The Source of Inspiration By Justice T. N. Vallinayagam

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The Source of Inspiration

 

By Justice T. N. Vallinayagam

 

Mr. Justice I N. Vallinayagam of the Karnataka High Court was with us on

15.1.1999 to release the booklet ‘Thus Spake Saipadananda' and we are

pleased to publish excerpts from his speech in the form of an article.

 

- Editor

 

Religion exists for the uplift of humanity and is a path to Divinity.

Fundamentally the basic principles of all religions are alike; but the base

ego often perverts them for its own ends. The Vedas and works like those of

Valmiki and Veda Vyasa, the former depicting the life' story of Lord Rama

and the latter of Lord Krishna in the Mahabharata which inter alia contains

the Bhagavad Geetha - the Divine Song - and a code of conduct for humanity

in spiritual, moral and social spheres, are epics of which one could be

justly proud. The great prophet Mohamed and Jesus Christ propagated

religions of peace and universal love.

 

In Kali Yuga, politics and greed have deflected the Hindus from the

teachings of the Vedas and Puranas; the Muslims from those of the Koran and

Christian nations are claiming a desire to establish peace by war! India is

in turmoil despite its proud culture and peace loving nature. Even nature

has become violent and we hear of destructive floods and earthquakes.

 

For fifty years, the great Master Sai Baba of Shirdi disseminated by precept

and example the religion of faith, truth and love to humanity, when he was

in the mortal coil, and decades after his Mahasamadhi in 1918, his message

has progressively rung louder throughout the length and breadth of India-

and even beyond, thanks to the sincere and untiring labors of His apostles -

Poojya Sri Narasimha Swamiji and Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji. As a humble

devotee of Sai Baba, I am proud of his glory and grace.

 

Sai Baba was 'Parabrahma' but was humility incarnate. He would say: 'I am a

servant of God. " Many instances of His supreme mystic power and leelas could

be cited, but he never paraded them and attributed everything to Allah and

the Guru. There was no distinction with him of caste, class or creed and the

Hindu would do his worship in the mosque along with Muslim and Parsi

devotees and others who offered prayers in their own way. He never gave up

'Bhiksha' although after 1911 there were large offerings of fruits and

sweets of which He took only little bits. He used to distribute fairly large

amounts of money every day but spent nothing on Himself. Just before His

last breath He took nine coins from his pocket and gave to Lakshmi.

 

He was an ocean of 'Premamrita' but people looked up to Him more for worldly

benefits than spiritual. He once said that thousands had come to Him, but

those who came for purely spiritual benefit could be counted on his fingers.

 

Our duty is to vow complete surrender of ourselves to Him and live our

worldly life with as much detachment as possible, and with faith and love,

be living examples of Universal Brotherhood. We have the ideals of Sri

Narasimha Swamiji and Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji and may the Master in His

unbounded Grace make us worthy of Him.

 

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