How to Conquer Your Senses

April 1, 2008

Inquest of lust or sex

Two ladies wearing veils came to have darshan

of Baba, Nana was sitting with Baba. Nana tried to get up and go away.

Baba: You better remain. If they wish to take darshan let them come.

The ladies came. The older removed her veil and took darshan of Baba. Next, as the younger removed her evil took darshan

and renewed her evil. Nana smitten with her beauty thought of himself " Shall I have one more opportunity of seeing

that angelic face? " but he did not express anything. Baba struck him on

his thigh. Then the ladies left.

Baba: Nana, do you know why I struck you?

Nana: How can I hide anything from the nescience

of my guru? But I do not understand of such low thoughts should sway my mind,

when am in your immediate presence.

Baba: You are a man after all. Are you not?

The body is full of desires, which spring up as soon as a sense object

approaches. But, are temples with lovely and well coloured

exterior scarce in the world? When we go there, is it to admire the exterior or

see the God within? When you are seeing the God in the Shrine do you care for

the outside beauty of the building or for the fact of the image of the Paramathma within? Does God remain only in temples? Is He

not found in every object in the world as in temples? We are not to bother

ourselves about the beauty or ugliness of the exterior, but to concentrate

solely on the form taken by and revealing God.

There is nothing wrong in looking at the exterior, but as one

looks at it, he must think how clever and powerful the God that produced such a

beautiful abode is. How He resides

therein and how nicely ornamented He is. Nana, if you had directed your

thoughts in this way, you would not have had the desire to get one more look at

the lady's face. Keep this always in mind.

(An Anthology compiled from Sri Sai

Baba's Charters & Sayings)

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