Sai Inspires - May 06, 2022

What is the ultimate and authentic consummation each and every one of us must strive for? Bhagawan reminds us, recounting Mother Easwaramma’s last moments on this auspicious Easwaramma Day.

Easwaramma finished her bath; she drank her coffee as usual quite happily and took her seat on the inner verandah. All of a sudden, she cried out. "Swami Swami, Swami,'" thrice. At this, I responded: "Coming, Coming." Within that period she breathed her last. What greater sign of goodness is needed? She had no need to be served and nursed. Swami will come to the memory at that time only for a very few. The mind will usually seek and stay on some object or the other, some jewellery or valuables. From the ground floor, she called: "Swami! Swami!" I replied, "Coming, Coming," and she was gone. It was like the elephant Gajendra's calling and the Lord proceeding to bless it - the two wires achieving connection, the release happening instantaneously! This is the authentic consummation that life must strive for. It is the sign of an ideal, adorable life. Such an attitude must emerge of its own accord and not by means of some external force.

- Divine Discourse, May 06, 1983.

The mother bears, fosters and moulds the child into humanness and therefore, gratitude is due to her first and foremost. - BABA