Swami and the Divine Energy. Three insights

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Light and Love An Estonian Sai follower, painter and painting teacher

Margus Rump presented me this picture what I wish to share with you. He has

been many times at PN, worked there voluntary and has received Swami's direct

Darshans. Impressions inspired by Swami he expresses through painting.

Below are three insights I should wish to share. 1. We all know that

information carries not only letters, words, colors, figures but also energy.

Kirlian method grounds on the fact, that all material objects leave their

"patterns" (information) to the environment that surrounded them. Kirlian

method is one of the technical methods what permits to visualize this

impressions in high frequency pulsate electric field using photography or

various kinds of info-technology applies. The luminosity (aura) of living

objects is radiant, varying, rich in color, irregular, but strictly individual,

reflecting not only physical but also emotional state of men, animals, plants.

(The aura of inanimate objects is stable, geometrically regular and as a rule

one-colored). To percept Swami's Omnipresent Energy there is no need to

proof by Kirlian camera or by others methods. This energy is as a Divine fluid

into devotees hearts. The results of this Divine flow can be observed in

practice, be it is by spreading His Teaching and having experiences, composing

paintings and books dedicated to Swami, obtaining the skill to meditate and

listen to melody of silence within, or something else...

Avatars has incarnated with his devotees as one spiritual entity. Swami is

not separated Avatar: all devotees are with Him and vice versa. For that

connection nothing ecxept presence of the Divine love is needed.

"The cosmos cannot exist apart from the Divine. The Divine cannot divorce

the cosmos. The devotee creates (his own image of) God. God creates the

devotees. The common belief is that all beings including devotees are created

by God. But this is not the whole truth. The devotee also by his spiritual

sadhana creates God....

Wherefrom does this Divine form come? It comes from the devotee's intense

feeling for a direct vision of God. Is it folly for anyone to go in search the

God. When God is omnipresent, what is the need for a search? It is a delusion

to imagine that man is in quest of God. It is God who is searching the true

devotee." (Excerpts from the Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan Sathya Sai

Baba at the Summer Course in Brindavan, 29 May 1991).

 

When one tries to look within and exclude all temporary frames of Maya

reality, he/she can 'acknowledge' the reflection of the Self - bodiless,

wordless, omniscient, omnipresent... and can fuse into oneness of eternal

being... The last sentence is an imagination, it is impossible to describe the

Self, descriptions try to express the bliss, eternal - where is no fear, no

joy, no hope, neither bad and nor good actions... Probably everyone has own

impulse for indirect expression the Self. For me is a special inner joy and

radiant to reach closer to the Self through Cosmic Consciousness as Swami's

Omnipresent Energy (Form).

"Truth is one. It is beyond mind and speech. It transcends the limitations

of time and space. Innumerable seekers have pursued different paths to

recognise this Truth. There are notable differences among the seekers of Truth.

These differences do not affect the nature of Reality. On the contrary, it is

the existence of these differences that has spurred the continuous search for a

unifying principle." (Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. Thought for the day as written

at Prasanthi Nilayam on 4 May 2004).

 

2. It has known by modern science that between the Earth and the cosmic

Space is the energetic balance. Similarly, the maintenance of a human being's

energetic balance provides the security and stability of all his systems as

science declares. This energetic balance is also pictorially between physical

and spiritual energies with high vibrations as Swami has through His Body and

His Cosmic Forms. For most devotees and followers His first form is easier to

percept. It is the cause, why millions of devotees desire to have direct

Swami's Darshan. Most of us are trying to acquire knowledge and understand

the sense of living. We make numerous attempts that can often fail, but every

endeavor is worth making. Each of us is a God’s creature.

"Every atom is permeated with Divinity. As the rays emanate from the sun,

so does Nature originate from God. Nature is the reservoir of power and energy.

When Nature, which is the creation of God, is so full of power, you may estimate

for yourself the tremendous power of God! It is said that the workings of

Divinity are most wonderful." (Excerpts from the Divine Discourse delivered by

Sathya Sai Baba "Divine Origin of Five Elements." 15 May 2000 PM, Brindavan).

