Passage 7

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Your own effort is its cause: 'Manasyēkaṃ vacasyēkaṃ karmaṇyēkaṃ mahātmanaṃ'. This itself is true Śānti. Today it is only because the oneness of these three is missing, only because they are divided, that man falls prey to unrest. We think: these people are the cause of our unrest, those people are the cause, this karma is the cause. This is nothing but narrow vision. You yourself are the cause of your unrest. Only when we recognise that cause and act on it does unrest leave us. When we develop true trikaraṇa-śuddhi and cultivate the principle of Prema, then, rather than only experiencing for ourselves the light of our own life's flame, we give this light to others as well and become those who have driven away the darkness of Ajñāna from them too.

I am Sai: know this for certain; give up your attachment, give up your efforts; the bond with the outer world is gone; to hold Me, however great a man may be, he cannot turn Me back.

When I spoke these words, the family of Tammi Raju, the family of Hanumantha Rao, the family of Bhoja Raju, the family of Seshama Raju, all of them stood in the way in many ways and said, 'You must not go.' This happened at Uravakonda. Jīva-prajñā with Daiva-prajñā, Daiva-prajñā with Jīva-prajñā: when some bonds of this body were to fall away, Vairāgya had to be shown as an ideal. While I was at Uravakonda, the municipal chairman Rama Raju came and saw Swami. At that time they used to call Me Raju, Raja. Having seen Me, he entreated Seshama Raju. He said, 'We will keep the boy in our home during the holidays and take Him to Bellary.' 'Seshama Raju! You think of this boy as an ordinary brother. His radiant face, His purity, has melted my heart. It has moved it. There is some divine power in Him, a divine splendour. You are deceiving yourself. You too come with the boy and stay in our home', he said. From there this municipal chairman took us to Hampi. You must not think that this is mere exaggeration, or ego, or description of some other kind. Everyone went into the Virūpākṣa temple. If I said I would not come, they could press Me. They could be angry. I said, 'My stomach is not well; I will not come inside.' All these, some fifty or sixty people, with Tammi Raju too, went into the temple. But this Rama Raju had no thought but the thought of Swami. He kept asking very humbly. At that time I was very small. 'Please Please, Raja, You must come, You must come', he said, holding My hands, and was sad. But because of My firmness he could not press Me much. In that Virūpākṣa's shrine they were waving the ārati.