Absolute Surrender - The Only Approach

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Absolute Surrender - The Only

Approach

Shri Baba has seldom

revealed His ways to bless and push up His devotees on the spiritual path.

However, there are certain broad hints given by Him to devotees which when

followed lead them on to the final goal.

 

The most famous of His utterances is " Look to me; and I will

look to you”. This pronouncement from Him is greatly simple; but it is

simply great in its meaning. Shri Baba has first

advised the devotees to look to Him. His words have always been full of endless

meaning of shore less sea of knowledge. Looking to Baba implies first and

foremost to His first quality i.e. of His absolute faith in His Guru. He

Himself had said that He gave up worldly ambitions though He had achieved

extra-ordinary success even in these matters (Vide chapter No. 32) to concentrate on His Guru fully. He forgot hunger, thirst,

and thus His Guru's form fixed itself, in His eyes. This intense concentration

on the Guru snapped His attachments to his relations and His Guru became His

all in all and magnetized Baba fully to turn into His likeness.

 

It is an axiomatic truth that what one thinks of intently so one

becomes. In due time i.e. prolonged period of 12 years of patient waiting upon

the Guru resulted in His being blessed by the bliss supreme. It is thus clear,

that by looking to Baba implies looking to His Sachidananda

Swarupa which is unaffected by any outside

influences.

 

To attain this highest state, Baba surrendered all His interests

to His Guru. He considered the existence of his mortal frame only for the

service of His Guru. Baba thus attained the supreme goal of life by His

absolute surrender to His Guru, who in turn moulded

Baba just like Him transferring all the knowledge and powers to His best

disciple.

 

In this context, it is essential to note here the Upanishadic dictum that the self reveals its nature of its

own choosing and not through effort or study. So Shri

Baba's method of working on His chosen devotees is not EXTERNAL, but INTERNAL.

In point of fact, it is only the cover of unfulfilled desires, aspirations and

worldly attachments which cloud our vision of God realization. Baba does not

change the world but changes us internally through His full grace when the

devotee surrenders everything to Him.

 

In short it is earnestly requested to the sadhakas

on the path of Sai realization that they should

surrender their body, mind and wealth absolutely to Baba so as to allow Him to

" ENTER " into them fully and to work for their emancipation. Absolute

surrender is the only approach to have full Sai

bliss.

Anil Keshavrao

Rasal

Bombay

(Source Shri

Sai Leela Magazine June

1985)