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GEMS FROM THE GOSPEL OF SRI SAIBABA

ANANTKOTI BRAHMANDA NAYAKA RAJADHJRAJA, SADGURU SHREE SAINATH MAHARAJKI JAI

GEMS FROM THE GOSPEL OF SRI SAIBABA

1.         Realising how precious human life is and knowing that Death is certain and may snatch us at any time, we should be ever alert to achieve the object of our life i.e., Self-realisation.

2.         Without God’s grace, we do not get the desire to listen to the stories of saints. Hearing the stories of saints is in a way keeping their company. It removes our body consciousness and egoism, destroys completely the chain of our birth and death and takes us to God who is pure Consciousness.

3.         Man does not generally think of God but when difficulties and calamities overtake him, he turns to Him and prays for relief.

4.         A man has to enjoy whatever God has bestowed on him in the firm conviction that what He bestows must be for his good.

5.         He who ever meditates on me, repeats my name, sings my deeds, will get his Karma destroyed. I take away every thing when I wish to show my favour.

6.         What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get Results accrue differently to two persons doing the same acts; that difference may be put down to be difference in their poorva karma.

7.         Desires must be controlled. You must master them and not be their slave.

8.         Life is lived in vain, if no yoga, tapas and jnana be achieved.

9.         Allah Malik (i.e. God) is the sole properitor; no body else is our protector. His will be done and He will show us the way and satisfy our Heart’s   desires.   It   is   on   account   of Runanubandha (former relationship) that we have come together. Let us love and serve each other and be happy.

10.       Strive not much for food and clothes. If you want any thing, beg of the Lord, leave wordly honour, try to get Lord’s grace and blessings. Let all the senses and mind be ever devoted to the worship of the Lord. Fix the mind in remembering Him always so that it will not wander elsewhere towards body, wealth and home. Then ti will be clam, peaceful and free.

11.       If any one begs of your anything, if that be in your hand or power, do so. Don’t say ‘NO’, If you have nothing to give, then give him a suave negative. Do not mock or ridicule the applicant nor get angry with him,

12.       To get the knowledge (realisation) of the Self, (Dyana) meditation is necessary. If you practise it continuously, the Vritties (Thoughts) will be pacified. When the mind is concentrated, the goal will be achieved.

13.       Return not evil for evil. Do not say “Better with a blow in the teeth of a wrong”. Return good for evil.

14.       The dog which you saw before meals and to which you gave the piece of bread is one with me; so also other creatures (cats, pigs, flies, cows etc) are one with me. I am roaming in their forms He who sees Me in all these creatures is my beloved

15.       Slave of slaves I am your debtor. I am satisfied at your darshana. It is a great favour that I saw your feet. I am an insect in your excreta. I consider myself blessed thereby.

16.       Joy and sorrow are mere delusion. Mere appearance of worldly joy is not true happiness. Whenever any idea of joy or sorrow arises in your mind, resist it. Do not give room to it.

17.       Get on Cheerfully with your worldly round of activities: but do not forget God. Remember. This samsara is not mine but God”. Think thus all the time you are awake. Inquire always “Who am I”?

18.       As long as body remains samsara remains None escapes it. The contact of any two things is samsara All mental and bodily process are samsara. By going away to forest you can not escape samsara.

19.       This Deha Prarabdha is the result of the Karma done by you in former births This body was therefore born Without suffering the results of Prarbhdha Karma you cannot get rid of it. All persons and all creatures differ in form; etc Why? because of previous Karma of each.

20.       Do not say of any one that he is inimical. Who is whose enemy? Do not entertain ill feeling towards any one. All are one and the same.

21.       I get angry with none. Will a mothe rget angry with her little ones? Will the ocean send back the water to the several rivers? I love devotion, lam and bond slave of my devotee.

22.       If a devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands and by four hands life him and support him. I will not let him. fall.

