"I draw to Me, My man from far off or even across the seven Seas to Shirdi, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet"-Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Guru-God
Get rid of constant inner dialogue! How? Do It Yourself
The first is the regulation of breath (pranayama). This is no gymnastics, nor a formidable exercise. The mind has to concentrate on the period of retention (kumbhaka), on the process of inhaling (puraka) and exhaling (rechaka). When attention is fixed thus, the inner talk on other irrelevant matters will end and mental strength is acquired.
The second sadhana is: immersal in beneficial activity — that is to say, service to people that will help diminish the ego sense. One has to engage in acts that are good and godly. When one’s thoughts are engaged in such activities, the mind turns away from the talk it indulges in.
Again, thirdly the sadhanas of listening to spiritual advice, reflection on them and discovering ways and means of confirming faith in the Spirit (sravana-manana-nididhyasana),
also of recital of the names of God and withdrawing the mind from sensual pursuits (Japa and tapa), have been prescribed more for the silencing of this mental chatter. – Vidya Vahini, Ch 18.
From today harness the enthusiasm of youth for carrying to every street and alley, the glory of the Lord’s name! The entire atmosphere is surcharged with electro-magnetic waves. Because of the pollution of these waves, the hearts of human beings also get polluted. To purify this atmosphere, you have to chant the Lord’s name and sanctify the radio waves.
There is pollution in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we consume. Our entire life has been polluted. All this has to be purified by suffusing the atmosphere with the Divine name. People admire the beauty of Nature, but are not aware of the beauty in their hearts. Make your heart beautiful by adorning it with the sacred love of God. Chant the name with joy in your hearts.
If we cast a glance at Him for a moment, He destroys the sorrow of many past births and confers great bliss on us; and if He looks at us with grace, our bondage of Karma is immediately snapped away and we are led to happiness.
The river Ganges washes away the dirt and sins of all people who go to her for a bath; but she intently longs for the saints to come to her and bless her with their feet and remove all the dirt (sins) accumulated in her. She knows for certain that this accumulation can only be removed by the holy feet of the saints. Sai is the crest-jewel of the saints.
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Sri M.B. Rege gives us the correct clue as to how to treat Baba. When Baba was in the body, his connection with the body gave a colouring to our notions of his personality. His personality was connected with the particular Baba body and gave the people the idea that he was a Muhammadan personality they were dealing with, with such and such peculiarities and such and such merits, etc.
But when once he left the body, he was no longer to be identified with that body. He had receded into the unknown, the unseen, the beyond, and thereafter had no particularities, no particular merits or demerits. He was merely God. So, Mr. M.B. Rege says, ‘Now, I think of him only as God’. This view of Mr. M.B. Rege is widely prevalent amongst the bhaktas that contacted or do contact Baba.
In the case of those who contact Baba subsequent to his Mahasamadhi, it is only as God that they come to him. They are in distress, and they want reliet. They cry unto him, and they get relief. That is, He is the divine that protects them.
Therefore, it is easy for persons contacting Baba after his Mahasamadhi to deal with him as God. The fame of his deeds, conveyed through innumerable experiences, during his life in the flesh, tends to confirm this idea, for, even during his fleshy life, Baba had said. I am Allah; I am Khandoba, Lakshminarayan, Vittoba, Maruti, etc., and had shown himself in those forms.
In Baha’s school, the Guru does not teach. He radiates or pours influence. That influence is poured in and absorbed with full benefit by the soul which has completely surrendered itself, and blotted out the self, but is obstructed by the exercise of intelligence by reliance on self-exertion and by every species of self-consciousness and self- assertion.
He did not regard japa and meditation as sufficient for the sishya. These produce in the sadhaka Abhimana or Ahamkara. Unless and until Ahamkara is completely wiped out, the Guru is unable to pour all his influence into the sishya.
Baba, therefore, would tell some devotees, “Be by me and keep quiet and I will do the rest’, that is, ‘secretly or invisibly’. Of course faith in him-absolute faith-is a pre-requisite.
One who was merely seeing him and staying by him for a while got faith. Baba gave experiences to each devotee of his vast powers of looking into his heart, into the distant regions of space and time, past or future, and these infused faith.
One need not swallow things on trust. The solid benefit, temporal or spiritual, reaped by the devotee, and his feeling that he is under the eye and power of Baba always, wherever he may be and whatever he may do, give him an ineradicable basis for his further temporal and spiritual guidance.
Baba’s is the power that controls this world’s goods and our fate here and now, as well as our experience and fate in the future in this world and many unseen worlds.
The college professor Mr.G.G. Kanala concludes that the duty of a devotee under Baba is only to keep himself fit for the Guru’s grace. That is, he should be chaste, pure, simple and virtuous, and he should look trustfully and sincerely to the beloved master to operate on him secretly, and to raise him to various experiences higher and higher In range, tilI he is taken at last to the distant goal.
‘But one step enough for me’ is the proper attitude now. He need not take the trouble to decide complicated metaphysical and philosophical problems about the ultimate destiny. Devote is ill-prepared to solve them now.
The Guru will lift him, and endow him with higher powers, vaster knowledge, and increasing realisation of truth. And the end is safe in the Guru’s hands.
Above all, the action of the external and internal operates in very powerful way unseen and unnoticed.
Let us take hypnotised subjects and sleeping or dreaming subjects as best instances for exemplifying the working of this law that the external and the internal have a very close connection and that the one draw the other with it . A person is hypnotised , and though nothing at all is said to him , his body is arranged in pugilistic fashion with his fists stretched out ready for fighting and himself ready to deliver and receive attacks. Though nothing is said, the man if asked to speak , speaks fiercely and in a mood of attack. He is bellicose.
Similarly if a hypnotised patient is made to kneel down or fully prostate , and his palms are arranged in Anjali fashion , that is invoking the Grace of God , then though nothing is said, the man at once becomes humble and prayerful in mood. If asked ‘ What is this ? ” , he would say , ‘ I am praying to God”. It is the attitude of prostration and invocation that brings on the ideas of invoking God.
These may be multiplied ad infinitem, but the present instances will suffice to show that the external and the internal have a very close association , and any one who is anxious to develop his faith should see that in himself, in his surroundings, in his library , in his company , and in everything around him , the externals are always suggestive or productive of faith .
Above all , the mind must be directed to faith and how is that done ? The company that we keep ( physical) , our reading (intellectual company ) , practical details of puja, prayer , acts of service , preaching , then meditation, then yogic concentration , and above all steady habit of prayer for the growth of one’s faith and of others that one is interested in – there will work wonders, Faith is a cultivable plant and requires proper selection of field, seed , manure , and irrigation . One can develop this subject at great length .
Suffice it to say that those who are desirous of developing faith in Sai Baba , to become his Ankita children , should begin with an ardent desire to become such , to repeat that resolve to themselves time and again , often and often , and they should make use of every opportunity that advance their eligibility for becoming his ” Ankita ‘ children .
And above all the extent to which they are prepared to make sacrifices to please Baba, so that he may adopt them as Ankita children , will be a very a important factor . Make reverent parayana or daily study of the Gospel of Baba, which deal with the subject. That will change even a stony heart.
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