A person's physical body is less or more in balance with different physical

cosmic energies. A human being has consciousness and it expects not only being

in balance with physical but also with spiritual energies. The impulses of

spiritual energy, spiritual reality (what is possible to percept as indirect

evidence of Atmic reality) contains in various aspects. The different cultures

explain them differently; however, the initial source is the same they all are

pinpointers of Atmic reality. For example, Russian thinker G.Gourdgiev (a

disciple of the Sufism School) at the beginning of the 20th century has

imagined the spiritual vibrations as a row of musical sounds. The Pythagorean

School found the spiritual energy in using the concepts of the Universe-wide

gold-section, Phi numbers and sequence of Fibonacci numbers. In the "Book of

the Dead" spiritual cosmic energy is compared with the range of light. The

Chinese "Book of Changes" the action of the vibrations has explained with the

help of linear geometric symbols. Dao Schools use alchemical esoteric terms.

Zen Buddhists create paradox verbal construction. Each of them describes some

aspects of spiritual energy. For Swami's devotees the spiritual reality is

represented in His Teaching and His Omnipresent Energy, experienced by millions

of his devotees.

However, "In this world, there are two types of intellectuals. The first

type is the scientists who are totally materialistic in their outlook. They

have in their mind only the physical and worldly goals and gains. They are

fascinated by the external appearance of a gigantic tree with its numerous

branches and twigs, but they are not interested in finding its "roots".

Vedantins (philosophers) are the second type of intellectuals who are not

fascinated by the external appearance of the tree but evince great delight in

finding the "roots". People who are worldly in outlook waste their time in

watering the 'branches', whereas, the Vedantins water the 'roots' and thereby

enjoy the 'fruits'.> (Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai

Baba on the 1st of January 2003 in Sai Kulwant Hall, Prasanthi Nilayam ). It

is a human ego-self what prevents many human beings to acknowledge this truth.

Spiritual energy what is perceptible with heart is as a personal inner feeling.

A person or groups of people being not in balance with spiritual vibrations are

capable to pollute the powerful energy of the Universe. The fact has known to

all what concern to the global chemical, physical, biological and mental

pollution of five elements creation today. What exactly is ego-self? It is

feeling that one is a separate unique individual, and shows whenever we boast

our accomplishments, desire and fear the unknown. In Vedas has said that this

is an illusion and you are not separate from others. The modern scientist

agrees with Vedas that all objects are interrelated on all levels. If we

understand that consciousness is a field (energy, deeply intertwined with

spiritual energy, "I") which is the new understanding of modern science.

According to it there may be a hope for spiritual growth through unison science

and spirituality. More than two thousand years ago, Buddha said that humans are

inter-beings that inter-arise in the inter-richness and there is only the

inter-richness. Today, scientists are declaring that our bodies are recycled

stardust, our blood is recycled waters of World Ocean, our breath is recycled

air, our emotions are recycled energies, our thoughts are recycled information,

our personalities are recycled relationships, and our souls are reflections of

every other soul what all together form the same Atman. What then remains

personally to us? Nothing except Atman expressed through Cosmic Order and

Harmony. A human being can reach to these values through Love as Cosmic Order

and Harmony is not possible to express by other way.

 

"If you want to experience true love, have full faith in God. God's love is

steady. It never diminishes. You may undergo any amount of suffering, yet you

belong to God. You are His and He is yours. No third person can come between

you and God. You say, "He is my classmate; he is my sportsmate." But none of

them can come to your rescue. You have to look after yourself. You should have

faith in yourself. Only then can you realise the truth." (Excerpts from the

Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba "Have Faith in God,

the only True Friend" - 17th October 2004. Prashanti Nilayam).

 

"We have to love before we have to understand "- said Nikolaj Grundvig, the

promoter the adult education two centuries ago. What concern to knowledge,

so often quoted as the chief value in human society, then I like to repeat the

saying by Arthur C. Clarke, ”Let me remind you that information is not

knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out

of the other, and we need them all." However, when there is no Love all these

qualities vanishes into whirl of delusion. The Truth about the Nature

(laws, orders and relations - expression of Atman in Maya reality is the same

for all times and for all nations. The humankind is existing in the conditions

of continuous Divine development.

