SHRI SAI LEELA
Official periodical of
Shri Sai Baba Sansthan,
Shirdi
VOL. 70
NO. 9 10
January-February 92
Editor: Prof. Dr. Lekha Pathak
Executive Editor: Arun Tamhankar
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--"WAIT, JUST A MINUTE!...LET ME THINK!! ..."ARUN TAMHANKAR
— MYSTERIES, OF MYSTERY ARUN TAMHANKAR
— CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF EVENTS CONCERNING SHRI SAI BABA BY LT.COL.NIMBALKAR
— GRACE ALONE BY KRISHNA AIYAR RAMASWAMI
— WAS THE FATHER OF JUDAISM A DRAVIDIAN HINDU – ARE THE JEWS DESCENDANTS OF ANCIENT TAMILS BY YOGARISHI DR.SWAMI GITANANADA
— SAI BABA OF SHIRDI A UNIQUE SAINT BY M.V.KAMATH AND V.B.KHER
— IS ASTROLOGY A SCIENCE
— VARARUCI AND HIS TWELVE SIDDA PROGINIES BY KRISHNA AIYAR RAMASWAMI
— HIDDEN TEACHINGS OF THE GREAT MYSTIC OF INDIA – SHRI SAI BABA OF SHIRDI BY SAI CHARAN DAS
"WAIT, JUST A MINUTE!...
LET ME THINK!!..."
— Arun Tamhankar
Some days ago a friend of mine asked his friend,
"Will you serve in my company?"
I think over and let you know". Friend's friend said:
Why ? What is there to think about ? The present one is temporary. The new one is lucrative.
My friend asked him again the next day. He said:
"I couldn't find time to think about it so far"
I got unnecessarily annoyed with his answer. Because in his answer there was a feigned overbearing to say that you struggle to exist by thinking alone!
"Will you come to the picture ? When you ask so, people say, 'we will think about it'. Is there any connection to going to the picture and thinking?"
Often we use the word 'thinking' at every step. Do we know the sense of it. How much do we really know, how to think. We have forgotten to think along with the product of the culture of the past. Or in other words we have neglected to think about the past along with the culture gained.
"What is meant by thinking?"
There are three methods for the process of thinking:
1. Discussion ('Charcha').
2. Progressive Consequences ('Sankhya').
3. Cogitation (Vicharanaj.
Once we start the debate on thinking, then it is followed by a defective illusion (Bhrahnli), Mitya Mali (imperfect false notions), and Bhram (Confusion). There is a necessity for a perfect scientific thinking in order to arrive at an estimation and determination. But in the beginning with the development of false observation and atheism people begin to develop animosity which further gives birth to isms and obsessive clash. Man slips on the estimation although he had taken a determination. There the defects of suspicion and doubts boil up in his mind. This gives faith to 'Vimarsha', 'Vasana' and 'Bhavana', i.e., expanded-explanation, essential-memory, and image-projection. On the subject of thinking he is further thrown away.
When a man says he is thinking, actually he is using his intellect behind his thought. But intellect is of fourteen kind. According to Indian thought they are:
1. Manisha
2. Dhishana
3. Dhihi
4. Buddhi
5. Pradnya
6. Shemushi
7. Mati
8. Peksha
9. Upallabdhi
10. Chit
11. Sanvida
12. Pratipad
13. Dnyapti and
14. Chetana.
The western scientists are unable to investigate into the various qualities of intellect as given above. The ancestral Indian wisdom has very minutely and scientifically evolved the fourteen compartments of the intellect. It will be pretentious to find or to coin equivalent or parallel words or phrases in English which connote or give the exact meaning or sense of these words and hence they are given as such.
Man's original existence is a group of thought vibrations. Because of that his life depends upon the process of thinking and hence man is a thinking being. This process of thinking is amply dealt with by the ancient Indian thinkers.
On the ladder of thoughts the first step is the introvert prompting of the urge to think and this is followed by the arrival thereafter immediately of the actual subject matter of the thought. This is followed by the attempt effort to understand the subject matter accompanied by the rules. The thinking process of a particular subject embodies in itself the rules thereof. The fifth step is :
(Asshrav) Here the concentration of a thought on a particular subject takes you nearer to your goal. The next step is (Sansrav) In this the necessary presence of mind to overcome all pains and impediments arising out of the thought stands confronted before you. There after one reaches a point where one adopts the responsibility of thinking about a particular subject. Once this responsibility is accepted the process of thinking gets nearer to the subject matter which is called as (Abhyupagam). This is followed by a state called (Prathishrav). This means that the subject matter to be studied goes beyond the confines of the state of knowing and the known. Here the process of' thinking gets transformed into a balanced state called as (Samyakrudi Samadhi). This means that a man's thought gets embeded in the subject matter. Here even if the thinking process is crystalised the study thereof is not fulfilled - what actually manifests in the thought pertaining to the study of a particular subject being born. But the (Samadhi Avastha) or balanced duet between the selected subject and the thought there of being created or a state of parallel balanced breathing being established one does not take a separate posture.
