UPANISHAD VAHINI - Sathya Sai Speaks

UPANISHAD VAHINI55Prasnopanishad is studied after the Mundaka, the subjectwould become clearer.Of the two entities, Parabrahma (God, UniversalOversoul) and Aparabrahma (The lower self unrelatedto the Oversoul), the Aparabrahma is incapable ofconferring the Purushaarthas (goals of life), which areof lasting value. Realising this, and eager to attain theEternal Parabrahma, the aspirants approached thecompetent Teacher, Pippalada. The wordAnveshamaanaa (seeking) used here to signify the attitudeof the disciple shows that these, attached to theAparabrahma, fail to identify their own basic truth as theAtman. That is why they still “seek” it, somewhere outsidethe truth of their being! The eternal unique Parabrahmaprinciple can be known only through the discipline of theSastras, directed personally by a Guru or Teacher.The seekers have to approach the Guru, as a“Samithpaani”; that is to say not simply “holding theritualistic fuel, the sacrificial fire”. It also implies thepresentation of worthy desirable offerings. The seekersmeet Pippalada and he tells them, “The rare and preciousteaching related to the fundamental mystery of the Universeand the Self, known as Brahma Vidya, cannot be impartedto the uninitiated. The students have to be first kept underobservation and tested for a year.”