Nectar 4, Drop 10 23rd Oct, 2013 E-Newsletter from Mukthi Nilayam,! Happy Birthday, Dear Most Amma!
Nectar 4, Drop 10 23rd Oct, 2013 E-Newsletter from Mukthi Nilayam Virat Purusha I had been crying for Swami 27 April 2008 Meditation Swami: Why are you crying like this? Shall I tell you something? When someone asked you, How does it feel to be in the witness state? How did you reply? You said, I am always in the same state only crying. In the same way, although I am in the witness state, I worry thinking of you. It is only for the sake of others that we remain in the witness state. In this state, there is no action, yet feelings still exist. This is because Prema is our very nature. How can Prema not be there? You always think of Me and cry. In the same way, wherever I am, I am always thinking of you. We cannot live without showering Prema on each other. End of meditation Swami asked me to remain in the witness state. Someone asked me, How does it feel to be in the witness state? I replied, I am always in the same state, crying. From my first book till now, Swami has shown many different states of attainment. Earlier, He said that I was Radha, Mahalakshmi, Saraswathi, Parvathi, Durga and Brahma. Now He is showing the Brahman state, sankalpa state and state of Witness. In the same way, many things happened in my life, but nothing could change me. From birth to now, I am crying and yearning only for God. This is my state. There is only one state, one thirst, I want God. Nobody could survive remaining in this state. The life force would leave their body or they would become mad. Nobody could bear the endless suffering I experienced over the last seventy years. It is due to this suffering and anxiety that I cannot eat properly. If one is in the Witness state, he would remain at peace. One who is in this state, can only be a Witness. I am unable to be like this. Swami is in the Witness state for others. In my case, Swami s feelings are only expressed inwardly, there is no action outside. In the Witness state, Prema feelings do not function or come into action. They remain as they are, part of our nature. Prema feelings are the true nature of Swami and I. We are in the Witness state where others are concerned; there is no outward expression between us. We cannot do anything for each other. (Continued on Page 3)
Nectar 4, Drop 10 Virat Purusha (Cont.) (Continued from Page 2) However, we cannot stop the feelings of Prema that we have for each other, which pour from within us. Oh heart! Now I am in the witness state, the God state, do not think of Swami. Oh eyes! Now I am in the witness state, do not cry thinking of Swami I cannot order my heart and eyes in this way! Prema is our nature. I shower Prema on Swami and Swami shows His Prema to me. This is our nature. Swami often asks me, Why do you only like this form? I cannot tell why. 7th May, 2008 - Evening Meditation Swami: Why do you have so much Prema for this form? Vasantha: What magnet do You have? Page 3 Swami: Our relationship is not ordinary. It is not birth to birth or age to age, it is permanent. We are inseparable. We come from the One, as two. We two are One. Vasantha: Swami, what is our connection? It is not only feelings it is puzzling. It is something else. Please tell me Swami: We are the Virat Purusha. We are the One becoming two. Now write about this. We have to change this age into a new yuga. As we are the Virat Purusha, you are yearning like this. End of meditation God willed creation. Immediately after this sankalpa, the sound Om emerged. Thereafter came the Virat Purusha. What is Virat Purusha? It is the male and female aspects of God in a state of embrace. This Virat Purusha then separated into individual man and woman and creation was born. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, a groundnut is used to explain the Virat Purusha form. The two parts of the peanut symbolize the Virat Purusha. Earlier in my writing on Virat Purusha, I used the example of the fight between Bhima and Jarasandha. During the battle, Bhima tore Jarasanda s body into two pieces and threw them on the ground. Immediately the two pieces began rolling towards each other and rejoined. In this way, Swami and I are two halves, yearning to unite. However, the connection is not only through feelings. I have written in an earlier book that though the forms of Swami and I are different, our feelings remain the same. The feelings of Sri Krishna, Sathya Sai, Prema Sai and the feelings of Radha, Vasantha and Prema are the same. The forms may differ, but the feelings are the same. In my case, it is not the oneness of feelings alone; Swami and I are the Virat Purusha form. We share the Virat Purusha feeling for creation. Radha and Prema do not have these feelings, so I am different from them. (Continued on Page 4)
