To Recite His Name Silently Or Read Shri Sai Satcharitra.”…….

[Guest guest]

……“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.”

 

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.”…….