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Sri Sathya Sai Baba Teachings |
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Nine steps in the pilgrimage of man
towards God Nava Vidha Bhakti
The nine steps in the pilgrimage of man towards God along the path
of dedication and surrender are:
- Developing a desire to listen to the
glory and grandeur of the handiwork of God and of the various
awe-inspiring manifestations of Divinity.
- Singing oneself about the Lord, in
praise of His magnificence and manifold exploits.
- Dwelling on the Lord in the mind,
reveling in the contemplation of His beauty, Majesty and Compassion.
- Entering upon the worship of the
Lord, by concentrating on honoring the feet.
- This develops into a total
propitiation of the Lord and systematic ritualistic worship, in which
the aspirant gets inner satisfaction and inspiration.
- The aspirant begins to see the
favorite Form of God, which he likes to worship, in all beings and all
objects, wherever he turns to and so he develops an attitude of
Vandana or reverence towards nature and all life.
- Established in this bent of mind, he
becomes the devoted servant of all, with no sense of superiority or
inferiority.
- This takes the
seeker so near the Lord that he feels himself to be the confidant and
comrade, the companion and friend, the sharer of God's power and pity,
of God's triumphs and achievements, His Sakha.
- This is the prelude to the final step
of total surrender or Atma-nivedanam, yielding fully to the Will of
the Lord.
Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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