Nectar 4, Drop 10 Virat Purusha (Cont.) (Continued from Page 3) 9 May 2008 Morning meditation Vasantha: Tell something about the Virat Purusha. Swami: It is like two halves of a groundnut. Dal has two halves and the seeds from trees and plants. If the seed separates into two, it will not sprout. The life force is where the two halves meet. This power causes the seed to germinate. In the same way, the Virat Purusha has two parts, the male and female aspect. The creation emerges from them. Vasantha: Swami, why did You say, If I become an ordinary man, demon or God Swami: Whichever form I take, you want to be with Me only. You want to be all that I am, wherever I am. This is life force and energy, Shiva Shakthi. It is the Indweller and Kundalini power. It is Sathya and Prema. It is God and His Chitshakthi. It is omnipresence and omnipotence. Radha desired this Oneness. Vasantha: Now I understand. If You are the eyes, I am the light of the eyes. If You are the ocean, I am the wave. Wherever You are, I am. Swami: You have demonstrated that God and Creation are the same. There is no difference. They are the same. Swami asked, If I suddenly became an ordinary man, what would you do? I want only God. However, if the God I worship became an ordinary man, I would want only Him. If He becomes a demon, I would want to be like Him, a demoness. This is how much I love Swami. If He is God, man or demon, I want only Him. If He is peacock, I am peahen. If He is lion, I am lioness. Whatever form He takes, I will take that form. There is something in Him that completely overpowers me. What can I do? Swami kindles me to reveal my innermost feelings. Where, where Swami is; there, there I want to be. This is the secret of the Vasanthamayam creation. He is omnipresent, I am His omnipotence. The life force and power of action are not different. This is Being and Becoming. This is the omnipresence of Sathya and Prema. It is the omnipresence God and His omnipotent Shakthi, a state where the Indweller and Kundalini shakthi are functioning everywhere. Page 4 The mind is a fertile field for ignorance. Do not seek more and more comfort and convenience, instead, seek wisdom. The dust of sense-craving accumulates on the mind producing rust and threatening to burst it! To remove the rust in your mind, listen to soulful compositions from great saints like Tyagaraja, Tukaram, Eknath, etc. Be always joyful, optimistic and courageous. When God is within you, why do you lose hope? That is why the Lord says, Why fear, when I am here?. Despair is a sin against God. Do not continue to add things that bind you. Bind yourself to the great liberator, God. O Goddess, Help us, Help us, Help us. Helo us fvr having Swami s name in vur lios End of meditation And Swami s fvrm in vur heartx Helps us to be aware that Swami is the goal of our life. Helos us tv ye like Yvu Amma w Dust under Swami s Lvtus Feet! Fofana Gerty
Page 5 Reason for Sadhana Bhagavan - My treasure pray to Swami, Swami, You should I never forsake me. Swami says, How many times will you tell me this. You always say the same thing. I reply, Once daily I make sure that you will not leave me. S wami says sadhana means endless longing. In the book Sadhana the Inward Path He says, Radha is the Becoming and Krishna is the Being, the desire of the Being to Become, the longing of the Becoming for the Being is the Radha Krishna relationship. This is the relationship that is sung and glorified by all devotees. Sri Krishna the Being, desires to become Radha. After attaining the form of Radha, He yearns to return to His original state. From this, we understand that Radha and Krishna are one and the same. Desire is an ordinary feeling. All that we wish for in the worldly sphere can be called desire. Desire descends from a higher level to the lower level. It is because of desire that Sri Krishna Himself came down as Radha and then again longs to return to His original state. Desire pulls us down into the material world. Yearning and longing takes us up. Deep longing for God helps us to attain Him. My life is such a life of longing. All the many paths of sadhana I have taken up are dictated by my yearning to become one with God. Since I am always immersed in Godconsciousness, my mind seeks out new ways and means to experience Him. This thirst is the reason for sadhana and more sadhana! I am very cautious that I don t let Bhagavan slip away. I am very careful in this regard. My whole mind is focused on safeguarding this precious Sai treasure; the treasury of love, the treasury of bliss, the Lord of Prema. Just as a poor man would safeguard his newfound treasure, I am always very careful not to lose this invaluable gem of Sai...my life runs toward God faster than the flowing Ganges. It will not stop for anybody s sake. Bhagavan is mine, my life, my only goal. ॐ Did you get angry or impatient? ॐ Did you hurt anyone by thought, word or deed? ॐ Did you think about the past or the future? ॐ Did you speak (or listen) unnecessarily? ॐ Did you always have a smiling face? ॐ Did you learn anything from your work? (or from anyone) ॐ Did you have any new desire? ॐ Did you find fault with anyone today? ॐ How much of the day did you think about or remember God?