But to have reached this stage is in itself a formidable event. Normally men think about a subject having undergone the threefold process of introvert prompting, the arrival of the subject, and the effort to understand or comprehend it. But man is prevented from being bound by laws, the laws governing the acquisition of knowledge, wisdom or the ordeal of life or rather when the time arrives for the observation of rigid rituals, he shirks from his duties having suffered from his egotistic behavior or rather he is overshadowed by the collective obsession -consequently his ‘ashrav’: getting nearer to goal is oblitered. Out of this is born evil efforts; defects like ignorance, loss of knowledge, and ego centric tendency. These drawbacks appear in sequence at the moment of understanding the subject and while the thinking process emerges and they get embeded in the attitude of attempting to overcome all impediments and obstacles. From this the subjected subject gets side tracked. The subject proper is neglected. The attempt to understand the tendency to neglect the rules and rituals and the change in the pattern of knowing and known gels mixed up and creates a hum drum sound in thought vibrations. Consequently, the sequence oriented thought flow gets disturbed and distorted. Out of this are created the causes of. clash and pains and sufferings. This means that the sense of establishment, determination and state of affairs get transformed and the thinking mechanism of the brain gets confused. Brain sensory organism requires false long and short shots. The physical body undergoes a change in the ordinary metabolism and metabolic pressures and this results in the emotional tendencies getting glued to the gums! This is called as ignorance!! Once the emotional tendencies got rooted, the quality of comprehending the subject matter and the analytical system get shattered! This shattered united collectiveness is called as ignorance.
Wrong conclusions and false notions are born out of Avidya which gets —
Even as we continue to proclaim and assert-
Wait a moment! Let me think!
Is it not funny and amusing?
Translation in English by
Anna Joglekar and Krish Rams
MYSTERIES, OF MYSTERY
THE spiritual illustrations of Sairiath are mysteries. Baba's miracles are a mystery. Dream illustrations given by him to foreign devotees of Baba are also mysteries. In short Baba Himself is a Mystery. While writing about the experiences pertaining to Baba the question about miracles persists. After having perfected himself of the science of mysteries Shri Sai Baba lighted the lamps using water for oil. This miracle itself is classified as superstitious belief by the so called illogical intellectual and this attitude is day by day increasing. The time has come for devotees like us to put a stop to this attempt by the crowd of non-believers.
But, for that purpose, we, as writers of articles like, 'Mysteries of Mystery', have to be cautious and careful to jot down our experiences about Baba.
People have to be enlightened and set on the proper logical thinking track by writing about the mysteries of mysteries to relieve them from the imbalanced mind and body arising out of family quarrels, tension, indisciplines, the food habits, beneficial or contrary, lack of proper understanding illogical thinking, vain arguments, deep shuddering, imbalanced experiences of life's events distorted, diabolical desparados ruling the roost and to wean such persons from quarrelsome, mentally and spiritually dissipating atmosphere and to set them to enjoy the freedom of elevated thinking, such popular writings depicting the true and correct version of Baba's deeds of mysteries must be encouraged. A tired traveller in the sandy desert of an imbalanced life, needs cold water to quench the thirst of his parched throat which is his nector. A patient on death bed who is dying in depressed, dissipated spirit and mind arising out of disbelief can be given an elixir of Baba's mysteries through such enlightened writings as these.
The writers of such articles needs necessarily to have clear perception and an enlightened idea of what he is to achieve by such healthy, spiritually enriched and enlivened writings to be read by all people
who are either social workers, students, curiosity observers, etc., so as to be goaded and guided to set themselves on the right thinking lines. These writers have the responsibility to write with an analytical mind such articles to be read and properly understood by people especially of the lower strata so that they can be elevated to higher levels of understanding.
In any literary work, debate, seminar, expositions, preface is an important part. It is the breath of what is contained in the book in the form of letters, words, sentences etc., propounding as principles and the balance exposition thereof. That breath should not be imbalanced nor suffer from short breath, but should enjoy the balanced proportions of "Maha Prana", that rneans the listeners, readers and practitioners should also experience the after effects of balanced (Samana Vayu and Prana Vayu) and simultaneously issuing forth such vibrations
to the readers and everybody denoting the long breath of pranayama.
Or else it should be of the same calibre as the mysteries as the subject of mystery of mysteries. Otherwise the affected patient will not receive the high frequency vibrations but will only feel a tingling sensation of the bracing of the low frequency of the vibrations. Consequently the blemish imposed on mystery of mysteries as superstitious belief will persist for ever.
Mahabharata and Ramayana, the two epics are the citation (Darshan) of how man is and how he ought to be, are the observations on these two fundamentals of lives gradual unfoldment and development. The later writings appear to have displayed this very attempt of unfoldment and enlargement by persons, provinces, individuals and the society later. Out of this appearance the authors of and writers of mysteries have not escaped the clinches. Writing on mysteries needs the inevitable embroideries, embelishments and broadcasting of miracles in all their glitters. But it is not introspective in appearance then there is a danger of it axing at the roots of knowledge that can delve into the depths of mysteries creating thus more confusion, if not confounding further only to feed the arrogant, idiotic and indolent beliefs. Consequently it encourages social evils, meaningless mind-boggling rituals encouraging unholy and unworthy social evils preventing the society from leading it along paths beyond repair and of no return.
Solid forty years of one's life-squeezed, nailed and hit grooved and carved by events which made it oscillate, the spiritual man and individual entity or a collective being who has done intense practice (SADHANA), cogitation, debate, lecturing, repeated recitation, rendition culminating in the writing of epics and if after all these when we study such individuals in the later half of their lives (here appear to be a constantly agitated, abrassive, discredited, dilapidated, decripit, dishonoured, abandoned, dejected and appear to be running towards his own spiritual annihilation. In the end having reached the abyss of no-return and frustrated recless ruffian, they become addicts and terrorists and impotent cowards! Such galaxy of people become the medium of intellectual idiocy is
addressed and according to their intellectual speculation religion is considered as the opium-pill. Such was the episode which happened in one of the by-gone days. In the later period a near atmosphere of thoughts prevailed and a new society appeared on the horizon and in such a frustrated condition and artificially recreated atmosphere, the very thought of 'Dharma Sastra' was made to disappear in the black-hole of nowhere and in the end it was branded as superstitious belief.