Shirdi sai say's learning was no substitute for self realization

Srimad Mahabhagavatham states that it is a leela (divine play) for god to create things. The Bhagavad Gita, on the other hand, states that it is part of nature to create and procreate. Unluckily no scriptures clearly answers the “Why and what” question about creation. Even in genesis we see the instrumentality of creation. Where Elohim transformed into Jehovah (“I am”) and created the universe in six days. In the Vedanta Sutra the word Leela”-Divine sport-“is used to explain creation as the desire less expression of god. Why does god want to express itself?

If tomorrow a human being is manufactured, within a lab, without the donation from male sperm and female egg, most organize religion in the world may fall. Will then man be called the creator?

“We can look at creativity as a mystery, brilliant new ideas are produced and we do not know how they came about. We can study and analyze the behavior of creative people but this will not tell us very much, because often such people are themselves unaware of what triggered the brilliant idea of their own creation.” Edward de Bono, the originator of lateral thinking and widely acknowledged leading international authority in the field of creative thinking who could deliberate systematic approach to creative demand, has said in his book “Serious creativity”.

My dear sai, I am confused... totally confused about the creation and its concepts. Kindly help me to go further. To acquire the knowledge and find confirmation to proceed further is getting difficult for me sai...I need your help...I put my head under my Baba’s feet and prayed for his guidance.

My next door persons son who came from abroad was handing over a new car key to his father...I could hear their conversation amidst my prayer.The father was asking half a dozen questions about the car though he was very happy about having one from his son...for which the son answers ...father, When a vehicle say a car is given to you learn to drive the car rather than all the time analyzing about the characteristics of its engine, capacity, it’s road worthiness and how better the creation is but immediately learn to drive the car to reach the destination. Why you want to spend so many analyzes before you start driving, I have bought you the car to show my gratitude you drive and reach the destination. It is better to know but it is still better you drive and enjoy the purpose...

I suddenly heard an inner voice saying...My dear child “While knowledge of texts and scriptures are useful, learning was no substitute for self realization”.

I realize you my dear sai I realize you .....without unnecessary questions...

Aum sairam

Shirdi sai what is life?

I was invited to deliver a guest lecture on Human Genome and my mind was totally into that today...I just said sorry to my sai because I did not narrate my night aarti .....I was into search of life.....

All forms that perish other forms supply,

(By turn we catch the vital breath and die)

Like bubbles on the sea of matter born

They rise, they break, and to that the sea return

I just got the glimpses of the essay by Alexander pope, “An essay on man” when I was browsing when I tried under goggle engine

Enough for my thought to wander it started wandering...I was invited to deliver a guest lecture on Human Genome and my mind was totally into that today...I just said sorry to my sai because I did not narrate my night aarti .....I was into search of life.....

In the beginning was the world. The world proselytized the sea with its message, copying itself unceasingly and for ever. The world discovered how to rearrange chemicals so as to capture little eddies in the stream of entropy and make them live. The world transformed the land surface of the planet from the dusty hell to a verdant paradise. The world eventually blossomed and became sufficiently ingenious to build a porridge contraption called brain that could discover and be aware of the world itself...

My porridge contraption boggles every time I think this thought, in four thousand million years of earth history, I am lucky enough to be alive today, in five million species, I was fortunate enough to be born a conscious human being. In all of the earth’s history, biology and geography, I was born just during this moment of evolution of molecular biology, where two members of my own species discovered the structure DNA and hence uncovered the greatest, simplest and most surprising secret in the universe. Mock my zeal if you want. Consider me ridiculous but follow me on the journey back to the very origin of life, and I hope I can convince you of the immense fascination of the world.

I was so happy that I get such a flow my god my sai....with so much of happiness I just turned my eyes towards my table top....I could see sai with the message “I am omnipresent but people fail to recognize me”

I was taken aback is he telling me straight that I have missed to pray to him. My dear sai you are my life no doubt in whatever circumstances may be I should not have forgotten you dear....I just had him back into my thoughts....

Aum sairam.

Shirdi Sai’s offline message in my chat pops!

The hours passed and they seemed ugas to me. I was not in form but slowly the night 10.00 pm came... time for Seja aarti...I made up my mind even if baba is not liking me I like him I like him to my hearts of hearts and soul of soul. I will pray to him. And I will follow what he preached consciously every minute. My mind relaxed and all my muscles aching with pain came normal. I will not repeat that avaguna of shouting getting irritated and with full of ahangar thereafter.

After finishing the aarti I wanted to browse my computer...I logged into the chat ...as soon as I logged in I had an offline message popped up left by my sai for me...Hei my sai...agash...my sai...The message said

”I know you my child. Don’t fear when I am here. I will not leave you any day till you have faith in me. I never wanted to leave your house without seeing you....but you neither responded to the calling bell nor opened your door. How can I come when your door is closed my dear child? Okie I thought I can tell you immediately through your computer window... but you did not log in? It is not my fault what to do? I will TC

Sabka Malik Ek...

Shirdi Sai plays trick to make one realize...

My eyes were swollen and my mind with full of grief Saibaba came home but because of my foolish behavior he has left me....will it be once for all...I cannot take it sai please don’t do that to me I believe that you are going to be with me till my end and even after my death...I did a mistake a grave mistake of not carrying out your message punish me but please don’t reject me...I cannot take one thing for sure my life without you...I mean it really I mean it...please forgive me for that nasty behavior...please sai please...The happiness which was cloud nine sometimes thinking about you back poured out as tears from my eyes...I hated me totally at that minute. Even when I don’t like me for what I had behaved how will my sai? Not possible.

Are you going to reject me sai? ... Have I been thrown into your recycle bin....please sai please don’t empty me from your recycle bin...let me remain there for your reconsideration.I opened my door wide open. I started being conscious every minute thinking sai is going to come back and I waited for him in my doorstep.

