Training ground for spiritual life

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Posted by: " dianabraèiæ " dina17012003

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" Training ground for spiritual life "

 

 

 

There was a poor man in a village who had desire to

become rich. God took the form of a fortune-teller and

told the poor man to dig a pit near the wall at the

back of his house to find a rich treasure-trove in it.

The poor man did the same and obtained much wealth and

thereafter, he became relaxed and careless even for

the maintenance of the wealth. Coming to know of his

carelessness, one day a thief entered the house and

carried away the treasure-trove. The poor man found

that his wealth was gone and ran here and there in

search of the treasure-trove. In the meantime, the

same fortune-teller caught hold of the thief and duly

returned the treasure-trove to the poor man. From that

moment, he never relaxed his vigilance and was ever

guarding the treasure-trove and exerted himself to add

to it.

 

Similarly, God sends a Guru to the Spiritual Aspirant

who shows him that God resides within the chambers of

the heart in the form of Supreme Bliss. The Spiritual

Aspirant exerts himself and attains some measure of

success in the sadhana. This success turns his head

and makes him relax his efforts. Finding this, Maya

overpowers him and carries away his spiritual

progress. He suddenly discovers the truth and laments

over his fate. The Guru comes to him again and

recaptures for him the experiences he had previously

gained by Sadhana. He also warns him against relax in

Sadhana. Once having known the consequences of

non-vigilance, viz., great misery, he never relaxes

his vigilance once again.

 

The basic teaching of our ancient scriptures says that

you are child of Immortality (Amrithasya puthraah).

Man is not a product of slime or mud but he is the one

who manages to live with viveka so that he is able to

attain the divinity latent in him. The word 'Man'

means - Ma means 'Ajnaana' (basic ignorance), n, na

means 'without'. One is called as 'Man', He who is

without ignorance, who is wise and who knows himself

and knows that he is immortal. Man is frittering his

energy on collecting tawdry tensel (Materialistic

things) and forgetting the diamonds (God's Grace).

Both are available on earth but man is led by glitter

and not by worth.

 

The most desirable form of wealth is the Grace of God

i.e., Ishwara anugraha (the Lord's Grace). The bliss

that bestows due to God's Grace is experienced by many

saints and sages who had faith in their hearts and

withstood the onslaughts of poverty, neglect and

cruelty. The sky and the sea are blue in colour on

account of their vast depth. Similarly, God is

described in blue colour because of his greatest

mystery. Remove from the heart the darkness of vice

and ignorance so that, the Meghashyama (whose colour

is that of a rain-cloud) can easily be seen in that

white background. Do not further darken your

consciousness by blaming God due to your materialistic

problems. Better live a moment as hamsa(swan) on milk

than live for a century as crow by feeding on carrion.

 

 

Man is the repository of vast power. The body encasing

you is the means to enable you to realise the Reality.

Use the opportunities in the house-holder life as a

training ground for spiritual life and develop

detachment and self-sacrifice. You must remove the

fibrous matter that encases his heart i.e., lust,

anger and envy. You must Draw inspiration from the

Divine in you and earn the glory by being good,

sincere, honest, selfsacrificing and lovable.

 

Use your tongue for spelling the name of the Lord but

not for hissing like a serpent or for growling with

intention to strike terror. Do not start blaming the

God if your wish is not fulfilled because the fault

lies in you for not having the needed qualification to

earn the fulfillment. The sorrows of life will yield

only to nobler and higher thoughts and experiences.

Our dharma insists that every act must be done as

efficiently as act of worship and true love must

forget all differences of status, age and wealth and

man cannot claim humanity without self-control and

detachment. Hear good things, see good, do good, think

good and uproot all the evil tendencies will be

uprooted otherwise, you are like the fool who puts on

wrong glasses and spoils his vision.

--SATHYA SAI

Omsai Srisai Jaijaisai With love

Diana

 

 

 

 

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