Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - The Vision of the Lord

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

November 18, 2003

 

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The Vision of the Lord

 

The boy had heard a description of the Lord; now he wanted to see

and experience him directly, exactly as he had heard him described

and come to believe in him. But God doesn't have any specific name

or form; he has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, a thousand hands

and a thousand feet. Yet in order to please and satisfy his devotees

who are aspiring to see him, he takes on the particular form which

has been earnestly prayed for. To satisfy this cowherd boy the Lord

revealed himself by taking on the lustrous form of Vishnu, and

accepted the food and drink so lovingly offered by the boy. This is

the second stage when one yearns for the vision of the Lord. Even

when that vision comes, it will still not be the true form of God

but the one chosen through the prayers of the devotee. God loves

sincere, heartfelt feelings, and therefore, in keeping with the

feeling of his devotee, he will give his vision in the form which

pleases the devotee most.

 

After the Lord left the boy thought to himself, "First I heard a

description of him, and then I prayed for a vision of him. Now he

has come down and I have seen him directly. But, how can I reach him

and be ever with him?" By merely knowing that God exists, a devotee

will not be satisfied. Nor does he get full satisfaction by just

having a vision of the Lord. Having had the vision, he yearns to be

fully merged with him. It is only then that the devotee will be in

unending bliss. In the case of this boy, the Lord had given a vision

of himself, and then disappeared. But from that moment on the boy

kept the picture of the Lord as he had just seen him, in the form of

Vishnu, continuously imprinted in his heart. With that lovely form

in his mind's eye, he now began inquiring and thinking only of how

he could reach him and merge with him. This is the third stage.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita050.html

 

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