{"id":8518,"date":"2017-06-09T02:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruvani.us\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2017-06-09T02:15:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:15:34","slug":"seema-ullanghan-of-our-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guruvani.us\/index.php\/2017\/06\/09\/seema-ullanghan-of-our-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Seema Ullanghan&#8221; of our Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_1408_DroidSans\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8520\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/guruvani.us\/index.php\/2017\/06\/09\/seema-ullanghan-of-our-limitations\/guruji1-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruvani.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guruji1-1.jpg?fit=539%2C419&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"539,419\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"guruji1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruvani.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guruji1-1.jpg?fit=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruvani.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guruji1-1.jpg?fit=539%2C419&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8520\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruvani.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guruji1-1.jpg?resize=539%2C419\" alt=\"guruji1\" width=\"539\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruvani.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guruji1-1.jpg?w=539&amp;ssl=1 539w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruvani.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/guruji1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_1408_DroidSans\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">For the devotees of Sri Sainath of Shirdi, <em>Dussehra<\/em> also used to be celebrated as the day of \u201c<em>Seema Ullanghan<\/em>\u201d, meaning the day of crossing of the borders. The Kings used to cross the physical boundaries of their kingdoms and celebrate victory. In 1916 on <em>Dussehra<\/em> day Baba told a group of devotees that he would undertake His \u2018<em>Seema Ullanghan\u2019<\/em> two year later. Exactly two years later Baba crossed His bodily existence and entered into His permanent abode of <em>Sat-Chit-Anand<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_1408_DroidSans\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">In the path of spiritualism, \u201c<em>Seema Ullanghan<\/em>\u201d does not mean only a state of physical change but it means \u2018transcendence\u2019. We often hear of words like \u2018transcendental meditation\u2019 and \u2018transcendental yoga\u2019. Transcendence of what? Transcendence of the fetters of body and mind. This can only be achieved by controlling the compulsions of body like hunger, lust, and the mental compulsions of mind like greed, jealousy, anger, hatred etc. (the six limitations).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_1408_DroidSans\" style=\"font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>[icon name=&#8221;quote-left&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; unprefixed_class=&#8221;&#8221;] When one by one the mental fetters fall off, two elements of mind like \u2018<em>desire<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>feeling<\/em>\u2019 pertaining to those compulsions also vanish. The soul slowly but imperceptibly then enters into a state of pure consciousness. At this stage it goes beyond all bodily fetters, including birth and death. It also crosses the barriers of time and space.\u00a0[icon name=&#8221;quote-right&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; unprefixed_class=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"fontplugin_fontid_1408_DroidSans\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">The progress in the path of spirituality is the march of the divine consciousness from its primordial state to the original divine self. Through various acts, guidance and examples, Baba advised His children to follow the path of <em>dharma <\/em>(righteousness), which means transgressing the limitations of our small \u2018ego\u2019. Keeping in mind Baba\u2019s advice we should\u00a0strive to undertake \u201cSeema Ullanghan\u201d of the limitations of our mind and body, so that we can forge ahead to plant better tomorrow for the posterity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-large fasc-type-popout fasc-rounded-medium\" style=\"background-color: #0b9616; color: #ffffff;\" data-fasc-style=\"background-color:#0b9616;color:#ffffff;\">Jai Shri Sai !<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Source: <\/em> MAHA SAMADHI DIWAS MESSAGE (1995) By Dr. C B Satpathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">&nbsp; For the devotees of Sri Sainath of Shirdi, Dussehra also used to be celebrated as the day of &ldquo;Seema Ullanghan&rdquo;, meaning the day of crossing of the borders. The Kings used to cross the physical boundaries of their kingdoms and celebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gurujis-teachings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wChg-2do","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9918,"url":"https:\/\/guruvani.us\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/why-baba-tests-his-devotees\/","url_meta":{"origin":8518,"position":0},"title":"Why Baba Tests His Devotees","author":"GVADMIN3","date":"December 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"In Shri Sai Satcharita, Baba often appears to test His devotees through hardships, delays, misunderstandings, and emotional trials. 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