Satsang BABA'S SAYINGS AND HAPPENINGS

By T.A. Ram Nathen

First give up all ideas of enjoyment in this world and the next, care only for God and Truth. We are here to know truth, not for enjoyment. Leave that to brutes that enjoy as we never can. Man is a thinking being and must struggle on until he conquers death, until he sees the light. He must not spend himself in vain talking that bears no fruit. Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time.

Swami Vivekananda says here, that happen there, so said Sai Baba. And how? Only a saint knows another saint and his ways. Avatar Meher Baba has enlightened us on the mysterious ways of Sai Baba's sayings and happenings. Meher Baba has said: "....... the Jivatma in the gross sphere uses the mind through gross matters; in the subtle sphere, He uses the mind directly without the aid of gross and subtle means."

Strictly speaking, unless and until the mental sphere is reached, none really knows what the mind actually is much less to do things through the medium of the mind itself to bring our tangible results.

Suppose a pilgrim in Egypt reaches the mental sphere and conceives the idea of visiting America, the pilgrim has not even to think about America; but simultaneously with a wish on his part to be there he will find himself actually there speedier than the time it takes to think about America in the ordinary way. And how does the pilgrim travel faster than the thought itself? Because he does not, strictly speaking, travel as the mind is everywhere. The pilgrim in the mental sphere, whom we address as ?Mahaan', ?Vali', ?Maha Yogi', can be anywhere he likes without availing his gross and subtle organs.

In the gross and subtle spheres, the souls work with full consciousness through the media of the mind, gross and subtle organs. While in the mental sphere, the soul works with full consciousness through the mind itself without necessarily using the gross and subtle organs. If the room is dark, the constant feeling and repeating of darkness will not take it away, but bring in the light. Let us know that all that is negative all that is destructive is bound to pass away. It is the positive, the affirmative, the constructive, that is immortal, and that will remain forever.....

-Swami Vivekananda.