OFFERING ALL WITH INTENSITY (WITH LOVE MAN IS GOD) SAMUEL S.ANDWEISS

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self-realization? Swami answered with one word, "INTENSITY". Sai Baba spoke

about an unusual incident that happened about one hundred years ago in India.

It illustrate that all consuming closeness with God can actually make us one

with Him. This closeness with God can actually make us one with Him. This

closeness is achieved when we offer everything to God with no other thought and

with renunciation of all attachment to the self. It also cautions us that that

the path can be trying. Swami told a poor woman who took to the task of

cleaning her humble abode in a disciplined manner everyday. She

would sweep the floor of her house with a dung ball, which had antiseptic

properties. When she was finished, she took the remaining ball of dung in her

hand and threw it out of the back door with a prayer on her lips,offering it to

Lord Krishna with all love. She thanked Him for giving her strength to clean

her house, for the cleanliness in her house, and for the means by which she

could clean her house. At the same time that the woman offered the dung ball

to Krishna in this manner, a strange event occurred in the temple in the middle

of the town. In this temple, there was a small statue of Krishna hanging on the

wall. The priest was amazed to see that each day

at the same time, out of thin air, a dung ball mysteriously flew through the air

and splattered all over the Krishna's statue. The priest was incensed by such

an occurrence and could not understand from where the dung ball came. Thinking

that someone in the village must be behind this incident, he searched the

village night and day for the culprit. He heard of a woman livening nearby

who threw a dung ball out of the back door of her home at the precise moment

that dung splattered on the Krishna statue. The priest hid

behind tree and watched the woman's home few days. Sure enough, each day he saw

her sweep her home with the dung ball and throw it out of her back door into

the yard. He concluded that she must be the culprit. Infuriated, he picked up

a stick, Jumped over the fence of the yard, and fell upon the woman, beating her

badly. The woman's arm was broken and bleeding and she wept in pain. The priest

satisfied that he had protected Krishna, proudly walked back to the temple.

He was sure that the statue would be clean this day. However, to his surprise,

the arm of Lord Krishna had been broken and appeared to be bleeding. The woman

had beaten was none other than than Lord

Krishna Himself! Her selfless and holy offering to Krishna made her one with

Him. Not understanding this, the priest has actually attracted his Lord. Now

aware,the priest fell at the statue's feet and prayed for forgiveness. He

learned that offering done with a pure heart reach the Lord and those selfless

act's merge the two into one. He also learned that God resides in the hearts of

all. This story narrate by Bhagavan. (Sharing with Sai Love) Ram.Chugani

----------------------- Ram ChuganiKobe,

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