No via media please

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My wife and I often hold debates and discussions
on God and spirituality.She tells very witty things to me about which her maternal grandfather talked.The old man is not living today or I would have liked to ask him many questions. He was a storehouse of spiritual wisdom.He scolded men and women who donated money to the Brahmin priest who would then tell Lord Shiva about their troubles and suffering.The foolish Brahmin too took advantage of the gullibility of the innocent village men and women to maintain his own influence and financial security.He appeared to be wise and left no chance to terrorise simple folks.Disobedience to the foolish Brahmin priest meant disobedience to Lord Shiva.He had succeeded in planting this falsehood in the minds of women whom the wicked priest kept cheating of their money and next their chastity.The wicked priest couldn't be caught and still some ignorant villagers were worshipping his statue.

What we want to say is never believe in any via media persons in the field of religion. We love and worship our Spiritual Master not as any via media person but as the living God Sainath and Jagannath.You must see or experience a thing first and then believe it.Otherwise your beliefs are pure blind beliefs and you are a super class donkey. I worship Sai Baba because He is the Supreme Being.You might be prompted to ask why my Spiritual Master does not heal all the sick and the diseased if he is God.Does your God who is not a human being,heal the sick  and the diseased?No.
The God with a form and without a form must necessarily do the same thing and follow the same rules of nature.I can see no clear distinction between the God with a physical human form and the one without it.

Pranay and Imtiaz would ask me most of the time
why I didn't attach any importance to miracles. Or more clearly speaking why I was not making any serious efforts to achieve some power and spiritual strength to perform miracles. Both of them thought only those sadhus and yogis having the power to cause miracles were genuine and the rest were fake.Ultimately I was compelled to explain everything about miracles to the two young men who thought religion was all about acquiring the super human ability to perform miracles.

"Could you tell us how miracles happen?" This was from the most curious boy Imtiaz. He had an irresistible wish to get into the heart of everything.This however I sometimes found to be very irritating. Today he was determined to extract the right answer from me.Now he was telling everyone that the knowledge of God or Truth was within man himself,and not in multiple religious texts.I was unspeakably delighted my true objective in life being to propagate and preach against blindly reading those religious texts because such reading made people of all religions fanatics and blind believers. "Never believe..." is my slogan---the most powerful slogan of the century. To investigate and find out the truth of God is and must be the supreme goal of the inhabitants of the modern world....No matter whatever their religion is. I had a misconception that the Mussalman was naturally opposed to reason and logic. But Imtiaz had proved me hundred percent wrong.

I said to him,"God is the Supreme Spirit out of which the visible world emerged. Similarly you too have the inherent capability to produce matter and all other things associated with it. But remember the power to produce matter is limited or I should say has its limitations.Since God created the world, it has its beginning too.And
anything that has a beginning is bound to have an end.So the power to create the world is not everlasting or eternal.The Lord Brahma of the Hindus did His sadhana or practicing of austerities for billions and billions of years to empower Himself to create the universe and the world with its plant and animal kingdom.The world is not everlasting though it comes from God Who is Eternal.The Almighty is like a huge agricultural field. After attaining God which means becoming God, man has to cultivate His(his own)field and make it fertile and suitable for growing crops out of it. God is present in everything and everywhere. So the power to bring about miracles has a beginning and an end. It can safely be called materialistic and something that is not everlasting.Yet it  can provide relief to the worldly wise masses and to serve humanity in this way our sages and rishis meditate for all life,
sometimes for centuries.If you go to the Himalayas,you can find ascetics and sanyasis meditating,their bodies being mere skeletons.
What is their goal? They have already discovered that they are God.Most of them are striving day and night to be spiritually strong enough to contribute to the happiness of mankind and all other living beings.They can also share it with others who are trying to evolve spiritually."

Pranay said to me,"Don't you think it will be very exciting if you acquire the spiritual strength to help some poor people? Why don't you try to meditate for ages to be able to cure the diseased and give employment to the unemployed
people? "

I said to him,"Let the people suffer..Let the young people live an unemployed life so that their desires and hopes might die.After that they will discover their own divinity which gives the seeker bliss unlimited.Have you not seen the photo of Baba in torn clothes having the looks of a street beggar...?Only when we become poor we think of God..Only when we are afflicted with serious diseases we constantly think of God.Now I feel Baba stands like a mighty wall between me and worldly success.Nor do I long for anything belonging to this world.I want poverty;I don't want good food.I don't want an expensive bed.If you say no to money,you become the king and money becomes your slave.I understand my Lord's purpose and that is to be a man who wants nothing from this material world.And money? I have taken a most sacred vow in the name of Ramakrishna and Mother Kali not to long for it not even in the least bit to my last day on this planet. Think clearly. You is the only thing that seems to have some hold on you after you have renounced everything in this world."

"Money is bad and earning money is also something that doesn't matter at all.." Pranay said to me complainingly.He was staring me in the face expecting some answer.


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