Committing a sinful act knowingly or unknowingly are two different things.If any sin is committed knowingly it is certainly much more serious because we are aware that it is not right but still do it.If we are walking on the road and an insect gets crushed under our feet or if we accidently hit someone while driving on road,they are not so sinful acts as as the ones done knowingly and conciously.
The latter type of sins also fall into two categories - physically,by direct acts involving body and mentally ,by thinking sinful acts like lust,anger,violence etc.Very few people can actually understand what the final consequences of any of their actions will be because what is considered to be good today may turn out to be bad tomorrow. We must pray to Baba that He should give us the capacity to discriminate the good from bad.He should give us the wisdom.We must pray to Him to take us from darkness towards light so that we are able to take just and right steps.We should read the life history of Saints to understand how they conducted themselves on this path in human form and how some ordinary human beings realized God by their faith ,patience and self exertion
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
We All Possess The Key To Happiness
Aum Sairam
"To all outward appearances he looked very happy and contented, but inwardly, and really he was not so." - Shri Sai Satcharitra, Ch. XIV.
What does everyone strive for or hope to attain? Happiness. People go searching here and there trying many different means of attaining it, not realizing that the key to happiness is actually right around their neck. Everyone possesses the key to his own happiness but it covered with so much falsehood, which is not uncovered just by chance.
The key to true happiness is also not found with knowledge alone. It is found by the experience. Just one moment's experience of the key brings realization of the simplicity of happiness. The key to true happiness is found when an individual experiences himself as a peaceful person realizing that is what he actually is. It might be the experience of only just a moment but understanding that you do have the ability to withdraw from the negative vibrations and experience your true peaceful self brings hope and happiness.
The key is to realize that you are not really an angry, miserable, unfortunate person. Your present state of mind may be such, but you are actually peaceful by nature. How often you use the key and experience your true nature of peace is a different matter.
You have been trying to attain happiness and this has cost so much money, time and energy. Why not now discover the key to true happiness? Take a chance on yourself, discover the treasure within and use the key as often as possible.
Allah Malik
"To all outward appearances he looked very happy and contented, but inwardly, and really he was not so." - Shri Sai Satcharitra, Ch. XIV.
What does everyone strive for or hope to attain? Happiness. People go searching here and there trying many different means of attaining it, not realizing that the key to happiness is actually right around their neck. Everyone possesses the key to his own happiness but it covered with so much falsehood, which is not uncovered just by chance.
The key to true happiness is also not found with knowledge alone. It is found by the experience. Just one moment's experience of the key brings realization of the simplicity of happiness. The key to true happiness is found when an individual experiences himself as a peaceful person realizing that is what he actually is. It might be the experience of only just a moment but understanding that you do have the ability to withdraw from the negative vibrations and experience your true peaceful self brings hope and happiness.
The key is to realize that you are not really an angry, miserable, unfortunate person. Your present state of mind may be such, but you are actually peaceful by nature. How often you use the key and experience your true nature of peace is a different matter.
You have been trying to attain happiness and this has cost so much money, time and energy. Why not now discover the key to true happiness? Take a chance on yourself, discover the treasure within and use the key as often as possible.
Allah Malik
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Destiny
May This Thursday [Baba's Day] Bring You Strength, Goodluck, Success, Happiness And Joy.
Aum Sairam
Whatever you put into your life is exactly what you get out of it, and no more. If your attitude is cheerful, enthusiastic, and positive, that is how your life will become. If you think thoughts of devotion for god, you will feel devotion. But if you fill your mind with negation, criticism, meanness, selfishness, that is what you will receive. That is the divine law. It cannot be otherwise.
It is the coward and the fool who says This is fate - so says the sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate". It is the people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology. Go on doing well. Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits; and repeated habits alone can reform character. The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will power.
Make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead". The infinite future is before you, and you must always remember that each word, thought and deed lays up a store for you, and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon you like tigers, so also there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are ready to defend you always and forever.
Allah Malik
Aum Sairam
Whatever you put into your life is exactly what you get out of it, and no more. If your attitude is cheerful, enthusiastic, and positive, that is how your life will become. If you think thoughts of devotion for god, you will feel devotion. But if you fill your mind with negation, criticism, meanness, selfishness, that is what you will receive. That is the divine law. It cannot be otherwise.
