Chapter 16 & 17 Quick Brahma Gnyan .
Sai Baba always said that He would accept with appreciation any small thing offered with love and devotion, but if the same thing was offered with pride and haughtiness , He would reject it. Being Himself full of Sat-Chit-Anand (Existence, Knowledge and Bliss) He did not care much for more outward formalities but if an offering was made in meek and humble spirit, the same was welcome and He accepted it with pleasure and avidity.
The Sadguru gives us the most precious thing that is inconceivable and inscrutable (The reality).
For seeing Brahman one has to give five things, i.e. surrender five things viz. (1) Five Pranas (vital forces), (2) Five senses (five of action and five of perception), (3) mind, (4) intellect and (5) ego. This path of Brahma-Jnana of self-realization is 'as hard as to tread on the edge of a razor'.
Qualifications for Brahma-Jnana or Self-Realization
1)Mumuksha or intense desire to get free.
2) Virakti or a feeling of disgust with the things of this world and the next.
3) Antarmukhata (introversion). Our senses have been created by God with a tendency to move outward and so, man always looks outside himself and not inside.
4) Catharsis (eliminating all base ideas & emotions)
5) Right Conduct Unless, a man leads a life of truth, penance and insight, a life of celibacy, he cannot get God-realization.
6) Preferring Shreyas, (the Good) to Preyas (the Pleasant). There are two sorts of things viz., the Good and the Pleasant; the former deals with spiritual affairs, and the latter with mundane matters. Both these approach man for acceptance. He has to think and choose one of them. The wise man prefers the Good to the Pleasant; but the unwise, through greed and attachment, chooses the Pleasant.
7)Control of the mind & senses
8)Purification of the mind
9)The necessity of a Guru
10)Viveka & Vairagya it takes him safe beyond the ocean of mundane existence.
The illusion of attachment or the love for money is a deep eddy (whirlpool) of pain full of crocodiles in the form of conceit and jealousy.
He, who is desire less, can alone cross this whirlpool. Greed and Brahma are as poles asunder, they are eternally opposed to each other. Where there is greed, there is no room for thought or meditation of the Brahma. Then how can a greedy man get dispassion and salvation? For a greedy man there is no peace, neither contentment, nor certainty (steadiness).
If there be even a little trace of greed in mind, all the Sadhanas (spiritual endeavors) are of no avail. Even the knowledge of a well-read man, who is not free from the desire of the fruit or reward of his actions, and who has got no disgust for the same, is useless and can't help him in getting self-realization.
The teachings of a Guru are of no use to a man, who is full of egoism, and who always thinks about the sense-objects. Purification of mind is absolutely necessary; without it, all our spiritual endeavors are nothing, but useless show and pomp. It is, therefore, better for one to take only what he can digest and assimilate.
Baba always said" MY TREASURY IS FULL & I CAN GIVE ANYONE WHAT HE WANTS BUT I HAVE TO SEE WHETHER HE IS QUALIFIED TO RECEIVE WHAT I GIVE. iF YOU LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY, YOU WILL BE CERTAINLY BENEFITED. SITTING IN MASJID, I NEVER SPEAK ANY UNTRUTH"
Special Characteristic of Baba
There are many Saints, who leaving their houses, stay in forest, caves or hermitages and remaining in solitude, try to get liberation or salvation for themselves. They do not care for other people, and are always self-absorbed. Sai Baba was not of such a type. He had no home, no wife, no progency, nor any relations, near or distant. Still, He lived in the world (society). He begged His bread from four or five houses, always lived at the foot of the (Neem) tree, carried on wordly dealings, and taught all the people how to act. and behave in this world. Rare are the Sadhus and Saints who, after attaining God-vision, strive for the welfare of the people.
Sai Baba always said that He would accept with appreciation any small thing offered with love and devotion, but if the same thing was offered with pride and haughtiness , He would reject it. Being Himself full of Sat-Chit-Anand (Existence, Knowledge and Bliss) He did not care much for more outward formalities but if an offering was made in meek and humble spirit, the same was welcome and He accepted it with pleasure and avidity.