Yes there was a call I happily ran from my hall.my husband came with a great smile home. As soon as he saw my swollen eyes he was shaken and asked “What has happened da? Why are you upset? Why it is 6.00 O clock evening you have not played the sai aarti?, very unusual...okie come dear don’t get upset”. When you see person so close and so near you need not even tell but they understand.

I did not narrate the incidence but I made a coffee for him went and had a wash and started the Evening aarti...What is the use elaborating devotion with Dhupa aarti when my sai himself came did not see me but conveyed the message that I am a fool not following “Love all and be kind to all because I live and exist in all.”. I was not able to sing along with the player. I was just listening to it with the very heavy heart thinking with fear whether my saibaba will leave me alone once for all.

Aum Sairam

Importance Saibaba gave for Vishnu sahasra Naama: BABA OF SHIRDI - DARSHAN OF GOD FOR DEVOUT FAITH

Importance Saibaba gave for Vishnu sahasra Naama: BABA OF SHIRDI - DARSHAN OF GOD FOR DEVOUT FAITH

Shirdi Sai said - Better practice than to preach

“Love all and be kind to all because I live and exist in all.” Is the message I got from Sai on 1^st of January 2008

A beautiful message it is really a very good message...but how to convey this... to all. In this fast world in what prime time I have to take in broadcasting this message...which media will be better a print or audio or video a multimedia...

Even to listen to god we have to find the appropriate time and target audience aum sairam....

My mind started boggling may be in my blog I will publish ...but how will I put this stuff into my audiences? All type of audiences. and to whom this message has to go?...To sai bhakts...may be... but they are easy audience, about sai they will be always searching him whether we write it or not they would have got it from Sai already...It is very easy to convey they need no language time and any kind of formalities simple. They know the language...pretty easy for them...then to whom I am doing this blog for?

May be to other than sai bakths who want to know him or do not know about him...whether to put these stuff in Indian languages or German, French Spanish, Danish...the list went very long...haree if we say as language people will ask whether it is C or C++ or OOPs java or may be about assembly language or programming language. A group of audiences belong to this category too. How to instantiate this concept with static or dynamic way...My thoughts has no limits...Sometimes it is better to know little unless the mind is tuned to take more information with balance...

I lifted my head to the wall. I saw a Vigneshwara vinayaga deity...He is sitting on a small Moosika (rat) with such a huge belly with lots of ladoos on a plate under him....ya the mind is like rat...it needs such a huge gnanakaraka to control oh that is it the gnanakaraka ganesha has taken the mouse as his vahana? The rat has to be controlled either god has to sit on it to control otherwise it has to have a lia (involvement) with the ladoos the worldly sweet things. Otherwise rat has no control...

See I was thinking about the means and ways and audiences to receive Saibaba’s message but my mind “the rat” started wandering for clues cluelessly...may be it needs more gnana?

Now I was clear that I could find the audiences and finalize the language. Cloud nine I am in happy I got such message to convey. I heard my calling bell ring suddenly my thought process got interrupted. I did not like...break in my thought process that I was waiting for my servant will open the door...but she did not. The next ring came I really got irritated tensed and stopped thinking and moving towards the door ...With so much of restlessness I opened the door My voice was harsh asking” Who is that can you not wait” I really wanted to slap the person who knocked my door disturbing me...With so much of vehemence and irritation I opened the door...Nobody was there ...I was still more irritated I went out and searched for the person...But Nobody I could find...I cannot imagine the irritated furious less loving person like me at that hour...

I came inside my house banged the door closed and scolded the person to my heart content. Slowly I cooled down...I was wondering who that person would have been...I turned my head towards the Sairam picture in my hall trying to get back my good thoughts about him...Sai sounded unhappy...in the picture. He said” Fool you where thinking of all possible ways to convey and correct others... waste of logic...mind should be calm to receive me...If only you could have got my message “Love all and be kind to all because I live and exist in all.” Properly you could not have behaved like that...I was standing and I rang your bell to see how you have taken my message but you miserably failed ....try to understand and follow my messages first rather than propagating for others..”

I lost a good chance of meeting my Sai though he came home to see me.I am ashamed of myself Sai...I am ashamed...”my whole body got shake with shame my eyes were with full of tears I was crying aloud "My Sai".

Aum Sairam

Shirdi Sai's message for 2008

This being new year day 2008 what is you message to all of us sairam?.I want to now...Baba.... I am starting to understand you... so much about you...I want to read and reread so many things you have told lived and showed as well so much told about you by many others.

To experience you to realize your presence, and today being the New Year’s Day 2008-01-01...after the evening aarti I wanted to know your message. Kindly give us your message....

I opened one of my favorite books about you and under the chapter I could read the following

“I was born to serve mankind and to make Shirdi a blessed place, where the rich and the poor, literate and illiterate, the pious and the saintly, the wordy and the wise could assemble and remember the higher spirit of things as manifested by the Supreme Being who is omnipotent.

I live in one and all, I live in shirdi, but I also live in the heart of each and every devotee who worships me and pays obeisance to me

My message is simple: love all and be kind to all because I live and exist in all.

So if people worship all-animals and men alike-you will never fail to serve me.

Be my bakta and the inheritor of all that I have to give you – blessings, bliss and benediction

Shirdi is holy,

My guru stayed here; my friends stayed here; and now you visit here.

May god’s abundant grace be upon you all.

Sabka Malik Ek!”

THE ABOVE MESSAGE WAS DICTATED TO THE AUTHOR BY BABA AT DWARAKMAI BEFORE HE STARTED WRITING THIS BOOK

(From The book Shirdi saibaba by Asish Mohan Khokar Eternal India)