Surrender Five – If you want Brahman - Baba SAI

A rich man came to Baba with plenty of money in his pocket and very anxious to avoid the extra expenditure resulting from the cabman's demand for prolonged stay at Shirdi.
He said to Baba,
BABA show me GOD (Brahman). It is for this I come all this long way. People say that Shirdi Baba reveals Brahman quickly.

Baba : O, do  not  fear Immediately  and  clearly  I  will show you. This is not a matter that can be put off. It is  hard  to get questioners seeking  illumination  like   vou. Most people seek wealth, cure of disease or trouble, honour, position or  perpetual pleasure and other  earthly   objects. None   wants   God. Oh,   I   long   to   see   those,   who   long to see God. Now, Brahman is the root cause of the Universe: That   which   accounts   for   Solar   and   Planetary   motions, variations of seasons, division of functions between God etc. One must know i.e. realise Brahman before death. Else there will be an ever recurring cycle of births and deaths. Realisation gives 'Kevala Advaita Sukham'.    A Guru gives it and only a Guru can.

Baba then turned to some others and then sent a boy out with these words: 

"Go,  tell  Nandalal  Marwadi,  Baba urgently   wants   a   hand-loan   of  Rs.5/-   and   bring   the money."

The  boy  went  and  found  the  Marwadi,   absent. Baba sent  more  messages  to  absent  men's. The rich man was  getting impatient at Baba's omission to give  him Atmajnan or  sight  of God, more  especially because  delays would  mean   extra   payment  to   the   tongawalla  whom   he had  engaged   for   the   return journey   also. He saw, of course, that Baba wanted Rs.5/- and he could stop  the repeated requests of Baba for Rs.5/- by paying it out of the Rs.250  which he had in his pocket; but he was oppressed with the fear that if he advanced the loan, it might prove irrecoverable.

Man: Will you help me to grasp Brahman?

BABA : You see what I  have been doing all this while, is to enable you to see God-Even as you are now seated. Have you understood nothing?

I want Five..

One must  surrender  the five  to  get  at  Brahman. One must Surrunder i.e.  even the five senses (indriya) the five Pranas and manas, Buddhi,   Ahankar   (Mind, Intellect  and  Ego)- (all of which involve Vairagya i.e., detachment). The road to  Brahma  Jnana  is  hard  to  tread. All  cannot  tread  it. When   it dawns, there will be light. One who feels unattached to things   terrestrial and celestial is alone; competent to have Brahmajnan.
The man found that Baba had read his strong Attachment to Rs.5/- which he considered more important than getting Brahmajnana Upadesa.