It is the coward and the fool who says This is fate - so says the sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, "I will make my fate". It is the people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology. Go on doing well. Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits; and repeated habits alone can reform character. The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will power.
Make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead". The infinite future is before you, and you must always remember that each word, thought and deed lays up a store for you, and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon you like tigers, so also there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are ready to defend you always and forever.
Allah Malik
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Seven Wonders Of The World
Aum Sairam
A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present Seven Wonders of the World.
Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes:
1. Egypt's Great Pyramids
2. Taj Mahal
3. Grand Canyon
4. Panama Canal
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Peter's Basilica
7. China's Great Wall
While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student had not finished her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The girl replied, yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many.
The teacher said, Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.
The girl hesitated, and then read; I think the Seven Wonders of the World are:
1. To See
2. To Hear
3. To Touch
4. To Taste
5. To Feel
6. To Laugh
7. To Love.
The room was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. The things we overlook as simple and ordinary and that we take for granted are truly wondrous!
A gentle reminder that the most precious things in life cannot be built by hand or bought by man.
Allah Malik
A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present Seven Wonders of the World.
Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes:
1. Egypt's Great Pyramids
2. Taj Mahal
3. Grand Canyon
4. Panama Canal
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Peter's Basilica
7. China's Great Wall
While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student had not finished her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The girl replied, yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many.
The teacher said, Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.
The girl hesitated, and then read; I think the Seven Wonders of the World are:
1. To See
2. To Hear
3. To Touch
4. To Taste
5. To Feel
6. To Laugh
7. To Love.
The room was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. The things we overlook as simple and ordinary and that we take for granted are truly wondrous!
A gentle reminder that the most precious things in life cannot be built by hand or bought by man.
Allah Malik
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Shake It Off
Aum Sairam
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule 'braying'- or- whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened...and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.
Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back...a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back...HE SHOULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP! This he did, blow after blow.
Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up! he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought panic and just kept right on SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP!
You're right! It wasn't long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, STEPPED TRIUMPHANTLY OVER THE WALL OF THAT WELL! What seemed like would bury him, actually blessed him... all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.
That's Life! If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness, or self-pity...THE ADVERSITIES THAT COME ALONG TO BURY US USUALLY HAVE WITHIN THEM THE POTENTIAL TO BENEFIT AND BLESS US!
Allah Malik
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule 'braying'- or- whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened...and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.
Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back...a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back...HE SHOULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP! This he did, blow after blow.
Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up! he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought panic and just kept right on SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP!
You're right! It wasn't long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, STEPPED TRIUMPHANTLY OVER THE WALL OF THAT WELL! What seemed like would bury him, actually blessed him... all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.
That's Life! If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness, or self-pity...THE ADVERSITIES THAT COME ALONG TO BURY US USUALLY HAVE WITHIN THEM THE POTENTIAL TO BENEFIT AND BLESS US!
Allah Malik
Monday, June 4, 2007
Sovereign Recipe
Aum Sairam
Sri Sai Baba said, "Purification of mind is absolutely necessary, without it all our spiritual endeavors are nothing, but useless show and pomp" in Shri Sai Satcharitra Ch.XVI & XVII.
It is the impurity of your own mind that is mainly responsible for bringing to your notice only the dark side of other's character. Make your own mind faultless and you will find that the number of sinners in this world is very much reduced.
Cultivate the habit of observing your own faults, examine the weaknesses of your heart very critically and you will realize that your mind is full of impurities; then you will hardly find any time to detect the fault of others.
Every thought arising in the mind of a man carries with it a feeling of love or hatred, which brings in joy or sorrow, and which prompts him to see virtue or vice in another. Even the vices of him whom we love appear to us as virtue, and the virtues of him whom we hate appear as vices. Unless we take off these colored glasses of love and hatred from our eyes it is not possible to know a person truly.
Be an impartial observer of every thought-wave arising in your mind; very soon you will notice that no thought arises in your mind. This is a sovereign recipe for controlling the mind. Similarly, if you can dispassionately observe the impulses of love and hatred without identifying yourself with them, you will soon find the practice helpful in eradicating those impulses.
Life is very short; live amicably with all, behave well with all; scatter ambrosia everywhere and do not let fall even a drop of poison anywhere. Your conduct influenced by love is ambrosia and that influenced by hatred is poison.
