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ANAND Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust: www.sssbpt.org Cover Page Photograph Radio Sai Global Harmony: www.radiosai.org Sri Sathya Sai International Centre for Sports AVATAR VANI EASWARAMMA DAY DISCOURSE NEVER FORGET YOUR PARENTS Students – Boys and Girls! physical, mental and spiritual. Therefore, you ENKATARAMAN HAS SPOKEN are not one person but three – the one you to you regarding today’s function think you are, i.e., the body, the one others V in a befi tting manner. He is a very think you are, i.e., the mind, the one you really learned man who worked in the Bhabha are, i.e., the Atma (spirit). But your true form is Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. He has the Atma, not the body or the mind. We should never think that the Vedas are only for the Hindus. The Vedas are for all. That which is one and universal is the Veda. The Vedas can alleviate all types of sufferings of man. Hence, it is good for everyone to learn the Vedas. Devotees from America come here and learn the Vedas. Many people in Russia and Germany also chant the Vedic Mantras both in the morning and evening. Since Hindus are not chanting the Vedic Mantras daily, they are forgetting them. Therefore, nobody should forget the Vedas. Veda and Vedanta are like your parents. You should always remember them and never forget them. done research in some scientifi c areas earlier pursued by Sir C.V. Raman. He is the winner Give Highest Respect to your Parents of many awards. In the circumstances that prevail today, Now, what can I say about the mother of there are very few who respect their mother. this body? Man has actually three bodies – Your mother carried you in her womb for nine 166 June 2008 months and gave you birth after undergoing She caught hold of My hands and breathed many diffi culties and hardships. Forgetting her last. such a mother is like forgetting God. This So long as there is life in the body, we amounts to forgetting yourself. Mother is your should take care of it. When the life goes out fi rst teacher. Your mother feeds and nourishes of the body, it has no value. Truly speaking, you. It is on the lap of your mother that you who is the mother? It is the life principle that is grow up and experience all types of happiness. the mother, not the body. Body is like a water None should forget the love that he receives bubble, mind is like a mad monkey. What for from his mother. Your mother deserves your should we keep the body? Immediately, I asked highest respect. for the car to be brought and sent her body to After the death of his mother, Puttaparthi. I remained in Brindavan. For the Sankaracharya performed her last rites in Summer Course, the students had come not spite of being a renunciant. Many people just from one college but from various colleges criticised Sankaracharya, saying that he had of India. They all thought that Swami would not committed an impropriety in spite of being a come to the class that day. But exactly at 9 o’ great scholar. Knowledge of scriptures is not clock, I entered the classroom smilingly. The that important, it is cultural refi nement that has students were surprised to see Me there. They great value. Culture is that which brings about all started thinking, “What is this? Swami’s refi nement. Hence, Sankaracharya told them, mother has passed away and He has come to “Neither my mother is going to leave me, nor I the classroom!” Mother does not go anywhere. am going to leave my mother. My mother and The body that was being addressed as ‘mother’ I are one forever. Bodies are different but the had left. But the mother is with Me only. Hence, principle of the Atma is the same in both of there was no need to be sad. Therefore, I told us.” Sankaracharya cremated the body of his the students to be happy and not to feel sorry mother in the compound of his house. Even that the mother of this body had left her mortal today people of Kerala cremate their dead in coil. their compound because they feel that when At that time, V.K. Gokak was also there. He such a great person like Sankaracharya has was also surprised, thinking, “What? Swami is done it, they should follow the same practice. talking like this!” After all, what is this body? It Physically your mother may not be with exists when fi ve elements are there in it. Body you, but your love for her should remain the is like a bag containing fi ve elements. When same. Summer Course on Indian Culture the fi ve elements leave the body, it becomes and Spirituality was being conducted at an empty bag. Brindavan (Bangalore) in May 1972. At that The body is made up of fi ve elements and time, Easwaramma, the mother of this body, is bound to perish sooner or later but the had also come with Me. One day, after her indweller has neither birth nor death. The breakfast, she had a cup of coffee. Suddenly, indweller has no attachment whatsoever she shouted, “Swami, Swami, Swami.” I said, and is the eternal witness. Truly speaking, “I am coming, I am coming, I am coming.” Then the indweller who is in the form of the she asked Me to come quickly and Atma, is verily God Himself. I came to her immediately. (Telugu Poem) June 2008 167 We should attach signifi cance to Dehi (indweller) and not to Deha (physical body). Gambling is not good at all. Similarly, Everyone forgets the body when he goes to drinking of liquor is also not good. sleep. When you can forget it in your sleep, why can’t you forget it forever? Hence, one Addiction to drinking leads to loss should not have undue attachment with the of control over oneself. Under the body. All mothers and children should develop infl uence of liquor, one may speak these feelings of detachment. anything. One will have to repent when Worldly Relations are Temporary one comes back to one’s normal state. Likewise, lust and anger are demonic So long as the mother is alive, we should qualities. Never allow them to come respect her, love her and make her happy in near you. In a fi t of anger, you may every possible way. There is no need to be sad when she leaves the body. Even here in say anything without considering its Puttaparthi, people said, “What is this? Swami consequences. But after a few minutes, has sent the body of Easwaramma, but He when you come to your normal state, Himself has not come!” What for should I you will feel sorry, “Alas! Why did I go with the body? Body is only a vesture. It abuse like this?” Therefore, fi rst and is like a leather bag. When the fi ve elements foremost kill the anger. leave the body, the fi ve senses also go with it. Then why should we grieve over the lifeless body? I arranged for whatever was supposed your life but mother is there with you right from to be done at the worldly level.