Kodaikanal - 19 May 2014 - Swami's Farewell Speech - A4 - 3
Kodaikanal - 19 May 2014 - Swami's Farewell Speech - A4 - 3
Kodaikanal - 19 May 2014 - Swami's Farewell Speech - A4 - 3
Kodaikanal Diary
19
th
May, 2014
Divine Discourse
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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(Dear Swami,
First, I offer my pranams at Your Feet. Swami, I pray that you
establish a school in my Bidar. Swami, I promise that I will serve in
this school. I will serve to the maximum of my capacity. However
much energy you give me, I will serve to that extent. I presume,
Swami, that you will establish the school.
Your Beloved Child,
Mahadev)
Stand up, Mahadev. Where are you? As such you are short. If
you sit there, who can see you? This boy did Sai Baba role in one
drama, Cheppinatlu chestaara? Swamis Telugu drama. In Kannada
they have done that. He has acted like young Sai Baba.
Yesterday Swami asked, Should I set up a school in Bidar? Will
you like? And today you write the letter saying, I promise, Swami.
Please set up this school. I am already assuming that you are setting
up this school. There is no request here. I will work! (Applause)
Bhagawan called Narasimhamurthy in the morning and said,
See there is one boy requesting for a PU College in Bidar. What shall
we do? Should we make a school there, or should we make a PU
College?
Narasimhamurthy submitted to Swami, There are a lot of
schools coming up in North Karnataka. In Gulbarga, Bijapur,
Bagalkot, and we are even going to have one in Belgaum. Then, it is
better if we have a PU College in Bidar.
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Today, Swami declares that in three years time, Swami will start
a PU College also in Bidar. (Loud applause)
(To the boy who wrote the letter, Mahadev) You study well and come
back to Bidar. That is your own home-town, and serve in the
institution. Are you happy? Ok, sit down.
God is always willing to shower His Grace on everybody, but
somebody has to pray for it. He needs only an excuse a karanam
that is, one reason for somebody, a pure-hearted person to pray. The
moment that prayer happens, immediately God is there and all His
assisting Gods, Goddesses, and Angels are there to come and execute
the tasks.
You children, you might think that you are ordinary children
saamaanya purushulu ordinary men. That is because you only know
so much about yourself. You are not saamaanya purushas, you are
shuddha purushulu. You are all attained or yogi purushas. Not ordinary
boys. You are all yogis. Many of you have written, I have done
nothing, Swami. Why are you showering so much of Grace on me?
Such letters, a lot of children have written. If I were to tell you very
briefly what you have done in the past, it will take one year for Me to
narrate each persons life.
In the Treta Yuga, when Lord Rama was on a mission to rescue
Mother Sita from the clutches of the Demon-King Ravana, He was
helpless because He had no army, no weapons, no chariot, no
kingdom. He and Lakshmana were two ordinary men walking,
searching for Mother Sita in the forest. He met Sugriva. He conquered
Vali.
Finally, Sugriva offered His whole army for Lord Ramas
mission of rescuing Mother Sita. But the army was not enough. The
number of soldiers in Lanka was more than one lakh (100,000),
whereas Sugrivas army only had 6,000 monkeys.
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And every evening, Lord Rama would walk, after the fierce
battle of the tiring day. There was a rule of the battle, that when the
sun set, you had to stop the fight for that day. When the sun rose, the
fight would start again. No lunch, no tea, no coffee, no tiffin. You had
to keep fighting till the end of the day.
So then, Lord Rama would walk and all the monkeys who were
dead on the shores of the sea, He would bless them personally by
touching their heads with His hand, and those monkeys that had any
life left, they would tell Rama, We could not win the battle for you,
but give us another opportunity so that we can fight again and win
for you. And they would pass away. Then other monkeys would
carry them and bury them. That is how the war was fought.
Though the monkeys were small, only 2-3 feet tall the rakshasas
were 8-9 feet tall, sometimes even 12 feet tall. They were huge! That
is how they fought the war. The rest is history, how Lord Rama won
over the Kingdom of Lanka. He offered His badge to Vibhishana and
did not rule over that Kingdom. This is the gratitude that Lord Rama
carried in His heart. Avatar after avatar after avatar.
Rama was an adarsha purusha. He was the ideal example of a
man. Your relationship with Swami goes back to those days with
Rama. However, some of you are still remaining monkeys only. That
is why you keep jumping all around. I keep watching from above.
