Received some queries on mail from a devotee. So today am putting the queries and my response on this post. So that it can get, some more responses by other Sai Baba devotees and those interested in spirituality in the comments.
Hi Alpesh,
I hope you remember that we had chat once. One question was coming
again n again in mind. n i was not getting satisfied with the ansers
which i was getting. So i thought to ask u d same.
What is the significance of the "siddh peeth" like Vaishno devi,
Amarnaath, Tirupati balaji. We being a human being always have some
wish, desires based
on the circumstances of life. It is said when god want to bless you
with happiness he made you to come there and there is another fact
that no one can change destiny not even god. its said "honi ko koi
nahi taal sakta hai".
i have read in sai sacharitra that people who didnt have child they
were blessed with the baba's "aashirwaad". Here one questions comes up
in mind that
when somthing is not in your destiny then no one can change it. if
this is true then how can baba do this.
Take other side of this , if it is already written in destiny then
whats the point of asking somthing from god. People use to go temple
with the full hope. So shouldnt we leave hope for getting somthing
from god. Shldnt v accept the fact that there is no one in the whole
universe who can change your destiny.
People says that belief in god make u stronger. but what i feel that
its good to have faith on supreme power. but because of this "moh-
maya" we are bound to trapped in the pain n sorrows. sometimes this
pain is so intense that v even cant meditate on god. This is my
personal expreince about baba.
I hope you would be able to anser my questions i have asked above.
Regards,
AnshuI hope you remember that we had chat once. One question was coming
again n again in mind. n i was not getting satisfied with the ansers
which i was getting. So i thought to ask u d same.
What is the significance of the "siddh peeth" like Vaishno devi,
Amarnaath, Tirupati balaji. We being a human being always have some
wish, desires based
on the circumstances of life. It is said when god want to bless you
with happiness he made you to come there and there is another fact
that no one can change destiny not even god. its said "honi ko koi
nahi taal sakta hai".
i have read in sai sacharitra that people who didnt have child they
were blessed with the baba's "aashirwaad". Here one questions comes up
in mind that
when somthing is not in your destiny then no one can change it. if
this is true then how can baba do this.
Take other side of this , if it is already written in destiny then
whats the point of asking somthing from god. People use to go temple
with the full hope. So shouldnt we leave hope for getting somthing
from god. Shldnt v accept the fact that there is no one in the whole
universe who can change your destiny.
People says that belief in god make u stronger. but what i feel that
its good to have faith on supreme power. but because of this "moh-
maya" we are bound to trapped in the pain n sorrows. sometimes this
pain is so intense that v even cant meditate on god. This is my
personal expreince about baba.
I hope you would be able to anser my questions i have asked above.
Regards,
Hi Anshu,
Well Anshu, it is said that spirituality cannot be explained. any amount of explanations will not satisfy the mind and the soul. What satisfies or bring end to the spirituality related questions is direct perceptions or experience.
About the siddh peth, i can say that these places are overwhelmingly charged with spiritual energy. These places has the capacity to materialize many desires. However the materialization of the desires is not the goal of spirituality, but the ending of the desires, which comes through grace of God or Sadgurus like Sai Baba.
Sai Baba had the power to bring something in his devotees life, which was not in their destiny. As you have mentioned he gave children to many who were not destined. He even warded of deaths and grave accidents where ever required, but not always. Prime example is a kid named Babu (will be writing the story on the blog), who was much loved by him, and brought tears in Sai Baba's eyes when he was brought to Sai Baba soon after he was born, and brought tears in Sai Baba's eyes when Babu left the physical body at a tender age of about 8.
Yes you are right we go to the temple full of hopes. That is what makes us go to the temples. We miss something and feel that if that particular thing is attained or received will bring end to troubles, but we ask for with our minds which is incapable of perceiving the highest and which can put an end of all the problems.
In the title of the blog is the statement which Sai Baba used to say, " I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them." Sai Baba satisfies our wants and desires so we can know his love and care for us because that is the only way we understand. Then as we start feeling the love and care and protection of Sai Baba, he starts giving us what he wants to give us, which cannot be explained in words not can the mind understand it as it is beyond mind, it is infinite and mind is finite. How can the finite know the infinite, only the infinite has to be allowed to demolish the finite and only the infinite remains. As Sai Baba hinted while explaining the verse of Bhagwat Gita. The hint starts from ‘Isn’t Brahma pure Knowledge or being?’
‘Yes.’
‘And everything else non-being or ignorance (non-Knowledge)?’
‘Yes.’
‘Don’t the scriptures declare that Brahma is beyond the range of speech or mind?’
Shldnt v accept the fact that there is no one in the whole
universe who can change your destiny.
Personally i feel Sai Baba can change the destiny, however the point is not about changing the destiny but about going beyond the destiny, that is what Sai Baba is for us. And faith in him with Saburi (patience) can make it happen.
"we are bound to trapped in the pain n sorrows. sometimes this
pain is so intense that v even cant meditate on god. This is my
personal expreince about baba."
Yes that is true, what i do with the grace of Sai Baba is just let the intensity of the pain happen and pray to Sai Baba to be with me in that difficult times, not fighting with it but allowing it to happen as necessity and anything that happens to us , happens according to our own Sanchit Karma, so let if happen and leave is to Sai Baba, total surrender. An incident about sufferings and karma which is posted in the article Sai Baba on sufferings.
i am nobody to answer the questions but am putting my own feelings about the questions.
Regards,
Alpesh