If a person calls on you even for an hour, fill his heart with ambrosia through your loving and guileless behavior; take care that none may catch poison from you. Remove all poison from the heart and fill it up with ambrosia and then scatter it at every step.
Allah Malik
Sri Sai Baba said, "Purification of mind is absolutely necessary, without it all our spiritual endeavors are nothing, but useless show and pomp" in Shri Sai Satcharitra Ch.XVI & XVII.
It is the impurity of your own mind that is mainly responsible for bringing to your notice only the dark side of other's character. Make your own mind faultless and you will find that the number of sinners in this world is very much reduced.
Cultivate the habit of observing your own faults, examine the weaknesses of your heart very critically and you will realize that your mind is full of impurities; then you will hardly find any time to detect the fault of others.
Every thought arising in the mind of a man carries with it a feeling of love or hatred, which brings in joy or sorrow, and which prompts him to see virtue or vice in another. Even the vices of him whom we love appear to us as virtue, and the virtues of him whom we hate appear as vices. Unless we take off these colored glasses of love and hatred from our eyes it is not possible to know a person truly.
Be an impartial observer of every thought-wave arising in your mind; very soon you will notice that no thought arises in your mind. This is a sovereign recipe for controlling the mind. Similarly, if you can dispassionately observe the impulses of love and hatred without identifying yourself with them, you will soon find the practice helpful in eradicating those impulses.
Life is very short; live amicably with all, behave well with all; scatter ambrosia everywhere and do not let fall even a drop of poison anywhere. Your conduct influenced by love is ambrosia and that influenced by hatred is poison.
If a person calls on you even for an hour, fill his heart with ambrosia through your loving and guileless behavior; take care that none may catch poison from you. Remove all poison from the heart and fill it up with ambrosia and then scatter it at every step.
Allah Malik
Training And Tuning Our Mind
Aum Sairam
Human mind if left free and untrained gallops like a pack of wild horses in all directions. It is important in spirituality to constantly steer the mind towards God, or Guru. Shri Hemadpant mentions this in Shri Sai Satcharitra that it is the duty of mind to think and cannot remain so without thinking. If you give it a sense object it thinks of the object and if you give it Guru's name it thinks of Guru. So let us make this conscious effort to constantly think of what we read in Shri Sai Satcharitra or discussed in Satsangs and perceive god in all actions of our daily life. We can go about doing our daily chores yet keep thinking of God. In that way we gradually develop the habit of shouldering the burden of our mundane problems at the feet of god, and remain without anxiety and fear.
We come to accept that everything is His will and it will be done. We start to tune our mind towards His teachings and lead a peaceful life. A person who is at peace automatically influences others in attaining peace. When a mother is distressed and angry, the house is havoc, kids are yelled at, things thrown out and house unkept, I am sure most mothers would identify with this scene while mum is at peace so is the house. This applies not just to mothers but also to all individuals. Let us practice and bring out a difference in our life. Let us not accept responsibility for any of the events happening in our life. Leave it at His Lotus feet and watch how He brings us out unscathed through the hurdles. When Sri Sai Baba holds our hand He never lets it go even for a second for innumerable births.
Allah Malik
Human mind if left free and untrained gallops like a pack of wild horses in all directions. It is important in spirituality to constantly steer the mind towards God, or Guru. Shri Hemadpant mentions this in Shri Sai Satcharitra that it is the duty of mind to think and cannot remain so without thinking. If you give it a sense object it thinks of the object and if you give it Guru's name it thinks of Guru. So let us make this conscious effort to constantly think of what we read in Shri Sai Satcharitra or discussed in Satsangs and perceive god in all actions of our daily life. We can go about doing our daily chores yet keep thinking of God. In that way we gradually develop the habit of shouldering the burden of our mundane problems at the feet of god, and remain without anxiety and fear.
We come to accept that everything is His will and it will be done. We start to tune our mind towards His teachings and lead a peaceful life. A person who is at peace automatically influences others in attaining peace. When a mother is distressed and angry, the house is havoc, kids are yelled at, things thrown out and house unkept, I am sure most mothers would identify with this scene while mum is at peace so is the house. This applies not just to mothers but also to all individuals. Let us practice and bring out a difference in our life. Let us not accept responsibility for any of the events happening in our life. Leave it at His Lotus feet and watch how He brings us out unscathed through the hurdles. When Sri Sai Baba holds our hand He never lets it go even for a second for innumerable births.
Allah Malik
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