Sai Inspires - March 13, 2022
Narration
Translated
Why is it important to yearn and what should we yearn for? Bhagawan answers these precious questions for us today! There are two types of people: one set on accusing themselves as sinners and others flattering themselves as great. Both types worry because of their own mental aberrations! What they both need is mental satisfaction; this can be obtained by meditation. Through meditation, understanding will increase and wisdom will grow. For this, a person should develop an interest in and a taste for meditation, that is, a yearning that admits of no other step and that won’t tolerate any obstacle. Of course, one may yearn to hear music and derive joy therefrom, or see bodies of close relatives who died and derive sorrow! Yearning may have pleasant or unpleasant consequences! Yearning must have the strength to inspire endeavour. In fact, yearning is but dormant endeavour, and endeavour is yearning in action. When yearning is weak, endeavour declines; when one is strong, the other is also active!
- Dhyana Vahini, Ch 3.
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First, yearning, then selection of goal, then concentration, and through the discipline, conquest of the mind — that is the objective of meditation. - BABA
— Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

