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Sai Inspires -

26th August 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is important today

is not what particular faith one professes, whether he is a Christian, a

Buddhist, a Muslim or a Hindu. The real question is how far he is a true

human being. Develop therefore, your human qualities. What constitutes

humanness? It is good conduct alone. The Indian epics hail man as

Manuja - one who belongs to the lineage of the sage Manu. As such

every human being has the latent tendencies of a sage. Unfortunately,

instead of these traits, only vicious tendencies are to the fore. Man must

recover his spiritual heritage. He must cultivate sublime and Divine

feelings. - Divine

Discourse, December 18, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any act that is done with purity in thought, word and

deed is Dharma (right conduct). - Baba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE NIGHTMARE TURNS

INTO A REVELATION

 

 

 

For this Sunday, we have an article by Sri B Arvind, a former

student of Sri Sathya Sai University.

 

The long day finally came to an end and with all eagerness I looked forward

to hitting the sack as soon as possible. The bed seemed to be beckoning me

and I felt that we were made for each other. With the softness of the

pillow below my head and the warmth of the blanket over me, I snuggled

inside and then was lost to the world.

 

Soon another world opened up to me. I was somewhere in the deep woods

walking all alone. The heavy overhanging creepers gave me the creeps and

the dense interlocked branches barely allowed a few beams of light to

percolate to the ground level. It was by the yellowish colour of the light

beams that filtered down that I realized it was day and not night. The only

sound I could hear was the soft crunching of the moss and ferns under my

own feet as I walked. I knew not where I had come from and had not the

slightest idea where I was headed to. Uncertainty and fear haunted me as I

was unsure of what I would meet on the road ahead.

 

Out of the blue, there were loud howls from the treetops above. A fierce

group of some primates seemed to have found sudden interest in me and they

were charging down towards me. I broke into a run. Dashing wildly along an

imaginary path, among the thorny bushes and slippery ferns, I moved with a

speed that amazed me. But that is the way anyone would run when in mortal

danger. A roar now echoed from my left. To my horror, I saw that it

was a black panther - a mother guarding her cubs. Not exactly pleased with

the intruder, she decided that I would make a good meal for her family. She

joined the chase that was getting worse every moment for me. I was now

palpitating - more out of fear than exhaustion. And then the worst

happened. A tiny slip followed by a huge fall. It was sickening to hear the

cracking of my own bones. I rolled over the mossy yet stony

forest floor and felt as though my right leg did not exist. As I

tried to get up an excruciating pain shot up from my knee and traveled the

length of my body. It was a hopeless condition. Automatically tears coursed

down my cheeks and I just lay there waiting for the inevitable end. The

apes above and the panther below - what a gruesome exit it would be! I

closed my eyes and for the first time in my life, I seemed totally

blank.

 

I woke up gasping in my bed. Beads of perspiration rolled down my fear

stricken face. I sat with my mind in the same state of blankness. A few

moments later, I was gulping down a glass of water. The last week had been

terrible. Every night scary dreams haunted me. Every night, I woke up in

the middle of my sleep feeling helpless. What should I do? Who would help

me? I decided that the dreams had gone too far this time. I would put an

end to them before they ended me. What an irony! I create the dream and it

tries to destroy me? I walked up to the mirror and looked at mySelf. The

image there seemed to speak to me:

 

" You are the one who has created that dream. You can change anything

that you want. You need not feel helpless because everything there is just

a manifestation of your mind and your will. You are the creator and so

create whatever you like. Do not suffer the limitations that you create for

others. Nothing can limit you. Whatever your mind can think of, you can do

because you are the creator. But remember, you must Know who you are.

Otherwise you will again get overwhelmed by your own creation. "

 

I walked up to my walkman now. I recorded whatever MySelf had spoken to

myself. I plugged in the earphones and played the tape. I heard it over and

over again till once more, I was lost to this world. I was again in the

deep woods walking all alone...........

 

Fast forward to where I lay on the floor awaiting the panther and the apes.

All of a sudden, there I found a walkman next to me. I put on the earphones

and heard what MySelf spoke to myself. I Knew. It is a dream and I am just

creating it. Then as the panther lunged at my throat, I willed it to be

transformed into a sweet kitten. It sat in my arms mewing. I looked at my

right leg and willed. It was as healthy and wholesome as never before.

Another will later, the apes brought me food and water and seemed to

massage my feet. Then I realized that I had stopped thinking. I just seemed

to know everything. I knew I was in New York and I was walking barefoot on

the streets there. Everyone around thought that I was mad and it just did

not matter for me. I once again Knew that they appreciate me a lot and at

that instant there was a huge gathering waiting to hear me speak. I didn't

want to speak for I was lost in the bliss of my new found Identity- my true

one in fact. I knew that I would fill everyone with the same bliss and the

next minute, all seemed so ecstatic.

