Monday, January 22, 2018

Welcome to the 2018 Sripanchami issue of e-Sanai

by Sri Sandip Dasgupta


Welcome to the Saraswati Puja issue of e-Sanai.  This is the special day on which our Sadguru Sri Sri Babathakur had come to our world to bless us all with His own unique realization – The Science of Oneness. Just like we pray to Maa Saraswati for wisdom on this day, let us pray that we strive to learn at least a little bit of the “Science of Oneness” that our Master has given us.  In this editorial, I will quote some of His sayings that were delivered in Delhi on March 11, 1988.

According to Sri Sri Babathakur, Gurus are of various grades:


a)     A Guru who simply gives Diksha.

b)    A Guru who tells us how to function and live life (Shiksha) in this Samsara.

c)     A Guru who does both (a) and (b) above.

d)    A Guru who does not give Diksha or Shiksha.  Such a person just points us to the very essence of all of us.  These people are very hard to recognize – but one gets totally harmonized when one comes in touch with such people.

Sri Sri Babathakur further went on to say that in the first stage of the spiritual world, the seeker declares that “He knows nothing”, “Nothing belongs to Him” and “I don’t belong to anybody”.  A wet matchstick doesn’t really light quickly – and we need to dry out the matchstick by means of heat.  Similarly we need to remove our state of “ego” by the “Knowledge of Oneness”, so that the matchstick can ignite quickly and we can use the matchstick to burn the fire.

On this auspicious day, let us resolve to reflect on His teachings and apply them in everyday life.

Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur! Joy Babathakur!

Importance of Knowledge


The following is a translation of a story (#204, Chapter 1) appearing in ‘Golpe Atmovidya - Volume II'.  The story was rendered by Sri Sri Babathakur on March 15, 1973.

Sri Sri Babathakur shared the following story during a Satsang. Once upon a time, there were a couple of plays taking place in the cities of Comilla and DaccaOne was named 'Plabon' and the other 'Shankhopanjo'. Both of were based on equally good books. People in the two cities began a dispute over which was the better play, their argument soon reaching its peak. There lived nearby an old Mokhtar (i.e. head of the provincial government), full of wisdom.  The Mokhtar was assigned the responsibility of settling the argument. He took a matchstick and set the two books on fire in front of everybody.  Observing this the people present there asked him, “Why did you do this”?  The Mokhtar replied, ”These two books are the reason of quarrel and turmoil among you all. That is why I destroyed the books!”

Stating the importance of the incident, Sri Sri Babathakur said, “Ignorance is the seed of turmoil in the world. It creates confusion in a man in many ways, and the mind of a confused man is always disturbed and restless. It is because of this ignorance that he is unable to use anything in a correct manner. As a result there are errors in his use/ application of anything.  Consequently man has to suffer the fruits of his mistakes. Due to a lack of knowledge, man has to suffer the fruits of ignorance.  Again it is only through knowledge that a man can get rid of ignorance and become error free.  Knowledge protects human beings from all kinds of danger. There is nothing as pure as Knowledge, and nobody as true a friend as knowledge.  Ignorance is bondage and knowledge, liberation.  Ignorance is death and knowledge is nectar.  Ignorance is dual, a devil and a monster.  Knowledge is God.”