The Road To Bliss - By Sathya Sai

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you talk only to these servants. Consider what punishment you deserve for this.

The king realised his blunder and thanked the teacher for removing the veil of

conceit. Wise men do not diagnose themselves and select tonics and drugs for

the illness by believing in the labels and advertisements. They take advice of

a doctor who has known the peculiar problems of the body and accept his

diagnosis and his prescription with full faith. Such a doctor is called the

Guru who will help in the process of 'removing the veil(ignorance)'. Socrates

said that God can be seen only by wearing a three-fold lens over the eye :

bhakthi or prema or adoration; viveka or discrimination; vairagya or

renunciation. Prahlada wore these lenses and he saw the

Lord everywhere i.e., in pillar and plant whereas his father could not see the

Lord becuase he bandaged his own eye with cynical doubt. The ego is the root

of all the factions that rob the peace. Man desires to reach the presence of

the Almighty, see him and be ever with him because he has the natural urge to

reach the place from which he has come, to attain the joy he has lost, to enjoy

the glory which he has missed. The mind fancies that it can get joy from the

objects around about which the senses give it information. The mind is like

cloth composed of the warp and woof of yarn (a desire, a wish and an

attachment). The cloth will vanish as soon as you remove each yarn. Similarly,

the sadhaka (spiritual aspirant) must have

viveka and vairagya as security personnel and remove all the yarn so that he

move through the world unharmed. The mind can be mastered by jnana (supreme

knowledge) that all is brahmam or all is his play. Seek the help of Lord to

overcome the tricks played by egoism to rob the 'gem of jnana' that you have

treasured in your anthahkarana (inner consciousness). It is a great

attainment for anyone if he can get-rid of envy, pride, greed and malice. One

cannot comprehend God neither with eyes made of earthly material nor with

intelligence shaped out of incompetent senses. The jnana-nethram(the eye of

pure wisdom) alone can see the Lord in all its glory which is won by shravana,

manana and nididhyaasana (listening, reflecting and

meditating). So, Listen with faith; reflect with discrimination; meditate with

one-pointed devotion. Then doubts will disappear and truth will be revealed.

The primary place should be reserved for loosening the coils of the world. The

Jagadjanani (Mother of the Universe) will hurry and caress you only when you

cast off the dolls and yearn from the very depths of the heart. You can get the

grace of Sesha-saayee (who reclines on the Supernal Psychic Serpent) only when

you leave no sesham(balance) of attachment in the mind.

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