'Raso Vai Sah' ---- He is All Sweetness ... Baba (1971)

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yes"> “HE is SWEETNESS” “ Raso vai sah ”

black"> Discourse of Sathya Sai Baba, Prashanthi Nilayam, 13 Aug 1971 "It

is a great pity that, in this land, which discovered the divinity of man and

the means by which he can regain that divinity, which is having a continuous

stream of saints and sages who remind man of his grand role as a pilgrim

towards God, men have allowed the teaching to decline and the practice to fade!

Hearts saturated with this honeyed wisdom have become chalices of poison!

Hate has hardened them, greed has

sharpened them, pride has polluted them. "Raso vai sah" - "He is sweetness".

So, the Jagath (the universe), which is His creation cannot but be sweet for

those who recognise it as His handiwork. The Jagath has to be used to instruct

you on the glory and the power of God, so that you may seek Him and reach Him.

Liberation happens when you love every being so intensely that you are aware

of only one. Soak your heart in love, soak your acts in righteousness, soak

your emotions in compassion; then you attain God soonest. Now, most people

are nearest the temple; but, farthest from God. For, there is no genuineness in

the manipulations of the limbs or emotions or impulses or activities during

worship. You say,

Krishnaarpan (dedication to Krishna); but, really, the dedication which the mind

performs is to Thrishna (desire)! Or it may be dedication to wife or

children! It is seldom done to Krishna! God is everywhere at all times; he

accomplishes everything. He accomplishes the minor feat of assuming the human

form and growing up among men as one of themselves right in their midst, in

order to win them over to the path of truth. He gives man the chance to savour

His sweetness and glimpse His glory. He acts despite the absence of any

compulsion, so that man may be led to do likewise. You may be in Prashaanthi

Nilayam since years, claming to be with Swaami and near Him; but, without

cultivating love expressed in service you cannot know Me. Unless you brighten

your vision with love, you cannot see the truth. Love helps you

to see God in everyone, everyone as divine. You celebrate the birthday of

Krishna, of Raama and of Sai; but, they have no birth, they do not age; they

appear and disappear, like the sun rising and setting, because you roll and

rotate; they are steady and ever-present! Do not cage Him in a

picture-frame; do not confine Him in an idol. He is all forms. His is all

names. He is the reality of all beings. Infect yourselves with madness for Him,

instead of for the world. Some one has written a song about Me, saying that I

cure madness and confer madness, that I wipe tears and cause tears to flow! Yes,

madness for visualising God is any way preferable to the madness after riches

and reputation. I bless that you will have the constant contemplation of the

Lord and that your minds will taste the sweetness of the divine without

intermission. "

-Baba Raso Vai Sah ! Raso Vai

Sai !! Ram

RAM RAM

Thank you & God bless.

Om Sri Sai Ram

Sarvathah paanipaadam Tat sarvatokshi siromukham Sarvathah sruthimalloke Sarvamavritya thishthathi