Sai message for the day

[Guest guest]

Swami! listening to Your conversations, teachings, and discourses is

true jnanam. When this is put into practice, this becomes wisdom

gained through our experience, and shines as practical wisdom. When,

say, will our ignorance be dispelled? Your profound, divine

discourses are a feast for our ears, enthusing and inspiring us.

 

Sai Baba: What use is simple listening? Is merely glancing at cooked

food enough? Knowledge gained has to be turned into experience. This

jewel of jnana has to be secured with ever so much care, love, and

piety. Here is an example. A raw fruit may be thrown away without any

loss to it or to you. But what happens when you throw away or let

drop a ripe, sweet mango? The fruit bursts and the sweet juice spills

to the ground, doesn't it? That is why you have to hold the ripe

fruit gently with both hands safely. In the same way, the fruit of

jnana is to be secured, leaving no chance for it to slip down.

 

Ajnana, irrespective of its duration and magnitude, vanishes the

moment jnana dawns. Even though ajnana had persisted through many

lives, the light of jnana dispels the darkness of Anna instantly.

Take this example. Suppose you lock your house and live in another

town. More specifically, locking your house in Guntur, think that you

have been staying in Puttaparti from six months. As Swami had gone to

Bangalore, you leave for Guntur, and reached your house. You open the

doors and find the interior dark. This darkness has been there for

six months. Now you switch on the light. How long .does it take for

the darkness to disappear? Does it require six months? Instantly

there is light. Similarly, the darkness of ajnana no matter however

long it had been there is vanquished immediately.

 

Note this carefully. A tree might have grown very tall, and may have

been there for a long, long time. But how much time does it take to

fell it with an axe? The fire of jnana, the sword of jnana, in an

instant, puts an end to ajnana of very long standing.

 

This ajnana is really darkness, ignorance, illusion, and delusion.

You may have your ears pierced with rings, wear bangles on your

hands, or have a necklace round your neck. Now, the knowledge that

all these are made of gold is jnana. Visualising these as ornaments

and noting their names and shapes, their diversity, is an illusion, a

delusion. Enjoying gulabjamun, basundi, jangri, laddu and so on as

sweetmeats is ajnana; considering them all as sugar is jnana.

Remember, cattle feed on grass and you eat rice.

 

Humanness consists in not permitting re-entry to evil, once you know

it to be evil. The fundamental recognition that hunger and thirst are

common to all mankind is Divine. Thus jnana, as it is Divine,

integrates all things. Conversely, by whatever name it is called,

illusion, delusion, avidya , bhranti, bhrama, maya, ajnana is the

force behind shattering and breaking into pieces, the force of

disintegration.

 

The man who possesses jnana behaves in private as he does in public.

He has no use for stunt, exhibition, or hypocrisy.

 

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This series on the messages of Shri Sai Baba ends here. I hope it has

been useful to you.

 

May God bless all.

 

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[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for your wonderful insights.

 

God bless you !

Hare Krishna

 

 

divinesprt <divinesprt wrote:

Swami! listening to Your conversations, teachings, and discourses is

true jnanam. When this is put into practice, this becomes wisdom

gained through our experience, and shines as practical wisdom. When,

say, will our ignorance be dispelled? Your profound, divine

discourses are a feast for our ears, enthusing and inspiring us.

 

Sai Baba: What use is simple listening? Is merely glancing at cooked

food enough? Knowledge gained has to be turned into experience. This

jewel of jnana has to be secured with ever so much care, love, and

piety. Here is an example. A raw fruit may be thrown away without any

loss to it or to you. But what happens when you throw away or let

drop a ripe, sweet mango? The fruit bursts and the sweet juice spills

to the ground, doesn't it? That is why you have to hold the ripe

fruit gently with both hands safely. In the same way, the fruit of

jnana is to be secured, leaving no chance for it to slip down.

 

Ajnana, irrespective of its duration and magnitude, vanishes the

moment jnana dawns. Even though ajnana had persisted through many

lives, the light of jnana dispels the darkness of Anna instantly.

Take this example. Suppose you lock your house and live in another

town. More specifically, locking your house in Guntur, think that you

have been staying in Puttaparti from six months. As Swami had gone to

Bangalore, you leave for Guntur, and reached your house. You open the

doors and find the interior dark. This darkness has been there for

six months. Now you switch on the light. How long .does it take for

the darkness to disappear? Does it require six months? Instantly

there is light. Similarly, the darkness of ajnana no matter however

long it had been there is vanquished immediately.

 

Note this carefully. A tree might have grown very tall, and may have

been there for a long, long time. But how much time does it take to

fell it with an axe? The fire of jnana, the sword of jnana, in an

instant, puts an end to ajnana of very long standing.

 

This ajnana is really darkness, ignorance, illusion, and delusion.

You may have your ears pierced with rings, wear bangles on your

hands, or have a necklace round your neck. Now, the knowledge that

all these are made of gold is jnana. Visualising these as ornaments

and noting their names and shapes, their diversity, is an illusion, a

delusion. Enjoying gulabjamun, basundi, jangri, laddu and so on as

sweetmeats is ajnana; considering them all as sugar is jnana.

Remember, cattle feed on grass and you eat rice.

 

Humanness consists in not permitting re-entry to evil, once you know

it to be evil. The fundamental recognition that hunger and thirst are

common to all mankind is Divine. Thus jnana, as it is Divine,

integrates all things. Conversely, by whatever name it is called,

illusion, delusion, avidya , bhranti, bhrama, maya, ajnana is the

force behind shattering and breaking into pieces, the force of

disintegration.

 

The man who possesses jnana behaves in private as he does in public.

He has no use for stunt, exhibition, or hypocrisy.

 

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This series on the messages of Shri Sai Baba ends here. I hope it has

been useful to you.

 

May God bless all.

 

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