I want you to
exercise control over five vital
things in life. (1) ‘Do not waste money.’ Realize that misuse
of money is evil.
If you wish to keep a photo of Bhagawan, have only one. Why
waste your money on
buying too many? (2) ‘Do not waste food.’ Realize that ‘Food
is God.’ (3) ‘Do
not waste Time.’ Time is God. Time wasted is life wasted. (4)
‘Do not waste
energy.’ Understand that when you see, speak, hear, act or
think energy is
expended. In all these activities do not waste your energies
unnecessarily. (5)
‘Do not forget God’, at any moment whatever you may be doing.
God is present
wherever you may go. He is with you, beside you and around you
always. Hence
there is no need for you to go to some temple to pray to God.
Your heart is
your temple. Turn your vision inward and understand the Atmic
Principle.
In our study circle
we had the text of Baba when he said that the five human values
are like the
five different breaths and here we have again a detail about the
breath.
Looking for it in the Internet the first thing I found is the,
secret of the
five Pranas.
But here Baba talks
also about the five vital things in life.
Don’t waste money and
misuse of money
is evil. That can be far reaching. What is misuse of money? And
we should have
only one photo of Swami and not waste money in buying many.
Second vital thing in
life is food and don’t waste food. Food is God. The third vital
thing is time,
don’t waste time, time is God. The forth vital thing is energy
and don’t waste
energy and the fifth is to not forget God.
‘Do not forget
God’, at any moment whatever
you may be doing. God is present wherever you may go. He is
with you, beside
you and around you always. Hence there is no need for you to
go to some temple
to pray to God. Your heart is your temple. Turn your vision
inward and
understand the Atmic Principle.
We have a different
relationship to human values if we recognize how they have to be
present in our
experience. Truth, right action, peace, love and non-violence.
In the text was also
a lot about it that he is the doer and the conclusion that if we
would be aware
of it, there would be no war, because everything what happens
has some kind of
reason and there is no use going into violence and if we
understand peace in
that sense as ‘he is the doer’, we have to accept truth and that
does make
sense, the truth we have to accept is that He is and body and
mind are not and
if we accept the path of truth, we also have to accept right
action, we dedicate
our body and mind in his service or we offer it to him. We
meditate and purify
the mind and we live in constant contemplation of the Lord.
Right action has to
be accepted as only He is real and body mind are not and we have
to accept that
truth and if those three things are present, truth, right action
and peace, we
can make the experience of pure love.
Peace is rooted in ‘he
is the doer’ if we are devotees and we have to purify the mind
to purify
consciousness is the wisdom with meditation and peace is rooted
in meditation,
purification of the mind. With Baba the ‘I am I’ is based on
contemplation, we
have to constantly be aware what is temporary and what is
permanent and when we
are with the vital air we know the breath is telling, ‘Soham’,
it is Prana the
vital air and there are five vital airs.
These is what we
learnt with meditation and it is what he is telling us in his
words.
We have five human
values, we have five senses, we have five sheets, five Koshas
and we have five
vital airs and we have five vital things.
Money, food, time,
energy and God.
‘Do not forget
God’, at any moment whatever
you may be doing. God is present wherever you may go. He is
with you, beside
you and around you always. Hence there is no need for you to
go to some temple
to pray to God. Your heart is your temple. Turn your vision
inward and
understand the Atmic Principle.
But we have to turn
our vision inward and understand the Atmic Principle. We turn
our vision inside
if we meditate and get aware of the ‘I am’, but what is the ‘I
am that’? As he
said not long ago in a thought for the day, there is a
difference between ‘I am’
and ‘I am that’, if it is only ‘I am’ there is still fear and
when it is ‘I am
that’, there is the divine presence and ‘pure love’ and no fear.
It is hot and we had
on the balcony about 102 F. We have air-conditioning at work but
not at home.
This morning I had
rather difficulties to sit and meditate, didn’t feel good enough
and began to
think about the breath and the Soham.
After Baba said, ‘just
think about God’ in the first interview, I didn’t know how. The
year before I
went to him after I had the experience of God in the heart, I
just took a bit
vibuthi and it was during meditation and it was a very fine
feeling going
downwards and it was love and in the heart there was a tiny dark
blue form and
that was God. It was such a great experience and I lived in the
TM-center and
had to just go on with those activities and when I was
meditating, most of time
I was focused on that tiny little form in the heart and
afterwards I came to Baba
and didn’t know anymore how to do it.
I couldn’t go back
into that same environment as it had been the TM-center and it
was not my
family, it was the meditation center. Whatever it was, when
coming back I didn’t
get back to what it had been before I left. I came here and
didn’t recognize my
life anymore, also my family had left to Spain and now I was
here and I went to
work and from work home and I worked for three month to go to
Baba again just
to have enough money that I could stay with him again for a half
a year, what
felt that good before after I had left was not the same anymore.
I couldn’t
keep up with the experience and that had not only to do with the
family, but
also with TM.
If I go to Prasanthi
Nilayam, because I miss him and I am looking for him there,
because I didn’t
find him here, something has to happen that I actually feel his
presence again
in the heart and I get aware of his presence here.
Being attached to his
form is not only limiting us to a certain place where he was,
but it is all
those experiences around him we miss and the heart suffers,
there is pain in
the heart.
In the moment we
realize that he is here and that Prasanthi is where he is and we
feel him here,
Prasanthi Nilayam is also here and there is no reason for the
heart to suffer
anymore and the pain is gone, but something has to happen, it is
not done by
someone telling us that Baba is everywhere, that we know also,
but we have to
feel it, it has to be real, we have to feel it and when we feel
it, the heart
is happy and the pain is gone.
If we see divinity in
his form, we look for him still in his form and we are able to
feel the pain
still that the form is gone, the moment we realize that he is
present around us
and that he has never been the form, but it is the combination
of wisdom, that
Atmic principle and feeling it. We have to feel it that he is
everywhere and he
never has been that form and he is present in his devotees as
well, Darshan is
not only Baba, it is Baba and devotees and that is him, ‘we and
He is I’. As
that ‘I’ is the divine I, there is only He left, ‘we and He is
I’.
We feel his presence
in Bhajans, in his words, in Seva; all the activities we have in
a Sai center
are based on that wisdom and make us aware of his divine
presence. He is very
strong present in the singing, but some people go out of it fast
to not be
disturbed in that inner feeling.
In our experience he
is really present in his words, because when his words are there
people begin
to think and the mind is occupied and it is a different sharing,
people feel his
presence in the Darshan when singing Bhajans together and that
is the easiest
and that is why it is practiced all over and what people know
best, but Baba is
really present in his words, ‘truth is my breath’, the truth in
his words is He
and when we feel that, it really feels like Prasanthi Nilayam
wherever we are.
Your heart is your
temple. Turn your vision
inward and understand the Atmic Principle.
It looks like with
the attachment to his form all attachments are coming up and the
problems in
our parent’s house etc. That is probably the shadow coming up
even if we know
in our heart that he is God. Contemplation seems kind of like
seeing the shadows
move, with light we also have shadow and we have to go through
it to find again
what we are really looking for, his omnipresence and the feeling
that he is present here and now.
Baba is definitely
present in his words. We have to listen and we should go for it
for our own sake, turn our
vision inward and understand the Atmic principle.
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