to recite his name silently or read Shri Sai Satcharitra.�

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……“Any attempt to understand and value the spiritual world on the basis of

the purely materialistic knowledge of the material world is an exercise in

futility. On the other hand, one who has tread along the spiritual path and has

gained direct knowledge can handle the material world in a much better manner.

Even if both spiritual and materialistic paths emanate from the same God, the

spiritual path is finer and purer. It is not possible for any worldly man, to

leave the material world and enter the spiritual path suddenly, sheerly by his

will. Such path is for the true spiritual practitioners, known as Yogis, Munis

or Sanyasis. However, the spiritual depth and value of these true spiritual

practitioners cannot be assessed by contact with the fraudulent ones who can be

found everywhere these days. Yet most of the gullible people get attracted to

them because of their attractive attire and speech. Since most of the people

live amidst the world of

impurities, with a limited and distorted mind-set, they easily get attracted to

these impure actors. The human beings who are purer and simpler in nature

instinctively do not get attracted towards them. However, such people generally

get attracted and attached when coming in contact with some purer souls like the

genuine saints and Sadgurus. The impurer ones generally accept the impure human

beings, projecting themselves as spiritual characters, as their gurus. The purer

ones accept only the true Saints as their Gurus. This obviously leads to the

conclusion that one’s Guru is what one wants and selects him to be. Or it may

be said that the Guru is what one thinks him to be.

 

There are two types of people. Some of them are capable of seeing the positive

side (Shubha) of every thing and there are others who are capable of seeing the

negative side (Ashubha) of every thing. A man with an impure mental sight causes

much harm to himself as his mind gets progressively contaminated with the

negative traits of his own thoughts. He ultimately becomes a prisoner of his own

thought and sees the worst in everyone and everything around even when in a

temple or in association with the purer souls. As the worldly people going

through the experience of negatives and positives in life try to evolve

themselves out of their negativities, so also the spiritually evolved souls

(even with lots of positive qualities) continuously strive to eradicate their

remaining negative qualities. Thus, all human beings at different stages of

consciousness are in the continuous process of evolution - the evil and good

alike.

 

The theories of different religions as also the different theories of Psychology

agree on the point that ultimately a man’s nature gets conditioned by what he

thinks continuously. One who continuously thinks about the bad qualities of

others ultimately develops those qualities in him. The same is true of

continuous good thoughts. One finds an interesting story in “Shri Sai

Satcharitra†about this. A person used to speak ill of another person at

Shirdi when Shirdi Sai Baba was there. Later when he met Baba, the latter asked

him to look at the pig devouring dirt with relish and commented – “look how

happily he is eating the dirt. You have been speaking ill of your brother to

your utter satisfaction and so your nature has become as evil.â€

 

Thus in this world of material illusions even educated people, coming in contact

with people harbouring evil thoughts against others, get easily contaminated.

Far to speak of spiritual evolution, such an approach towards others ultimate

leads them morally downwards. The best way to save one from such a situation is

to pray Baba when a negative thought comes to mind or to recite his name

silently or read Shri Sai Satcharitra.â€â€¦â€¦.