Hakuin ekaku biography of mahatma
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Padmasambhava
The Effulgent Sai
compilation, Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust
for World Youth Conference, 2007
This slim book is a compilation of eight Divine Discourses specially selected for reading by Sai Young Adults, upon the occasion of the World Youth Conference held in Prashanthi Nilayam, July 2007. Attention is drawn to the urgent need for moral reconstruction of society, the uplift of rural masses and the underprivileged, and the need for Sai Youth to remain unpolluted physically, mentally and morally.
It is fitting that this small book opens with Sathya Sai’s letter to his brother Seshama Raju, written in May of 1947. Seshama Raju loved his brother and was devoted to him – the letter is addressed, To all who are devoted to Me… This letter gives calm, clear assurance that none may prescribe the acts and deeds of a mahatma, and their lives are marked by beneficial acts and self reliance. No one takes notice of dogs that howl at the moon and the stars, so why should anyone take notice of what the naysayers are saying? In this letter, Baba says that naysayers and critics have no comprehension of the glory and the reality of the One they are criticising. If they knew, they would remain silent.
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ADVAITA – Dvaita means duality, so a-dvaita is no duality, which is the highest teaching of India. There are six major darshanas, or philosophies, in India – two that are dualistic, two that are between dualism and non-duality, and two that are non-dual. (Advaita Vedanta is one of the latter.) Non-dual means, literally, that there “are not two.” Many have spoken of “the Oneness of All Life.”
ANANDA – Pronounced anand in some Indian provinces, anand is joy or bliss of the highest, most permanent kind, coming from within. It is not temporary gratification from obtaining something desired. A good example of one bathed in anand would be the modern Swami Ramdas, an Indian saint who jumped up and down like a child, crying in joy during the latter years of his life. Sufi and Dervish masters, in their great devotion, often experience this anand. Many ashrams (Indian monasteries – originally forest dwellings) – have ananda as part of their names.
AURA – Religious paintings usually have a halo around the head of a saint, and this is what many people think of as the aura. On the other hand, we say, “He had an aura (air) of sanctity about him.” Here we are using the word in the greater sense, really referring to the vibrations around him. This is what we mean by aura when we speak of go
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