Anandamayi Ma

Dear All,

In one of the earlier posts, author had written - "Doctor never prescribes same medicine for all patients or even same medicine for same patient at all times".  

Medicine is prescribed to cure the illness of different patients at one time or even of the same patient at different times.

Accordingly, when a disciple joins his Master's hermitage, the Master prescribes daily duties to different disciples in a different way. Someone is asked to take up serving in kitchen, cleaning the ashram etc. Someone is asked to make arrangements for the daily puja etc. Someone is asked to go through Bhagwan Gita and keep the commentary ready accordingly, for submitting to Master on a daily basis. 

The kitchen duty is given for the one who is more Rajasic by nature and who has to sweat it out by undertaking service, to gradually move to Satvic nature.

Arranging puja items is prescribed for the one who is more emotional by nature and is more keen to take up devotional path.

To the one who is capable of putting his head and heart together, commentary on Gita, or the path of Jnana is prescribed. 

Ultimately, all the disciple are brought to the same static level, to take up the higher teachings which the Master has to give them. 

And.., for the ways in which the Lord attracts different beings in different forms, through different ways..., only the beings thus attracted can speak about this phenomenon. 

Each one, when asked, will have a different story to share on how He/She came to Sai's fold. Besides this, each being chooses, especially in Hindu religion, a different Lord as  his chosen Lord or Ishta devata.

Depending upon the samskara brought along with us, as per our own nature, some of us choose Rama, some choose Krishna, some choose Hanuman, some choose Devi etc. 

The three main paths- Karma, Upasana and Jnana (Action, Devotion and Wisdom) have been dealt in detail under the theme "Purpose of Human Birth" and it is also explained as to how Lord naturally makes each one choose one of these paths in the initial stage and march along in that path. 

Uniqueness of Maa's expression is that, she speaks of something and leaves the subtler inner meaning of her expression to be contemplated and taken in by the reader. 

Readers may go through the earlier quote of Maa, then the way it is explained by the author and then wonder how Maa has left the subtler actual meaning to be understood by sincere reader  by contemplating on her lines. 

Similarly, as Maa ends today's quote with the line, "The path differs indeed for different pilgrims", the reader has to assume the role of a pilgrim, choose the path shown by God for him as per his samskara, take in the essence of treatise of his own religion on the path chosen by him, meditate and then finally arrive at the culmination of the  journey on the chosen path, in his mediation, and realize that , at the end of the journey, either on the chosen path or naturally gliding/progressing to more advance path, THE FINAL DESTINATION IS ONE AND ONLY ONE, IRRESPECTIVE OF HIS RELIGION, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE INITIAL PATH CHOSEN AND THE CULMINATION IS

"GOD REALIZATION"

Hari Aum Tatsat.