarding desire, anger, avarice etc. should first be offered and

directed to the Guru, and if this practice be followed, the Lord will help

you in eradicating all the Vrittis. When before enjoyment of the objects,

you think that Baba is present, the question, whether the object is fit to

be enjoyed or not, will at once arise. Then the object, that is not fit to

be enjoyed, will be shunned and in this way our vicious habits or vices will

disappear, and our character will improve. Then love for the Guru will grow

and pure knowledge will sprout up. When this knowledge grows, the bondage of

body-consciousness (we are the body) will snap and our intellect will be

merged in spirit-consciousness (we are the spirit). Then we shall get bliss

and contentment.

 

To put the matter in a nut - shell, we should not enjoy any object with our

senses etc., without first remembering our Guru. When the mind is trained in

this way, we will be always reminded of Baba and our meditation on Baba will

grow apace. The Sagun Form of Baba will ever be before our eyes and then,

devotion, non-attachment and salvation will all be ours. When Baba's Form is

thus fixed before our mental vision, we forget hunger, thirst and this

Sansar (world), the consciousness of worldly pleasures will disappear and

our mind shall attain peace and happiness.

 

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai – Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!