Why is the Hostel Schedule so tight in Our University?
Sri Sathya Sai at the Senior Boys Hostel at Prasanthi Nilayam
Do you know why you have such a tight schedule in the hostel? This schedule is
not structured by the Trust. Swami has personally structured this schedule. I
have ordered the syllabus to be tight. Why is it so? The minds of today’s
children, if given time, will turn into a devil’s workshop. When the daily
routine is tight, your mind cannot wander here and there.
The mind is like a monkey. It is a monkey mind. How do you control such a
monkey mind? Have you seen the people who play with the monkeys? The nature of
the monkey is always fickle. Even for a moment it cannot keep still. The monkey
trainer has a stick. He orders the monkey to go up and down the stick so that
it is continuously engaged. Since it has to go up and down, it has no time for
anything else. Similarly, the monkey mind has to be trained. What is the
training? The chanting of ‘Soham’ is the ‘up and down’ stick of life. In your
spare time, when you have finished your studies, watch your breath. Inhalation
is ‘So’ and exhalation is ‘Ham’. That forms into the ‘Hamsa Gayatri’ Mantram.
Through this Hamsa Gayatri mankind can attain Divinity. Man can do so many
things which would keep his mind away from bad thoughts and bad feelings. But
man allows the mind to wander madly. People are performing so many wrong
actions. They have time to do other things but have no time for doing things
which Swami tells them to do. Do they not have time to know about Bhagavan? Do
they require many years to know Swami? For one who can really know Swami, even
one moment is enough. If you want to kill anybody external to you, you need
guns, rifles pistols, knives and sticks. But even a needle is enough to kill
oneself. Similarly, to know God you need not waste a lot of time. You need not
worry if God’s power and strength is infinite. How much time will it take to
know God? Ocean, for instance, is very vast and infinite. But the taste of even
one drop is enough to know the taste of the entire ocean. So too, if you know
one atom of Swami’s Love that is enough.
Source: Live an Ideal Human Life, Discourse 9, My Dear Students Volume 4
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