 

I then knew that I was gone and the next moment I was on the slopes of the

Himalayas . I knew that the cold would never be able to touch me and sure

enough, it didn't. I came to understand that the New York Times carried my

picture on the front page with the headlines, " Miracle Man vanishes

into thin air! " I felt that....sorry I knew that humanity had been

misguided. By now, I had stopped thinking and feeling. I just knew

everything, for I was and am the creator!

 

As I walked the great Gangetic plains, I knew a wave of kindness and with a

wave of my hand, I healed all the sick there. I created a world just as I

wanted. Years passed this way. It was so simple. Since I was in charge, I

traversed through time too. Time travel was not a myth. I knew it and so

could do it. Then I knew I was back in New York . People rushed to me from

everywhere and then I was facing a mammoth gathering in a super-dome.

Everyone addressed me as God! Oh my God! This was crazy. Didn't they

realize that this was all a dream. If I was God, then they too were God

equally.

 

It was only out of supreme compassion that I spoke. I said, " There is

only one thing that you need to know. You are all God too. You can do all

that I do only if you know this Truth. The difference between me and you is

that I know the Truth while you do not! " Well, the people adored me

but they were not ready to understand what I said. They felt that I was

muttering the impossible. Bound in their own narrow realms, they refused to

see the Truth. I told them, " You do not have to achieve anything. Just

Know. That’s all. " This simple statement for them seemed the

most complicated. But I just knew that wherever I go, I would just speak

the same thing - that alone was the Truth, everything else an illusion.

 

I woke up in the morning, gently this time. I felt in supreme control of

myself. The time was 5:30am . I washed and dressed and flicked on the

digital radio set and tuned into RadioSai. Swami's sweet voice floated into

my room. The Youth Conference Valedictory discourse was on.

 

" You are all God. Everything you see is God. You spend hours in

meditation and spiritual activity. 11 seconds are enough. Keep yourself

steady and Know, ‘I am I’. That’s all there is to be

done................... "

 

My ears were deaf to any more words. I was lost in a trance like state.

Deja vu? A sudden flash of realization? I don't know what exactly I felt. I

fell on my knees and hoped that once again myself would listen to

MySelf.

 

Dear reader, though this story is a fiction, the point it conveys is

profound. In short, we can create our own world, the exact world that we

want to live in, ourselves. We have that power in us!

 

Jai Sai Ram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Love and Regards,

"Heart2Heart" Team.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear Reader,

Loving Sairam from the Heart2Heart Team.

 

Scroll Down to read our Sunday Special:

 

" THE NIGHTMARE TURNS INTO A

REVELATION "

 

Is the faith that we align ourselves to important? Swami

tells us today.

 

 

Did you read the article " Finding the Secret of Bliss " ?

 

Click

here to read now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sai Inspires -

26th August 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is important today

is not what particular faith one professes, whether he is a Christian, a

Buddhist, a Muslim or a Hindu. The real question is how far he is a true

human being. Develop therefore, your human qualities. What constitutes

humanness? It is good conduct alone. The Indian epics hail man as

Manuja - one who belongs to the lineage of the sage Manu. As such

every human being has the latent tendencies of a sage. Unfortunately,

instead of these traits, only vicious tendencies are to the fore. Man must

recover his spiritual heritage. He must cultivate sublime and Divine

feelings. - Divine

Discourse, December 18, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any act that is done with purity in thought, word and

deed is Dharma (right conduct). - Baba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE NIGHTMARE TURNS

INTO A REVELATION

 

 

 

For this Sunday, we have an article by Sri B Arvind, a former

student of Sri Sathya Sai University.

 

The long day finally came to an end and with all eagerness I looked forward

to hitting the sack as soon as possible. The bed seemed to be beckoning me

and I felt that we were made for each other. With the softness of the

pillow below my head and the warmth of the blanket over me, I snuggled

inside and then was lost to the world.

 

Soon another world opened up to me. I was somewhere in the deep woods

walking all alone. The heavy overhanging creepers gave me the creeps and

the dense interlocked branches barely allowed a few beams of light to

percolate to the ground level. It was by the yellowish colour of the light

beams that filtered down that I realized it was day and not night. The only

sound I could hear was the soft crunching of the moss and ferns under my

own feet as I walked. I knew not where I had come from and had not the

slightest idea where I was headed to. Uncertainty and fear haunted me as I

was unsure of what I would meet on the road ahead.

 

Out of the blue, there were loud howls from the treetops above. A fierce

group of some primates seemed to have found sudden interest in me and they

were charging down towards me. I broke into a run. Dashing wildly along an

imaginary path, among the thorny bushes and slippery ferns, I moved with a

speed that amazed me. But that is the way anyone would run when in mortal

danger. A roar now echoed from my left. To my horror, I saw that it

was a black panther - a mother guarding her cubs. Not exactly pleased with

the intruder, she decided that I would make a good meal for her family. She

joined the chase that was getting worse every moment for me. I was now

palpitating - more out of fear than exhaustion. And then the worst

happened. A tiny slip followed by a huge fall. It was sickening to hear the

cracking of my own bones. I rolled over the mossy yet stony

forest floor and felt as though my right leg did not exist. As I

tried to get up an excruciating pain shot up from my knee and traveled the

length of my body. It was a hopeless condition. Automatically tears coursed

down my cheeks and I just lay there waiting for the inevitable end. The

apes above and the panther below - what a gruesome exit it would be! I

closed my eyes and for the first time in my life, I seemed totally

blank.