Page 6 Get away from Body Consciousness I t is important to remember the impermanence of the body and the permanence or eternal nature of the Atma. From early life we are made to have only body awareness. No one tells us anything about the Atma. Consequently, our focus is on bodily wants and needs, beauty, food, exercise, physical health and sense orientated experience. Does this last for long? The physical body is here but a minute. Know you really are the eternal Atma. What beautifies the Atma? Good thoughts, good words and good deeds. Today people want to give their children vitamins and tonics. Such attention encourages them to think of themselves only as the physical body. They neglect to make the children aware of the more important knowledge of one s inner beauty and strength. Make Baba s name the vitamins for the Atma. Nutrition for the Atma comes from bhajan, meditation, repetition of the name and constant remembrance of God. Yogis live on meagre food and are sustained by thoughts of God. How is this? Only when we leave body consciousness can we really begin thinking about God. To reduce body consciousness, start by remembering that this body is not permanent. As Swami often reminds us, you are not just a water bubble. The body loses its ability to heal itself by becoming overly dependent on outside medicines and treatment. If you are sick, pray to Bhagavan for help and let Him be your doctor. Avoid looking at yourself excessively in the mirror. This can help to diminish body awareness. The common greeting nowadays is, How are you feeling? Instead begin focusing on the spiritual and eternal aspects and ask, How is your sadhana? The body is an instrument we use to know God. If it is used otherwise, attachment will arise and imprison us in mundane worldly life. Use the body like a necessary tool, as if it were an instrument in the kitchen. You pick it up, it performs the task and then you put it back on the counter. How do we gain the knowledge of the Atma? Most of our time is spent in getting an education and then in performing work at our home or office. All other karmic achievements are nothing in comparison to separating the mind from the Atma. In other words, the most important work in life is learning who you really are by acquiring knowledge of the Divine. Even when man goes to the moon what does he bring back? He gathers some dust and rocks and returns. What a waste of valuable resources? Man spends so much energy on external things but does not know a thing about himself, who he really is or where he is going! Man is now mounting great efforts to reach Mars but I have travelled there and many other places with Swami without leaving home. Everything is within us. Seek and find! F rom the male and female, all creation begins. I am always saying I want Swami, I love You, this is the seed. My chastity is the skin of the seed. From the seed, the life force of Prema sprouts. The mantra,, forms the stem, branches and leaves. This means it is an Om Sri Sai Vasantha Saiesaiya Namaha plant, branch, leaf. The feelings of Swami and I is the life force, which create the plants, branches and leaves. This mantra is the Virat Purusha mantra. Therefore everywhere Sathya Sai and Vasantha s are born.
