Shri Sai Sat Charitra - Chapter 12 - Part I (Continued)

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Sage Agastya is reputed to have taken the whole sea in the palm of his hand. Saints are one with the God/Para Brahma. So, they guide us in realizing the illusory nature of our worldly life and help us cross the seemingly difficult sea of the world of karma. Bhava means to be. Being born. While we came into existence simultaneously with the manifest Brahman (we came out as Jeevatma and He manifests as various Gods), we have forgotten our real origin and so are trapped in the world of actions and effects of our actions, desires and consequent pleasures and sorrows.

Our individual minds are caught like ships without proper sails and rudders on a stormy sea. Sai and other Saints are the refuge of such souls and they help the individual souls to reach safelyf the shore of non-dualism and nishkama karma. Sai Ram.

This ignorance or forgetting one's real nature is like darkness. So even if one has eyes, one can't see the real nature of objects. Thus, in the darkness, one may come across a coiled rope and may get afraid because it could be a snake. Unless a light is procured one can't see and decide whether the coiled object is a rope or snake.

Saints are Sadgurus, and Guru is the one who destroys the spiritual darkness through real Jnana. In Gita too, Bhagawan Sri Krishna tells Arjuna that a Jnani is one who sees the Lord everywhere and is one to whom all are equal since all are part of the only one. So, a Brahmin, a dog, one who eats a dog, all are equal in His eye. From a scientific point of view too, all matter is made of energy. All differences are at a superficial level and the differences are for the benefit of sentient beings. The innermost core, the essence of spirituality is energy.