Today, like monkeys, they were all sitting on the garden there, eating
their food. They did not sit on tables and chairs like humans. So
Swami got reminded of those days when these monkeys would hang
around in the jungle, on the beach, and they would be eating their
meals for the day. The only thing is that, now they know how to wear
pant and shirt. And the tail has disappeared! (Laughter)
When the Lord has so much of gratitude for His devotees, for
His sevakas, His servants, how much gratitude should servants have
for having got this opportunity to serve the Lord?
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They can see Bhagawan and they know His presence in His
place. And a lot of beings are there in the sky of Kodaikanal. One with
an antara-drishti, with inner vision, can actually feel the presence of
these Beings and even see them, if need be.
Once, Kasturi asked Swami, Swami you are here. It must be
very lonely in Kailasa and Vaikuntha.
Swami said, No, where I am, that is where Kailasa is! That is
where Vaikuntha is! And Swami said, Andaro ikkade unnaru All
are right here. In the sky, all are there.
If you meditate and you develop that inner vision, the third eye,
you will be able to see beyond the physical. Then you will be able to
see.
Like all the science students now. There is visible light. There is
a frequency, a wavelength which is visible to us. There is light below
and above this range, which a common eye like ours cannot see. Not
only light. Take sound. There is a range within which we can hear.
Anything more than that range or below that range is inaudible to
human ears. Because our ears and eyes are tuned to only a certain
range of wavelengths or frequencies. But it does not mean there is
nothing existing below or beyond this range. Your limitation is only
so much. The yogis, by the power of their yoga, their meditation,
developed the capability to see what is not seen and to hear what you
cannot ordinarily hear. That is why these people quickly understand
the presence of other creatures.
All are there. Gods are there. Demi-gods are there. Even sub-
demi-gods are there. There are servants of these Gods also who are
there. These are all like departments in a company. There is a water
department, electricity department, fire department. There is a
department for land and a revenue department. Likewise, in Gods
mechanism also, these many departments are there. There is a God
for rain. There is a God for sun. There is a God for water.
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There is a God for air. There is a God for Earth. There is a God
for life. There is a God for death, for crops, for health, for wealth, for
education. All these are various kinds of Gods that are there, and each
God or Goddess does His or Her job accordingly.
All are here right now, in this holy atmosphere, and if one
meditates deeply, one can feel the presence of all of them.
Why I am telling all this is, to let you know that what is seen
alone is not real. What is not seen is more real than what is seen. The
world which is not seen is far, far, far bigger than the world that is
seen.
You are sitting in this room. You cannot see beyond the walls of
this room. That is the world that you are living in. Once, either the
wall is broken, or you can walk to the other room, that is when you
can see what is in the other room. The difference between you and
Swami is, He is sitting in the other room. You have to open the door,
walk into the other room to see what Swami is doing. This door is the
door of the mind. If you look inward and if you meditate, this door
opens. Once it opens, you can see the inner world, which is far bigger.
Many people have taken to the path of meditation and they have
experienced such things in their life. They have seen Gods,
Goddesses. They have seen demons. They have seen Angels. They
have seen a lot of other Divine Beings in various places. Otherwise,
you tell me, why would somebody worship a stone Ganesha, a stone
idol, if there is no Ganesha in it? Why would somebody offer a sari to
a Goddess in a temple, if there is no Goddess to accept the sari? Why
would we feed milk to a stone snake if there is no snake inside the
stone?
All these offerings, all these things finally reach God in another
way. We do yagna, that is, we do fire oblation. Fire is like a postman.
Whatever we put into the fire, it converts it into energy and takes it to
the Being to which it is being delivered.
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Swami: I will answer this with a story. There was a king who was
known for his ill-temper. If anybody told him anything that did not
please him, he would behead that person then and there. The king got
a son, a new-born baby, and a lot of astrologers were called to tell
about the future of this baby. Many astrologers came, and one such
came and said, O King! Your son has a very short life. And what
did the king do? He cut of his head. He said, You are giving me such
ill news!
Another astrologer came. He had heard about this kings ill-
temper. He said, O King! You have got a great son. Because he has
brought you good fortune, you will live longer than your son. And
the King gave him gifts and awards.
You should not tell a lie. Telling a lie is definitely a sin, because
Truth is the only dharma. Telling lies is adharma. But tell the truth in a
way that will not hurt others. Do not tell a lie. God has given you a
head to think. Head of Shankara. Use that intelligence to answer in a
way that it should not be a lie.
Once a person called a priest. Can I smoke while I am praying?
