GURUVAAR PRARTHNA
Our Beloved Sadguru Sainath, please accept our humble prayers on this Holy Day of Guruvaar. Baba, in our human life, there is a destination for everyone's journey, a final episode on every drama we enact, a finishing line for everyone's life race, a goal for every project, a product at the end of every process, a result at the end of the match. Baba we surrendered totally on Your Lotus Feet and waiting for Your Mercy to cross across the flooding sea of tears, an end to our journey of struggles, loneliness, frustration and discouragement. Baba, on this holy day we start our prayers by reading your divine guidance in Shri Sai Samartha Satcharitra.
Being absolutely desireless believe that He is present in all beings. When the state of oneness is reached, there is no fear and one is able to concentrate on Him as He comes in your meditation.
Afterwards those ties which are formed because of actions due to ignorance snap fast. The restrictions of this worldly life also are removed and one enjoys the happiness of blissconsciousness.
At the outset, find out whether the Atman exists or not; whether it is a separate entity residing in each being or it is one residing in all; whether it is active or passive. Refer to the six shastrasand find out.
But the real knowledge about the Atman is the epitome of knowledge. That is itself liberation and eternal bliss which sprout from it.
Even if a learned speaker like Brahaspati1 is brought before a blind person to describe an elephant, then after listening to the speech, the blind one will not be able to perceive the elephant. Similarly, it is impossible to describe, in words, that which is beyond words.
Can the oratory of a speaker or the ears of a listener bring back the eyesight which has once been lost? Truly speaking, only the eyes are capable of perceiving the elephant.
If there are no eyes, how can a blind person understand an elephant? Similarly, that divine sight which a Guru bestows on the disciple alone is capable of procuring the wealth of knowledge".
To know the nature of Sai is itself the real knowledge. He is the complete essence of that unique knowledge. Dhyana, anushthanand darshanare all combined in his case.
False knowledge, passion and chain of actions are the things from which total liberation is possible by meditating upon him and through nothing else. Bear this in mind.
Sai does not belong to you or to me. He resides in all beings. Just as the sun belongs to the whole world, he too belongs to all.
I bow down to Sree Ganesh
I bow down to Sree Saraswati
I bow down to the Guru
I bow down to the Family Deity
I bow down to Sree Sita-Ramachandra
I bow down to Sree Sadguru Sainath.
Sarveshaam Svaastir Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Shaantir Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Poornam Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Mangalam Bhavatu
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanteeh
-(from Shri Sai Samartha Satchrita, Chapter 19, Ovi 130 - 139)
