Shuka teaches Vyasa
Date: Apr 09, 1993
Venue: Sai Shruti
Location: Kodaikanal, TN
Bhagawan Baba gave discourses at "Sai Sruti," Kodaikanal, from 5th April to 26th April 1993, before a large audience exceeding three thousand including a considerable proportion of overseas devotees hailing from UK, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, USA, Latin America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Produced below are excerpts from discourse delivered on 9-4-1993.
Shuka Teaches Vyasa
Air is all-pervasive. It is within you and outside as well. Similarly God is pervading everywhere in the Universe. If you look at everything with the divine feeling you will not fail to see Divinity, pure and unsullied. If you see the idol of Krishna in this hall with a divine feeling, you feel you are seeing the form of Krishna.
But if you are keen on finding out the material from which it is made, you see only the bronze or other metal of which it is made and not Krishna. You can realise that what you visualise depends on the nature of your vision - Drishti is Srishti. If you look at the world with coloured glass you see everything differently and not in its real colour. The mind is the cause for feelings. If you see with the feeling that this Vishwam (Universe) is Vishnu Swarupam (embodiment of God), it will be so!
Every object has a Swarupam (its own form) and Swabhavam (its own nature). Man is completely unaware of his real nature, which is love and compassion. He is so much immersed in selfishness that he only does every action to further his own self-interest and accumulate possessions for himself. Even the love that man exhibits today towards other persons or objects is only with a selfish motive to gain something out of them and not for their sake.
Once Shuka, son of Vyasa, wanted to leave his home and go to the forest to undertake tapas. Vyasa, overcome by parental attachment, entreated him not to go to the forest but to remain there and serve his parents as it was his duty to serve them.
But Shuka told Vyasa: “Oh! Vyasa! you are not my father, I am not your son. We came from Bliss. Everyone wants to be blissful. I am going to seek the Bliss which is our common source. These names and forms and relationships are only ephemeral.” By this he was referring to his Inner Reality which is the same in all beings.
Excerpts from Discourse on 9-4-1993, given at Sai Sruti, Kodaikanal.