Guest guest Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 Sai Baba’s acts are the most valuable lessons and significant messages for us! He used to sit meditating by the side of “Dhuni”! Let us also meditate on Sai Baba, silently, with our mind still and steady, without fluttering! This is the curse of Sadhana, we can infer from this picture of Sai Baba sitting by the side of the Dhuni in meditation. In the light of the above observations, let us know something about the concept of “Agni” as understood from our Indian Cultural Heritage! The entire creation is the modification of “Fire” as per “Agni Puranam”. Our body consists of five fires! 1) Vaiswanara Agni (Fire in the digestive system) 2) Kama Agni (Fire of Desire); 3) Krodha Agni (Fire of Anger) 4) Gnana Agni (Fire of Wisdom) and 5) Yoga Agni (Fire of Yoga). Fire of Anger and the Fire of Desire ruin the man’s spiritual prospects. We should do Sadhana only to augment the Fire of Knowledge and Fire of Yoga, and at the same time to reduce the Fires of Kama and Krodha to nothingness. In our culture, there is no event, which does not associate with the ceremonial fire, which commands high esteem: “ Dhuni” is fed by firewood, contributed by the devotees! It symbolizes a collective aspiration! Anything done with a collective objective is called “Yagna” or “Yaga” in our culture! “Dhuni” is also called “Yaga Agni”, Yaga and Yagna are one! Today “Dhuni”, which is eternally burning at Shirdi represents the Holy Fire of “Yagna” for the sake of collective peace and prosperity of the entire Humanity! Sai Baba is for the entire Humanity! “Dhuni” also symbolizes the state of eternal vigilance and perpetual awareness! Acquiring this spiritual state is called “Jagruti”, which dispels the horrid dreams we see in the sleep of ignorance! This is “Tamasoma-Jyotir-Gamaya”. Let us cross over the darkness and enter into the light! Dhuni is burning at Dwarakamai to give this message to the future generations of Humanity! When we go to Shirdi and see the “Dhuni”, we generally offer a coconut into the “Dhuni”. It is symbolic of our TRIGUNAS of SATWARAJAS and TAMAS to be burnt in the fire of Wisdom, GNANMA AGNI! Our life is an eternal story of modifications of these GUNAS! Sai Baba is GUNA-ATITA, beyond the realm of ‘GUNAS’, which are the attributes of Maya Shakti! Sai Baba is the Controller of MAYA! Our adding fuel to the “Dhuni” is symbolic of burning down our sins to ashes. The real meaning of the word ‘BHARAT’ is the “One who is immersed in Light”! “BHA” means Light and “RATA” is the person engaged! Sai Baba has come in human form only to re-settle us in the “LIGHT” to make us truly “BHA-RAT”! “Dhuni” stands as an eternal symbol for the revival of this ancient glory for which India stood for the thousand and thousands of years! Today the “Dhuni” of Shirdi gives us the Light of Wisdom; it gives the heated-up comfort of Self- awareness! It burns our sins to ashes for our Spiritual Upliftment. (This book can be read from www.saileelas.org/books) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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