Ob Numbers in Baba’s life and HIS messages
For seeing Brahman, one has to give/Surrender five things: viz.
(1) Five Pranas (Five vital forces),
(2) Five senses (five of action and five of perception),
(3) Mind,
(4) Intellect and
(5) Ego.
This path of Brahma-Jnana or self- realization is as hard as treading on the edge of a razor.
SSSC Ch-16 & 17
“I had a Guru. He was a great Saint and most merciful. I served him long, very long; still he would not blow any Mantra into My ears. I had a keen desire, never to leave him but to stay with and serve him; and at all costs receive some instructions from him. But he had his own way. He first got my head shaved and asked Me two pice as Dakshina. I gave the same at once. If you say that as My Guru was perfect, why should he ask for money and how should he be called desireless? I replied plainly that he never cared for coins. What had he to do with them?
His two pice were (1) Firm Faith and (2) Patience or perseverance. I gave these two pice or things to him, and he was pleased.”-Baba
SSSC Ch16
Woman and wealth are the two main obstacles in the way of our Pramartha (spiritual life); and Baba and provided in Shirdi two institutions, viz., Dakshina and Radha- Krishna-Mai. Whenever they came to Him, He demanded Dakshina from them, and asked them to go to the ‘SCHOOL’ (Radha-Krishna-Mai’s house). If they stood these two tests well, i.e. if they showed that they were free from attachment for woman and wealth, their progress in spirituality was rapid and assured by Baba’s grace and blessings.
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