Rama Navami Advance Message

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Rama Navami Message

 

The path towards the Sadguru is the real path, more so

in this age of conflicts, contradictions and acute

materialism. As Swami Vivekananda said like all rivers

leading to the sea, all the paths that men take lead

to Him, the God eternal. The paths that are mostly

adopted by the seekers are Rajyoga, Karmayoga,

Bhaktiyoga, Hathayoga, Layayoga, Nivaiti Marg,

Prakriti Marg etc. There are even Avadhootas,

Kapalikas, Aghoris and many other type of seekers.

Various religions have different approaches. In all

this multiplicity of approach towards God realization,

there has to be something common and universal that

must be pervading all. The seeker of this universal

path reaches the goal in the earliest period of time.

 

Sitting in Shirdi Masjid, Baba had said that there are

many paths, but one of the paths leading to God is

through the Dwarkamayee. When one analyses how Baba

led thousands of people towards God realization at

Shirdi a certain pattern evolves. The basic principles

of the Sai path are based on :

 

(a) The existence in physical form of a perfect being

known variously as a perfect Master a Sadguru or a

Qutub as called by the Sufis. A Qutub simply means an

axis, a pivot around which others, living and

non-living, both revolve. The perfect Master, having

himself experienced different stages of evolution

including that of man has at last reached the stage of

God. However, those among these perfect beings, who,

out of infinite compassion, make the greatest

sacrifice of not enjoying the blissful state of God

but incarnate in a human body on earth to serve the

imperfect, suffering humanity are called the perfect

Masters. As Mehar Baba has said at any point of time

there are five perfect Masters on earth in embodied

form.

 

(b) When in human body they act both as human beings

and Gods. As Gods they have infinite power, infinite

knowledge, infinite happiness and infinite existence.

Like God they are Omnipotent, Ominipresent and

Omniscient enjoying the powers of the Almighty. They

share their power, knowledge and pleasure with the

millions of human beings by methods unperceivable by

human beings and are known as Leelas or divine

miracles. All miracles are based on the laws of

nature, only one has to know, experience and master

it. All the elemental forces of nature like fire,

water, air etc. defined as deities by the Hindus work

under their command or wish. As Gods they see

everything in themselves and themselves in everything.

So they serve everyone without any differentiation as

if they are serving themselves. They see God in

everyone even though others may not be able to see God

in them. They give infinite love to others and

infinite pain from others. Once any human being or any

specie is linked with them in any manner, they ensure

that these creatures are evolved, life after life till

they merge with God from where they came. This

ultimate stage of evolution is ordinarily known as

Mukti or Moksha.

 

© These perfect Masters alone are capable of leading

human being to God realization. They follow what is

common and universal in all religions i.e. humanism

based on love. Out of love they not only take care of

the spiritual evolution of the devotees but also their

temporal requirements. Once one has surrendered to

them they look after all needs of the devotee as a

mother would do for a child. They can go to any

extent, even to sacrifice their human body, to protect

their children. That’s what Baba did for many as can

be read in Shri Sai Satcharitra and as experienced by

many. To develop closer and closer link with Him, one

has to develop faith in Him even under the most trying

circumstance patiently. Also to develop the qualities

of humility, sacrifice, tolerance and steadfastness in

devotion and actions desired by the Sadguru. One will

evolve earlier than others worshipping too many

deities if he follows this path of Guru. Baba used to

give visions to many people in the form of their

deities like Hanumaan, Ganesh etc., which convinced

them that there is no difference between Baba and any

other deity or even God. One can therefore, at the

first stage try to see all deities in Baba, worship

Him in the method in which other deities are

worshipped. In short one should try to see and seek

everything in and from Baba. This path may be

difficult at the initial stage but can certainly be

achieved with steadfastness and faith in Baba. So let

us try.