Sai Inspires - 19th March 2006 from Prasanthi Nilayam

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our Sunday special - 'Irrational Rationalists'

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What are the human qualities that we must cultivate?

Swami tells us today.

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You have to develop human values. Without this, you are human merely in

form, not in reality. People today are filled with anger, desire,

greed, jealousy, etc. These are animal qualities. Anger is of the

nature of a dog. A wavering mind is the quality of a monkey. You

are neither a dog nor a monkey. When you are in a fit of anger, remind

yourself constantly that you are not a dog and your anger will subside.

People, today, have lost human qualities and acquired animal qualities.

This is a situation that must be corrected. What are the human

qualities? Compassion, truth, forbearance, empathy, etc. These

are the human qualities that we must cultivate.

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- Divine

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Baba

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Loving Sai Ram and greetings from Prashanti Nilayam.

Last week, we commented upon Swami’s Hospitals and what a mighty contrast

they offer to most of the other hospitals in India.

Yet, very few people know about the wonders that Swami’s Hospitals are.

Such ignorance about Swami and His glorious missions is widespread, and to

make our point, this week we shall start with a quote from a well-known

social activist and a self-confessed rationalist. This is what he wrote

recently in leading national daily. The article was all about what the

writer calls “godmen”, and in a thinly veiled reference to Swami, the

writer says:

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">At the top of this is a godman, who counts

ex-Presidents and Prime Ministers among his disciples. The cabal running

his trust boasts of top-level IAS officers (retired but active). It has

former Directors-General of Police too. Rather ugly charges been brought in

foreign courts against their leader. But media scrutiny of it all is weak.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Actually, the writer starts off on a real nasty

note but we have refrained from quoting that obnoxious sentence in order to

spare anguish and pain to you, our dear Subscriber.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The world, as we all know, is a mixture of good

and bad; this is unavoidable since the world, as Swami often reminds us, is

a mere reflection of our inside. If good and evil co-exist outside, it is

because good and evil co-exist inside. Swami’s Spiritual Mission, which

this writer contemptuously dismisses, as a unit of “massive spiritual

industry”, is really an attempt to help man to sort out himself and to

transform internally, so that Society as a whole changes for the better.

Before we come to the philosophical aspects, we would like to raise a few

practical points.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The writer in question is critical of Swami. There

are of courses, Gurus and Gurus; some who are well meaning and

do a lot of good to Society, each in their own way, and others who are

charlatans and hoodwink Society in order to make a fast buck. Just because

there are many quacks, can one damn the entire medical profession?

Recently, it was discovered that a certain group of scientists had faked

results and published a paper with supposedly epoch making results. Later

the fraud was discovered, and the scientists concerned had to suffer public

humiliation. Now just because there are the occasional frauds, is it fair

to damn all scientists everywhere? Yet, our rationalist friends are quick

to damn those they despise, without even bothering to look at the facts.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Just consider the case of the writer whom we have

quoted. He is unhappy because Indian Media generally glorify Gurus and do not critically examine

and expose; and in this broad-brush attack, he includes Swami also. This

seems to indicate that the writer has already judged and sentenced; only,

he wants the Media to proclaim to the world, his verdict. Is this being

rational and objective? Has the writer in question made any effort to know

anything at all about Swami’s Hospitals that we wrote about last week? Dr.

Hegde, Senior Neuro-Surgeon in the Bangalore

Super Speciality

Hospital, came there after many

years of experience elsewhere and an enviable professional reputation as

well as a distinguished track record. With all his credentials, Dr. Hegde

can command any salary he wants in any commercial hospital. Yet, he has

chosen to willingly forgo all that and work in Swami’s Hospital. Do you

know why? Because here, he can serve the poorest of the poor, as he himself

has openly declared. If this is a part of Swami’s “industry”, pray what is

wrong with it?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Leave aside the Hospitals, wonders though they

are. Let us turn to what Swami has done by way of providing safe drinking

water to millions. Is this writer who is so quick to damn and quote

so-called court cases abroad, aware that how much Swami has done to bring

safe drinking water to thirsty people, especially in villages? Here are

some statistics: Swami’s Trust spent nearly [Rgds-cs] 70 million dollars to

bring safe drinking water to nearly a million people scattered across 931

villages in Anantapur District alone. Not only that; the entire water works

was gifted away to the people of Andhra Pradesh. Swami did not take one

cent. Speaking on that occasion, Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu, then Chief

Minister of Andhra Pradesh said that Swami, out of compassion for poor

villagers, had done what the Central and the State Governments ought to

have.

