Remember Him [Part 1 Of 2]

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Remember Him [Part 1 Of 2]

 

Religion is One - Religion, more appropriately Dharma, is an exercise

in the search for Truth. True Dharma is the irresistible will to

commune with the Divine Force within.

 

In remembering God and realizing His Love there is no room for mental

and physical acrobatics. Give up all outer appearances of religious

attitudes to realize Him. He decides the right time for an elevation

to higher states. Do not force anything, let it all happen naturally.

 

Religion is One. Dharma is co-terminus with Existence. Giving a

secluded niche for Dharma apart from the mainstream of Existence

ushers in a religion that is formal, denominational and dogmatic. An

ivory tower is carved out. The question of good and bad looms before

one's scanning mind, and intellectual and ethical theories are piled

up. The person in the ivory tower, a recluse, an escapist, may well

argue that his or her sole concern is self-culture; and, that social

work having as it does no spiritual bearing is an anathema. An

escapism in the opposite direction comes in the form of philanthropic

activities. Both take life in fragments, idolize suffering in one way

or another, and fall apart from the mainstream of life. There is

oneIntegral Existence through all. Every bit of work is worship,

philanthropic work not excepted.

 

Relief work, if pursued without any sense of ego and without injury

to the mainstream of one's life, need not be profane. Original

Religion was Sanatan Dharma (Eternal Religion). That is the thing.

Don't bother for Him, He is within you. He is your Father. He is

chanting 24 hours within us. So carry on, do your business. Work is

one's own Dharma.

 

Don't set your Sundays apart from your week days. Don't divorce life

from Religion. Your Existence itself is the way to Him. No physical

or mental acrobatics can lead you to Him. How can you get the

Absolute? You live It.

 

What is the meaning of Religion? Even today we have no clear

conception on this subject. Actually, there is no Dharma or Adharma

(Religion or non-Religion), no virtue or vice. There is only action

and reaction. Tradition is a social concept. Tradition changes but

not the Eternal Truth. People have shrouded the Truth with traditions

of penance, renunciation, physical and mental methods, rituals and

recitals of scriptures. The Absolute is not found by any of these

prescriptions. Nor does He divide humanity into sects and castes,

holy people and sinners. He is the same in every individual. We have

to live normally in the world and not reject it. All Dharmas are

being harmonized. There is no individual Dharma (Religion). The only

Religion is Love, which becomes manifest as one remembers Mahanam.

 

Baba Said....

"The giving, of Dakshina, advances Vairagya (non-attachment), and

thereby Bhakti and Jnana. Give one and receive tenfold".

 

Jai Sai Ram

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai-Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!

 

To be continued...