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Sai Satcharitra Of Shirdi Sai Baba-The Guru (Chapter 45)
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 sheerly their ill-luck. What was then wanted and is now wanted is the whole-hearted devotion to Baba.
All our senses, organs, and mind should co-operate in worshipping and serving Shirdi Sai 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.
Sai
Ram.
Though
it
is
ideal
to
worship
or
meditate
as
explained
above,
it
is
not
easy
for
beginners
to
achieve.
Instead
of
getting
disappointed
and
giving
up
due
to
dejection
or
waiting
for
the
perfection,
it
is
better
to
worship
/
meditate
to
the
best
of
one's
ability
even
with
some
senses
distracting
or
pulling
in
other
directions.
This
writer
has
personally
experienced
the
benefit
of
such
imperfect
sadhana.
Over
a
period,
the
distractions
subside
and
like
a
good
musician
getting
into
the
tune
with
practice,
our
senses
would
oblige!
Sai
Ram.
The
love
that
a
chaste
woman
bears
to
her
husband
is
sometimes
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).
Sai Ram. To some extent the stories of Sati Anasuya and Sati Sumati contradict the opinion given above but in their case, they have taken their husbands to be God and Guru, Master and Swami, in fact every thing. Thus their worship, their love and their service was indeed focused and yielded great results, forcing even the Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara to bow before them! Once captured by Guru, the disciple has no escape! The love of the disciple to Guru and that of Guru to His disciple is mutual and is like the gravitational attraction between a Black Hole and a small particle that is being pulled inexorably towards it. Sai Ram.
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, control our senses and mind, and aspire for liberation only. Instead of depending upon others, we should have full faith in ourselves. W
Then 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 less, and ultimately we get dispassion or non-attachment for them. Then we know that the 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 the 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. The following story will illustrate this.
Sai Ram. Seated in our heart and appearing as an external manifest Guru, He drives us on the right path at the right time. In fact, getting the grace of Guru happens at the right moment. Sai Ram.
Sai
Satcharitra
Sai
Satcharitra
is
an
autobiographical
account
of
Shirdi
Sai
Baba.
This
write
up
is
an
excerpt
from
Chapter
45
of
Sai
Satcharitra
which
talks
about
the
role
of
the
Guru
in
one's
life,
Guru
disciple
relationship
and
the
attainment
of
self
realization.
About the author
S.V. Swamy
Swarna.Venkateswara Swamy, (also known as Venkateswara Swamy Swarna, S.V.Swamy or simply Swamy) is a physicist and a metallurgist by education. He considers Sai Baba of Shirdi as his Sadguru but respects all Gurus. He is an avid reader,
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