They say that at the last moment on this earth the mind should be filled with the thought of God. That’s the success criteria of human life. The one and the only goal of human life is to merge with God. Everyone, whether man or woman or animal, is encouraged to merge with God. Of course humans stand better chance because of the unique characteristic they possess, which is intelligence. It is intelligence that helps man or woman to achieve the goal of merging with God.
How can we use intelligence to merge with God? With the help of intelligence one can direct mind to think about God. Mind as such does not have any direction. By nature mind follows desires. However saints, through experience, assert that it is possible to take control of mind and not only fulfill desires but also direct mind to the thoughts of God.
So, it’s all about practice. As the popular saying goes – practice makes man perfect. Nobody is perfect by birth. It is really the practice that makes one perfect. Having understood that at the last moment the mind should be filled thought of God, one can imagine how much practice one will need to ensure that the mind is filled with thought of God at that moment. One will obviously wonder how can one even perform this practice while executing all responsibilities of life.
Mind’s basic need is entertainment – manoranjan. Why do we see movies and commercials? For entertainment, is it not? After every episode of commercial we are curious about what will happen in next episode. So in a way our mind gets locked to those commercials even while we are performing our household duties.
Saints suggest us to utilize this same need, of the mind, for entertainment to our own benefit. They suggest us to slowly transform our need of entertainment. Nothing is possible overnight. A slow transformation always yields better results. So, while we continue to entertain ourselves with our usual entertainment sources, saints suggest us to slowly get into the habit of establishing habit for reading stories of saints. This habit, they say, will be the most beneficial habits of all habits.
Result is, the mind will slowly start recollecting stories of saints even while we are engaged in our household duties. And will automatically result in establishing practice of remembering god and saints, who are but living forms of God. And once one firmly gets established in this practice, the final goal is not difficult.
Saints and their great devotees assure that this is not suggestion in vain. It is proven. Many have already benefited from this. And so without any doubt one can rely on this practice.
They say that with this practice of reading Saisatcharit one can actually feel the presence of Saibaba while performing all household activities. Those who have travelled with Shri Raghupathi Sir have experienced this. On numerous occasions, whether it is padayatra or a casual travel with Shri Sir, accompanying students, with the blessings of Shri Sir, have experienced presence of Saibaba.
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