Let God Do It

Many times in life when I've been ravaged by doubts and disappointments, I've heard Baba's loving whisper: "Place your life in My hands and I shall lead you to your goal.  I shall protect you as the eyelids protect the eyes."  This loving assurance of the Lord has always boosted my morale and raised my drooping spirits.

In spite of this loving promise, I invariably end up feeling lost and insecure at some point of time, thus caught in a vicious circle.  I silently pleaded to Baba to free me from the vicious circle.  With this thought weighing heavily on my mind, I opened a book to be confronted by these words of Baba: "How much have you surrendered to Me?"  The question posed by Baba made me realise with a jolt that my surrender was superficial and not total.

A person who has surrendered totally should be prepared to accept everything as the ultimate will of the Supreme.  He should be unaffected by the ups and downs of life.  There should be no desires or aspirations except the longing to execute every command of His promptly.  Believing that we have surrendered to Him, we still cling to our whims and fancies.  Our ego raises its ugly head in the wild pursuit of tinsel and trash.  Doubts and worries pester us in the wake of unfulfilled desires.  This gives rise to a feeling of insecurity.  We indulge in self-pity that the Lord has forsaken us, when in fact we have ourselves to blame.

The most merciful Sai thus showed me a way out of the vicious circle in which I had entrapped myself.  He seemed to say: "Let God do it", as the lines of this poem reverberated warmly in my heart:

"As children bring their broken toys,

With tears for us to mend,

I brought my broken dreams to God,

Because He is my friend.

But then, 

Instead of leaving Him

In peace to work alone, 

I hung around and tried to help,

With ways that were my own.

At last I snatched them back and cried,

"How can you be so slow?"

"My child," He said,
What could I do?

You never did let go!"

"Let Go

Let God".

~ Rama Sampath ~

(S.S. April 1970)