Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

The fifth is the flower of Shaanthi---shaanthi pushpam. This flower of peace should not be interpreted to mean that you should be silent whosoever is attacking you, or whosoever is blaming you. It is not that. If you are unmoved and unperturbed in spite of anyone finding faults in you, this can be called real shaanthi. If you can fill your heart with love, then peace will come into you from outside. Through bad qualities, to some extent, we lose peace. With truthful thoughts, a man will have peace. With untruthful thoughts, a man will not have peace. If you can get rid of all thoughts, you will become a saint. It is only when you can be free from all thoughts that you can have peace. Your own bad thoughts are responsible for all your pain and sorrow. By good thoughts and by good ideas, you will become a saadhu. Saadhu does not mean one who merely wears an orange robe, shaves the head and wears Rudhraakshas (holy beads). He who has good thoughts and good ideas is a saadhu. A saadhu is one who is a Sathya Sankalpa Swaruupa (embodiment of truthful thoughts).

 

In the state of peace, human nature will be like the unruffled water surface. If there is water in a vessel, you will find there are ripples on account of the wind. Your reflection also will be disturbed on the surface of the water. On an impure surface, our reflection is also impure. On a clear surface of water, our reflection is also clear. In the same manner, although the basic truth is only one, whenever reflection takes place in a mind which is full of Thamo guna, (materialism) you will find there is impurity in the image. If the reflection takes place in the mind of Rajo guna (egoism), that will be called avidhya (lack of knowledge). On the other hand, if the reflection takes place in a Saathwik (balanced) mind, that will be called Maaya (mere appearance). Ishwara (God) has maaya as His robe. The reflection in Rajo guna is individual and that in Thamo guna is creation. While the basic truth is one, yet the three reflections, creation, jeeva and maaya are not different from the basic truth. We should make an attempt to recognize the nature of basic truth. We take a fruit. Even if it be a neem fruit, when it is fully ripe, it becomes sweet. When you attain the totality of peace, then only you find the sweetness of it.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XV, Chapter 9.