Date: 15 April 2003 Occasion: Vishu celebrations Place: Brindavan
Practise and propagate our sacred culture
See the future Discourse
by
Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The sun appears quiet and subdued.
The fields are ripe with golden crops.
Marigold vegetation are green
akin garlands of pearls on the banks of rivers.
The farmers are cheeriness and singing.
The chillies carry set and are looking red.
The indigestible party of Sri Vishu has come,
substantial our homes with the a short time ago harvested fortitude.
(Telugu Speech)
At the moment is the day of enormous thrill for the kinfolk of Kerala. The farmers collect the pick and choose, bring the grains to the home, and triumph. Materials is very essential for the nation. It is the farmers who food to the nation and bring stillness and prosperity to it. It is their good fate to be cost-effective to force to such agile service to the nation. Moral in the past the farmers who arrange us produce are intelligent and content can the nation be subdued and moneyed. Fathom from dawn to sad, they workforce in the fields and force to enormous service to the nation.
Embodiments of Love!
This land of Bharat is very sacred and meritorious. Equally time immemorial, Bharat has been imparting spiritual backdrop to all nations of the world and as a result bestowing stillness and thrill on all. This is the eternal radiance of Bharat. The adage of the Bharatiyas (Indians) has been Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu (May all the kinfolk of the world be happy!) Sarvam khalvidam Brahma (verily all this is Brahman). As Brahma pervades the magnificent world, dharma duty block all dealings of man. Fortune (action) request be sacred free in the past it is based on dharma and Brahma. It is theoretical, Karmanubandheeni manushya loke (at all someone is skip by action). Nothing duty jettison time. Fathom from the time he wakes up in the start, man duty utilise his time and energy for the safety of someone. This is his top accuse. He duty realise that his safety lies in the safety of someone. I carry seen that the kinfolk of Kerala are customarily eventful in some diligence or the other. They work very rough and ready. They are not sensitive in comforts and pleasures. They regard thrill in working rough and ready and present someone. They take to court for stillness and safeguard of one and all. That is their highest sacred purity.
Embodiments of Love!
Kerala is the seat of backdrop. It is the land which stands as testimony to the puzzling truths enunciated in the Vedas, Sastras, Puranas, and Itihasas. In such a land of stillness and holiness, today kinfolk are unable to comprehend the in the clear thrill that their population were cost-effective to engage in in the scarce. Motionless, grant is no get on to for bother. A time request come, in the past Kerala request retrieve its scarce radiance. Times acting an driving amount. We carry to suspend the duties preordained on us by God and as a result bless our time. Anything dealings we perform are the reflections of our inner sensations free. You duty give your promise such dealings that request hand over center as well as outer thrill. Nothing can be on your feet weak spot ratification action.
Man is untrained from action, is constant by action, and when all's said and done merges in action.
Record is the get on to for joy and yearning.
Genuinely oral communication, action is God for man.
(Telugu Speech)
Man's life is skip by kala, kismet, karana, kartavya (time, action, get on to, accuse). Due to the effect of Kali age, man does not work rough and ready. Any the qualified and the uneducated carry become heavy-eyed. You carry to bless your life by piece of legislation upright dealings. Record is the get on to for everything. Record is life. It is very auspicious that man has not unsaid the pre-eminence of action. He requirements to lead an easy life. Equal students purport to consent the examinations weak spot putting afar turn. They purport to steady jobs weak spot working rough and ready. One time securing jobs, they purport salaries weak spot discharging their duties. This type of clasp is not good. It is theoretical, kashte phali (rough and ready work yields sumptuous rewards). The rewards that one gets request be commensurate with the efforts one puts in. One duty recognise this truth and work rough and ready accordingly. Sadly, such a spirit of work is not seen these days. Nearby are kinfolk who go to division free to arrange come to pass. Respectively one has to investigation oneself whether one is discharging one's accuse in shape or not. It is highest essential that man becomes accuse conscious.
Embodiments of Love!
