Swami Vivekananda

Divyatman,

Even a mentally very week person, unable to start his spiritual journey due to fear of where he will reach, what will happen if he takes up sadhana etc. should wake up, keep aside all his fears, all his weaknesses, all his apprehensions and stand up and run towards the goal of God realization upon hearing to the roar of the fearless Lion, Saint Sri Vivekananda.

We have heard of the story where a lion was painted like a sheep and it moved along with a group of sheep merrily, totally forgetting its original identity until it was taken to a pool, it was made to see the reflection of its face on the pool and made to realize that it is in fact a lion.

We the human beings have not been painted by any one else but having born as Lion (king of kings), have painted ourselves as Sheep (week animal) and then we happily move around, eat, sleep and enjoy our lives as sheep amongst sheep (in this world full of beings with week mind and lot of desires).

After we have sufficiently suffered or enjoyed for all our karmas performed with our mistaken identity as sheep (man with desires), God enters our lives directly or through a preceptor (Guru). 

The Guru, instead of directly pointing out our mistaken identity, teaches us in the following sequence:-
- Purpose of our birth.
- About karmas, about desires, vasanas and all animal qualities of man on the other  side. 

After we have satisfactorily imbibed his teachings and instructions, he introduces us to what God and We and creation actually is - Sathyam, Jnanam, Anantham - Pure Existence, Pure Knowledge or Consciousness, Infinite or all pervading.

At the end of our spiritual journey under the watchful eyes of our Master, we ultimately stand up and roar, "I AM THAT, TAT TWAM ASI".

"Matter is your servant, you are not the servant of matter"-Your body, mind, intellect (BMI), senses which are matter, must be your servants, serving you to proceed towards your realization that you are lion. 

Whereas, unfortunately, man continues to be  servant  to his  BMI, his senses and continues birth after birth with the notion dictated by his  senses that he is a  sheep (Limited week man with unlimited desires).

Love.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Dear All,

The quote is complete in itself and actually needs no elaboration.

It applies in our worldly pursuits as well as our spiritual sadhana.

Often, in our spiritual sadhana, we fail to reach the state of peace/bliss and somewhere in between, we slip and get carried away from the tempting call of the glittering world.

What Acharya says above is that, let our failure not make us our lose our focus on our ultimate goal in spiritual sadhana.

Let us introspect, let us understand where, during our journey, our ego (any of the kleshas/vasana) took charge and made us slave to them and we lost the race.

Let us pray to God to give us strength not to be slave to similar ego next time and get up and march again and again towards the ONLY goal - Merging with the Source and existing as Source.

Is it not true that when we look back at our past life, we are easily able to identify where all we were wrong? 

This capacity to introspect, to identify our mistakes, to correct them - all this point out towards one thing. Only we as human beings are bestowed with the power of discrimination and it is the divine power/energy/consciousness which we say as Antaratman, which illumines our intellect and then our intellect always points out what is / was right and what is/was wrong!

Love.

Anandamayi Ma

Revered Beings,

Entire Vedanta or what we call as Upanishads with all related Vedanta treatise like Atma Bodha, Ashtavakra Gita, Viveka Chudamani, Avadhutha Gita, Ribhu Gita, Moksha Gita, Sad Darshanam, etc. have been captured in the above pour of the realized Saint Anandamayi Maa.

When God was  there, God ONLY was there, without name, without form, without the 5 elements, without any thing whatsoever.

When God willed to create (this will is indeed mystical because with human mind, we cannot comprehend as to how God, existing without mind, can ever will to create), since nothing else was available to create matter, God poured Himself, His own essence into  the matter He created  and thus, as Maa says, "In water, land, trees, shrubs, creepers and everywhere else, only God (God's energy, God's essence, God's chaitanya) is there".

Thus, God did not create matter and leave it at that, He himself prevailed in the  entire creation, as everything is made of 5 elements and 5 elements is nothing but God's energy, God's pure consciousness. 

Thus, retracing to the Source of each and every living and non-living matter, one has to know and realize that the Source, as Maa  puts it, NONE SAVE HIM (none other than Him).

Anor Aniyam, Mahato Mahiyam...

Subtler than the subtlest, greater than the greatest, is part of a verse from Kathopanishad.

God is subtler than the subtlest or smaller than the smallest because, God as essence is not apparent, not easily seen or grasped in any matter created. Best example is we human beings. How many of us are actually able to EXPERIENCE the God within us?

God is mightier than the mightiest in the sense, the mightiest or the biggest phenomenon that you can imagine in creation is space and as said before, space, one of the 5 elements was the 1st matter created by God. 

When mother creates a child, mother has to be greater than the child. When God has created space, God has to be necessarily greater than the space, mightier than the space.

Now the secret that we all must know today

Very often the author has heard so many Sai devotees, including those who have been close to him once upon a time tell "I see Sai in all and with that knowledge, I serve all".

Though no body can judge any other's spiritual state and it may be quite true that the devotee would have seen SAI in all, we need to know one thing beyond any doubt on this aspect today.

"UNLESS WE HAVE EXPERIENCED GOD WITHIN US AS TRUE BLISS OR TRUE JOY OR EVEN BEYOND, AS THE SOURCE OF ALL JOY AND ALL BLISS, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPERIENCE GOD IN ALL".

When we say I SEE GOD IN ALL, what would be seen by us perhaps in all? The smiling face of Sai? Sai with orange robe? Sai with bushy hair? Sai with a mole on cheeks? Sai with enchanting appearance? 

It is not possible to see SAI like this.

Here, Swami Vivekananda's  quote comes true - BE AND THEN MAKE.

Only after truly experiencing God as pure, eternal Joy or Bliss or even beyond within the core of our heart, we can possibly see God in all. This is true because, after we exist as JOY/BLISS, we actually have to make no efforts to see God in all. The Joy that we are, gets splashed/showered in all the beings who come face to face with us and in that aura, everything transforms into pure Bliss/Joy.

Love.