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.

Attach to Detach or Detach to Attach? - Swami teaches us

Dear All,

Yesterday, in Chinamaya’s quote - we learnt “Detach, to Attach”. Vairagya has to set in, for salvation to commence.

Today, we read how to “Attach to Detach”!

(Arey bhaiya ji, satya murthy sahb, Hum Khudai confusion mein hain, hum ko aur confuse nahin kariyega! Kabhi attach to kabhi detach. Ye kya confusion hai?!!)

Dear All,

Doctor does not prescribe same medicines to all kinds of diseases to different patients.

Swami also cannot give the same prescription to all devotees.

When He sees that a devotee has got the power to renounce, He commands “leave your job and come and work in parthi”. Author has himself seen at least 3 such cases while Swami commanded to 3 devotees even when we were seated for pada namaskar, as Delhi sevadal, after completing our Seva.

One was Shri Shyam Nanda, who was working at a senior position in American embassy, another was Sri Pradhan, who was in Army and now discharging his responsibility as chief Security Officer in Parthi and there are few more.

This is His command “Detach, to Attach”.

Now, about Sai’s ways of “ attaching us to detach”.

Swami attaches us through:-

·   His experience shared by other devotees with us.

·   His first darshan, sparshan and sambashan

·   His vibhuthi creation for us.

·   Creating ring/necklace for us

·   Saving us from some fatal accident.

·   Forgiving us for our endless sins and smiling and asking us “when did you come” when we are seated in the sanctum sanctorum.

and.. the list is endless.

And when He chose to leave His form as Sathya Sai for the time being, He has left us with a question.

“I have left you physically for the time being. After all the attachments, you have had with Me, I have left a plethora of My teachings for you to get attached to. I shall come back as Prema Sai to see whether you were really attached to My teachings or drifted away from Me and got attached to other names and forms, got attached to this glittering world and got actually detached from Me”

Whether we will PASS the TEST given by our Sai and look at Prema Sai eye to eye and whisper, “Sai, I could pass in Your test”?

LET US THINK!

Love.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Dear All,

The mantra given by Sai in the above pour is as though "ATTACH, TO DETACH" as against DETACH TO ATTACH given in another post where we learnt to develop detachment at mental level for progressing in sadhana.

A child is holding a toy which has some protruding nail which may harm the child. Even if you tell 100 times to the child to leave that toy, the child may not leave and in fact, it may hold on to the toy more vigorously.

However, if you show a more precious, more attractive doll to the child, the child will immediately throw the previous doll and run towards the new toy.

Similarly, it is of no use to preach detachment, dispassion, control of senses etc., to an aspirant sometimes. 

Instead, show him the joy of being in the kingdom of God. Take him through the stories of realized Masters, show him the state of joy of the realized Masters. Narrate the glory of Sri Krishna as described in Srimad Bhagawatham. 

It is quite possible that the aspirant will get so much ATTACHED to the glory of Lord, to the joy of being in God's kingdom that he may be actually DETACHED from the world, without even realizing the same.

So, the secret is "channelize your mind to nobler, higher, sacred pursuits in the world, the less sacred ones will drop off your mind on their own".

Love.