Sri Saibaba Temple , Nashville , TN Weekly News Letter Volume 102

[Sri Saibaba Temple - Nashville]

Many noble Satpurushas have appeared, may not all be the incarnations of Shri Dattatreya Mahaprabhu, but evidently they are all of the divine grace and belong to the serene Datta Sampradaya.

From the highest spiritual potential, all these Satpurushas have come on the earth only with one fundamental aim and goal, the pure and pious deed to uplift humanity and society.

Grant salvation to the beings, rescue them, favour boons, help them all with one intention to move them all towards Divinity, the Supreme, by righteous way.

Amongst these very noble ones Shirdi Sai Baba too has the same honour, high respect and considered the blessed ones of Shri Datta Mahaprabhuincarnation as such.

In His life story, the various worthy incidents pinpoint and direct towards a potent attribution, that Baba is one a divine Satpurush, one can overwhelmingly grace him as the one who followed and propagated Datta Mahaprabhu Parampara, even one can quote as Datta Avatar too, as Baba really is at that level of spiritual height.

In the life story of Baba, very prominent salient incidents corelate Him to Datta Mahaprabhu, showing apprently the oneness with Avatar.

Why baba is Kaliyuga Avatra?

During Satya-yuga, the age of truth, religion is present with all four of its legs intact and is carefully maintained by the people of that age. These four legs of powerful religion are truthfulness, mercy, austerity and charity.

The people of Satya-yuga are for the most part self-satisfied, merciful, friendly to all, peaceful, sober and tolerant. They take their pleasure from within, see all things equally and always endeavor diligently for spiritual perfection.

In Tretā-yuga each leg of religion is gradually reduced by one quarter by the influence of the four pillars of irreligion — lying, violence, dissatisfaction and quarrel.

In the Tretā age people are devoted to ritual performances and severe austerities. They are not excessively violent or very lusty after sensual pleasure. Their interest lies primarily in religiosity, economic development and regulated sense gratification, and they achieve prosperity by following the prescriptions of the three Vedas. Although in this age society evolves into four separate classes, O King, most people are brāhmaṇas.

In Dvāpara-yuga the religious qualities of austerity, truth, mercy and charity are reduced to one half by their irreligious counterparts — dissatisfaction, untruth, violence and enmity.

In the Dvāpara age people are interested in glory and are very noble. They devote themselves to the study of the Vedas, possess great opulence, support large families and enjoy life with vigor. Of the four classes, the kṣatriyas and brāhmaṇas are most numerous.

In the age of Kali only one fourth of the religious principles remains. That last remnant will continuously be decreased by the ever-increasing principles of irreligion and will finally be destroyed.

In the Kali age people tend to be greedy, ill-behaved and merciless, and they fight one another without good reason. Unfortunate and obsessed with material desires, the people of Kali-yuga are almost all śūdras and barbarians.

The material modes — goodness, passion and ignorance — whose permutations are observed within a person's mind, are set into motion by the power of time.

When the mind, intelligence and senses are solidly fixed in the mode of goodness, that time should be understood as Satya-yuga, the age of truth. People then take pleasure in knowledge and austerity.

O most intelligent one, when the conditioned souls are devoted to their duties but have ulterior motives and seek personal prestige, you should understand such a situation to be the age of Tretā, in which the functions of passion are prominent.

When greed, dissatisfaction, false pride, hypocrisy and envy become prominent, along with attraction for selfish activities, such a time is the age of Dvāpara, dominated by the mixed modes of passion and ignorance.

When there is a predominance of cheating, lying, sloth, sleepiness, violence, depression, lamentation, bewilderment, fear and poverty, that age is Kali, the age of the mode of ignorance.

Because of the bad qualities of the age of Kali, human beings will become shortsighted, unfortunate, gluttonous, lustful and poverty-stricken. The women, becoming unchaste, will freely wander from one man to the next.

Cities will be dominated by thieves, the Vedas will be contaminated by speculative interpretations of atheists, political leaders will virtually consume the citizens, and the so-called priests and intellectuals will be devotees of their bellies and genitals.

