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Articles: Devotion | Living up to His message
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Swami explained, “See, for the last so many days, you have been worrying about my eye. It has come in the natural course of events. And it will go away, in the same way. For the last 60 years of my life, I have never even once used My Divine Powers for Myself. It has always been for the benefit of the students, for devotees. But because you are feeling so much, I give you a solution. As You and I are one, there is no difference between Me and you. This is not My body, this is yours! You pray to Me that I cure the ailment that has come upon this physical frame and I assure you that it will be cured.” It was a great revelation as students to understand that we are truly inheritors of Swami’s spiritual heritage. That is the heritage of every Sai Youth!
What do the letters of the word “SAI” stand for? Swami talks of S.A.I. “S” stands for Spiritual transformation; “A” stands for Association transformation; “I” stands for Individual transformation. And Swami expects each one of us to rise to His expectations.
What Does Bhagavan Expect from Us?
I recall another incident which happened when we were undergraduate students. Swami was explaining the difference between His expectations and the expectations of the parents. He said, “Your parents expect that you study well, get good marks after your education is over, get a good job, a good wife, have good children and accumulate a lot of property. That is the expectation of your parents. My expectation is very different.”
What does Swami expect from us? He said, “Cultivate good thoughts; get a good name”, that is my expectation from you!
“The end of education is character”, Bhagavan has often reminded us. If a Sai Youth does not have character, he loses his right to use the name of Sai, associated with himself. Swami Himself is the embodiment of perfection.
How to Build Our Character?
How do we build our character, which is so dear to Swami? He says, “Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a tendency. Sow a tendency, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow your character and reap your destiny.”
When we are young, we are afflicted with so many thoughts. One day, we were in Trayee Brindavan, Bhagavan’s residence in Bangalore. Bhagavan was with the students, and the Trayee session, the interaction that students have with Bhagavan, was over. He got up from His Jhoola (swing). A student was sitting somewhere in the front, knelt and got up to ask Swami something. Swami also went near him, “What is the matter?” And the boy said, “Swami, I have got so many bad thoughts.”
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