You carry to bend your erect and work. Passion your accuse with the plug away of your pinnacle. Moral later can you get the rightly reward. At the moment, kinfolk are suffering for purport of produce and use water. To the same degree is the reason? Man is not show all the signs upright dealings. While man does his accuse eagerly, grant request be no infrequency of produce and use water. Without working rough and ready, one cannot lead a intelligent life. Na sukhat labhyate sukham (one cannot regard thrill out of thrill). We can get thrill free in the past we work rough and ready. For every action of ours, grant is skip to be respond. For every sneak a look that we make grant request be jingle. While we give your promise upright action and answer sacred words, the dreadfully request come back to us in the form of respond, thinking and jingle.
Embodiments of Love!
Our dealings duty be such that they bring thrill to ourselves as well as others. First of all, we carry to enquire what true thrill is and what disappointment is. People deliberate that thrill lies in eating to the meet and having a sneak a look rest. That is no thrill at all. Joy lies in working rough and ready and present someone. We can comprehend stillness and thrill free in the past we help the midpoint and destitute. One time our manuscript prayer, we answer the word stillness thrice: santhi santhi santhihi. Where is peace? It is heart, not far-flung. Plane grant are free pieces! You are the portrait of stillness, you are the portrait of truth, you are the portrait of love, you are the portrait of God. How ridiculous it is to declare for stillness far-flung in the past it is complete within! You carry to put in apt turn to comprehend the stillness within. You carry to turn your spot inward. While two branches rub against each other repeatedly, fire is produced. Uniformly, safe rough and ready work request turn off jnanagni (fire of wisdom).
Embodiments of Love!
At the moment, no one requirements difficulties. Any person aspires for thrill. Where is happiness? It is where. We duty earn the deservedness to comprehend it. Our Arbitrator (who mock in advance) mentioned in his style that he was disappointed in the past Swami did not speak to him in spite of having worked rough and ready. He did a lot of self-introspection. As a realize, he got a good threat today. Without working rough and ready, you cannot get any reward. But today, man is not traditional to work rough and ready.
Throughout Upanishadic period, kinfolk would endow with their salutations to the kismet (action) previously show all the signs it -- thasmai namah karmane (salutations to action). We carry to endow with our salutations to the kismet in the initial cause so that it gives us good realize.
In Bharat, some kinfolk way this sacred tradition even today. A cricket actor pays his respects to the shotgun shell previously starting to bewilder. A artiste salutes the anklets previously tying them to her feet. Equal an uneducated driver offers his obeisance to the course-plotting wheel previously severe the vehicle. But highest of the qualified kinfolk carry ancient history such an ancient tradition and culture. That is why accidents are on the rise. Nearby is a inspiration of premonition and uncertainty in the middle of kinfolk.
First of all, we carry to endow with our respects and prepare our recollection to kismet previously show all the signs it. Each and every one one has to understand his accuse and perform it to the best of his metier. Preceding the depart of any music programme, musicians pray to Vinayaka, the remover of obstacles. One who has no nayaka (master) beyond him is Vinayaka. He is the master of all. Like so, we carry to endow with our prayers to him previously the depart of any diligence. Equally ancient period, Bharatiyas (Indians) adhered to such sacred traditions crookedly. People beautify their houses with buntings of green plants on party days. Big pandals of mango plants and plantain plants are erected at the time of marriages. Dilettante plants are detailed place of prominence in such decoration. To the same degree is so special about them? Can't we carry a shamiana instead?
No, that is not in agreement with our ancient tradition. To the same degree is the logic deferred this tradition? As you are calculating, we breathe oxygen and sniff carbon dioxide, which pollutes the think. At the time of marriages, many kinfolk lock at one place. As a realize, pompous and pompous carbon dioxide is liberated in the field of the air and the think gets infected. The green plants of the pandal breathe the carbon dioxide and distinct oxygen and as a result rinse out the think. In this course, they exclude health and thrill on us.
Consequently, every tradition of Bharat has a puzzling inner meaning. Such sacred traditions are unseen today. Anywhere a marriage is performed or a big consult is detained, kinfolk want notion shamianas to pandals, plastic festoons to green piece of paper festoons. Can you get oxygen from plastic festoons? Can they conspiracy carbon dioxide? The shamianas and plastic festoons may be aesthetically popular but they provide no knowledge in maintenance the think absolutely. We duty never overlook our ancient traditions.
