About doing the repetition of the divine name and meditation, and achievement of Godhood, Shirdi Sai Baba had this to say:
Shirdi Sai Baba on the Repetition of the Divine Name and Meditation
While doing the repetition of the name of the Lord or Guru, or meditation, keep your mind steady and do it with concentration.
Avoid contact of the mind with sensory objects, that is, sound, touch, form, taste and smell, and do the repetition of the name, getting immersed in it.
Know that the knowledge of the universe and its perception can be be attained only by self knowledge.
When you can go from finite to infinite, when you can go from untruth to truth and from death to deathless state, then only do you attain benefit by the repetition of the name of the Lord or Guru, and meditation.
Know this world to be an illusion. Do your duty which is allocated to you and this will not lead you to misery.
Keep your mind steady. It is going round and round like a whirlpool; do your spiritual practices in search of the ultimate truth.
Aatma or the 'self' is kindness personified. To attain purification, you have to merge your mind in the Self or Aatma.
Get the staunch knowledge of "Aham Brahma Asmi" or "I am Brahman". He, who sees himself in all beings and sees all beings in himself, attains the divine state of Godhood.
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Insights from a Master:
“Learn to let all conflicts spawned by the mind to play themselves out and cancel each other out, as the Yadavas did on the final battlefield. Be a witness to the holocaust. The ultimate solution to the conflict is not decision or even choice, but passive being. Dare to remain inconclusive. See the endless quandaries of the mind as Divine Leela, His sport, as the natural function of the bundle of desires called mind.; do not rally to its assertions and appetites.”
“The ‘I’ in you is Paramatma Himself. The ‘I’ is the tiny wavelet that plays with the wind for a moment, over the deep waters of the sea. The wave gives you the impression that it is separate from the azure and timeless ocean below. But it is just an appearance, a creation of the two ideas- Name and Form. Get rid of the two ideas and the wave disappears in the sea; its reality flashes upon you and you know.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Shirdi Sai Baba had given some unforgettable assurances to devotees. They sooth, they calm, they give hope and they give substance and spiritual sustenance to the devotee.
They are typically in keeping with Baba's line of philosophy: Trust in the Guru or the Master; be fully committed to Him, and He would take you to the other bank of liberation, the other world of eternity and eternal bliss.
No more going round and round in the wheel of this grief-filled world of life and death.
Eternal peace. Joy.
Blessing. Beatitude. Benevolence. Grace.
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Listen to the heart warming and uplifting words of Shirdi Sai Baba in the small video presentation here below:
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Sarada Devi was from the Hyderabad Dimunion of India. She was born in a rich and powerful joint family. Her family had seventy boys and no girls.
Her paternal uncle was a great devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba. Taking all the trouble there was- mind you, it was the nineteenth century India - he used to visit Shirdi and Sai Baba often, and pray to Him that a girl be born in his family.
The kind Baba acceded to his request and blessed him, and a girl was born to his elder brother. The baby was taken before Sai Baba, and He named her, Sarada Devi. Baba was very fond of the child, and He used to call her, Gauri.
Gauri was brought up in opulence, with a silver spoon in her mouth, so to say. But she was very religious and very fond of Sai Baba. She even had great liberties with the temperamental Master. She grew up into a beautiful young woman.
There was a lady named Seetha Ramamma who lived in the same street as Gauri. This lady was much abused by her husband and her husband's family for not bearing a child. This had been going on for very long. Not able to suffer humiliation any longer, she came to Gauri one day and confessed her grief to the later.
Gauri told her not to worry, "Dussera festival is coming. I am going to visit Shirdi and pay obeisance to Sai Baba. You can join me too. We will tell the Great Baba of your sorrow. He would remedy your problem".
So before the Dussera festival, the two ladies packed their bags and left for Shirdi.
The place was jam packed. There was not an inch of space in the mosque which was Baba's abode. The surrounding space was filled up too. The festivities were going on with colour and festoons. The ladies could not meet up with Sai Baba for many days.
Then on the Dussera day, someone came to them and said that Sai Baba was calling them. They squeezed their way through the milling crowd, and reached before Baba, sitting grimly in his usual place. There was neither mirth or merriment in His face.
Baba gruffly asked Seetha to prostrate before Him. The lady did so as asked. When she got up, she found Baba quivering in anger, and without any rhyme or reason, shouted,
"What are you two doing here? Get out of this place fast and get home",
and he kicked, Seetha so violently on her tummy that she spun away in the mosque.
Baba was so incensed that He was now trembling in anger. The people around shivered in fright.
Then what happened?
Read it at: http://www.premavahini.org/shirdi-sai-baba-prema-vahini-miracles/
