Simple Teaching

Aum Sairam

What Shirdi Shri Sai Baba preached was actually quite simple. According
to him, real sorrow is the cycle of birth and death and the real
happiness is liberation. He suggested:

(a) Accept your lot cheerfully. If you acquire wealth, become humble
the way a tree laden with fruit bows down. Money is a necessity but
don't get obsessed with it. Yet, don't be a miser, be generous.

(b) Perform your duty conscientiously and with detachment, not
regarding yourself as the doer.

(c) Surrender the fruit of action to god so that action does not bind
you. It is ties of indebtedness from previous births, which bring
humans and other beings together.

(d) Satisfy your sexual desire, albeit only with your spouse. Don't
drown in lust. Rein it with discrimination.

(e) Give rein to the negative states (avariciousness, anger, hatred,
pride, etc.) only as much as is essential to go through the karma
earmarked for this physical existence.

(f) To steady the mind, idol worship is a way, even though the idol is
not God. If you do puja with devotion and emotion, you can concentrate better.

(g) Herculean effort is necessary for god-realization. There are four
elements in sadhana: Discrimination between the eternal and the
ephemeral: that Brahman alone is true, the world is not. Next,
renouncing all desire about this life or the thereafter. The third is
to inculcate these qualities: control of the mind, bearing without
anguish the fated pain and sorrow, remaining ensnared by maya, knowing
that money, wife, children and relatives are all ephemeral. The fourth
is an intense desire for liberation.

Allah Malik