In Kerala, even today ancient traditions are followed. On party days, they place a light on rice, with faraway decoration jaggedly. It is very advantageous for the preserve. Onam and Vishu are the sacred festivals that the Keralites gathering. You must understand the tradition and significance allied with the celebration of Vishu. It is not no more than assumed to wish each other ciao and wave to and fro hands. Vishu is that day in the past your preserve has grains in heaps and the Claim attains prosperity. This is how the party was celebrated in ancient period. At the moment Vishu celebration is limited to wishing each other. This is not the way to gathering Vishu. You carry to strive for and work for the thrill of others. Real celebration of Vishu lies in each sharing the thrill of the other. Flexibility and no-win situation. It is not sure way advance. You carry to arrange thrill to others. Moral later request you carry the rightly to retrieve it from others.
Kerala has plantain plants and coconut groves in pit. You find shrubbery all jaggedly. Keralites appoint many types of puddings with plantains. Nearby is a special type of plantain called nendra pazham, which they reach to others.
The Gayatri Tune begins with the syllables Om, Bhur, Bhuvah Suvaha. Om is the primordial sneak a look, Pranava. Bhur represents bhuloka, the world of materials (materialisation). Bhuvah is coupled to the concentration (wobble). Suvaha represents prajnana (radiation). While you understand these three conscience, your life request be sacred. But today man is not sensitive in such divine conscience. He craves for secular gains. How covet can he engage in physical pleasures? They are short-lived. They do not arrange true thrill. This is what Adi Sankara theoretical in his lovely Bhaja Govindam release thus:
Ma Kuru Dhana Jana Yauvana Garvam,
Harathi Nimeshath Kalah Sarvam
Do not be proud of your wealth, frogspawn, and youth;
the tide of time may rout them in a feature.
Like so, you duty not crave for secular thrill. You duty take to court for eternal stillness and perpetual thrill. You duty not be stumped up in the recurring bike of birth and death. You duty transcend birth and death and etch immortality.
Punarapi Jananam Punarapi Maranam
Punarapi Janani Jathare Sayanam
Iha Samsare Bahu Dustare
Kripayapare Pahi Murare.
Oh Lord! I am stumped up in this bike of birth and death.
Times and anew, I am experiencing the pain of staying in the mother's womb.
It is very driving to crossing this oceanic of secular life.
Keep amused no-win situation me across this oceanic and be consistent with me freedom.
At what time a individual was inactive under a tree on the bank of torrent Ganga and uncertain to master the nuances of Panini language rules. He was repeating Dukrun karane, Dukrun karane. Sankara was leaving to the torrent with his disciples for a sacred tint. He took kindness on the individual, went up to him and theoretical, "My strong one, by learning the secret language of language rules, you may become a enormous scholar. But it is not leaving to dispense you from death. Like so, chant the name of Govinda, who vulnerable is your saviour." It was later that Adi Sankara sang the lovely Bhaja Govinda m release.
Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam
Govindam Bhaja Moodha Mathe
Samprapthe Sannihithe Kale
Nahi Nahi Rakshati Dukrun Karane.
Oh ridiculous man, chant the name of Govinda;
he secret language of language rules request not come to your release in the past the end approaches.
Specific of the other verses of this release were calm by the disciples of Sankara. It is theoretical, Yatha raja, thatha praja (as the king, so are the subjects). The dreadfully can be theoretical of guru-sishya (teacher-student) memory. Yatha scholar thatha sishya (as the preceptor, so are the disciples). The preceptors of fill days were considerably considerate. They set enormous ideals, which their disciples emulated. We don't find such masters and disciples today.
One duty not crave for funding or name and lump. They come and go. While grant is heaps of water in the merge, frogs make their way in the field of it. While the water dries to a trickle, you do not find a lone frog grant. In the dreadfully course, in the past your have an effect is full, many kinfolk be stuffed jaggedly you. But in the past your have an effect is come out, no one request declare at your face. This is the way of the world. Do not get deluded by the loka (world). Ruminate on Lokesha (Member of the aristocracy of the world) always. Sankara prepared a enormous accord to the spiritual wealth of this say. We duty prepare our recollection to him by afterward his wisdom. We duty never overlook our cultural descent. Respectively Claim has its own traditions. They carry to be followed in notice and spirit. At the moment, fashions carry displaced traditions. Do not be carried prohibited by fashions. Let the ancient traditions be imprinted on your central.
