“Surrender – Path To Liberation

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“Surrender " – Path To Liberation "

 

This whole Universe, with its varied natural forms and

creations is a manifestation of the ‘Will’ of God. The

universal life force behind this reality of Brahman is

the positive energy – pure universal consciousness,

‘Self’ being its integral part. At the individual

consciousness level therefore " He is the real Me and

real You " . One, however, cannot perceive Him with

gross eyes. The veils of Maya form layers of illusions

blocking the vision to Almighty Brahman. To attain

this wisdom, one has to approach a worthy Saint: a

Sadguru, who has himself, attained God vision. What

cannot be achieved through reading of Vedas and other

religious scriptures or hearing religious lectures,

can be achieved under the blessings and guidance of

such Souls. The objects of life such as Dharma, Artha

and Kama are achievable by our efforts but the fourth

object ‘Moksha’ can be attained only with the

blessings and guidance of a Sadguru. Shri Shirdi Sai

was such a Sadguru who while living in physical form,

by His 'life's actions' always imparted spiritual

wisdom and showed people, irrespective of caste,

colour & creed, the path to spirituality and

liberation. He continues to guide and bless one and

all even today from His 'Samadhi' in SHIRDI.

 

Sai always said “We get human body as a result of

merits in the past births and it is worthwhile, that

with its aid, we should obtain devotion and liberation

in this life. " The purpose of life indeed is not to

live a physical existence in this materialistic world,

full of evils of passion, anger, pride, envy by man

against man, generating 'negative sanskars' but to

realize 'Self and 'Brahman'.

 

This 'Self of ours is surrounded by three basic walls

of Gross, Subtle and the Casual Bodies. There are

several paths to pierce these three walls before

experiencing glimpses of divinity in the

'Brahmrandhra' the Seventh ‘Sahasrashar’ Chakra. The

Four known paths are : 'Bhaktiyoga', 'Karamayoga',

'Jnanayoga' and 'Rajyoga'. Whatever path one may

follow, it is always a lifelong process of 'surrender'

and deep concentration, with all purity of mind and

intense desire to realize 'Self and 'Creator' of this

Universe. When the powers of mind are concentrated and

turned back upon it, the mind penetrates its innermost

secrets and enlightens us by revealing the real

meaning of man's existence in this world. The journey

to spirituality realized through any chosen medium,

helps remove negative energy within a man, and

transforms his Sanskars gradually with positive

energy. This positive energy then radiates his ‘inner

Self’ and the 'aura' around him. The inner dynamism,

joy, peace and compassion emerge from this chosen path

of Divinity. As this spiritual awareness expands, a

Sadhak is able to see through 'Maya' and finally, the

divine light which communicates to him - 'Aham

Brahmasmi'. The Sadhak begins to live within the

spiritual fragrance of Satya, Chita and Anand – an

experience of absolute Existence, Knowledge and Bliss.

 

 

The truth and intrinsic strength in all the four paths

to Self realization and realization of God, however,

lay in the whole hearted " devotion and surrender” – an

unconditional and unflinching faith in the existence

and supremacy of Almighty. All spirituality is in fact

embodied in the " Total Surrender. " Bhagavad Gita

expresses the same secret 'Sarva Dharman Parityajya

Namakan Saranam Vraja’. It means be thou fully

surrendered to His Will. All your sins will be

pardoned. Holy Bible reiterates the same message.

Prophet Muhammad always strolled about with His head

lowered and His message was " Be surrendered " .

 

Sai Baba is not finite or limited. He dwells in all

beings from ants and insects to God Brahman. He

pervades all. How beautiful one day at noon after the

Arti, He gave the following advice to Anna

Chinchanikar : “Remember that all what you do is known

to me. I am the inner ruler of all and seated in their

hearts… I am the controller the wire-puller of the

show of this universe. I am the Mother-origin of all

beings the harmony of the three gunas, the Creator,

Preserver and Destroyer. Nothing will harm him, who

turns his attention towards Me, but Maya will lash or

whip him who forgets Me. All the insects, ants, the

visible, movable and immovable world is My Body or

Form.” By this Baba conveyed that He is infinite,

omnipresent and controller of this universe. Baba also

said “I feel indebted to him who surrenders himself

completely to Me, and ever remembers Me, I shall repay

his debt by giving him salvation.”

 

Once a rich gentleman came to Baba in Shirdi and asked

for a ‘Quick Brahman Jnana’. To teach the lesson of

Brahman, Baba made him sit in the Masjid and despite

his insistence of ‘Brahman Jnana’ engaged him in some

other talks. Then He called a boy and asked him to go

to Nandu Marwari and get from him a hand loan of Rs.

5/-. The boy went, but returned saying that Nandu was

absent and his house locked. Then Baba asked him to go

to Bala grocer and get from him the said loan. Again

the boy was unsuccessful. This went on twice, thrice

and with the same result. The rich man had a bundle of

currency notes and if he knew that Baba would return

the loan, could have given that money to Baba. He,

however, wanted from Baba the greatest thing in the

world ‘Brahman Jnana’. The rich man, getting impatient

again asked Baba about ‘Brahman Jnana’ and Baba told

him that He was in fact showing him ‘Brahman Jnana’

only but unfortunately, he could not see. It is, thus,

the veils of ‘Maya’ which blocks the vision to the

reality of Brahman.

 

By above preaching Baba conveyed that for being able

to realize and see Brahman one has to Surrender

desires of Five Senses, Mind, Intellect and Ego. It is

only by this process of renunciation/vairagya that one

is able to move towards the path of self realization.

As one achieves richness and strength in his inner

purifications, he is able to attain ‘Brahman Jnana’.

The path of ‘Self Realization’ is ‘ as hard as to

tread on the edge of a razor.’ All saints have

advocated that to get the knowledge (realization) of

the Self, ‘Dhyana’ is necessary. If one practices it

continuously, the vrittis (thoughts) will be

pacified…. To realize Brahman, one could meditate

either on the form or formless nature of Sai. His

formless nature is knowledge incarnate, consciousness

and bliss (Satta, Chitta, Anand). If one cannot do

this, he/she should meditate on His form from top to

toe. " Hemadpant in Shri Sai Sacharitra says " Look at

Baba's posture, He is sitting with his legs folded,

the right leg held across the left knee…. By this

posture Baba means to say, as it were if you want to

see My light, be egoless and most humble and meditate

on my toe through the opening between the two

branches, index and middle fingers and then you will

be able to see My light. This is the easiest means of

attaining devotion, the ‘Moksha’ the real aim of human

existence.

 

Our human existence will be rendered meaningless if we

are unable to understand the purpose of this life and

know the basic truth of human birth. Human birth is

result of untold sufferings and struggles in eighty

four lakh species. Human form is the most nearer form

of God with inherent God like powers lying dormant in

the gross body. It is awakening of these inherent

super natural divine powers that a man in physical

existence realizes his Godly form and merges his

individual consciousness with Universal consciousness.

He is one with Brahman the 'Allah Malik' as Baba used

to say. The path to this sole aim of human birth is

inherent in " Surrender " a ‘Total Surrender' to God

Generator of Divinity. Sai is thus Generator of

Divinity Look to Him and seek His blessings for

‘Moksha’