Saints and Saintliness

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om sai ram

" The one endowed with the noblest powers and

qualities, like unto gods, are always in danger of

falling from, spiritual standards by their one defect,

lust "

---a very good message!!!--a very good topic!!!

'sai bless u'

sai ram

--- Swamy Mahadevan <mahadevanvnswamy

wrote:

 

> Saints and Saintliness

>

> Saints and Great Masters, teach their disciples only

> what is good for

> them. The object of many of their miracles or "

> leelas '' is to

> convey this teaching in the language that is best

> understood by the

> disciples. The same " leela " might have different

> imports to different

> disciples. Each disciple draws his own conclusion

> and learns a lesson

> for himself from one common context or word of the

> " Sadguru " . Thus it

> will be seen that the " leela " of Sri Sai Baba

> insisting on his

> disciples giving him Dakshina had a lesson in it.

> Curiously enough

> the word " Dakshina " begins with the syllable 'Da,'

> with which

> Prajapathi prescribed three different disciplines to

> his three

> disciple-sons. Three classes of Prajapati's sons,

> the_ gods, men and

> Asuras lived with their father Prajapathi, (viraj)

> as students, and

> led a , life of studentdom. After the completion of

> their term, they

> sought his instruction by asking for a guiding

> Mantra for their

> future. Prajapati smiled and uttered the syllable

> 'Da' when .each one

> approached him separately. The gods, men and

> Asuras;' .found

> themselves instructed each differently by the one.

> syllable,

> according to the consciousness of their failings.

> The ,

> gods .took ''DA " to mean " continence, " the men

> " Dan " " give " and the

> Asuras, " Daya " " compassion. " Men are endowed with

> the qualities of

> the three. The one endowed with the noblest powers

> and qualities,

> like unto gods, are always in danger of falling

> from, spiritual

> standards by their one defect, lust or want of

> self-con-, human

> failing is greed and acquisition, of Wealth and the

> Asura nature has -

> the soul-killing quality of cruelty and anger.

>

> These three natures, have to be overcome only, by

> practicing:

> the " virtues of Danta, (Selfcontrol); Dan (charity)

> and Daya

> (compassion). Sri Krishna in the Bhagavat. Gita also

> teaches Nara

> (Arjuna, man) this lesson, by asking him to renounce

> these three at

> least. There are three fatal doors leading " to hell

> viz. (i) lust,

> (ii) anger and (in') avarice. So those who ate

> desirous of eternal

> well-being must shun them " (at least). The path of

> this renunciation

> of evil is through practice of virtues and good acts

> done by us bring

> us in tune with the Divinity.

>

> Saints have got over the effects of the various

> gunas Rajas and Tamas

> by Shrada and Saburi, faith and patience, which have

> led them to all

> actions being performed without desire for the

> fruits there off, for

> it is indeed not possible for the embodied being -to

> give up action

> completely, but there is no reaping the fruits- by

> going through the

> cycle of births, for the one who has renounced the

> fruits of all his

> actions and gone beyond the concepts of the

> knowledge, action and the

> agent and has realized the highest teaching, in the

> following Sri

> Krishna's words. Know that knowledge to be Sattvika

> by which one

> unified eternal Principle is realized in all

> divergent beings "

>

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

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