23.       If any one casts his burden on me and thinks of me, I look after ail his concerns.

24.       In the abode of my devotees, there will b be no dearth of food and clothing.

25.       Why should any fear when I am here? My tomb will speak and move with those who make ME their refuge.

26.       Even after my Mahasamadhi, I shall be with you the moment you think of me at any place.

27.       I get my men to me from long distances under many pleas. They do not come of their accord I bring them to me.

28.       All that is seen is my form - ant, fly, prince, pauper. I am formless and everywhere.

29.       God rewards the doers of good and punishes evil doers.

30.       Simply say ‘Sai’, ‘Sai’ with heart over flowing. I care not for show of respect and forms. I rest in such devotees,

31.       Whatever you do, where ever you may be, ever bear this in mind that I am always aware of everything you do.

32.       If one ever dwells on me in his mind and will not even taste food before offering it to me, I am his slave. So also if he hungers and thirsts after me and treats all else as unimportant.

33.       I am (Bhaktaparadheena) the bond slave of my devotee I love devotion,

34.       Look at me and I look to you,

35.       Those who perpetually repeat my name reach their Goal.

36.       My eye (of vigilant supervision) is ever on those who love me.

37.       The devotee who recognises me in each form and treats me adequately is blessed.

38.       ! look equally on all. Not a leaf moves except by my grace.

39.       To know me constantly think ‘Who am I’?.

40.       I am you and you are I Th’ere is no difference between you and me. That which constitutes me constitutes you.

41.       Jnanamarga is like Ramaphal. Bhaktimarga is like Seethaphal easy to dela with and very sweet. The pulp of the Ramphal is inside and difficult to get it.

42.       Just as a fly flies and sits on all objects but turns back when it approaches fire, so the mind longs after sense objects, rejoices in them, and merges in them. When it sees ie., approaches or tries to see Brahman, it turns its face away.

43.       Worship God in form, in his image to make the mind stationary. When an image is worshipped with deep devotion, the mind attains concentration without which there is no steadiness of mind. Next practise Manana and Dhyana (i.e.) recollection and meditation.

44.       Effort must be made to make the turbulent mind steady. Till the mind is conquered one is reborn. But among births human birth is most precious.

45.       Does the terms Athiti denote a man of 34/2 cubits high and of the Brahman caste? Athiti is what ever creature is hungry and comes on to you at that time, whether it is human or a bird, beast or insect. All these seek food,

46.       The wise ones donot grieve for death, the fools do. Behold The five Pranas were lent for use till now. Now the lender claims back his own and they are returned. Air goes back to air, fire to fire. Every one of the five elements thus goes back ot its place.

47.       Daily take darsan of Siddhas i.e. perfect saints. Live a moral life Then you will be pure at death. At the time of death have no desire at all. Concentrate on God i.e., your Ishta Devata. If death comes when your mind merges in the Ishta Devata (God) Mukti (salvation) is attained.

48.       Persons who merely read and memorise many works without making their hearts pure, pour out precepts at debates are full of self adulation. Thease are not Vivakies and they do not attain Brahma Jnana.

49.       You cannot descrive “Chaitanya” but every moment it exists in your existance. There is no place without it but it has no form or name. In that it resembles air which has no colour or form to be seen and whose existence, however, is unquestionable. Sudha Chaitanya is called Brahman.

50.       For Dhyana meditate on me either as in form or as formless Ananda. Think of it night and day. With such meditation the mind dissolves into unity i.e., (attains Laya).

51.       That which is seen is the manifestation of Brahman through Maya and will dissolve again into Brahman. The crown of Jnana is the realisation of the one Atman from which every thing has issued;

52.       By Runanubandha, you have come to me. Have regard to Runanubandha Whenever or whatever creature comes to you, do not drive away but receive with due consideration. Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased. Do not bark at people. Bear with others’ reproach. Speak only gentle words. This is the way to happiness.

53.       The times are degenerating. People mostly think ill and talk ill of others. But I do not retaliate. Do not care to listen to such talk, Fakirs also are seldom dispassionate. It is hard to find a good fakir.

