Sri Ramana Maharshi

Dear All,

Bro Hari, in one of his talks, says, 'If Swami applies for a visa and His name has to be filled in the visa application, perhaps the entire bhajanavali book has to be attached as annexure for filling all names of Sai".

Similarly, for explaining the above quote, author has to attach all the 18 posts under the theme "Purpose of Human Birth".

As though the Lord tells us "You are God. You were ever God. You have just forgotten your identity in few births. God realization is nothing but striving to search and discover your true identity".

And, this Self-Realization is possible ONLY by turning inward, through intense meditation. 

Only after you lose cognizance of all objects in the world, all thoughts about you and the world around, you can actually come face to face with your true identity, the Divine you, the way in which God created you and sent to this world. 

There is nothing else to do.

All the actions are first thought and then done with our mind. The use of mind has very well been learnt in the MBCA posts.

Once God realization happens to a Jiva, then as Ramana says,"There is nothing else to be done" because, after realization, the Jiva turned Jivanmukhta, does not plan to take up any action. 

He lives moment to moment and in such living, any action, any event in his life is not done, it just happens.

The state of a Jiva turned Jivanmukhta (Realized Soul) is such that even while undertaking intense actions, they exist as pure SELF, which is always action less as SELF is body less, mind less, thought less!!

Love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Dear All,

When we say that the world is changing, world is moving, all objects - plants, trees and human beings are born, live and die, let us just think for a moment, with what relevance we say that they move or they change / they live / they die. 

Is it not that all these are in relation to some thing, some phenomenon which does not change, which does not move, which is not born, which does not die?

This can be better understood by one example.

When we are seated in a train which has stopped in a station, in the next line, a train is moving non stop in full speed.

We say that the other train is moving, only with reference to the train which is not moving, in which we are seated.

Similarly, only with reference to some phenomenon which is much beyond this moving world, which by itself does not move, which is not born and which does not die, it appears that the world is moving / man is born, man lives and man dies!

Look around the world and see each and every object in the world. 

Can't you realize that all these objects could not have been created by any object which is also moving like all other objects?

There must be something super natural, some phenomenon that is change less, unmoved, which existed before time space came to be known.

Out of such super natural phenomenon which by itself is motion less, birth less, death less this entire creation  which is continuously moving and which has all objects in it which are born, which live for some time, which die after some time.

This super natural phenomenon is GOD!

Love. 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Dear All,

The above quote covers the essence of purushartha, freewill, purpose of birth, use of higher intellect / discrimination, single pointed devotion - all the posts, all the themes covered till now in the blog.

How does  a lotus blossom?? It is born in the pool of dirty water, it sustains in that dirty water!! Still, it opens its petal to receive the sun rays when the sun dawns and with that strength, it blossoms and gives delight to any one who see it.

Thus, we as human, irrespective of the environment in which we are, irrespective of the bad prarabdha we suffer, must open up the petal of our hearts to receive the sunshine of God(love and grace of God) and blossom as a spiritual soul, as God man!!

Most unfortunate thing about human life is that we are so demoralized, so disheartened by the impact of our prarabdha karma, the miseries in our life fetched by us due to our own action in our past lives that when a master walks into our life, when God's call comes to us as sunshine, we keep the petal of our heart closed instead of opening it and receiving the grace of Lord's sunshine.

Love.