Day -80. “Om Shri Sai Satparayanya Namaha.”
Meaning:
Humble
salutation to Him, who is the epitome of Truth. (Shirdi Sai Trust).
Meditation:
Are
Himalayas an everlasting truth?
Are flowing rivers like Ganga or Yamuna an everlasting truth? Geologists say
that there is a constant and continuous change of the contours on the surface
of the Earth. It has been confirmed with
evidence that some 8000 years ago river Saraswathi was flowing to Arabian Sea
from Himalayas through what is today known as Thar Desert in the state of
Rajasthan. Before the Himalayas rose from the collision of the drifting India,
there was an ocean. Over millions and billions of years, mountains become oceans
and oceans become mountains. Fertile plains become deserts by the change in the
course of a river. The statement that Jaisalmer was on the banks of the river
Saraswathi has become an untruth over a time.
With
the flow of time, a truth becomes an untruth or vice versa. In our lives we
come across someone considered as the most beautiful in her youth, becoming an
ordinary, unnoticed person over time. A person considered to possess the most
melodious voice becomes a person who cannot sing. A most efficient mode of
transport gets rejected once a better mode is discovered. The fastest computer,
the most advanced cell phone all lose their position and become the slowest or obsolete
with time. What or which is Truth that does not change with Time?
The
one truth that remains as a permanent truth is that nothing can remain a truth forever,
except the Brahmam, God or Guru. Sages have expressed that one experiences the
absolute non changing Truth on Self Realisation. The Brahmam, God or Guru is
experienced by the soul as Truth and enjoyed without any change. The soul never
dies, and experiences both the transient truths of materials and emotions and
the eternal single Truth of Brahmam, God or Guru if it is destined to realise
the absolute Truth.
Hemadpant
writes in Sai Satcharita:
” His physical or finite form has, no doubt, disappeared from our view, but the infinite or spiritual from ( spirit of Baba) ever lives. The Leelas, which occurred during His lifetime, have been dwelt upon at great length, up till now. Ever since His passing away, more Leelas have- taken place and are even now happening. This clearly shows that, Baba is ever- living and helping His devotees as before. The people who got the contact of Baba, when He was living, were indeed very fortunate, but if any of them did not get a dispassion for the things and enjoyments of the world, and had not their minds turned to the Lord, it was their sheer ill-luck. What was then desired, and is still desired, in the whole hearted devotion to Baba. All our senses organs, and mind should co-operate in worshipping and serving Baba. It is no use, in engaging some organs in the worship and deflecting others. If a thing like worship or meditation is to be done, it ought to be done with all our mind and soul.
” His physical or finite form has, no doubt, disappeared from our view, but the infinite or spiritual from ( spirit of Baba) ever lives. The Leelas, which occurred during His lifetime, have been dwelt upon at great length, up till now. Ever since His passing away, more Leelas have- taken place and are even now happening. This clearly shows that, Baba is ever- living and helping His devotees as before. The people who got the contact of Baba, when He was living, were indeed very fortunate, but if any of them did not get a dispassion for the things and enjoyments of the world, and had not their minds turned to the Lord, it was their sheer ill-luck. What was then desired, and is still desired, in the whole hearted devotion to Baba. All our senses organs, and mind should co-operate in worshipping and serving Baba. It is no use, in engaging some organs in the worship and deflecting others. If a thing like worship or meditation is to be done, it ought to be done with all our mind and soul.
The love that a chaste woman bears to her husband, is
some
times compared to that, which a disciple bears to his master
(Guru). Yet, the former falls far short
of the latter, which is incomparable. No one, whether he be father, mother,
brother or any other relation, comes to our aid in attaining the goal of life
(self- realization). We have to chalk out and traverse the path of self-realization
ourselves. We have to discriminate between the unreal and the Real, renounce
the things and enjoyments of this world and the next and control our senses and
mind, and aspire for liberation only. Instead of depending upon others we
should have full faith in ourselves. When we begin to practice discrimination
we come to know that the world is transient and unreal and our passion for
worldly things becomes less, and ultimately we get dispassion or non-attachment
for them. When we know that Brahma,
which is no other than our Guru, is the sole reality; and as It transcends and
besets the seeming universe, we begin to worship It in all creatures. This is the unitive Bhajan or worship. When we thus worship Brahma or Guru
whole-heartedly, we become one with Him and attain self realization. In short, always chanting the name of the
Guru and meditating on Him, enables us to see Him in all beings, and confers
eternal Bliss on us.” (Sai Satcharita Ch: 45)
He lives and blesses His devotees through His Leelas continuously,
even today, nearly 100 years after
His Mahasamadhi. He is eternal and theTruth. He is Satparayanya.
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