After Visiting Sai Baba
Things to know
This page offers several considerations about what to do after your visit to Sai Baba.
It's Time to go Home
During your visit to Prashanti Nilayam, you are exposed to the energy of Sathya Sai Baba. This extends from the darshan hall, right to the accommodation buildings at the rear of the ashram. Sai Baba casts a mantle of love, grace and protection upon all who visit him.
One of the impacts of that energy and grace that Sai Baba gives is the energising and speeding up of spiritual progress. This may manifest as awareness of the atma, silence, discovery, reading, the company of and conversation with other spiritual seekers in the ashram. All events which you oberve or participate in, darshan, bhajans, service activities, etc., and those events that are unobserved and outside your awareness are gifts of grace from Sai Baba for your spiritual benefit.
While you travel, When you get home
Sai Baba's energy radiates outwards from his form over all the earth. Adjusting from the Sai Baba energy in the Prashanti Nilayam Ashram to Sai Baba's energy in the rest of the world is a radical process, often taken far too lightly. Not only is there a climate adjustment to be made, there is an even more radical adjustment taking place on the inner level. It is of the utmost importance that people should keep a low profile the first few days they are back at home.
That way the precious energy given you by Sai Baba can penetrate the cells in the body so that extra light-energy will be added to every cell - every atom. So, do not waste it, let it work on.
We understand that many people are not in a position to take a few days rest. They have to go back to work right away. Sai Baba recommends that it is better to leave a few days earlier, so that the light-force can settle.
There is also a day and a half of travelling (or more, for those who have a number of connections in different countries). In this situation, stay focussed on Sai Baba as much as possible - on the Sai-consciousness in you - while while you are travelling home, and after you arrive, in those first few days back at home, going on with your daily chores. Surrender all things to Sai Baba. You should do so at all times, but when you uare travelling home it is more important still, so as not to waste precious energy.
Jet Lag, Meals, sleeping and keeping spiritually fit
If you suffer from Jet Lag, then the latest research indicates that we need to balance our body clocks and seek light. For more information on Jet-Lag, visit the British Airways Jet-Lag Advisor page. (opens in a new window)
Allow your body to sleep when it wants to sleep. If you go to bed at night and cannot sleep, the simply take rest. Eat light meals until airline food has passed out. Airline food, whilst in measured doses, sits inside the body and takes longer to pass through the alimentary canal. This is more so the case when extended hours of sitting and flying are involved.
During this time, take up your normal spiritual practices. This is important, as cues like sitting in your prayer or meditation place, lighting candles and incense, meditation, reading, using rosary, etc, are all messages to the body's unconscious of a return home, and taking up the rhythms of home life.
A visit to Sai Baba does mean suspension nor discarding your spiritual disciplines. If anything, there will be a stronger impetus to take up these activities, even in the slow days of re-adjustment. One does not change nor discard spiritual discipline simply due a visit to an ashram.