The priest said, You are wrong. You should not do this. Such a thing
is a crime, and sent him off. The other person came and asked, Can
I pray while smoking? Definitely! You can do that. Both mean the
same, but the way you say it, it depends on that. So remember, never
tell a lie. Tell the truth, even if it is bitter. But tell in a way that will not
hurt others.
A lot of teachers will tell the student, You are very poor. You
are poor in studies. That is not the way. They should tell, I think
you can do much better than what you are doing right now. I see that
potential in you. If you work hard, you definitely can do better. That
will give the student the courage to study. Saying that, You are
wrong! You are wrong! is negative. Negative thoughts should not be
developed at all.
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Negative thoughts are like parasites. They will sit on you, they will
drink your blood, and they will become stronger and stronger, and
you will become weak.
Remember, you are strong. You are daiva putras. You are born
out of the Divine. You are Gods children. So there cannot be anything
negative in you. That is what Swami Vivekananda always said, Be
strong! Be strong! Never bring any negative thoughts. Negative
thoughts are very dangerous. Even if you seal all the windows and
doors, and leave a one inch gap in the main door, mosquitoes will
enter. What is the point of sealing all the doors and leaving a small
gap somewhere? Seal it fully. Let no negative thoughts ever enter
your mind. Always think positive. If you lose something, you must
think like this, I have to work harder. That is the lesson I have
learned. It is not that I am incapable. If you see your brothers
winning, you should feel happy that they are your brothers and they
have won, or they have scored better than you. You should not
develop jealousy. Always replace all negative thoughts with positive
thoughts, because there is only positivity in Divinity. Negativity is
demonic.
Student: Swami, how can we detach ourselves from worldly
desires?
Swami: What worldly desire do you have? At such a small age,
what worldly desire do you have?
Student: We get attracted to everything, Swami. Like, sometimes
while doing bhajans, if you see something outside, you will get
attracted to that.
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Swami: Life is like a vessel. You can only fill so much of water in it.
Suppose you fill that with water, there is no place for milk. If you fill
it with milk, there is no place for water. The more the world gets in,
the lesser the place for God. The more God gets in, the less will be the
place for the world. It is a limited-capacity vessel. Attachment to all
other things come because of fickleness of mind. Mind has the habit
of running outwards. It doesnt want to go inwards. It is like a little
child. The more you tell it to sit inside the house, the more it wants to
get out of the house.
There was a small child that was making a lot of noise in that
corner. How much ever the mother was telling, he was not willing to
sit inside. He wanted to run outside. This is the nature of the mind.
One can learn to detach oneself by training the mind. In one day,
nobody learned to how to walk, how to talk, how to ride a bicycle,
how to cook food, how to read a book, or how to drive a car. All these
things have been learned over a period of time. The idea is to be
careful. The moment you get a destructive thought, watch yourself.
That is why Swami gave you all watches. It is not for seeing the
time. It is to remind that every moment, you have to watch your
words, actions, thoughts, character, and heart. What you are thinking,
what you are saying, what you are feeling, what you are doing, where
you are going all these have to be watched all the time. The moment
you watch that the child is running out of the house, you have to catch
the child and bring him back inside the house. If you dont watch, the
child will run and disappear in the forest. So, being watchful of your
thoughts is the way to get your mind back to what you want to do.
You have to practice.
Devotee: Swami, my pranams at Your feet. You put this question in
my subconscious ever since I was in school.
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There was once a big businessman, who was very, very devoted
to Lord Shiva. Every Shivarathri, he would go to Kashi and do all the
poojas to all the Shivalingas available in the whole area of Kashi. Then
he would go and take a bath in the Holy River, and then come back.
After he went back, again he would go and do the same business. He
would cheat people. He would lend and borrow money. He would
charge a lot of interest, which is unethical, and if not, he would pick
up their household items and things like that. And every Shivarathri,
he would come back again to Lord Shiva to wash his sins in the Holy
River.
One day, after many, many years also, he was not able to get rid
of his greed for money. He was thinking, despite so many holy baths,
so much worship, so many hours, why was he not able to do that? He
was feeling very bad. He was crying and praying to the Lord. The
Lord appeared to him in his house. The Lord said, What is it that is
troubling you so much? Why are you criying?
He said, Lord, I am going every Shivarathri to Kashi and
worshipping you as Vishwanatha. I am bathing in the Holy River. I
am doing everything possible. Why is it that I am not able to get rid
of this greed, and why is it that I am not experiencing joy? The Lord
said, The problem is that, whenever you plan to start for Kashi, the
greed inside of you stays back in your office. You go bathe and come
back. Once you come back, the greed again enters you. It is like a
ghost, which sits here in the office, and when you come back, it again
enters you.
