Friends! Do Not Tarry…
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Prasanthi Nilayam, the Supreme Abode Of Divinity On Planet Earth – Is IT yet another pilgrim spot for humanity to seek and satisfy petty ‘worldly’ desires?…or does IT offer something substantial…? For the one who is inclined, who has the eyes to see, ears to hear and ability to think, this Supreme Abode Of Sri Sathya Sai offers a glimpse of the Supreme Truth, writes Sri A Venkata Rao urging fellow travellers to make haste, life being short, cautioning, ‘if we tarry, great is our loss’. Extracted from Sanathana Sarathi, February 1970.
Has life any meaning? Or, is it a purposeless sojourn on earth? Are we merely being driven remorselessly, like dumb cattle, from the cradle to the cemetery? And, what is the journey like? It is only through a dark vale of tears, with occasional flashes of what is commonly called happiness. It looks as if we are drawn by an inexorable force; we find limitations binding us from every side. These thoughts naturally torment every thinking mind.
Friends! If you sincerely desire to get the answers to these and allied problems, go to Puttaparthi, where the supreme Guru, is ready to give you knowledge and peace. See Him, hear Him speak, grasp the way of life that He is teaching by His Own Life, watch the compassion and patience that is evident in His every act, the limitless grace that He showers, the tireless enthusiasm He has, for the uplift of humanity and the spontaneity with which all these Divine qualities are flowing from Him. If you have eyes to see, ears to hear and the capacity to think, it will not take you long to arrive at the Truth.
Life is a beginningless and unceasing manifestation of the One and only Truth, Sath-Chith-Ananda. The good and bad, happiness and sorrow, and similar dualities are mere concepts of your mind. You are, in fact and reality, Sath-Chith-Ananda and, not any of these material envelopments, body, mind and intellect. The latter change from moment to moment, but, you are the non-changing entity – the unchanging Witness!
The ego or jiva, which is no other than a thought, but, nevertheless, the root of all other thoughts centering round the nation of `I’ and `mine’ is the cause of all this mischief .
It parades as though it has an independent existence, when in reality it does not and cannot exist apart from the One Truth. Wrong identification by the Jiva or `i feeling’ with the body, the mind and the intellect makes it share the vicissitudes to which the latter, by their very nature, are subjects. If this identification is erased and you feel one with the ceaseless fount of Sath-Chith-Ananda, which is deep down in your own heart, the meaning of life stands revealed. The passing panorama, which we call nature, world, including the ego, is mere appearance, fleeting over the canvas of Truth, of Pure Absolute Consciousness.
Friends! We take pride in calling ourselves intelligent! We explore the earth, the sea and space, but, we do not know who we are! Intelligence is misused by us, to tyrannise over one another and over the rest of creation. We use it for amassing riches, and pandering the senses – futile pursuits, since we all must die, leaving all the gains we strove to win. Nor do these pursuits give us a sense of fulfilment, for, one `achievement’ fans the desire for more.
Baba tells us that we are seeking happiness through these means, because our nature itself is happiness or bliss. We resent limitations or finitude, because we are really infinite by nature. The ego seeps infinite or permanent bliss, but, in its ignorance, it seeks it in the finite world. Baba tells us that we are, in fact, seeking our own nature, in striving to find bliss, here and now. But, we have to find it, in ourselves, and not outside us. It is the kernel of each of us! Reverse the process, Baba says. Instead of running after the fleeting pleasures that the world can offer, try to shut out the mind from the outside a world, and from the turmoil of thoughts gurgling within. Instal Sarveswara (the Lord of All), embodied in whichever Form you like – or, without Form, as a Principle or Power in simple Awareness – and train the mind to abide there. A day will come, when the Truth will dawn, in a flash, and the Witness within us, will reveal itself. Try to reach the source from where the ego springs, says Baba. `Abide there and you will realise your nature, which is Sath-Chith-Ananda.’
Baba is not only the haven of the sincere seeker; He is the refuge of the maimed, the sick, the ailing, the unhappy, the persons afflicted with all kinds of material desires. Each and every one derives comfort and joy from Him.
What is most important is, that all are ultimately weaned from worldly entanglement and snares, and directed to the Abode of Truth, and guided along the road leading to it in conformity with his power of understanding and inclination.
Prasanthi Nilayam (the Abode of Peace) is where the All pervading Truth has come to preside in Human form. It is spreading the Gospel of Sathyam Sivam and Sundaram, for the benefit of troubled humanity.
Friends! If you have not found your way to Prasanthi Nilayam, and surrendered at the Feet of Baba, make haste. Now is the time! Life is short. If you tarry, great is your loss!
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