"Although science and technology have made rapid strides, man has not

acquired the divine qualities. Technology is the child of science. But very

much anterior to science is the Veda. Science seeks to know all about creation,

but the Veda reveals the knowledge about the Creator. All the natural sciences

are concerned with knowledge about created things.

But there is a Creator who is the source of all them. In the quests for

understanding the objects in creation, man is forgetting the Creator."

(Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol.18, Chapter 4).

The explanations concern to this development and to the eternal Truth in its

various forms would be clear to the younger and older generations with the

different basic knowledge. The more understandable for human consciousness

is the knowledge given through examples, pictures, performances and finally

through scientific explanations. Swami's Teaching is understandable to all:

from scientists to persons with primary education or illiterates. Human values

are within everyone and the existence of Divine spark is not depending on the

stage of education. It is one of features of universality of Swami’s Teaching.

Whatever area of science (or other human activities) we look: be it today's

natural, technical, social, medicine, psychological, etc. sciences we are

finding a lot of fundamental identicalness between modern science and Swami's

Teaching. It is as an eternal Truth fused with Divine Energy for human beings

to discover their real nature. Discovered it, Swami’s Teaching is a guide how

to fuse into rhythms of harmony with laws of Divine Nature. 3. The

third insight is the compilation from: http://www.hinduism.co.za/god.htm

connected with own thoughts and Swami's quotations.

 

God is described as manifest and unmanifest. Know the Self as god what is

within you before you decide about the nature of God and the world.

The Self is God. 'I am' is God. This question arises because you are holding

on to the ego self. It will not arise if you hold on to the true Self. For the

real Self will not and cannot ask anything. If God be apart from the Self he

must be a self-less God, which is absurd. God, who seems that not exists, alone

truly exists. Whereas the individual, who seems to be existing, is ever

non-existent. Sages say that the state in which one thus knows one's own

non-existence (sunya) alone is the glorious supreme knowledge.

"There are many in this world who do not understand what is true

spirituality and thereby forget the reality. If someone puts a question, "Who

are you?", say with firm conviction, "I am I." Never identify yourself with the

body. He who realises this truth is a blessed one.

Worldly Gurus undergo change with the passage of time. God alone is

changeless and He alone is your true Guru. Have total faith in God. Develop

faith day by day. Only then can you be called a true Manava (human being).

Daivam Manusha Rupena (God incarnates in the form of a human being). Hence,

consider yourself as divine. Declare with total conviction, "I am I." When you

lead your life with such a sacred feeling, divinity will certainly manifest in

you. Never be under the mistaken notion that God is elsewhere. He is always in

you. Your reflection is God's reflection. Your reaction is His reaction.

Everything is basically divine in nature. It is God who makes you play your

role in this cosmic drama. You may call Him by any name. But He is only one."

(Excerpts from the Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

"Have Faith in God, the only True Friend" - 17th October 2004. Prashanti

Nilayam).

Particles of God do not separate from Him and forms the universe. His sakti

(power, energy) is acting. As a result of one phase of such activity the cosmos

has become manifest.

 

"The Upanishads declare Isavasyam Idam Sarvam (the entire universe is

permeated by God) and Easwara Sarva Bhutanam (God is the indweller of all

beings). God is immanent in every being as "Nammakammu" (faith). Therefore, one

has to cultivate faith in God, as his first and foremost duty. All the Vedas,

Upanishads and scriptures emphasise this as duty of a man." (Divine Discourse

delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba "Have Faith in God, the only True

Friend" - 17th October 2004. Prashanti Nilayam).

So the fact is that Brahman (Atman) is all and remains indivisible. It is

ever realised but man is not aware of this. Knowledge means the overcoming of

obstacles, which obstruct the revelation of the eternal truth that the Self is

the same as Brahman (Atman). The obstacles taken together form your idea of

separateness as an individual.