Such kind of worship, which is not purifying the evil qualities in
us, doing it for 40 days or 400 days or 40 years is also not going to
help. Every moment should be worship to Lord Shiva. Every moment
should be offered to Lord Shiva. Not many have the purity of heart.
They might have a pure, bright body outside, but they dont have the
inside very pure.
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Ask all these people being devoted, what are they praying to the
Lord for? They are praying to the Lord that their business should
grow. They are praying to the Lord that they should get children and
grand-children. They are praying to the Lord that their families
should be wealthy and prosperous. They are praying to the Lord that
they should become ministers and prime ministers and presidents.
Such people will never experience this joy of Divine sannidhi
(proximity0, because their prayers are directed towards a particular
goal.
In the Bhagawad Gita, there are four types of devotees that come
to the Lord. Aarthis, that is, those who are coming for a cure, physical
or mental ailment, they want it to be cured. Out of pain, they come to
the Lord to cure them. A lot of devotees have come to Bhagawan like
this. Why go beyond that?
Then there are arthaarthis. These are the people who want wealth
or prosperity. For that sake, they come to the Lord. Many have come
to Bhagawan for that, and Bhagawan has also blessed them for their
prayers.
Then there are jigyaasus, who want to know the ultimate Truth.
What is behind the maya of the world? What is behind the curtain?
They want to come to the Lord so that He parts the curtains and
shows them what the Reality is. They dont come for pains and wealth
and other such motivations.
Finally, there are people who are gyaanis, who know that the
Lord is all compassionate, who is all Divine, who is all Love. They
only come to enjoy that Divinity, that Love, that compassion of the
Lord. They only come to experience the Lords Love. They have
nothing to expect or give.
Knowingly or unknowingly, most of you are in that 4
th
category
of people who have come only to experience the Love of the Lord, and
have no ulterior motives or desires behind your coming here.
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That is what you all are here. I have no other qualification for
any devotee. But I bless all the four categories because the one who
gets 20 marks in the exam, now he will get 40. The one who gets 40
marks, may get 60. The one who gets 60, may get 80. And the one who
is getting 80, may get 100. They are all at different levels of their
evolution. But all are my children. I have equal compassion for all. It
is just that they are still lagging behind, and Swami is slowly moving
them forward.
If a child is hungry and you tell him to study mathematics, do
you think the child will study mathematics? First, you feed him, give
him what he requires. Once he is satisfied, only then will he study.
For example, yesterday it became dinner time. A lot of children
were hungry. Nobody was listening to Umesh Raos speech. He said,
for them, food is important. So I give food to them. For some, family
is important, so I give family to them. For some, business is important,
I give business to them. For some people, only I am important, so I
give Myself to them. You have to be in that fourth category, who only
come for Myself. You all have come for Swami, and that is why you
all are here.
Out of millions of people, only one or two develop such kind of
desires. So it is not a surprise that out of how many ever crores of
people on Earth, only 150 are here in this bungalow. (Applause)
Swami: Any more question?
Student: Swami, as it was said in the Bhagawad Gita,
yatra yogesvarah krsno, yatra partho dhanur-dharah
tatra srir vijayo bhutir, dhruva nitir matir mama
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(Meaning: Wherever there is Krsna, the master of all mystics, and wherever
there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence,
victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my opinion.
Bhagawad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 78)
Dear Swami, You are with us as Sai Krishna, but still we are failing.
What does it mean, Dhanur dharah?
Swami: Parthas duty was to fight the war. If he would not have
picked up his bow and fought the war, he would have failed in his
duty. As a student, your duty is to study well, behave well, be
disciplined, be humble, and be ideal. If you do your duty, I am always
with you to give you success. As a teacher, your teacher is to teach
well, to behave in an ideal way, to be compassionate, to be loving, and
impartial to all the students. Then, I am there with you also to give
you success. For people running business, their duty is to run it in an
ethical way, in a moral way, without breaking the laws, without
hurting the interests of others. If they run businesses like this, then I
am there with them too. There is a singer. His job is to sing in a way
that pleases the one who hears, and sing with all his capacity and all
his ability. If he does that, I am with him. In this way, there are
doctors, engineers, teachers, students, drivers, cooks, gardeners,
security. All of them, if they do their duty well, I am there with all of
them. The problem starts when you dont do your duty well. That is
when there is no success.
