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 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)