The brahmacārīs will fail to execute their vows and become generally unclean, the householders will become beggars, the vānaprasthas will live in the villages, and the sannyāsīs will become greedy for wealth.

Women will become much smaller in size, and they will eat too much, have more children than they can properly take care of, and lose all shyness. They will always speak harshly and will exhibit qualities of thievery, deceit and unrestrained audacity.

Businessmen will engage in petty commerce and earn their money by cheating. Even when there is no emergency, people will consider any degraded occupation quite acceptable.

Servants will abandon a master who has lost his wealth, even if that master is a saintly person of exemplary character. Masters will abandon an incapacitated servant, even if that servant has been in the family for generations. Cows will be abandoned or killed when they stop giving milk.

In Kali-yuga men will be wretched and controlled by women. They will reject their fathers, brothers, other relatives and friends and will instead associate with the sisters and brothers of their wives. Thus their conception of friendship will be based exclusively on sexual ties.

Uncultured men will accept charity on behalf of the Lord and will earn their livelihood by making a show of austerity and wearing a mendicant's dress. Those who know nothing about religion will mount a high seat and presume to speak on religious principles.

In the age of Kali, people's minds will always be agitated. They will become emaciated by famine and taxation, my dear King, and will always be disturbed by fear of drought. They will lack adequate clothing, food and drink, will be unable to properly rest, have sex or bathe themselves, and will have no ornaments to decorate their bodies. In fact, the people of Kali-yuga will gradually come to appear like ghostly, haunted creatures.

In Kali-yuga men will develop hatred for each other even over a few coins. Giving up all friendly relations, they will be ready to lose their own lives and kill even their own relatives.

Men will no longer protect their elderly parents, their children or their respectable wives. Thoroughly degraded, they will care only to satisfy their own bellies and genitals.

O King, in the age of Kali people's intelligence will be diverted by atheism, and they will almost never offer sacrifice to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme spiritual master of the universe. Although the great personalities who control the three worlds all bow down to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, the petty and miserable human beings of this age will not do so.

Terrified, about to die, a man collapses on his bed. Although his voice is faltering and he is hardly conscious of what he is saying, if he utters the holy name of the Supreme Lord he can be freed from the reaction of his fruitive work and achieve the supreme destination. But still people in the age of Kali will not worship the Supreme Lord.

In the Kali-yuga, objects, places and even individual personalities are all polluted. The almighty Personality of Godhead, however, can remove all such contamination from the life of one who fixes the Lord within his mind.

If a person hears about, glorifies, meditates upon, worships or simply offers great respect to the Supreme Lord, who is situated within the heart, the Lord will remove from his mind the contamination accumulated during many thousands of lifetimes.

What is real?

after Jnana attainment, one is at the realm of visualising Brahma Swaroopa. At that stage, one feels the world is just an imaginary apprehension and everything is Brahma only, contention leads to oneness, appreciation of Jeevatma and Parmatma. Right from the origin, the creation has worldly life ancient, the generation, preservation all in continuous progression.

In life, individual, social, materialistic experiences and references are evident and perpetual till one really affirms and till that stage in truth it shines. From the illusory ties, when one lets off and attains liberation, then one concludes, the cosmos, life and illusion is all a falasy.

Under the influence of illusion for every incident, action, happening, He is there. With no entanglement, with free mind and pure attitude, Bhagavan’sUpasana, Aradhana are the graceful contents. Guru Pooja, Guru Bhakti, Guru Seva, good and pious deeds, noble thoughts all lead to Him, may the paths are different and vary. The intense Namasmaran, Bhajan, Sankirtan all are of real worth, attributing for inner development, awareness, conception of wisdom, ladder up for salvation and ultimate Mukti.

The very blessings and mercy of Sadguru, one attains self-realisation, visulises the pure path, thus swings in Jeevan Mukti. The ultimate attainment ofParabrahma, awareness - conception is the main goal of Avadhoot Sampradaya and the sanctification of human life, the reward of 84 lakh births manifestation.

Editorial Team

Sri Saibaba Temple Seva Committee

Nashville,TN