Satsang The Source of Inspiration By Justice T. N. Vallinayagam

Satsang The Source of Inspiration By Justice T. N. Vallinayagam

The Source of Inspiration

By Justice T. N. Vallinayagam

Mr. Justice I N. Vallinayagam of the Karnataka High Court was with us on
15.1.1999 to release the booklet ‘Thus Spake Saipadananda' and we are
pleased to publish excerpts from his speech in the form of an article.

- Editor

Religion exists for the uplift of humanity and is a path to Divinity.
Fundamentally the basic principles of all religions are alike; but the base
ego often perverts them for its own ends. The Vedas and works like those of
Valmiki and Veda Vyasa, the former depicting the life' story of Lord Rama
and the latter of Lord Krishna in the Mahabharata which inter alia contains
the Bhagavad Geetha - the Divine Song - and a code of conduct for humanity
in spiritual, moral and social spheres, are epics of which one could be
justly proud. The great prophet Mohamed and Jesus Christ propagated
religions of peace and universal love.

In Kali Yuga, politics and greed have deflected the Hindus from the
teachings of the Vedas and Puranas; the Muslims from those of the Koran and
Christian nations are claiming a desire to establish peace by war! India is
in turmoil despite its proud culture and peace loving nature. Even nature
has become violent and we hear of destructive floods and earthquakes.

For fifty years, the great Master Sai Baba of Shirdi disseminated by precept
and example the religion of faith, truth and love to humanity, when he was
in the mortal coil, and decades after his Mahasamadhi in 1918, his message
has progressively rung louder throughout the length and breadth of India-
and even beyond, thanks to the sincere and untiring labors of His apostles -
Poojya Sri Narasimha Swamiji and Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji. As a humble
devotee of Sai Baba, I am proud of his glory and grace.

Sai Baba was 'Parabrahma' but was humility incarnate. He would say: 'I am a
servant of God." Many instances of His supreme mystic power and leelas could
be cited, but he never paraded them and attributed everything to Allah and
the Guru. There was no distinction with him of caste, class or creed and the
Hindu would do his worship in the mosque along with Muslim and Parsi
devotees and others who offered prayers in their own way. He never gave up
'Bhiksha' although after 1911 there were large offerings of fruits and
sweets of which He took only little bits. He used to distribute fairly large
amounts of money every day but spent nothing on Himself. Just before His
last breath He took nine coins from his pocket and gave to Lakshmi.

He was an ocean of 'Premamrita' but people looked up to Him more for worldly
benefits than spiritual. He once said that thousands had come to Him, but
those who came for purely spiritual benefit could be counted on his fingers.

Our duty is to vow complete surrender of ourselves to Him and live our
worldly life with as much detachment as possible, and with faith and love,
be living examples of Universal Brotherhood. We have the ideals of Sri
Narasimha Swamiji and Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji and may the Master in His
unbounded Grace make us worthy of Him.

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