54.       God exercises all power for the benefit of devotees.

55.       I loved to my Guru, If he were not there to see, I would not like to have eyes at all. I forget all other things but the Guru. My life was concentrated in my sight and my sight in Him.

56.       Guru’s grace is our only Sadhana. Jnana comes as experience (or in its wake); Making the Guru the sole object of one’s thoughts and aims, one attains Paramartha the supreme Goal. This is the only truth the Guru taught me.

57.       One should not stay in any place where saints are (orone’s Guru is) ill spoken of.

58.       It is not the Guru that makes himself your guru. It is you who must regard him as Guru i.e., place faith in him.

59.       We are seeing things with the eyes Then a cateract forms over them and the eyes cannot see Pull off the cateract, then the eyes see. Ajnana is the cataract.

60.       Salutation, questioning and service are Sadhanas for obtaining the Guru’s grace.

61.       Ajnana is the seed of Samsara. If the Guru kripa paint is put on the eye, Maya screen lifts and jnana survives. Jnana is not an effect. It is ever self existent.

62.       ”God is one. The devotee is another.” This is the root of ignorance. Remove it. Jnana remains. Ignorance finds a snake in a rope. Remove the ignorance, then the rope is known as it is.

63.       Don’t read any book People think they will find Brahman (God) in these books but they had Brama (confusion) in them. It is enough if you keep me in your Heart and make your heart harmonise with the head.

64.       Always say Raja Ram, Raja Ram. If you do so, your life will be fruit-iul. You will attain peace and infinite good.

65.       I eat in the form of an ant. I eat in the fly that eat. I take what form I choose and eat in that form.

66.       One who loves God would weep, laugh or dance as the songs in praise of God go on.

67.       Avoid the Upadhis-Moha (Delusion) and Pomp. Think of God and kill out the Ego.

68        A person that has not overcome lust cannot see God i.e., get God realisation.

69.       The body is full of desires which spring up as soon as a sense object approaches.

70.       Does God remain only in temples? Is the not found in every object in the world as in temples?

71.       You should not have Mamata (attachment) but must have Samata, i.e., viewing every thing with equal eye.

72.       If any one is angry with another, he wounds me to the quick. If any one abuses another, I feel the pain. If any one bravely endures the abuse, I feel highly pleased.

73.       If any body comes and abuses you or punishes you, do not quarrel, with him. If you cannot endure it, speak a simple word or two, or else leave the place. But do not battle with him and give tit for tat I feel sick and disgusted when you quarrel with others.

74.       Jealousy (Matsara) is the inability to endure another’s profit and prosperity. When another gets fortune of power we cannot put up with it, we scandalize him. When he meets with loss, we rejoice. But it this Good? When that man attains prosperity what loss have we really suffered? If he attains good let us rejoice (with him). So conquer jealousy first.

75.       Never accept gratis the labour (or of course property) of other. This should be the rule of your life.

76.       If any one talks ten words at us, let us answer with one word if we reply at all Do not battle with any one.

77.       God lives in all beings and creatures whether they be serpants or scorpions. He is the great wire puller of the world and all beings obey His command. Unless He wills it, nobody can do any harm to others So we should take pity and love all creatures. The Lord is the protector of all.

78.       If any devotee meditates on Baba, day and night with complete surrender, he experiences complete union with Him like sweetness and sugar, waves and sea, eye and its lustre.

79.       Satsanga (ie) moving, with the good is good. Dussanga (ie) moving with evil minded people is evil and must be avoided.

80.       He who wants to get rid of the cycle of births and deaths should lead a righteous life with his mind calm and composed,

81.       If any man or creature comes to, you do not discourterously drive them away but receive them well and treat them with due respect.

82.       Let any body speak hundreds of things against you, do anot resent by giving any bitter reply. If you always tolerate such things you will certainly be happy.

83.       I am not asking Dakshina of every one I ask only from the man whom the fakir (God) points out. But in exchange, 1 have to give that man ten times the amount which I have taken I do not take the money for my own use.

84.       Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God. But how blindly do these people forget God. If profit comes, they rejoice. If loss comes, they weep. Why say “This is mine”. What does it mean?

