Sutra 60. Saanti roopaat paramaanandroopaachcha.
[The path of devotion is easy)
because it (devotion) is of the nature of peace and supreme bliss.]
Saantiroopaat : of the form of
peace of mind ;
Paramaanandaroopaat : because form
of supreme bliss because of its being of its being of the and.
The devotee forgets
everything, even himself. He truly lives only for God. He lives in God.
Honey gives sweetness at once
to anyone who tastes it. Even so devotion bestows perfect peace and supreme
bliss. This fact is self-evident. It admits of no further proof.
HOW MAN LOSES HIS PEACE / BLISS?
· We should have, by now, be absolutely clear, after reading
so many times in so many theme posts in this blog that God created man exactly
as He himself, pure, divine, spotless, blemish less!!
· When Man was thus born for the first time, he cannot have
ego. By EGO, what do we mean?? The basic Ego is “Identifying oneself with one’s
limited identity with his / her body, the physical existence and forgetting that
one is not this body but one is divine, pure SELF, as one is created by God.
· So, is it now absolutely clear that as long as man exists
exactly as he is created by God, he cannot have his ego identity, he cannot be
affected by hatred, attachment etc. , as these factors- Hatred, Attachment etc.
are children of the mother Ego.
· Only when one identifies oneself with his body and mind,
then that mind, identifying ourselves as our physical identity as
Ram or Shaym or Mohamad or Peter etc., can hate someone (who is not suiting
to, who do not gel well with what we have thought as our identity, our likes,
our dislikes, our nature etc.) or love someone (who suit, who recognize our
nature, our likes, our dislikes, our way of life).
· With this Ego identity, with this Raga, Dvesha, our mind is
agitated and in that agitated mind, our peace is gone, our bliss is
disturbed!!!!
WHEN WE
LOVE GOD
· And, when one is immersed in God’s Love in and out, then what happens?
· Our Ego, identifying ourselves as this body, this mind- is slowly and
steadily getting dissolved in the ocean of Love which has enveloped
us totally.
· When we exist as Love ourselves, then, we truly exist as God, for, the
God Himself declared- LOVE IS GOD!!
· When we have no mind to love/ hate any one with respect to our limited
identity, when we don’t have the mind to treat someone as Mine and someone as
not mine, when we do not have mind to get affected by whatever is
happening around us in the world, when our mind, if it exists, is totally
filled with God’s love, then, can we close our eyes and at least think or
imagine, if we are able to exist thus for a day, even for an hour, in that day
or hour, How would we exist as??? What perhaps would be our experience??
· WE WOULD BE IN TOTAL PEACE, TOTAL BLISS, BECAUSE, IN
OUR EXISTENCE AS LOVE, WE EXIST EXACTLY AS GOD EXISTS.
· Though Sai did have a body, Sai did have the whole educational institutions,
the ashram, the super specialty hospitals to be looked after, though
He worked tirelessly to look after all these things , still, HOW WOULD HE
INTERNALLY BE?? WHAT EXPERIENCE DOES A DEVOTEE HAS, WHEN HIS EYES MEET SAI’S
EYES FOR A SECOND?? WHAT PURITY IS EXPERIENCED, WHICH IS RADIATED BY SAI’S
EYES, SAI’S DARSHAN???
· That purity, the divinity, the devotee, in his Love for God, exists
as!!!
· In that state of existence, like Sai, it is not enough to say that the
devotee finds peace, the devotee experiences bliss. To say thus would mean that
peace, bliss etc. are something different from the devotee / Sai. If they are something
different from you, then you cannot be Peace/ Bliss eternally. Peace and bliss
would come and go just like your relatives, who are different from you, visit
you and leave you after staying with you for few days.
· SAI IS LOVE, SAI IS BLISS, SAI IS ANANDA. Similarly, the devotee who
has experienced that Sai’s love also exists AS PEACE, AS BLISS!!!!
· The most appropriate expression is – He abides in peace, He
abides in Bliss (just like it is said, the sadhaka who has experienced SELF/
ATMAN, Abides in SELF)
Love.
