……“Pain and pleasure - Sri Shirdi Sai Maha Samdhi day messages

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…… " Pain and pleasure as defined by the rationalists are unwelcome

and welcome experiences. When a man goes by this theory, he creates

a small universe for himself in which he always tries to avoid pain

and gain pleasure. In such a state of mind he restricts himself

within his isotopic atomic individualism. The universes created by

God and the Laws of Nature running these universes have limited use

for him or so he thinks. But this not being the reality, he faces a

situation of double pain when confronted with pain - the first pain

is the one physical or mental, given to him and the second pain is

the disintegration of the universe which he has built up so

strenuously throughout his life, during the evolution of his life.

It takes a longer time for him to adjust with God's Universe as his

own. However, those who view their little universes as parts of the

God's Universe are in a much better state. No doubt, they will also

suffer pain of body or mind, which otherwise may be defined as

disintegration but they will not see the breaking of their self-

created little universe.

 

Numerous atoms and molecules are integrated to form the body and

they are kept together by the life-force. An injury and death lead

to partial or total disintegration of these body particles. One puts

his life's earnings in an integrated form in a bank account (i.e.

adding one rupee to another) and when it exhausts, the life is

disintegrated. A person through a process of manipulation and

exhibition has integrated many persons to believe that he is good

and noble and basks in that glory for some time. However, a single

wrong action on his part has the potentiality of totally shattering

this positive thought process of others. Human universes emanating

out of their ego have the chance of disintegration.

 

Thus, disintegration of body and mind is a continuous process

between the two terminal points called birth and death. With the

death of his body his painfully arranged universe ends. However, the

only non- disintegrating factor, i.e., the soul, after death goes

back to the universe of God, leaving the universe of man, and is

eternal.

 

To get into the universe of God, one has to break the universe of

man. A sealed water container in an ocean needs to be broken if it's

water were to have universal expanse in the sea. Most of the people

I happen to meet are asking me for various components required to

build their own little universe like a child, a house, a job, money

or honour. They pray to Baba for the same although, their emotional

attraction towards Him can't be denied. How unfortunate that the

mighty divine power of attraction of Baba is converted to the

attraction of money, job or land. The same spiritual force of Baba

which can become the various forms of nature i.e., deities like

Ganesh, Maruti etc., now is desired and prayed by devotees to

convert into the state of money and land. In the quintessence, those

who pray Baba for money want to experience Him as money, those who

pray for land will experience Him as land and those pray Him for

women will experience Him as woman. No doubt they are experiencing

Baba, but at a much lower state of consciousness. Those who want to

experience Him in a higher state will have to go beyond this state

of mind. If they have to experience His original state (Swaroop)

they have to focus their concentration i.e., power of attraction to

Baba only and not other objects. Then they will get Baba in His

Swaroop i.e. the original eternal form, and not His changeable and

convertible form like money, land etc.

 

What should be the correct path then? To help them to create their

own universe or to help them to break their own universe and merge

in the universe of Baba?

 

Theirs is a highly individualistic and egoistic universe created by

illusion (Maya). Sri Sai has the ultimate answer for His children.

But here I am, standing miles away from a lamp-post, can't clearly

see the midway figures (in their own universes) better than I see

the lamp-post. " …….