85.       None who has firm faith in God is left in want for any thing

86.       What God gives is never exhausted. What man gives never lasts.

87.       Poverty is Highest riches and is a thousand times superior to Loads position. God is the brother of the poor Fakir is the real emperor. Fakirship does not perish but empire is soon lost.

88.       People must put all faith in the Lord’s providence. They should not worry about food and clothing. Do not waste your life on these. In the abode of devotees there will be no dearth of food and clothing.

89.       Let us be content to remain as He makes us, to submit our will to His. Take what comes. Be contented and cheerful. Never worry. No a leaf moves but by His consent and will.

90.       We must recognise His Independence and our dependence on Him and see all acts as His If we do so, we shall be unattached and free from Karmic bondage.

91.       When any one talks of you (i.e., against you) pass on unperturbed. His words cannot go into your body. Others acts will affect them only and not you. It is only your own act that will affect you.

92.       Do not be idle Work, utter God’s name, read Scriptures.

93.       We should not harbour hatred, envy, rivalry or combative disposition towards others. If others hate us, let us simply take to Nama Japa and avoid them.

94.       ”Feed the hungry first. Then feed yourself. Note this well.”

95.       Atman or Brahman is one. ut the hearts it occupies are different. It is one and the same Atman that runs through all the hearts. To make the heart a heart is the function of the Atman or Brahman.

96.       Just as one body has three stages, childhood, manhood and old age, so satya has three stages. A person in Parartik stage (called sage) sees truth as truth. One in Vyavaharik stage (called good) goes on differentiating at a every step selecting the good and rejecting the evil One in the pratibasik stage (called the ignorant) does not see the truth but sees it quite inverted. He sees good as evil and evilas good But Atman or Brahman is common to ali these three stages.

97.       Brahman appears in different forms in this world which is the play of Maya it is the union of Brahman with Maya that causes Brahmananda, the universe.

98.       Maya is the name given to the Shakti of power of Chaitanya which makes chaitanya appear in different forms Just as you cannot separate Jaggery from its sweetness and the sun from its brilliance, you cannot separate chaitanya from Sakti Maya ends when chaitanya is realised Chaitanya is endless. Maya and Chaitanya are also named Prakriti and Purusha.

99.       Chaitanya is a cave and he who enters into that cave never returns but becomes the cave.

100.    Maya covers Brahman and produces wordly appearances. In reality the world does not exist. Only one real (Sat) exists these appearances are taken to be real. That causes the mischief; so kick our Maya and regain Brahman. How? Regard yourself as pure chaitanya. Remove impurity of Maya from this world of appearances. Then that appearance becomes reality.

101.    The men who merely wants to know Brahman does not get it. It is he who is qualified to know it that gets it. Deserve before you desire (Brahman)

102.    Most people seek wealth, cure of disease or trouble, honour, position or perpetual pleasure and other earthly objects None wants God I long to see those who long to see God. One must know ie., realise God before death. Else there will be ever recurring cycle of births and deaths A Guru gives it and only a guru can.

103.    One must surrender the five to get at Brahman One must surrender even the five senses (Indiya) the five pranas and manas, Buddhi, Ahankar (mind intellect and ego). One who feels unattached to things terrestrial and celecstiai is alone competent to have Brahmajnana.

104.    If you make me the sole object of your thoughts and aims you will attain Paramartha, the supreme goal. Look at me with undivided attention; so will I look to you.

105.    Baba and his gurus never gave upadesa of Mantra in the ear of the initiated. But he recommended Ramamantra often for japa.

106.    To get Atmajnana Dhyana is needed So give up all desires and dwell in your mind upon God in all. If the mind us thus concentrated the goal is achieved.

107.    Like worn out garment, the body is cast away by God The wise ones do not grieve for death; the fools do Birth also is similarly to be dealt with. Do not be jubiliating over and birth.

Om Sri Sainathaya Namaha Subka  Malik ek hi

SRI SAIBABA SEVA SAMAJAM