Dharma and Adharma

[SS91]

It is easy to criticise or belittle the "leelas" or infinite

potencies of God.

 But it is very difficult to comprehend the truth about the Divine.

 The Omnipresent Divine is present both in Truth and untruth.

 He is present both in righteousness (Dharma) and unrighteousness

(Adharma).

He is present in good and evil.

With regard to such an all-pervading Divine, how can anyone

determine what is good and what is bad?



OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI!!!
Let us pray at the feet of Sai Baba who is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him.

[SS91]

Reading the following the mind went in depths asking only for the Love of Sai, discarding everything.


Master : "Pure love of God. I prayed to the Divine Mother (When i read this Sai Baba is my Divine Mother there is no difference between Kali Maa or Sai Baba). ' O Mother (Sai Baba), here, take Thy dharma; here, take Thy, Adharma; and give me pure love of Thee. Here, take Thy virtue; here, take Thy vice; and give me pure love for Thee. Here, take Thy knowledge: here, take Thy ignorance: and give me pure love of Thee.


What wonderful words, the divine strength and energy was already working on the brain and the mind. These words read, put it totally drenched in love of Sai Baba. How wonderful i don't want the Dharma or Adharma, virtue or vice, knowledge or ignorance. Normally it is seen that the mind cling or want to keep the Dharma, the virtue and knowledge. It gives the opposites of all these to God it is devoted to, in our case Sai Baba. Good things we want to keep and bad things O Baba take these away from me. The above prayer had a great impact and good results on mind. Only pure love of Thee, not even the virtues, Dharma or knowledge which is yet a vanity.



JaiSaiRam

[SS91]

Whenever there is a decay of Dharma and rise of Adharma, then I embody Myself. To protect
the good, to destroy the wicked and to establish Dharma, I am born age after age.

- Bhagavad Gita IV: 7, 8

Like water, Dharma also finds its level. When an individual commits an Adharma towards
another, he will be made to compensate the other for it in some form or other, in this or in a
subsequent life. Sin and retribution are inalienable action and reaction. That is a law of nature.
When that Adharma exceeds individual limits and spreads it wings to cover large sections of
society, and a few ordinary virtuous mortals are unable to meet the challenge, God descends on
earth in the form of an incarnation or Avatar to neutralize that collective Adharma. There is
nothing accidental or extraordinary in this. It is only the operation of law referred to above on a
very comprehensive scale to extend its effect to all the groups of society that deserves it. The
combined Karma of all the individual souls of the society gets embodied in this incarnation. An
incarnation is an agent of the Supreme Godhead, sent into our midst; with full authority and
power to set in order all lapses and aberrations in the practice of Dharma.

But in this process, two significant departures of the Lord from His supreme station of
spectatorship deserve special mention for our enlightenment.

“Prakita’ or “Mayasakti” is a creature of Eswara, the lord. At the time of His incarnation on
earth, He manipulates ‘Prakriti’ and appears to be born and growing, through in reality. He is
unborn and eternal.

Secondly, though in His original state He is above all Karma, in an incarnation he moves in
actual flesh and blood among us as influenced by Karma but as an ideal Jivatma. He does this
among other things, to bring Himself nearer to His devotee’s understanding of Him – nearer than
a mere concept of God, or scriptural ideal to reach an unseen perfect personality of an epic.


Om Shantih Shantih Shantihi
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

[SS91]

Through various acts, advices and examples, Baba advised His children to follow the path of dharma, which means transgressing the limitations of our small ‘ego’.
Keeping  this in mind Baba’s advice we may strive to undertake “Seema Ullanghan” of the limitations of our mind and body,
so that we can forge ahead to plant better tomorrow for the posterity

JaiSaiRam...

[SS91]

Yadaa yadaa hi dharmasya, glaanir bhavathi bhaaratha
Abyutthaanam adharmasya, tadaatmaanam shrjaamyaham,
Parithraanaaya saadhunaam, vinaasaayacha dushkrthaam,
Dharma samsthaapanaarthaaya, sambhavaami yuge, yuge.


This is from the Gita – chapter 4 shloka 7&8 – which means, “whenever righteousness decays and unrighteousness is on an ascendancy, I manifest myself for the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of the vicious and for the establishment of truth and righteousness, age after age”, says Krishna to Arjuna.

This is why great saints and great personalities incarnate again and again either, like the Bhagawath says, they are ‘amsa avatars’ (limited or part manifestations of the Supreme) or ‘Purna avatars’ – complete manifestations of the Supreme.


JaiSaiRam