Satsang MYSTERY OF BIRTH

20. Here again a man by mere reading, preaching, propagating
or advocating (without himself adhering) gospels of vedanta,
spiritual scriptures hymns and slogans, without the inner voice
and sense (Glow) set firmly for spiritual attainment seriously
and sincerely with all his heart, will not, cannot and shall not
attain Mukti as it would only be a show or imitation, with his
ego and pride for false fame and honour, in the garb of a saint or
philosopher by dress and talk.

21. The saints or sages in jungles or in Himalayan mountain caves,
who do tapas or meditation, do not know or like to know the
mundane world. They never go out for any preaching or
propagating the God-cult. They strive and strain to solve their own
problems of attaining Moksha - as the proverb goes charity begins
at home-each man for himself and no man for any man. But since
the saint or the sage is a pure and holy man, while his prayers are
for himself, they are for all too, since his is a selfless service and
sacrifice, without any show, egoism or worldly false fame or notion.
Since, such a change in the mind will only scumble, tumble and
perish one's own progress towards attaining Moksha or Mukti,
he is away from it.

22. The illustration given below will explain a man's lust, craze and
greed for power, pomp and prosperity and material glory, which
are all unreal and transitory illusions as a mirage in a sandy
scorching desert, as compared and equated to the action of a
man as said hereunder.

23. A frog interested and concentrated in its attention on its prey
in front of it, is unaware of the fate awaiting ahead of it, where a
snake concentrating in swallowing the frog is closely following,
crawling at its back. The snake in its turn is ignorant of its fate
ahead, while a vulture or a kite howering over in the sky is
closely following the snake. The bird concentrated in carrying
away the snake, is ignorant of its fate ahead while a hunter,
down below, with his arrow set at the bird is waiting to shoot it
down, and this hunter in his turn is ignorant of the fate ahead of
him, where a snake under the grass is crawling across to bite
him. The hunter lets his arrow out and hits the kite which falls
dead, at the same time the hunter, bitten by the snake, falls
dead to the ground. Thus neither the kite nor the hunter survive
in this chain as the destiny rules. It is interesting to note here that
each one did not know- its own fate but was only anxious to
attain its object, meet its own, end foolishly, blindly and ignorantly
trying to conquer for its individual benefit, least realising where
how and when its end comes.

To be continuted......
(Source Sai Leela Magazine January 1977)

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