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

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 14:08

Sai Ram. Siva, the destroyer is also called the Absolute and is portrayed with Three Eyes, the Third Eye being closed normally and when it is opened, it burns down every thing. Thus when our true vision is opened by Guru's grace, we stop getting deluded by Maya and see the things as impermanent (that is their real nature is revealed). Science also tells us that all matter is made of some simple sub-atomic particles and they in turn are made of energy. Thus science and spirituality are convergent. Sai Ram.

Inner Worship

Hemadpant has given us a novel form of worship. Let us, he says, use hot water in the form of tears of joy to wash the Sad-guru's feet, let us besmear His body with sandle-paste of pure love, let us cover His body with the cloth of true faith, let us offer eight lotuses in the form of our eight Sattwik emotions and fruit in the form of our concentrated mind; let us apply to His head bukka (black-powder) in the form of devotion and tie the waistband of Bhakti and place our head on his toes.

After decorating the Sad-guru with all jewelry in this way, let us offer our all to Him and wave chamar of devotion to ward off the heat. After such blissful worship, let us pray thus:- "Introvert our mind, turn it inward, give us discrimination between the Unreal and the Real and non-attachment for all worldly things and thus enable us to get Self-realisation. We surrender ourselves, body and soul (body-consciousness and ego). Make our eyes yours, so that we should never feel pleasure and pain. Control our body and mind as you will and wish. Let our mind get rest at your feet".

Sai Ram. This should be the only aim of all spiritual practices, viz. to attain a state of detachment and true balance so that we become immune to pleasure and pain. In Gita also, Sri Krishna tells Arjuna the qualities of a Sthita Prajna (a man of steady intellect), who is unaffected by the sensory inputs. Sai Ram.

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