Shri Sai Sat Charitra-Chapter 33-Part I

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In the last Chapter we described the greatness of the Guru; now in this we will describe the greatness of Udi.

Sai Ram. The greatness of udi comes from greatness of Guru only, though Guru does not attribute that to Himself but praises the udi as gift from Siva. See Sri Guru Charitra. However, in this chapter, we get clear evidence for the greatness of udi arising from the Guru through some examples, where udi was substituted by other ash and even the mother earth!

Preliminary

Let us bow now before the great saints. Their merciful glances will destroy mountains of sins and do away with all the evil taints of our character. Their casual talk gives us good teachings and confers on us imperishable happiness. Their minds do not know any difference such as 'This is ours and that is yours.' Such differentiation never arises in their minds. Their debts (obligations) will never be repaid by us in this birth as well as in many future births.

Sai Ram. They don"t differentiate because they have crossed the barriers of ego. It is the ego that creates the feeling of I and not I (you, they). Once the ego has been sublimated through, bhakti or jnana, they embrace the karma path and do whatever they have to do without any expectation of reward. We, being in the egoistic phase, need to think about karma and karma phala but they don"t think and such thoughts never cross their minds.Being with them, seeing them, talking to them, serving them and even remembering them through their photographs, idols, recorded messages, videos etc. is satsang. And "satsangatve nissangatvam, nissangatve nirmohatvam, nirmohatve nischala tatvam, nischala tatve jeevan muktih… Bhaja Govindam Bhaja Govindam,..." Satsanga washes away and burns off our sins, removes the avidya, ignorance and makes us remember our true nature. True detachment comes when the ego is sufficiently refined as to realize the oneness of all and leads to a calm mind. A calm mind that is unaffected by the desires leads one to be a liberated soul even while in the body. Sai Ram.

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