Deserve, before you desire ( Brahman)

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Deserve before you desire

 

A visitor: Baba, What is God like?

 

Baba: (Not addressing the visitor but addressing a devotee X ) Go to Bagchand Marwadi and tell him Baba wants Rs.100/- and bring the money.

 

X (returning in a minute): The Marwadi says he has no money and sends his namaskars.

 

Baba: Go to the next money lender and ask him for a loan of Rs.100/- for me.

 

X (returning in a minute): He says he has not got the money.

 

Baba: Fetch Nana Saheb Chandorkar (and when Nana came)

 

Baba: Nana, I want Rs.100/-

 

Then Nana wrote a chit to Bagchand Marwadi for a loan of Rs.100.

 

The money was at once sent by the Marwadi.

 

Baba: All is like this in the world.

 

Visitor later on to Das Ganu Maharaj: Why did not Baba answer my question?

 

Das Ganu: He has.

 

Visitor: How?

 

Das Ganu: When others asked for money, it was not forthcoming. Nana Saheb asked for it and got it at once. Similarly the man who merely wants to know Brahman does not get it. It is he who is qualified to know it that gets it. Baba's answer is, "Deserve, before you desire ( Brahman)".

 

(From Baba's Charters and Saying – 132)

Guruvaar Prarthna

Guruvaar Prarthna

 

Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy day of Guruvaar. Baba why do you give us wants and desires, if we succeed our delightness stays for a moment, otherwise we are gloomy, despair and sorrow. As soon as one want is gratified, another new one crops up and no end to our wants and consequently our worries, restlessness, anxieties and fear continues. Baba we pray to stop this ignorance and we surrender to Your Lotus Feet and submit all our wants, needs,  worries and desires. You know what is best for us, give us the right thing at right time, until such time we pray and meditate on You. On this holy day we start our prayers after reading the following ovi verses from Your Satcharita.

 

Even in such a pathetic situation, Bhau chanted Sai's name. "Enough of this suffering. Even death is preferable", he cried surrendering to Sai.

 

He sent a message to Baba: "I am weary of bearing this pain. How many abscesses do I have on my body! I do not have the strength to bear this.

 

Throughout my life I have acted correctly. Why should I have to undergo this painful condition? I have never deviated from the path of righteousness. Why should I be punished and for what sin?

 

Baba! I can longer bear this pain on account of the guineaworms, which is similar to death. Instead let me die now. I shall undergo the suffering in my next life.

 

There is no alternative but to bear the pain. I shall have to take many more births. But that which is destined cannot be avoided. Dull-witted though I am, I realise it.

 

I will happily take ten more births, in which I shall undergo the fruits of my 'karma'. But grant me the boon of ending this present life.

 

Enough of this life. Release me from this birth. I do not wish to undergo this pain. That is all that I ask for now ".

 

Listening to this prayer, the Siddha-rana felt compassion; and for Dr. Pillai's satisfaction showered the nectar of mercy. Savour it.

 

Then seeing this utterly painful condition of Dr. Pillai, notice what the devotee's wish-fulfilling tree did to remove it.

 

This message from Dr. Pillai was brought by Dixit. Listening to this news, Baba said: "Go and tell him to be fearless ".

 

 And the further message he sent: "Why should he be crippled for ten lives? He has to bear it out only for ten days; and we shall both share it.

 

When I am capable of granting liberation, material desires, or spirituality, are you being brave in asking for something meaningless like death?

 

I bow down to Sree Ganesh

I bow down to Sree Saraswati

I bow down to the Guru

I bow down to the Family Deity

I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra

I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.

 

-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter 34, Ovi 53 - 64)

KEEP THIS IN MIND

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KEEP THIS IN MIND

 

 

In October 1917, Baba spoke to a Bombay Lady.

 

Baba : Mother, what do you want? Ask for it.

 

Lady: Let me be free from the whirl of births and deaths.

 

Baba (laughing): Is this all you want? What! Have you come to die?

 

Lady (shocked): Baba, I do not at all understand you

 

Baba: Think who you are.

 

Lady: I do not understand.

 

Baba (pointing to her husband): He will tell you.

 

Then the lady went with her husband to her lodgings and asked him what Baba meant.

 

Husband: Baba's words are mysterious. I cannot be sure I have made out his meaning. Probably he means something like this. The Jiva goes on reincarnating any number of times till it gets Sakshatkar i.e., sees or realises God. Baba is God. But people seeing him do not get full faith and do not see him i.e., feel him to be God; and hence they do not get Mukti. One must learn from the sastras, that essentially Jiva and Siva are one. You think yourself to be a Jiva is it not?

 

Lady: Yes.

 

Husband: Baba and the Sastras want you to regard youself as Siva or God.

 

Lady: No. No. I am a petty sinner-a Jiva and not the great God Siva.

 

Husband: No doubt that is your feeling. But Baba means that by constantly regarding yourself as God, your deeply ingrained belief that you are only a finite Jiva will be removed. This process continued, may be through numerous births and strengthened and helped by contact with saints will give you the firm belief that you are Brahman. That must be Baba's meaning.

(The couple again returned to Dwaraka Mai)

 

Baba: Mother, I have listened (from here) to all that your husband told you. Keep that in mind.

 

(From Baba's Charters and Saying – 121)