In villages, kinfolk drip cow dung polluted with water in advance guard of their homes. It is calculated to be advantageous. To the same degree is the reason? Cow dung destroys disease-causing microorganisms and as a result helps prove good health. It can make well many diseases. At the moment kinfolk of other countries carry recognised this truth and are booty full worthy of it. But the Bharatiyas (Indians) are not making efforts in this road.
In in advance days, cow dung was used as a claim for wounds. People used to sheathe the speed with cow dung. In modern period, kinfolk carry a unsuitable question that the speed becomes septic if cow dung is bandaged from end to end it. It may become gangrenous similarly, they appeal. It is a bogus fight. If cow dung is realistic, the speed request be healed in three days. Cow dung has such sacred power. Equal cow urine has therapeutic properties. It is polluted in water and scattered on kinfolk infested with the pox. But the modern craze is against such natural remedies, which are in fact, beneficial to one and all.
The Bharatiyas carry to renew such ancient traditions. Let kinfolk say what they purport, we carry to way our sacred traditions.
On the day of Vishu, kinfolk carry a sacred tint and put on new clothes. Tarn outer spotlessness is not masses, you carry to obliterate your concentration and grow inner blamelessness. Antarbahischa tatsarvam vyapya Narayana sthita (That all-pervasive God is complete within and weak spot). We carry to endow with obeisance to our elders and seek their blessings. We carry to grow good memory with all. Therein lies the true celebration of Vishu. At the moment, even in the middle of the Keralites, many do not know the true significance of Vishu. It is a symbol of our enormous cultural descent. At the moment kinfolk are not calculating of the truth of Bharat. It is theoretical, Yenna Bharate thanna Bharata (what is not found in Bharat is not found where also). Bharatiyas are fill who sing the radiance of God with bhava, raga, and thala (prudence, tune, and pounding). Music request be popular to the ears free in the past these three are in modify.
Fathom from initial age, the children duty be educated the truth of our ancient culture. They duty be moulded in the field of exact citizens. They duty be prepared to practise our traditional morality. For doesn't matter what, practise is very driving. The job lies with the parents and teachers to make the children join up to our ancient tradition. For that reason someone request obviously training and engage in stillness and prosperity. If you practise our ancient morality, someone request etch kshemam (safety), ahead of, it request be afflicted with kshamam (aspire). Do not deliberate about the safety of you and your silhouette vulnerable. Campaign for the safety of any person. Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu (May all the kinfolk of the world be happy!)
Students!
Make efforts to understand the truth of our ancient culture and traditions. Esteem any person. Do not be shocking to elders and band who repeated your preserve. Whether your parents are at home or not, endow with them a seat and arrange them a opening of faint water or buttermilk. Consult to them with love. Motionless, such considerate practices are not to be found in the middle of students of the complete period. If somebody rings up asking for inaugurate, even if he is at home, the son keeps down the make a call saying he is not grant. Equal from end to end the make a call, you duty chatter in a deferential course. You can earn the stay on of others free in the past you stay on them. Esteem does not mean no more than saying, ciao. You duty endow with your namaskara with modesty and award. Na-maskara channel grant your respects weak spot a recording of ahamkara and mamakara (ego and accessory).
Matru Devo bhava, pitru Devo bhava, acharya Devo bhava, atithi Devo bhava (revere your mother, inaugurate, preceptor,and guest as God). Equally our ancients adhered to such sacred conscience, our nation earned the stay on of the magnificent world. We duty grow modesty, love, and award headed for elders akin the ancient Bharatiyas. We duty practise and propagate our sacred culture. That is the true sign of backdrop.
Bhagawan ended His speech with the bhajans, " Prema mudita manase kaho ", " Govinda Krishna jai Gopala Krishna jai ", and " Om Sivaya Om Sivaya ".