Page 7 I n continuation from the last month s article, the prayer songs composed by Sri Adi Shankaracharya for the mercy of Sri Sri Lakshmi-Narasimha is given below. In the broad ocean of material existence I am broken and smashed again and again by the powerful waves of my accumulated attachments. Grasped in the jaws of the fearful crocodile of the external time factor, I am pierced, ripped apart, and swallowed. O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands. O all-powerful, ocean of mercy, cast Your glance upon me. I am bewildered, helplessly sinking in the sea of samsara. You descended to remove the distress of your devotee Prahlada Maharaja. O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands. O Murari, I have fallen into the pit of material existence and I am wandering just like an animal greatly tormented by fear of horrible death that awaits him. Distressed and miserable, I am burnt by envy. O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands. Binding me with ropes, the servants of Yamaraja drag me to his abode, beating me severely along the path. Bound by material existence in hundreds of ways, I stand alone, helpless and trembling, under the influence of the superior force of daiva maya. O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands You are the Lord of Lakshmi and the master of the demigods. O Vishnu, Your navel is just like a lotus. You are the Lord of sacrifice and the embodiment of sacrificial performance. O Madhusudana, Vishvarupa, You are always favorably disposed to the brahmanas. O Keshava, Janardana, Vasudeva, O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands. In one of Your four hands You hold the Sudarshana disc and in another a conch. With another You embrace Lakshmi, who was born from the milk ocean, and with another on the left You bestow fearlessness. The palm of that hand which is raised to give the benediction is marked with the lotus symbol. O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands Although I was very wealthy, I am blind and without discrimination. I have been robbed of my great treasure (God consciousness) by the thieves known as the senses. Despite all my attempts to appease them with different types of offerings, they have thrown me into the pit of illusion and darkness. O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands. You reside in the hearts of the best devotees such as Prahlada Maharaja, Narada Muni, Parashara Muni, Pundarika, Vyasadeva and others. You are very fond of Your devotees and You are their parijata tree of protection. O Lakshmi-Nrisimha, please bless me with the touch of Your lotus hands. This prayer, bestowing auspiciousness in this world, has been composed by Shankaracharya, who is a honeybee in the lotus flower of the feet of Sri-Sri Lakshmi- Nrisimha. Those who read this prayer with devotion to Lord Krishna attain the shelter of Sri Sri Lakshmi-Nrisimha s lotus feet and also attain their eternal spiritual form, which is never annihilated
E -Ne ws letter from M uk thi Ni la y am! Mukthi Nilayam Royapalayam Village B.O Tirumangalam S.O Madurai-Virudhunagar Road, Madurai Dist. Pin:625 706 Tamil Nadu, India Phone: +91-4549-320593 E-mail: mukthinilayam@gmail.com www.vasanthasai.org www.mukhinilayam.org The entire universe will be filled with my calls of Prema. I will drink the beauty of the Lord through the eyes of the entire world. I will rejoice looking at Him through all eyes. I will pray to my Lord with the folded hands of everyone and serve at His lotus feet. My Prema shall permeate everywhere. I will be everywhere. I will be present in every part of creation. All the 580 crores of people in the world will be Vasantha, all only Vasantha. She is the ONE I first came to know about Amma Sri Vasantha Sai in July of 2001 through Her book, - Liberation, Here Itself, Right Now! The book invoked an indelible urge in me to meet Amma. On September 24th, 2001 I had the Darshan of Amma for the first time in Her home in the village of Vadakammpatti, Tamil Nadu. Ever since then, I have been blessed to have some degree of association with Amma Sri Vasantha Sai and I have realized that She is the One. You can Call Her Adi Shakthi, Or The Holy Spirit, The Divine Feminine Principle, Cosmic Mother, or whatsoever suits your wont. She is all this and more. How much more and what more She is, needless to say is unfathomable. The enormity of these words could astound some. An astute sadhaka or spiritual aspirant who might come to visit Amma with the above allegories in mind should only be wary of what he or she might be taken by when one meets Her. She is Akilanda Koti Brahmanda Nayaki, The Cosmic Mother. However, Her appearance and demeanor is an exact contrast to what one might envisage given the above connotations. Amma is an epitome of humility. The Divine Feminine Principle adorns the garb of a very simple, modest, down to earth village woman. This perhaps makes it more difficult to cognize who she really is. She is the One.,