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Articles: Devotion | The Secret of Bliss
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Now, if you are walking down the street holding Swami’s hand; how are you going to let feelings of hatred, anger and cruelty arise? It’s impossible! Likewise, sitting at home – maybe Swami is sitting on your chair – part of your chair. As Swami says: “When you are home; you should imagine Mother Sai - be seated at Her feet and treat Her more lovingly, more gently, with more open affection than you would even with your own mother.”
There was a lady – she came there one time. She was in the same interview as I, and Swami told her: “Don’t hug me so tightly! You’re hurting my knees!” So then we asked the lady later on: “What did Swami mean?” Well, it turns out that at her home she would be there and imagined Swami was there and she would see Swami’s feet and she would hug Him – in her home; so far away in India! And Swami in the interview said: “You’re holding Me too tight!”
So, if we can conceive or imagine that Swami is with us every moment of the day; then the task is done! Our mind and heart will automatically be purified - hatred, anger, and all these cruelties that are going on through this world; are flowers of the dark – flowers in the night. They can’t survive in the light of the Sun! And Swami is that light of the Sun! If you have Him with you; then they can’t survive! They wither away by themselves without any effort on your part. No effort is needed; they just disappear and you never feel them again!
It is a task we set for ourselves; we have to figure it out ourselves; if we are quite satisfied with the world as it is; we, Sai devotees set ourselves a task – of finding the secret of Bliss; the secret of ecstasy; the secret of freedom!
And for that, Swami said: “So say all the scriptures - right through Ashtavakra and the other great sages - that it is extremely important to take the Form of God that you have chosen – personal God – and keep it in your mind all the time!”
Do you remember the story of the two guardians of heaven? They committed some sin and were to be expelled from heaven and God gave them a choice. He said that: “You can incarnate as My devotees and have 15 or 20 rebirths and then you can come back. Or, you can incarnate as My enemies and you only have to take two births.”
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