You
have to struggle to ensure spiritual progress
Tiffs
is a chance for service for which you must feel extremely delighted, for, here
you can transmute your devotion and faith into positive acts of service for the
benefit of your brothers and sisters. And, since I am with you in all that you
do, you have no worry about the success of the undertakings. You have only to
be 'instruments;' you need not devise devious ways or roundabout tactics. Doing
your duties as members, you have the need to preserve and develop trust in Sai,
too.
This
is Sai work, which you are invited to enjoy. This is elevating work that brings
you nearer to the heart of the Divine. When Naaraayana hastened to save the
elephant front the jaws of the crocodile, the Bhaagavatha says, He did not take
with Him the weapons---wheel or even the Lotus or the Conch. He went empty
handed, as far as eye could discern. The conscious hand must have the inert
pickaxe in order to break the hard sod; so too, the Divine Consciousness must
have the Prakrithi (objective world or objective instrument) to carry out His
plan.
You
have the chance to contribute to the happiness and beatitude of thousands. In
order to carry out this duty, you have yourselves to lead exemplary lives. Your
nithya jeevitha (daily living) must be transformed into live prayers and live
saadhana. How much struggle are you now going through for ensuring physical
comfort! You have to struggle much more for ensuring mental peace and spiritual
progress, for sathya jeevitha (life in truth).
Calculate
within yourselves the benefit that would accrue to you from this saadhana into
which you are initiated now, and prepare for shouldering the task assigned.
- Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 12, Chapter 41