The Sadguru gives us the most precious thing that is inconceivable and inscrutable (The reality).
For seeing Brahman one has to give five things, i.e. surrender five things viz. (1) Five Pranas (vital forces), (2) Five senses (five of action and five of perception), (3) mind, (4) intellect and (5) ego. This path of Brahma-Jnana of self-realization is 'as hard as to tread on the edge of a razor'.
Qualifications for Brahma-Jnana or Self-Realization
1)Mumuksha or intense desire to get free.
2) Virakti or a feeling of disgust with the things of this world and the next.
3) Antarmukhata (introversion). Our senses have been created by God with a tendency to move outward and so, man always looks outside himself and not inside.
4) Catharsis (eliminating all base ideas & emotions)
5) Right Conduct Unless, a man leads a life of truth, penance and insight, a life of celibacy, he cannot get God-realization.
6) Preferring Shreyas, (the Good) to Preyas (the Pleasant). There are two sorts of things viz., the Good and the Pleasant; the former deals with spiritual affairs, and the latter with mundane matters. Both these approach man for acceptance. He has to think and choose one of them. The wise man prefers the Good to the Pleasant; but the unwise, through greed and attachment, chooses the Pleasant.
7)Control of the mind & senses
8)Purification of the mind
9)The necessity of a Guru
10)Viveka & Vairagya it takes him safe beyond the ocean of mundane existence.
The illusion of attachment or the love for money is a deep eddy (whirlpool) of pain full of crocodiles in the form of conceit and jealousy.
He, who is desire less, can alone cross this whirlpool. Greed and Brahma are as poles asunder, they are eternally opposed to each other. Where there is greed, there is no room for thought or meditation of the Brahma. Then how can a greedy man get dispassion and salvation? For a greedy man there is no peace, neither contentment, nor certainty (steadiness).
If there be even a little trace of greed in mind, all the Sadhanas (spiritual endeavors) are of no avail. Even the knowledge of a well-read man, who is not free from the desire of the fruit or reward of his actions, and who has got no disgust for the same, is useless and can't help him in getting self-realization.
The teachings of a Guru are of no use to a man, who is full of egoism, and who always thinks about the sense-objects. Purification of mind is absolutely necessary; without it, all our spiritual endeavors are nothing, but useless show and pomp. It is, therefore, better for one to take only what he can digest and assimilate.
Baba always said" MY TREASURY IS FULL & I CAN GIVE ANYONE WHAT HE WANTS BUT I HAVE TO SEE WHETHER HE IS QUALIFIED TO RECEIVE WHAT I GIVE. iF YOU LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY, YOU WILL BE CERTAINLY BENEFITED. SITTING IN MASJID, I NEVER SPEAK ANY UNTRUTH"
Special Characteristic of Baba
There are many Saints, who leaving their houses, stay in forest, caves or hermitages and remaining in solitude, try to get liberation or salvation for themselves. They do not care for other people, and are always self-absorbed. Sai Baba was not of such a type. He had no home, no wife, no progency, nor any relations, near or distant. Still, He lived in the world (society). He begged His bread from four or five houses, always lived at the foot of the (Neem) tree, carried on wordly dealings, and taught all the people how to act. and behave in this world. Rare are the Sadhus and Saints who, after attaining God-vision, strive for the welfare of the people.
Sai Satcharitra in Telugu Soft Copy:
Telugu Sai Satcharitra Audio:Sister Lavanya
Post details -Sister Lavanya
Embroidery work-Sister Lavanya's Mother
Sai sketch:Brother Sai Vishnu ji .
Wallpaper-R.Kouwshigan Ji.
© Shirdi Sai Baba Bhajans and Songs
Post details -Sister Lavanya
Embroidery work-Sister Lavanya's Mother
Sai sketch:Brother Sai Vishnu ji .
Wallpaper-R.Kouwshigan Ji.
© Shirdi Sai Baba Bhajans and SongsLoading
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