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justify">The Anantapur

project was just the beginning, and since then Swami has done many others;

we will not tax you with details here; they can be easily found in Heart 2 Heart. We

would just like to make a few simple points:

1) In about a decade, Swami’s drinking water projects have enabled about

ten million people in various places, including about 7.5 million in

Madras/Chennai, to get safe drinking water.

2) Swami’s Trust has spent about $180 millions for all this, but the Trust

has not collected one single cent in return. For Swami, the fact that He

made millions happy was enough.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Take the dimension of Seva, which goes on non-stop

from Fiji

to Peru and

everywhere in between. Few have any idea of how much Seva, devotees of

Swami quietly do all the time. The writer in question has made sarcastic

comments about a certain godman who went to visit the tsunami relief sites

but beat a hasty retreat along with his huge retinue of cars, when he heard

a rumour that another tsunami was on the way. Does this writer know that

when corpses in their hundreds lay scattered all across the beaches of South

India and when the members of the Civil Administration and the

Police refused to pick them up and remove them, it was Swami’s Seva Dals

who took tetanus shots and dared to remove them? In fact, Swami’s devotees

rushed to help not only in India

but also in Indonesia,

Thailand

and Sri Lanka.

All this is well documented in a special issue of Heart 2 Heart, in

great detail we might add.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Rationalists live trapped in the world of the

“Head” because for them anything beyond is irrational. Yet, in the State of

West Bengal, ruled by

“Left-led rationalist movement” as our writer describes them, when there is

dirty work to be done, who is it that is called? Swami’s Seva Dals. Just to

give an example, every year at the festival of

italic">Ganga Sagar, which occurs in mid-January, a million

pilgrims come for a holy dip to the spot where Ganges

merges with the sea. On that occasion, large stretches of the beach become

toilets; and who cleans the beach? Swami’s Seva Dals! The list goes on.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Objectively speaking, God-denying rationalists are

more to be pitied than censured. For instance, the writer whose remarks

have triggered this “Sunday Special” is personally a committed social

activist helping with many humanitarian causes. That he feels for the

suffering of the poor cannot be denied. The tragedy, however, is that

“rationalists,” do not readily accept that qualities like Love, compassion,

forbearance etc., are Divine in origin and flow from the Heart.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">If we analyse carefully, most of the problems that

humanity faces today are caused by the “Head”. And most of the time,

experts try to produce solutions for these problems from that very same

“Head”! That sort of approach can never work, when the problems are created

by envy, jealousy, hatred etc. Problems produced by the evil tendencies

lurking within humans can be solved only by the Heart.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Rationalists, trapped as they are in world of the

“Head”, and refusing as they do to look at the dimensions beyond, are like

the people who believe in the Flat Earth hypothesis. We can certainly

pretend the earth is flat on scales like a football field and may be on

slightly larger scales too. But on the scale of the solar system, the earth

is certainly not flat.

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">God is for all, and everyone needs Spirituality,

whether our writer accepts it or not. Thus, one must not complain if

so-called VIPs come to Swami; so do millions of others, all the way from a

cook in Montana to a

school-teacher from New Zealand.

Somehow, the writer seems to focus only on the VIPs and imagine that to be

a minus mark for Swami!

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The reason why we raised this topic is because

many devotees write to us expressing concern about the innumerable negative

comments aired all the time by these so-called rationalists, most of who do

not even follow the elementary rule of checking on facts before commenting

adversely. They passionately

believe in the truth of their assertions because their views are based on

those of other “rationalists”. Is that being rational? We wonder!

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you and Jai Sai Ram.

 

 

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