Sai message for the day

[Guest guest]

After listening to your divine discourses and sweet conversations, we

realise that what we heard till now from other sources were distorted

versions, misrepresentations, and wrong interpretations of facts

concerning Lord Sri Krishna. You reveal so many inner secrets and

subtleties. We pray to you to tell us some more details about our

Lord Krishna.

 

The divine miracles of Krishna are most wonderful, mysterious and

inscrutable. Each of them has a meaning and a message, conveys an

ideal to uphold, and is full of nondual and absolute bliss.

 

You know how His foster mother, Yasoda, fondled and caressed Krishna.

All the womenfolk from the neighbourhood complained of His stealthily

snatching away butter from their homes. Yasoda said to Him, " Oh

Krishna! Why do you eat secretly from other people's homes? See! How

they are complaining? Don't you like the butter in our home? Why

don't you eat our own homemade butter? How is it that you find the

butter of other houses tastier than ours? " Krishna said, " Mother! I

never went anywhere. I never ate any butter from anybody's house. You

look into my mouth and smell it, if I have eaten any " . While he was

talking like a tiny tot in all innocence, Mother Yasoda was lost in a

state of bliss with beatific smiles beaming on her face. One day she

couldn't control her anger on listening to the complaints against

him. So, she decided tie him up to a pole. But, is it ever possible

for you or anybody else to bind God? `She was frantically searching

for Krishna all in vain. She noticed the footprints of Krishna with

curds and butter on them. Then she decided to follow the footprints

and ultimately caught hold of Him. Here is an important point for all

of you to carefully note. Yasoda could trace Krishna by following His

footprints. Similarly, you can be close to God if only, you follow

the path of His divine command. So, I keep telling my students, " My

life is My message. " Repeatedly I also tell them, " Follow the master,

your God. You can reach God through love as He is love. " This was the

message of Krishna.

 

One day in an attempt to catch Krishna, Yasoda was holding butter in

one hand and a stick in the other, hiding it behind her back so that

Krishna would come near her drawn by the butter giving her a chance

to beat him with the stick. Similarly, I have in one hand the butter

of education offered in our institutions and a stick of vigorous

training in the other: As they come here for education, I train them

to become the ideal youth of our society. This is my Master plan.

 

One day Krishna noticed a woman drawing water from a well. She filled

up two pots and was trying to carry them on her head, one on top of

the other: She was finding it difficult to balance one pot above the

other all by herself. She said to Krishna, " Krishna! Will you please

help me? I'll lift one pot myself and place it on my head and you

please put the other one on top of it. Then it will be easy for me to

carry the water-pots and go home from here. " Krishna said, " No, I

won't do it " . The woman, however, managed with great difficulty to

help herself and returned home. She saw Krishna standing there

willing to help her. She said, " What, Krishna! When I asked you a few

minutes ago to help me in putting these pots on my head to bring them

home, you did not oblige me. Now, without my asking you for help, you

are ready to help me. Well, I don't understand you. " Then Krishna

replied, " Look! I don't put loads of burden on anybody at anytime. I

will relieve you of the heavy weight of the load you are bearing now

and make you feel light. Do you understand me? " From this

illustration you can understand the secret of divinity that helps you

to get relief from your burdens. " That's why I say, " Come here with

head-loads of problems, difficulties and anxieties. Unload them here

at My feet. Be light and go back with ananda. "

 

This is how every episode in the Bhagavata conveys a message. Though

Sage Vyasa composed as many as eighteen puranas and the celebrated

epic Mahabharata, besides compiling all the Vedas, he had no peace of

mind until he wrote the Bhagavata as advised by Sage Narada.

Bhagavata teaches man the nine paths of devotion. We should read and

listen to the various stories narrated in this immortal book.

 

In fact, the very word `Bhagavatamu' has an inner meaning; `Bh',

denotes `Bhakti', 'Ga' denotes `Jnana', or wisdom, 'Va'

denotes 'vairagya' or renunciation, " ta' denotes' 'tattva' or Divine

principle, 'Mu' denotes `Mukti' or liberation.

 

Bhagavata is not merely Bhagavata Katha, story of God. It means

`bagavatam' (Telugu) meaning, `We shall become good'. You should know

its inner meaning; conduct yourselves accordingly, and work for your

liberation.