Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Welcome to the 2015 Raas Purnima issue of e-Sanai

by Sri Sandip Dasgupta


Dear fellow devotees,

Welcome to the Raaspurnima edition of e-Sanai.   This is the time of the year when Sri Sri Babathakur left his mundane body.   Initially that caused all of us to be very sad – but then we kept remembering His words – ‘I am always with you: in good times as well as in bad times’.  His words and actions always made his identification with the permanent I-Reality very evident.  On the other hand, our minds constantly binds ourselves to our temporary identity (i.e. the ‘Jiva I’ as termed by our Master, Sri Sri Babathakur).
As days pass by, and I get older, I am beginning to understand the relevance and applicability of His words in our lives.  In one of His lectures, He had pointed out a very important point about our behavior. He had mentioned that when we pray to God, we keep asking the Lord for things – but we never give anything to the Lord!  We try to bribe the Lord by giving flowers, fruits etc to the temple Gods. According to our Master, we have received so many things from the Lord – but every material object that we have received causes reactions in our mind and we have to spend time and effort managing that object.   We also have to experience the results of experiencing those objects. Our Master therefore urged us to remember that:
·         The object(s) have been given to us by the Lord (they are not ours)
·         The objects and this life belongs to the Lord (not to us)
·         The actions also do not belong to us (belong to the Lord)
·         The results also belong to the Lord (not to us).
Hence, he always asked us to surrender all the results of our life to the Lord – because He is the Master planner, Master executioner and Master experiencer.
We all have been extremely fortunate to have received His blessings in the form of His Realized teachings.  Those teachings are like electric current flowing through a wire.   We need to turn on the switch so that the light bulb (of knowledge) is turned on and the darkness of ignorance is removed from our lives.
Hence my appeal to all of you is to reflect on the Master’s teachings and apply them to every aspect of our lives.
Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur!

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