 

"The Divine is the basis of everything in the cosmos. The integral

relationship between the Divine and the Universe should be properly

understood.... The omnipresence of the Divine from a piece of stone and a

mighty emperor should be recognised. Man should be grateful for the ennumerable

benefits provided by the Divine... Self-realisation is the goal of every human

being." (Excerpts from the Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan Sathya Sai

Baba at Summer School in Brindavan, 21 - 05 - 1993).

Among the many thousands of names of God, no name suits God, who abides in

the Heart, devoid of thought, so truly, aptly, and beautifully as the name "I"

or "I am".

In the mere presence of God, who does not have even the least volition, the

living beings, who are engaged in innumerable activities, are embarking upon

many paths to which they are drawn according to the course determined by their

own Karmas, finally realise the futility of action, turn back to Self and

attain liberation.

The actions of living beings certainly do not go and affect God, who

transcends the mind, in the same manner as the activities of the world do not

affect that sun and as the qualities of the conspicuous four elements (earth,

water, fire and air) do not affect the limitless space.

It is inscrutable God's Will that samsara- creation and manifestation is

full of sorrow and evil.

No motive can be attributed to that power - no desire, no end to achieve can

be asserted of that one infinite, all-wise and all-powerful being. God is

untouched by activities, which take place in his presence. Compare the Sun and

the world activities. There is no meaning in attributing responsibility and

motive to the one before it becomes many.

It is not possible for anyone to do anything opposed to the ordinance of

God, who has the ability to do everything.

"If you want to know God, imbibe the principle of oneness. When you have

the feeling of oneness, you can see the direct manifestation of God. The sages

of Vedic times adored the sun as the direct manifestation of God as described

in the Gayatri Mantra. Consider God as your mother, father, friend and

everything." (Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba "Have

Faith in God, the only True Friend" - 17th October 2004. Prashanti Nilayam).

 

Iswara has individuality in mind and body, which are perishable, but at the

same time he has also the transcendental consciousness and liberation inwardly.

Iswara fot our generation is Swami. How easy to understand this outlook, when we

have the living God as an example for His devotees.

Iswara, the personal God, the supreme creator of the universe really does

exist. But this is true only from the relative standpoint of those who have not

realised the truth, those people who believe in the reality of individual souls.

>From the absolute standpoint the sage cannot accept any other existence than the

impersonal Self, one and formless.

Iswara (as Swami) has a physical body, a form and a name. Today Swami's

darshans are the evidence of this. Iswara (Swami) can be seen in visions in the

form created by the devotee. His essence is the same as ours, the real Self

being only one without form. Hence, forms he assumes are only creations or

appearances.

Iswara is immanent in every person and every object throughout the universe.

The totality of all things and beings constitutes God. There is a power out of

which a small fraction has become all this universe, and the remainder is in

reserve. Both this reserve power plus the manifested power as material world

together constitute Iswara.

Swami gives an additional explanations concern to the different Vedic schools.

 

"The Advaita (non-dualistic) philosophy of Sri Sankaracharya advocates the

oneness of Jiva (individual soul) and Brahman (cosmic soul). The Visishtadvaita

philosophy of Sri Ramanujacharya presupposes that Jiva and Brahman are

different. Sri Madhwacharya explained that there are, in fact, three concepts,

namely, Dehatma Bhava (body consciousness), Jivatma Bhava (individualised form

of God) and Paramatma Bhava (the universalised soul or the Supreme self).

Nobody need hold on to a particular school of thought or deride the others. The

question of adhering to a particular school of philosophy depends upon the

mental frame work of the individual."

“I am That” and “That I am”. When you are able to realise this truth, you

will find that the principle “I” underlies everything in the universe as the

principle of unity. The only aspect you have to realise is “I am Brahman”. “I

am I”, “I am the word, I am the form and I am the name”. This “I” represents

and explains everything.

