Every living being starts on food and yearns slowly to reach the peak of spiritual bliss. Let all your efforts and undertakings be directed to the acquisition of spiritual bliss. The Taithiriya Upanishad clearly elucidates spiritual bliss as the urge for birth, growth, decay, and death. It calls out that all are born in spiritual bliss, will live for it, and will die in order to attain it. However how can Brahman be spiritual bliss (ananda)? Scriptures clarify, 'Om ithyekaaksharam Brahman - Om, the one imperishable letter is Brahman.' It is also said, Atma (Divine Self in individual) is Brahman (Divine). Therefore the three terms Atma, Brahman, and Om are all indistinguishably the same. The Scriptures (Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.
Baba (thought for the day)
What are we doing to reach the peak of spiritual bliss?
How do we see all our undertakings to be directed to the acquisition of spiritual bliss? Thus Baba talks about Veda, the Taithiriya Upanishad and that it clearly elucidates spiritual bliss as the urge for birth, growth and decay, and death.
What do you like in those words and what do maybe like less?
First we should be aware that Baba refers to the scriptures, it is telling us indirectly that the scriptures are the authority and always are and he is the embodiment of Veda, he is the scriptures. When people in the West listen only to 'love' and they eve think it is only thing interesting, we get such strange statements like from that guy who had to replace me in the study circle during the time we moved our apartment, and someone was participating who talked about Veda and without listening to him, what is a must during the study circle, he said, 'nobody is interested in that'.
Therefore, we should be very clear about one thing, Baba talks about Veda and the scriptures.
Veda means knowledge and it is contained in it about all knowledge we can know about the ancient scriptures. If we are in a study circle and we study Baba's words and he is Veda, the knowledge of the divine only in a body, it is very stupid of the person who does the study circle to answer, 'nobody is interested in that'.
First it is judgmental and we shouldn't do that in a study circle, we should listen and let it be, we don't judge and even less if we should actually take care of it, that the others don't judge. It means the person he addressed is still new and someone told me that he is scared now.
I didn't know that it was that bad and there is kind of no excuse for such stupidity, but in fact we find it more often than the opposite that people make totally stupid comments and pretend like they would know when it shows us in fact that the don't know it at all and they don't know even how to be nice and that gives us the feeling to be exposed to such ignorance, who wants to bother with that? I also had a time I avoided it by all means, because it made me not feel good, but like being in the company of totally ignorant people and it was just not interesting enough trying to share something with them and they were not studying Baba's words, but they shared only their experiences and their thoughts and most of it was not based on Baba's words, but they took Baba's words and went into mental speculation. That means not trying to find another word of Baba telling the same thing or helping to understand it, but they try to understand it with mental speculation and that just doesn't work.
Since I began with the study circle I had constantly to do with such ignorance and in fact it is worse, because they got used to it over the years and it means we have people totally convinced that they know how it has to be and that a half a circle is normal and when it is not a half a circle something must be wrong, it has become a habit to see it that way as sharing experiences, but the circle is only really a circle if we take Baba's words and we end with Baba's words, that is the meaning of a circle, he completes our insight if we end with his words we remember from before and it is not about sharing our experiences and going into mental speculation about the wisdom.
That type of ignorance is that big and all over that I didn't want to go anymore, there was no feeling of the Guru being present in that and it felt like waste of time only, but as they asked me to take over the study circle we try to find the reason for it and why it is seen like that and people are used to go into mental speculation and are not aware of the difference between knowledge, Veda, Baba's words and their own speculation about it on the mind level. They are really not aware of that difference and everybody more or less goes into mental speculation about the wisdom and giving stupid answers trying to understand it on the mind level instead of listening to Sai Baba and his words.
The Taithiriya Upanishad clearly elucidates spiritual bliss as the urge for birth, growth, decay, and death. It calls out that all are born in spiritual bliss, will live for it, and will die in order to attain it. However how can Brahman be spiritual bliss (ananda)? Scriptures clarify, 'Om ithyekaaksharam Brahman - Om, the one imperishable letter is Brahman.' It is also said, Atma (Divine Self in individual) is Brahman (Divine). Therefore the three terms Atma, Brahman, and Om are all indistinguishably the same. The Scriptures (Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.
We can see that Baba refers to the Upanishads and that is not only Veda, but Vedanta.
That are holy scriptures and Vedanta is seen as the end of Veda, the result or the essence of it more or less we should treat it like that or at least not use words like that guy said, 'nobody is interested in that', what is ignorance pure seen in the light of Veda and that Baba talks about Vedic knowledge and Vedic wisdom. It feels that bad that if I would have been part of that I probably would have felt afterwards in such a way disturbed, I would not want to listen to that anymore and I just would not go anymore and that is what happens to most people as it seems and that is what I did before and for years I avoided it just because of the stupidity in it.
It is too painful to get aware of the ignorance and the mental speculation and it is too painful to realize that it is no circle and that the word of Baba is in no way studied or understood or even listened to.
I guess that is mostly the problem of the West, I would think that the East has another approach because they know that Veda is considered holy scriptures and Apparushaya Bashia, it means not made by man, but seen by the big seers and the word of God.
The Upanishads (/uːˈpænɪˌʃædz, uːˈpɑːnɪˌʃɑːdz/;[1] singular: Sanskrit: उपनिषत्, IAST: Upaniṣat, IPA: [upəniʂət̪]; plural: Sanskrit: उपनिषदः) are a collection of texts in the Vedic Sanskrit language[2] which contain the earliest emergence of some of the central religious concepts of Hinduism, some of which are shared with Buddhism and Jainism.[2][note 1][note 2] The Upanishads are considered by Hindus to contain revealed truths (Sruti) concerning the nature of ultimate reality (brahman) and describing the character and form of human salvation (moksha).
