COMPLETE SURRENDER

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He constantly and invariably prides himself in ruining and in the ruins of

others Thus he not only mars his own life but mars the life of those around

him. Here his intellect works like a knife in the hands of a murderer that

wroughts the hedious, murderous and inhuman act of treachery. Here this

inanimate object-the knife-feels very sorry for having seen the light of the

day and being possessed by an inhuman creature, to suffer the hell for

having done some inhuman act. Thus such a man becomes a nuisance and an

obnoxious person to the society.

 

The root cause of this inhuman behaviour is the Ego, 'the I-feeling*. The

Ego I all through the life of a man right from the cradle to the grave

completely pervades and incessantly dictates the human mind and paves the

way for a hedious hell. This Ego ‘I' makes him forget all the invaluable

values attached to the sense of honesty, faithfulness, truthfulness,

sincerity, compassion, love, non-violence and thereby giving place to

unauthenticity, disloyalty, falsehood, frivolity, fraud, distrust, cruelty,

hatred, malice, and violence at last. The treasure of all the good qualities

is disappearing from the dictionary and vanishing from the human mind and

soul.

 

This I feeling goads a man to tresspass over the rights of others just for

the sake of satisfaction of his own 'selfish instincts. The states and

countries also will never prove an exception to this egocentric instinct.

The very frequent clashes between nations and nations even with the coming

up of U. N. O. with a very benevolent desire to pave the way for universal

peace, are the very valid and outstanding proofs of this inhuman act. As

long as man is under the spell of egocentrism he runs after a shadow. Once

he throws off this false guise and frees himself from the clutches of

illusion then only he begins to think of the substance, the reality. But he

gets this spark in him only when he completely submits and surrenders

himself at the holy feet and sweet will of Sadguru Sai Baba.

 

The prudent man will never give any undue value to this illusory and

deluding world and this perishable and muddy body. He will always feel that

this life is a peregrination between life and death and he himself a

traveller resting for a while in this earth, the caravanserai till his

journey's end serving the human souls for which he is sent for and to return

to his real and eternal home, the Heaven. This is one way of looking at the

life.

 

Another way of looking at life is that this Universe is a vessel in which he

is journeying in the sea of mundane existence the driver of which is Baba

the Almighty and the-all-pervading. Here he submits himself completely to

the sweet will of Baba the God either to take him safe to the shore or to

drown him half way in the sea as we completely surrender ourselves to the

sweet will and fancy of the driver of a bus, a train or plane when we are

travelling during the course of our daily routine life either to take us

towards the destination or to meet with some sudden disastrous accident half

way.

This sort of complete surrender and submission to Sadguru Sai Baba will only

help the poor suffering souls to attain salvation from the wheel of life

revolving on the axis of birth and rebirth.

 

By Shri M. M. Amingad

Gulunche, Tal; Purandhar, Dist: Pune

 

Source Shri Sai Leela Magazine August 1974)

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