[Prev][Next][Index]
SANDEHA NIVARINI SATHYA SAI BABA DISSOLVING DOUBTS
------------------------------------------------
--%%%%'------------%%'--------------------------
-%%'-%%'----------------------------------------
-%%'-----%%%%'----%%%'--%%'%%%'--%%%%'---%%'%%'-
--%%%%'-----%%'----%%'---%%%'%%'----%%'-%%%%%%%'
-----%%'-%%%%%'----%%'---%%'-----%%%%%'-%%'%'%%'
-%%'-%%'%%'-%%'----%%'---%%'----%%'-%%'-%%'%'%%'
--%%%%'--%%%'%%'--%%%%'-%%%%'----%%%'%%'%%'--%%'
------------------------------------------------
Let the different faiths exist, let them
flourish and the glory of God be sung in
all languages and in a variety of tunes.
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba
God is inscrutable. He cannot be realized in the outer objective world;
He is in the very heart of every being.
Gemstones have to be sought deep underground; they do not float in
mid-air. Seek God in the depths of your self, not in the tantalizing,
kaleidoscopic nature. The body is granted to you for this high purpose,
but you are now misusing it, like the person who cooked his daily food
in the gem-studded golden vase that came into his hands as an heirloom.
Man extols God as omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, but he
ignores His presence in himself! Of course, many venture to describe
the attributes of God and proclaim Him to be such and such, but these
are but their own guesses and the reflections of their own preferences.
Who can affirm that God is this or thus? Who can affirm that God is not
of this form or with this attribute? Each one can acquire from the vast
expanse of the ocean only as much as can be contained in the vessel he
carries to its shore. From that small quantity, he can grasp but little
of that immensity.
Each religion defines God within the limits it demarcates and then
claims to have grasped Him.
Like the seven blind men who spoke of the elephant as a pillar, a fan,
a rope or a wall, because they contacted but a part and could not
comprehend the entire animal, so too, religions speak of a part and
assert that their vision is full and total.
Each religion forgets that God is all forms and all names, all
attributes and all assertions. The religion of humanity is the sum and
substance of all these partial faiths; for there is only one religion
and that is the religion of love.
The various limbs of the elephant that seemed separate and distinct to
the eyeless seekers of its truth were all fostered and activated by
one single stream of blood. The various religions and faiths that feel
separate and distinct are all fostered by single stream of love.
The optical sense cannot visualize the truth. It gives only false and
barren information. For example, there are many who observe my actions
and start declaring that my nature is such and such. They are unable to
gauge the sanctity, the majesty and the eternal reality that is me.
The power of Sai is limitless; it manifests forever. All forms of
`power' are resident in this Sai palm.
But, those who profess to have understood me- the scholars, the
mystics, the theologians, the prophets, the realized- all of them are
aware of the least important, the casual external manifestation of an
infinitesimal part of that power, namely, the `miracles.' They have
not desired to contact the source of all power and all wisdom that is
available here at Brindavan.
They are satisfied when they secure a chance to exhibit their
book-learning and parade their scholarship in scriptural lore, not
realizing that the person from whom the scriptures emanated is in their
midst, for their sake.
This has been the case in all ages. People may be very close physically
to the Avatar, but they will live out their lives unaware of their
fortune, exaggerating the role of miracles, which are as trivial when
compared to my glory and majesty as a mosquito is in size and strength
to the elephant upon which it squats. Therefore, when you speak about
these `miracles,' I laugh within myself out of pity that you allow
yourself so easily to lose the precious awareness of my reality.
My power is immeasurable; my truth is inexplicable, unfathomable. I am
announcing this about me for the need has arisen. But what I am doing
now is only the gift of a "visiting card."
Let me tell you that emphatic declarations of the Truth by avatars were
made so clearly and so unmistakably only by Krishna. In spite of the
declarations, you will notice that in the career of the same Krishna
that He underwent defeat in His own efforts and endeavours on a few
occasions, though you must also note that those defeats too were part
of the drama which He had planned and which He Himself directed.
When many kings pleaded with Him to avert the war with the Kauravas, He
confessed that His mission to the Kaurava court for ensuring peace had
`failed.' But He had not willed that it should succeed. He had decided
that the war should be waged. His mission was intended to publish the
greed and iniquity of the Kauravas and to condemn them before the whole
world.
But I must tell you that during this Sai Avatar, there is no place for
even such `drama' with scenes of failure and defeats! What I will must
take place; what I plan must succeed. I am Truth and Truth has no need
to hesitate or fear or bend.
`Willing' is superfluous for me, for my grace is ever available to
devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move among them,
talking and singing, even intellectuals are unable to grasp my truth,
my power, my glory or my real task as Avatar.
I can solve any problem however knotty. I am beyond the reach of the
the most intensive inquiry and the most meticulous measurement. Only
those who have recognized my love and experienced that love can assert
that they have glimpsed my reality. For the path of love is the royal
road that leads mankind to me.
Do not attempt to know me through the external eyes. When you go to a
temple and stand before the altar, you pray with closed eyes, don't
you? Why? Because you feel that the inner eye of wisdom alone can
reveal Him to you. Therefore, do not crave from me trivial material
objects; but crave for _me_, and you will be rewarded. Not that you
should not receive whatever objects I give as signs of grace out of the
fullness of love.
I shall tell you why I give these rings, talismans, rosaries, etc. It
is to mark the bond between me and those to whom they are given. When
calamity befalls them, the article comes to me in a flash and returns
in a flash, taking from me the remedial grace of protection. That grace
is available to all who call on me in any name or form, not merely to
those who wear these gifts. Love is the bond that wins grace.
Consider the meaning of the name, Sai Baba. SA means `Divine', AI or
AYI means `Mother' and BABA means `Father.' The name indicates the
Divine Mother and Father. Your physical parents might cultivate love
with a dose of selfishness, but this Sai Mother and Father showers
affections or reprimands only for leading you towards victory in the
struggle for self-realization.
For this Sai has come in order to achieve the supreme task of uniting
as one family all of mankind through the bond of brotherhood; of
affirming and illumining the atmic reality of each being in order to
reveal the divine, which is the basis on which the entire cosmos rests;
and of instructing all to recognize the common divine heritage that
binds man to man so that man can rid himself of the animal nature, and
rise into the divinity which is his goal.
Those who preen themselves as atheists will one day, when their illness
is gone, relish God and revere Him.
I had to tell you so much about my truth for I desire that you should
contemplate on this and derive joy therefrom, so that you may be
inspired to observe the disciplines laid down and progress towards the
goal of self-realization, the realization of the Sai that shines in
your hearts.
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
{ Those wishing further information or discussion regarding this topic
are invited to attend soc.culture.indian in the thread entitled
SANDEHA NIVARINI SATHYA SAI BABA DISSOLVING DOUBTS }
*+*