The Upanishads are sometimes referred to as Vedanta, variously interpreted to mean either the "last chapters, parts of the Veda" or "the object, the highest purpose of the Veda".[4] The concepts of Brahman (Ultimate Reality) and Ātman (Soul, Self) are central ideas in all the Upanishads,[5][6] and "Know your Ātman" their thematic focus.[6][7] The Upanishads are the foundation of Hindu philosophical thought and its diverse traditions.[8][9] Of the Vedic corpus, they alone are widely known, and the central ideas of the Upanishads are at the spiritual core of Hindus.[8][10]
The Taithiriya Upanishad clearly elucidates spiritual bliss as the urge for birth, growth, decay, and death. It calls out that all are born in spiritual bliss, will live for it, and will die in order to attain it. However how can Brahman be spiritual bliss (ananda)? Scriptures clarify, 'Om ithyekaaksharam Brahman - Om, the one imperishable letter is Brahman.' It is also said, Atma (Divine Self in individual) is Brahman (Divine). Therefore the three terms Atma, Brahman, and Om are all indistinguishably the same. The Scriptures (Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.
But what is he telling us with the help of the scriptures?
Scriptures clarify, 'Om ithyekaaksharam Brahman - Om, the one imperishable letter is Brahman.' It is also said, Atma (Divine Self in individual) is Brahman (Divine). Therefore the three terms Atma, Brahman, and Om are all indistinguishably the same. The Scriptures (Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.
The scriptures clarify, he wouldn't tell us that the scriptures clarify if it would not be necessary. It means not he does clarify, but he does clarify it with the help of the scriptures and it is utterly stupid if people read that, but they read it and they don't listen, they don't get it …, they begin to clarify it in their mind with mental speculation, what is just impossible.
Baba needs to clarify it with the help of the scriptures and his devotees think, they can clarify it with mental speculation.
So we have someone who did the study circle and that guy as it seems has never listened to a word what Baba said, because he is telling more or less the people participating in the study circle that the person who talked about Veda, because that person knows how important Veda is, that this person is wrong and that nobody is interested in that.
We should look at that as a disaster.
And it was not long ago in the inner view, that they are vegetables and that guy is part of those vegetables, but what they wanted in the dream is only to listen to themselves talking and that is mental speculation and nothing else and they don't allow 'truth' or 'Veda' to surface and they don't allow anybody to talk who is talking about truth or Veda.
So we have to ask the question how many 'vegetables' do we actually have, if they are all vegetables? They don't know the difference between listening to Baba and mental speculation and they go on happily speculating about 'Veda', what is out of question and impossible and they even think they know.
It feels to me like about the worst delusion we can face in a spiritual movement.
Scriptures clarify, 'Om ithyekaaksharam Brahman - Om, the one imperishable letter is Brahman.' It is also said, Atma (Divine Self in individual) is Brahman (Divine). Therefore the three terms Atma, Brahman, and Om are all indistinguishably the same. The Scriptures (Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.
What does he tell us? The scriptures clarify … Om is Brahman and it also is said (in the scriptures) that the divine self in the individual is Brahman and Divine. And that is what I mentioned yesterday. If we have the higher self in the dream as he is the man who comes in our dream to awake us, it was in the Darshan first as 'I am that' standing in the air above him and in a long ad as he said rather arduous process we finally got aware that he is not only the divine Self, but he was present as 'I am that One' and that means that individual higher self is also Brahman and Divine.
He confirmed it by the insight, but the scriptures confirm the reality of it. If it is not backed up by the scriptures, we are never really sure if it is wisdom or … mental speculation. It has to be confirmed by the scriptures or by Veda and Vedanta to make sure it is wisdom and knowledge.
Therefore the three terms Atma, Brahman, and Om are all indistinguishably the same. The Scriptures (Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.
Here Baba explains that they are the same, Atma, Brahman and OM, they are all the same and we have to know it if we have experiences in that direction.
The Scriptures (Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.
How are we able to understand it? We have to make the experience of it. The scriptures, here the Brahma Sutras – reveal that the outer universe, the divine Brahman as the base is the same as the inner universe and they cannot be differentiated, there is only One.
Without the scriptures we are not able to verify what he is telling us as the man who is in our dream to awake us and someone telling that nobody is interested in that – is rather an idiot.
We cannot take it serious. How can we have any respect for such stupidity.
He is not even careful in what he is telling others in the study circle and the ABC of Sai Baba is telling us, 'ABC, always be careful'.
If we listen to Baba and his words and his thought for the day he makes it easier, because he is the scriptures. It is not possible to study the Veda, too many and we would not be able to understand it with the human mind, so we need a master to explain the Veda to us and therefore, if we listen to his words like his thought for the day, we get the confirmation of the inner experience.
What I wrote yesterday made sense because of the experience only, but I didn't expect that it would be confirmed by today's thought for the day … and that is exactly what the experience was, the higher self was not different from Brahman and that is how we get it confirmed.
That is the true value of the scriptures and they are not only important, they are most important, without the scriptures no wisdom and no enlightenment, but what matters for us still more is the master, because he is making the scriptures for us available.
Without him we have the Veda, but we don't understand it and we need him explaining it to us that we can get the confirmation and that we can absorb the meaning. Therefore, he is telling us 'listen – think it over – absorb'.
We have to listen to his words and see it in our own life to be able to understand the wisdom and to be able to absorb and that is how a study circle becomes a circle, it begins with Baba's words and it ends with Baba's words and it is rounded up, we get to the right conclusion and that is how the circle is closed and becomes a circle.
And everything else what is done is mostly mental speculation about love and seva etc. It is definitely not a circle, it is just sitting together and being 'vegetables' (as Baba said in the inner view) enjoying listening to their own mind speculation and listening to their words only and not Baba's words.
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