WHAT ARE TRUE RICHES
Shri Sai Baba is Sagun Brahman. There are many saints who renounce the world and live in solitutde for their own salvation. Shri Sai Baba was not such a type. He lived in the society and taught all the people how to act and behave in the world. Shri Sai has said several times to His devotees to listen carefully to His Stories, understand their significance, meditate ont hem and then only the devotee can assimilate their spirit. Daily reading of Shri Sai Satcharita with devotion is essential for Sai devotees to assimilate Baba’s teaching.
Shri Sai Baba taught us to cultivate the habit of eating food in a worshipful manner. Food is God. Everything that keeps us going is God. Food is a manifestation of God outwardly. Within us the vital force is God. All things that sustain life are expressions of God. The great life force is God. Therefore, we must not treat food in a contemptuous way, in an angry mood or in a mood of displeasure. So food should not be eaten with disregard or in a huff or in a criticizing manner. “What is this food you have put upon this plate?’. We must not be in such temper when we eat food. We must eat food in a worshipful manner and must not waste food. This is what Baba taught us by telling Shri Hemandpanth through his Leela described in chapter 24 of Sri Sai Satcharita to remember Him always before eating. Remembering the Sagun form of Baba will bring in us the mood of worship before eating, and our mind shall attain peace and happiness.
The Upanishadic teaching that “Anna Brahma” was taught to us by Baba through his stories for the quest for Guru described in chapter 32 of Sri Sai Satcharita. In this, Baba has stressed again that “Do not discard offers of food. Offers of bread and food should be regarded as auspicious sign of success”. How beautifully Baba taught us through the purport of this story to accept and eat food in a worshipful manner and what great results one can achieve thereby.
Let us now see how Baba taught us what true riches are. If we begin to desire immediately we admit our poverty. Desire is poverty. Desire is a feeling of inadequacy and when we begin to desire we are a beggar already. The secret of prosperity is to affirm our true nature. Be always contended and put a notice on the mind. “No admission for desire”. The moment a desire arises just reject it and say “Desire get out” and then we will being to experience that the desired object comes by itself to us. As long as we run after a thing we cannot get it. The moment you turn away from a thing it follows us by itself. This is an eternal law. This is a law which has been proven in the lives of all those who have discovered it and applied to themselves.
Baba has taught us this great Brahma Sutra through the illustration of the story of the servant maid of Shri Kaka Saheb Dixit in Chapter 20 of Shri Sai Satcharita. The happy temperament of the maid servant when while wearing torn rags on her person and the expression of joy on getting a new sari and the following day the contentment shown by her by wearing her old sari reveal clearly to all of us that the secret of happiness is to assert our true abundant nature.
Let me conclude this with the saying of Sri Hemandpant in Chapter 2 of Sri Sai Satcharita that “The life if Sai Baba is as wide and deep as the infinite ocean and all we can dive deep into the same and take out precious gems of knowledge and Bhakti and distribute them to all”
Col G.N. Gopalkrishnan
Srinagar
Sai Leela October 1985.
Shri Sai Baba is Sagun Brahman. There are many saints who renounce the world and live in solitutde for their own salvation. Shri Sai Baba was not such a type. He lived in the society and taught all the people how to act and behave in the world. Shri Sai has said several times to His devotees to listen carefully to His Stories, understand their significance, meditate ont hem and then only the devotee can assimilate their spirit. Daily reading of Shri Sai Satcharita with devotion is essential for Sai devotees to assimilate Baba’s teaching.
Shri Sai Baba taught us to cultivate the habit of eating food in a worshipful manner. Food is God. Everything that keeps us going is God. Food is a manifestation of God outwardly. Within us the vital force is God. All things that sustain life are expressions of God. The great life force is God. Therefore, we must not treat food in a contemptuous way, in an angry mood or in a mood of displeasure. So food should not be eaten with disregard or in a huff or in a criticizing manner. “What is this food you have put upon this plate?’. We must not be in such temper when we eat food. We must eat food in a worshipful manner and must not waste food. This is what Baba taught us by telling Shri Hemandpanth through his Leela described in chapter 24 of Sri Sai Satcharita to remember Him always before eating. Remembering the Sagun form of Baba will bring in us the mood of worship before eating, and our mind shall attain peace and happiness.
The Upanishadic teaching that “Anna Brahma” was taught to us by Baba through his stories for the quest for Guru described in chapter 32 of Sri Sai Satcharita. In this, Baba has stressed again that “Do not discard offers of food. Offers of bread and food should be regarded as auspicious sign of success”. How beautifully Baba taught us through the purport of this story to accept and eat food in a worshipful manner and what great results one can achieve thereby.
Let us now see how Baba taught us what true riches are. If we begin to desire immediately we admit our poverty. Desire is poverty. Desire is a feeling of inadequacy and when we begin to desire we are a beggar already. The secret of prosperity is to affirm our true nature. Be always contended and put a notice on the mind. “No admission for desire”. The moment a desire arises just reject it and say “Desire get out” and then we will being to experience that the desired object comes by itself to us. As long as we run after a thing we cannot get it. The moment you turn away from a thing it follows us by itself. This is an eternal law. This is a law which has been proven in the lives of all those who have discovered it and applied to themselves.
Baba has taught us this great Brahma Sutra through the illustration of the story of the servant maid of Shri Kaka Saheb Dixit in Chapter 20 of Shri Sai Satcharita. The happy temperament of the maid servant when while wearing torn rags on her person and the expression of joy on getting a new sari and the following day the contentment shown by her by wearing her old sari reveal clearly to all of us that the secret of happiness is to assert our true abundant nature.
Let me conclude this with the saying of Sri Hemandpant in Chapter 2 of Sri Sai Satcharita that “The life if Sai Baba is as wide and deep as the infinite ocean and all we can dive deep into the same and take out precious gems of knowledge and Bhakti and distribute them to all”
Col G.N. Gopalkrishnan
Srinagar
Sai Leela October 1985.
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