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Sai Literature => Sai Baba poems => Topic started by: Prasanthi on July 11, 2005, 02:46:52 PM
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God! I was playing in your lap
I got everything with a clap
World was so beautiful a scenary
with full of liveliness and greenery
Calm shores with rhythmic music
cool breezes soothing the body
sacred hymns echoing the serene climate
chirping of birds, roaring of animals
every component of nature resonate
with the other
as if all they are together
Suddenly I jumped on to the ground,
to look around,
playing I ran,ran, ran
only to see myself far from you
and the distance grew
World turned out to be so harmful a valley
frightened I wished for an ally
pleasant sky begin to roar thunders
waves began dancing to its orders
stormy air scorching the body
moaning of birds, groaning of animals,
Satan's army is enjoying a date
so shocking is the change.
Prasanthi
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Prashanti ji,
I am just copying and pasting this beautiful incident that Ramesh ji had posted :
'APPO DEEPO BHAVA.'
Buddha was dying. He walked for forty years with a lamp and thousands followed him. Now he was going to die.
One day in the morning he said: 'This is my last day. If you have something to ask, you can ask.' The moment had come, the crossroad had come; now he would go on his own way.
Suddenly, infinite darkness surrounded everybody. Ananda, Buddha's chief disciple, started crying like a child -- beating his heart, tears coming down -- almost mad.
Buddha said: 'What are you doing, Anand?'
Anand said: 'What will we do now? You were here, we followed in your light.
Everything was safe and secure. We have completely forgotten that darkness exists. Following you, everything was light. Forty years, and now you are leaving -- and you are leaving us in total darkness. We were better before we met you because at least we were attuned to darkness; now that timing is also lost. Don't leave us in darkness! We could not attain to enlightenment while you were here; now what will happen when you are gone? We are lost forever.' He started crying and weeping again.
Buddha said: 'Listen. Forty years you walked in my light and you could not attain to your own light. Do you think if I am alive forty years more, you will attain to your own light? Even four thousand or four million years? The more you walk in a borrowed light, the more you imitate, the more you will lose. It is better I should go.'
The last words on Buddha's lips were: 'Be a light unto yourself.' He died with this uttering: 'Be a light unto yourself' -- 'APPO DEEPO BHAVA.'
The story is beautiful. The next day Ananda became enlightened. He could not become enlightened for forty Years and he loved Buddha tremendously; he had almost become a shadow of him and he could not attain. The borrowed light: he relied too much on it.
And it was so beautiful, and so effortlessly available -- who bothers about anything else? And within twenty-four hours he became enlightened.
What happened?
Twenty-four hours of deep crying and facing the darkness, and the reality, and one's own helplessness. Those twenty-four hours must have been so long for him. It was the darkest period -- painful, deep anguish and agony. He passed that hell. It is said that for twenty-four hours he was Lying down under a tree as if dead, the whole body shaking, tears continuously flowing. People thought that he had gone mad or that he wouldn't be able to survive without Buddha.
But after twenty-four hours he was a totally different man. He opened his eyes and people could not believe it -- those eyes had the same glimmer as Buddha's eyes. His body had the same beauty, the same fragrance. He walked like Buddha. He had attained to his own light."
Probably Sai also wants you to attain your own light
Sushma.
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Sushmaji,
The story is good but do not apply to me. Those followers of Buddha renunciated everything and they are sadhakas. I am not a sadhaka and I am not aiming for salvation or self-realisation. I want to be born again, I want to be in the cycle of births. I will be happy if HE is with me in the coming births too. Thats it. You may feel it funny but this is true with me. As I said, I am not as good as you all devotees of HIM. My relationship with HIM is totally different.
Prasanthi
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Prashanthi ji,
You are also a good devotee, everyone on this earth are good people but it is Maya that makes them look good / bad. It is our judgmental attitude that makes us see people good or bad and when Sai is living in every human being how can you be a bad devotee. The way we interact with Him is diferent. Different people interact in different ways.
I believe that you want to take birth everytime b'coz you want to help people and try to participate in all that Sai is doing for His people. That is definetly a good idea but at some point i am sure probably not now you would definetly think about Salvation. Salvation helps you to understand Sai and you can participate in more works that Sai wants to do in this world.
Probably Sai has something else in His mind for you and you will definetly understand it at some point of your life.Time explains everything.
Sai Sharanam.
Sushma.
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Be Happy, above all , regardless what your challenges may be..........These are only to show you how strong we can be and overcome them.........
Sushma.