 

I woke up gasping in my bed. Beads of perspiration rolled down my fear

stricken face. I sat with my mind in the same state of blankness. A few

moments later, I was gulping down a glass of water. The last week had been

terrible. Every night scary dreams haunted me. Every night, I woke up in

the middle of my sleep feeling helpless. What should I do? Who would help

me? I decided that the dreams had gone too far this time. I would put an

end to them before they ended me. What an irony! I create the dream and it

tries to destroy me? I walked up to the mirror and looked at mySelf. The

image there seemed to speak to me:

 

" You are the one who has created that dream. You can change anything

that you want. You need not feel helpless because everything there is just

a manifestation of your mind and your will. You are the creator and so

create whatever you like. Do not suffer the limitations that you create for

others. Nothing can limit you. Whatever your mind can think of, you can do

because you are the creator. But remember, you must Know who you are.

Otherwise you will again get overwhelmed by your own creation. "

 

I walked up to my walkman now. I recorded whatever MySelf had spoken to

myself. I plugged in the earphones and played the tape. I heard it over and

over again till once more, I was lost to this world. I was again in the

deep woods walking all alone...........

 

Fast forward to where I lay on the floor awaiting the panther and the apes.

All of a sudden, there I found a walkman next to me. I put on the earphones

and heard what MySelf spoke to myself. I Knew. It is a dream and I am just

creating it. Then as the panther lunged at my throat, I willed it to be

transformed into a sweet kitten. It sat in my arms mewing. I looked at my

right leg and willed. It was as healthy and wholesome as never before.

Another will later, the apes brought me food and water and seemed to

massage my feet. Then I realized that I had stopped thinking. I just seemed

to know everything. I knew I was in New York and I was walking barefoot on

the streets there. Everyone around thought that I was mad and it just did

not matter for me. I once again Knew that they appreciate me a lot and at

that instant there was a huge gathering waiting to hear me speak. I didn't

want to speak for I was lost in the bliss of my new found Identity- my true

one in fact. I knew that I would fill everyone with the same bliss and the

next minute, all seemed so ecstatic.

 

I then knew that I was gone and the next moment I was on the slopes of the

Himalayas . I knew that the cold would never be able to touch me and sure

enough, it didn't. I came to understand that the New York Times carried my

picture on the front page with the headlines, " Miracle Man vanishes

into thin air! " I felt that....sorry I knew that humanity had been

misguided. By now, I had stopped thinking and feeling. I just knew

everything, for I was and am the creator!

 

As I walked the great Gangetic plains, I knew a wave of kindness and with a

wave of my hand, I healed all the sick there. I created a world just as I

wanted. Years passed this way. It was so simple. Since I was in charge, I

traversed through time too. Time travel was not a myth. I knew it and so

could do it. Then I knew I was back in New York . People rushed to me from

everywhere and then I was facing a mammoth gathering in a super-dome.

Everyone addressed me as God! Oh my God! This was crazy. Didn't they

realize that this was all a dream. If I was God, then they too were God

equally.

 

It was only out of supreme compassion that I spoke. I said, " There is

only one thing that you need to know. You are all God too. You can do all

that I do only if you know this Truth. The difference between me and you is

that I know the Truth while you do not! " Well, the people adored me

but they were not ready to understand what I said. They felt that I was

muttering the impossible. Bound in their own narrow realms, they refused to

see the Truth. I told them, " You do not have to achieve anything. Just

Know. That’s all. " This simple statement for them seemed the

most complicated. But I just knew that wherever I go, I would just speak

the same thing - that alone was the Truth, everything else an illusion.

 

I woke up in the morning, gently this time. I felt in supreme control of

myself. The time was 5:30am . I washed and dressed and flicked on the

digital radio set and tuned into RadioSai. Swami's sweet voice floated into

my room. The Youth Conference Valedictory discourse was on.

 

" You are all God. Everything you see is God. You spend hours in

meditation and spiritual activity. 11 seconds are enough. Keep yourself

steady and Know, ‘I am I’. That’s all there is to be

done................... "

 

My ears were deaf to any more words. I was lost in a trance like state.

Deja vu? A sudden flash of realization? I don't know what exactly I felt. I

fell on my knees and hoped that once again myself would listen to

MySelf.

 

Dear reader, though this story is a fiction, the point it conveys is

profound. In short, we can create our own world, the exact world that we

want to live in, ourselves. We have that power in us!

 

Jai Sai Ram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Love and Regards,

"Heart2Heart" Team.

 

 

Subscribe to

Sai Inspires

 

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Inspires Archives

 

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Heart2Heart:

 

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Sai:

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Current issue

Read previous

issues

 

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Newest

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Thought For The Day

 

Prasanthi

Bulletin

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