Sainath's Remarks On Awakening

Aum Sairam

Sri Sai's famous parables and His cryptic remarks are well known. Sri Sai's comments were always impregnated with a message directed towards the individual who is addressed. Once, a devotee wanted to take a photograph of Sri Sai. When Sri Sai was approached regarding this, He said, No, it is enough if he knocks a wall down". The devotee stood confused. Later, an explanation was given as follows: The photograph is one's likeness of Sri Sai. The wall is "I am the body" idea which is an obstacle that interferes with identifying the spirit.

One straightforward remark of Sri Sai has always been "awaken the self" The nature of self is not easily explained. The pursuit to know the self is as varied as the individuals themselves. However, it is said that one must have an honest yearning and God's grace to know the nature of self.

Now, why should one know the "Self"? The most famous Hindu scripture Shri Bhagwad Geeta says, " With the self unattached to external contact, he finds happiness in the Self; with the self engaged in the meditation of Brahman, he attains endless happiness". Swami Chinmayananda on his commentary on Shri Bhagwad Geeta explains further, "Why should I deny myself the brilliant flashes of momentary joys in exchange for a steady stone like, impregnable monotony, call it equilibrium or equanimity, peace or God hood? Any sensible seeker entering the halls of spiritual study with his intellect bright and clear should come to doubt its efficacy and utility. Though the process of self development is essentially a process of detachment, this technique of negation does not take us to an empty and purposeless zero, but when we have negated all that is false, we come to experience and live a total positivist.

When the dreamer has renounced all his contacts with the dream world and thrown away his dream personality, he does not become a non entity, but he rediscovers himself to be the more vital, more effective personality.

Sadguru Sri Sainath's remarks on awakening one's self refers to this state of awakening that is more vital, blissful and permanent.

Allah Malik