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Last week,In Radio Sai, Swami's discourse on 9th Oct 2005 was

relayed. Some excerpts from His maha vakya is reproduced below:-

 

QUOTE BHAGWAN

 

People often use two terms Deva (God) and jiva (individual being). In

fact, there is no jiva at all! All are embodiments of Divinity only!

Then the question arises why do people die? Since people are not able

to realise the immortal nature of the Atma residing in the physical

body, they make use of the term death. Atma has no death at all! It

is immortal. Those who realise this truth, merge in God. For those

who cannot realise the truth, jiva remains as Jiva and Deva as Deva.

The dual feeling persists in them.

 

God is only one. In fact, He is not different from you. He is in you;

you are verily God! If it is not so, why should the Vedas declare

Tattwamasi?

 

Whatever I speak is only Truth. Since you are not aware of this

truth, you are unable to develop faith in it.

 

UNQUOTE

 

 

Meditating on the Lord, I was wondering, how, as an ordinary devotee,

immersed in the anupama sundara vadanam of Sai, can we realise the

above wordings of our Sai Bhagwan??

 

Is there any logical beginning in this path of realisation?? How do

we reach that stage when we realise that He and We are one?? What it

means to us when we realise Tattwamasi???

 

The journey starts from the lines of the Bhajan " Hridaya mandir

mein aao Sai mere, deejo kripa vardaan….. "

 

- After attending bhajans week after week, listening to learned souls

like Dr. Tiwariji ( Guruvar), after visiting Parthi few times,

after listening to His discourses, we are immersed in His divine

form, His divine glory, His divine attributes and this continues for

some time.

 

- We reach a stage where seeking Swami Outside is not sufficient for

us, as it is momentary and it depends upon and it happens when we g

His bhajans, when we involve ourselves in Satsang. Our thirst for

Him reaches a stage where we need him always, 24/7 and even beyond.

 

- It is time that we invite Him to come and reside in our heart,

where we can find Him always, not only when we sit for prayers, but

always.

 

- When He is in our heart, when we know He is watching us, we start

curbing all our desires, we put a check on ourselves, and we avoid

committing all those things which our lord will not approve.

 

- At this stage, we feel we are getting purer day by.

 

- Now, there is no time for worldly pleasures, for hatred, for envy,

for prejudice. Swami used to tell us " Heart is like a single sofa,

you cannot have Lord and also all your desires too , seated in

that single sofa, one has to be out "

 

-When all bad things are eliminated, only LOVE remains. LOVE for the

in dweller Lord,

 

- When we immerse ourselves in this LOVE, it rules us so much so that

this LOVE expands and whom so ever we see, what ever we do, what ever

we think- there is only LOVE, LOVE and LOVE.

 

-We reach a state of supreme bliss when the form inside our heart,

which we placed once, vanishes, looses its identity as Sai, as Rama,

as Krishna, as Devi.. Because now, there is only LOVE, only BLISS.

 

Believe me, Brothers and sisters, at this stage, we do not have to go

about declaring that I AM GOD. If and only If you have reached that

state, then as a full pumpkin cannot be hidden in a morsel of rice,

the fact that YOU HAVE REALISED GOD cannot be hidden, it will be

revealed to the world. As Swami says, when King Bharatha, immersed

in his devotion for Sri Rama, walked on the streets of Ayodhya when

Sri Rama was to return to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile, there was

so much glow on king bharatha's radiant face that the ayodhya vasis

took him for Sri Rama and thought their Bhoopala choodamani has

returned and started showering flowers on Bharatha. Bharatha became

Sri Rama himself!!.

 

" Thus, the Journey begins from " HRIDAYA MANDIR MEIN AAO SAI MERE… ,

and ends with the ultimate realisation, " PREM EASWAR HAI, EASWAR PREM

HAI, HAR DHADKAN MEIN SAI SAMA HAI, EASWAR PREM HAI "

 

So, my dear ones, for realising " TATWAMASI " , we do not have to

necessarily become smaller and smaller and get invisible at His feet,

We can as well expand our heart, invite our lord to come and stay in

our heart and start the beautiful journey from bhoolokam( human) TO

Vaikuntam( DIVINE) with our Vaikunta vasa, Sai Narayana as our

companion, as companion……..

 

CHIT ANANDA ROOPAM SHIVOHAM SHIVOHAM

 

From the heart of a devotee