The Vedantic concepts lead to endless arguments and counter-arguments. Do

not enter into them. Always be under the awareness “I am I”. This “I” principle

is beyond names and forms. It represents Brahma Tattwa, which is one without a

second entity." (Excerpts from the Dasara Divine Discourse delivered by

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba "Who are You? I am I" - 20th October 2004.

Prashanti Nilayam).

Existence of Iswara follows from conception of Iswara. Let us first know

whose concept he is. The concept will be only according to the one who

conceives.

God, the creator, the personal God, is the last of the unreal forms to go.

Only the absolute being is real. Hence, not only the world, not only the ego,

but also the personal God is of unreality. We must find the absolute – nothing

else.

"Make efforts to understand the principle of spirituality. Have firm

conviction that you are the embodiment of Atma and there is no second entity in

this world. Develop firm faith in your 'real nation' i.e., the Atma. Believe in

yourself. Have firm conviction that God is everywhere." (Excerpts from the

Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba "Have Faith in God,

the only True Friend" - 17th October 2004. Prashanti Nilayam).

By such contemplation, God is as an idea.

If the individual is a form, even Self, the source, who is the Lord, will

also appear to be form. If one is not a form, since there then cannot be

knowledge of other things, will that statement that God has a form be correct?

God assumes any form imagined by the devotees through repeated thinking in

prolonged meditation. Though he thus assumes endless names, the real formless

consciousness alone is God who does not reside in any place other than the

Heart. It is due to illusion, caused by the ego, the 'I am the body' idea, that

the kingdom of God is conceived to be elsewhere. However, God is within you. The

unlimited space of Turiyatita (beyond the four states, i.e. the Self), which

shines suddenly, in all its fullness, within the Heart of a highly mature

aspirant during the state of complete absorption of mind, as a unknown

experience, is rarely attained and true kingdom of God, which shines by the

light of Self.

Usually it is said that the jiva (individual soul) is subject to the evil

effects of illusion such as limited vision and knowledge, whereas Iswara has

all-pervading vision and knowledge. It is also said that Jiva and Iswara become

identical if the individual discards his limited vision and knowledge.

The Vedic saints' explanation concern to the relation between individual

soul and Iswara (Swami) is following.

First get rid of your own limited knowledge. Why do you worry about Iswara?

He will look after himself. It is indeed a great thing if we can take care of

ourselves.

"The Atma is a synonym for Brahma which is nothing but the Chaitanya

permeating every human being. Man has a name and form but Chaitanya has no

form. The Chaitanya that is present in the human body is called 'conscience'.

The all-pervasive Chaitanya is called 'consciousness'. When the individual

understands the principle of unity in diversity, the 'conscience' gets

transformed into 'consciousness'." (The Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan

Sri Sathya Sai Baba on the 1st of January 2003, Prasanthi Nilayam).

To worship God with name and form is seems not wrong as that would be

limiting the limitless, giving form to the formless. As long as a devotee

responds to a name there is no objection worshipping a God with name or form.

It is difficult to believe in a personal God. Easier to believe in an

impersonal God, a divine force and it would be a great help and source of faith

and inspiration for many devotees. More easier to believe, imagine and try to

follow Swami's explanations and directions.

"You are a part of Nature. So, you should strive to merge into Paramatma.

There is nothing bad in the creation of God. Mistake lies in man who puts them

to misuse. Change your attitude and you will see good in everything. Treat

praise and blame with equanimity. By adopting this positive attitude, you will

realize that there is no Yogi greater than you; there is no Thyagi superior to

you; there is no one greater than you." (Excerpts from the Divine Discourse

Sathya Sai Baba "Divine Origin of Five Elements." 15 May 2000 PM, Brindavan).

 

The most known famous physicist of our days Stephen Hawking (who's life is

a legend itself), some years ago explained his outlook concern to the God. He

reached to this fact through modern academic science. "It is difficult to

discuss the beginning of the Universe without concept of God. My work on the

origin of the universe is on the borderline between science and religion... It

is quite possible that God acts in ways that cannot be described by scientific

laws." (Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III, Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and

god, http://www.origins.org/articles/schaefer_bigbangandgod.html).

 

Namaste - Reet

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