Even the sunlight is there. If you dont open the doors and
windows, your room will remain dark, and slowly, cockroaches,
mosquitoes, scorpions and snakes will enter there and make it their
permanent dwelling.
So, if you do your duty and open yourself to the Grace of the
Lord, obviously there will be success.
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I am living through you, through the Love you are giving to all
that come across you. That is My more important message.
Whatever you want, you can definitely read out to others. But
more important is that you have to live My message of Love, and let
you be a channel of My Love to reach out to My students. I am the
tank. You are the tap. If you dont deliver pure water in the tap, in the
same form to My students, then My students will go thirsty, and they
might think that the tank is empty. No. The tank is always full. The
tap is faulty. So, you become My messenger of Love, and not
messenger of books. Books people can read, but Love people can feel.
Go to Bagalkot and serve there with all My Love. Give it to all the
children who have not experienced Me.
It is the greatest responsibility of all those who have seen Me and
experienced Me while I was in the body, that the same Love and
experience they must spread to the others, through their own life. This
is a great responsibility that we must all decide to shoulder, and that
is all Bhagawan expects to live the Message, not talk the Message.
Professor: Swami, in two days time, I will be back in Prasanthi
Nilayam, and obviously my coming to Kodaikanal will no longer be
a secret.
There will be a lot of questions from my students, colleagues,
friends, and family, as to what I have experienced here. I seek your
advice in this regard, Swami.
Swami: Tell fearlessly what you have experienced. If there is a
mistake, only then there has to be fear. There is no mistake, so there
is no scope for fear. Tell what your heart has witnessed. For those who
ask sincerely, ask with feeling, let them know that there is a way to
experience Swami still, and that is through the path of humility and
open-mindedness.
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But then, I know some students will take it in the other way.
They will say, You only go and serve. And they will sit peacefully.
That is wrong. You should be willing to serve. But if there is anybody
else wanting to do it, you should have the heart to allow him to allow
the service, and you take up some other service. There is no dearth of
service.
Swami: Tigrett, you have no doubts?
Tigrett: No.
Swami: Good, Tigrett. So many years he has been with Swami, that
all doubts have been cleared. Very happy.
If you have any doubts ever, and it is coming as an obstruction
in your understanding or in your growth, you should fearlessly write
to Swami. In some way or the other, Swami will come and clear your
doubt - through a friend, through a teacher, through Swami Himself,
through a book, through Narasimhamurthy, or anybody. If you have
a doubt, dont let that doubt lie like this in the mind.
These are the foundation years of your life. If the foundations are
weak because of doubts, how can the building be strong? Clear all
your doubts. Have a firm, strong foundation on which you can build
as much as you want. At this age, at this juncture, do not keep any
weak or stumbling stones in the foundation because of doubts. Let it
be perfect, so that whatever you build on it, it will last forever.
Swami has enjoyed this trip to Kodaikanal. It has given Him so
much of joy to see all the children, teachers, and all His beloved
devotees so close to him, because now it is very difficult for people to
understand and experience this.
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Only those who have great love for Swami and great humility,
only they have this opportunity to experience these things. Protect
these feelings in your heart as you protect a candle in the wind. It can
go away any time because the breeze is so strong. So be very careful
to preserve this feeling in your heart and carry it wherever you go,
and spread this light of the candle to all the dark corners of the world.
This is My blessing and message.
We will go group-wise. All of you should assemble there.
Whatever the groups have been decided, we will take photographs,
so that we can keep it with us as a memory of this wonderful
Kodaikanal trip.
Every single session, the first question Swami has asked is, Did
the boys eat? Are they happy with the food? Every single session,
He has asked the food to be tasted, and only after the elders were
convinced that it should be given to the boys, did He say, Boys
should be given.
Swami has taken every single precaution. He has asked, How
are they sleeping? Is there enough space for them? Are they feeling
cold? Do they have hot water to bathe? Are they having enough space
to sleep and keep their things? and kept on feeling bad that He has
not been able to provide enough for His students, and they have had
a very, very tough time staying in Kodaikanal. (Students all respond,
No! Swami.)
I know. You are saying like this because you are all very good
children. You dont want to complain.
Next year, so that things are much smoother, we will bring the
Dining Hall right next to this building where all of you can eat
together, and you dont need to sit like monkeys on the fence.
Because, seeing you, real monkeys have come in! They will take away
your plates.
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