WHY DO YOU GO TO SHIRDI SAI TEMPLE

Why do you come to the temple of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba? Is it because:
* You love Baba so much that at least without His symbolic presence, life seems meaningless to it.
* Take some time out of your busy schedule and come to Baba’s temple for generating a better state of mind by praying, singing aarti and doing pooja (worship) etc.
* You have too many problems around you in the practical world surrounding you and cannot fight it and therefore run to the temple for getting blessings of Baba.
* You have problems and want to solve it through Baba’s grace within the desired period and in the desired method.
* Do you remember Baba having said that all the seeds planted need not necessarily become trees. Are you prepared to believe that you may not get as much result as you wish by coming to the temple.
* Whatever you offer to Baba, are they out of your honest income?
* Do you think it is proper to make presents to Baba out of the dishonest income.
* Don’t you remember that Baba had refused to take Gold and silver presents from a queen who had come in a palanquin but had accepted a single roti with an onion from an old lady.
* Are you coming to temple to satisfy your sentimental requirements at the cost of your family members and other dependants? Don’t you remember Baba had forced Mhalsapati to go and stay with family because he was coming and staying at Dwakamai.
* Do you come to the temple to socialize because you have known people there and to gossip about things. Don't you think it is useless wastage of time to talk, discuss topics pertaining to issues other than that of Baba.
* Don’t you think that it is better to spend tour time in meditating on Baba, praying, participating in aarti or by reading books like Sai Satcharitra etc.
* Since no one is perfect, Don’t you think it is improper to think of the imperfection of others or gossip about them in the temple? Don’t you remember that Baba had told one person in the temple that like a pig eating dirty food, some people find fault in others.
* Do you think that your devotional level is higher than that of others and therefore criticize about others way of worshipping.
* Don’t you agree with Shri Sai saying that we meet people and face problems because of rinanubandh i.e. debt of the past life. If we believe in this saying of Baba then isn’t it required of us to accept our own problems and not always cry and fret about the same.
* Do you have the amount of Patience (Saburi) and Faith (Shraddha) needed to come closer to Baba. Do you think that your Shraddha is constant or it changes with problems and situations?
* Baba always advised people to develop qualities of kindness, impartiality, sympathy, tolerance and sacrifice to others. How much sacrifice do you do for others at your own cost? Do you think that whatever little sacrifice you think you do is enough?
* Do you remember Baba having said that that when two persons are fighting, the person that doesn’t hurt the others or tolerates the negatives is dearer to me. Do you do so?
* Do you think that unbridled sentimentally which includes crying and shouting etc. are required in the spiritual path? Don’t you know by such sentiments, you, at time cause harm to others and contaminate good atmosphere. Is it not better to contain your emotionality within yourself and not make a public display of it to establish your devotional fervor.
* You want yourself to be sympathetically dealt by others and also to be understood. Don’t you think that others also would be expecting the same from you. Do you do so?
* Do you think that by being jealous about others improvements even in the devotional field, you gain anything?
* Whatever work you do for Baba, are you doing it honestly and with intensity i.e. purity of thought, or do you do it in a casual manner?
* We want Shri Sai to take care of all our problems but do we equally try to even do a fraction of his work perfectly for his cause.
* Do you think the blessings of God will come to you when you don’t qualify for it, breaking the law of karma i.e. action and reaction syndrome?
* Don’t you think it is proper that you first work for his cause, which qualifies for his blessings.
* If you really want to have the blessings of Baba and life peacefully along with your fellow men, at first improve your own qualities on the lines indicated in the preceding paragraphs.
Think, Think, and Think BY GURUJI SATPATHY