Topsy-Turvy

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Topsy-Turvy

 

" In bliss supreme I was. How can a fool like Me describe the joy I

experienced? " . This was Baba's reply to His guru for the question as

to how He felt hung feet tied and head downwards in a well for five

hours. This is one of Baba's important parables.

 

Hemadpanth described further on this account as follows: " We think

that this description of the topsy-turvy position in the well for 4

to 5 hours should not be taken too literally; for no one can be at

ease and feel bliss if he be suspended with a rope-head down and feet

up in a well for hours together. On the contrary it might amount to

torture. This seems to be a figurative description of the trance or

Samadhi state. There are two sorts of consciousness, (1) Sensual and

(2) Spiritual. When our senses and mind, which are created by God

with an outgoing tendency meet their objects, we get the sensual

consciousness in which we feel pleasure or pain, pure or mixed, but

not bliss supreme or happiness. When the senses are withdrawn from

their objects and are given opposite or topsy-turvy direction, i.e.,

when they are introverted and fixed on the self, we get the other,

i.e., spiritual consciousness in which we feel unalloyed joy or bliss

which is ineffable. The words, " In bliss supreme I was, and how can I

describe the joy I felt? " indicate that the Guru put Him in a trance

and kept him above or aloof from the waters of restless senses and

mind. " (Sai Satcharitha, English translation by Nagesh Vasudev

Gunaji, Chapter XXXII.