Baba was sleeping with His eyeglasses on. Dada thought that probably Baba had forgotten them, so he took the glasses away. When Baba woke up, He asked; “Why did you take my glasses away? I had dreams, but I couldn’t see without glasses”
For a few days the Acaryas had to report constantly to Baba about different organizational matters. Only at late night, they got permission to leave to their residence. After a few hours rest, at five in the morning, they did meditation, asanas, bath, ate breakfast and went to Baba’s quarters before 10 AM. One Dada asked Baba; “How can we can do any work, because all day we are here and then we have to sleep few hours and wake up for meditation at five, take bath and eat in our quarters?” Baba answered to those who were present: “He is not thinking of me, how can I live until 10 AM without you!”
Baba gave Prabhat Samgiit songs even while He was in the bathroom. Once on His car trip with His driver. The VSS guard’s car was left behind, so there was nobody to learn and record the song that Baba was ready to give. He said: “I can’t go on keeping the song inside me anymore. Should I stop giving Prabhat Samgiit”?
Advice from Baba
If you are successful in rendering selfless service to the world, certainly you will make progress in your own spiritual life. With your spiritual force, with your intellectual force, with your physical force, you are to render selfless service to suffering humanity.
Baba was not happy with those practicing meditation in the Himalayan caves without rendering any service to the human society. Their plea that the world is unreal and simply taking food and drink from fellow human beings – those days should be gone forever.
How to overcome jealousy and have magnanimity of mind? Someone gives you and your friend each a mango. Your friend’s mango turns out to be sweet, but yours turns out to be bad. Instead of reacting selfishly, you should be happy that your friend got the sweet one.
A D lost all his devotional flow, could hardly concentrate although he was meditating regularly. He decided to see Baba and get some advice. When he got the chance to meet Baba, A D said, “Baba, I have lost everything. I have no devotion, I have no love for You.” With a sweet smile Baba said, “I have never asked you to love me. Merge yourself in my Mission. You will get everything back.” A D decided to dedicate his whole life to service and went for Acarya training to become a monk.
When I came in front of Baba, He looked at me severely, like scanning my entire body. Then He asked, ‘What asanas do you do?” I listed about eight different asanas that I was practicing at the time. Baba responded: “That is the problem. Too many asanas. A healthy person should only do 4-6 asanas. Only if a person is sick, they should do more.”
By Didi Annapurna