Be as YOU ARE

Be as YOU ARE
(The fast words of a great Saint)

 

Dear friends.
Withdraw the mind from the senses and fix it in meditation.

Control the thought-current. Find out the thought-centre; be

quiet there. Then you will be conscious of the Divine Self;

you will see it dancing in ecstasy. Live in that delight. That

high delight, consciousness, is the God in you. He is the
unique one. He is in every heart.

 

You need not go anywhere to find Him. Find your own core

and feel Him there. Peace, bliss, felicity, health, everything

is in you. Trust in the Divine in you. Entrust yourself to His

Grace. BE AS YOU ARE. Off with strange thoughts and

past impressions. He who lives from within an ingathered

Soul-life is a real saint, though he may be a householder.

He who allows his mind to wander with the senses is an

ignoramus, though he pretends to be a sage.

 

See as a witness, without the burden of seeing. See the

world just as a drama. See without attachment. Look within.

Look at the inner Light, unshaken by mental impressions.

Then, floods of conscious bliss shall come pouring in and

around you from all directions. This is the supreme
Knowledge; realise.
Aum Aum!
—Saint Thayumanar

 

(Translated from original Tamil by H.H. Shuddananda

Bha-rathiar, who stayed with Sai Baba during 1910-18.

This gives the essence of the great South Indian saint

Thayumanar just before his Mahasamadhi on

January 15, 1742).

 

Source Sai Padananda October 1990,
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