WHO IS 'SAI'? - Swami explains

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WHO IS 'SAI'? - Swami explains

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:08:59 +0530

Om Sri Sai Ram

 

Who is Sai?

9 June 1974

(Sathya Sai Speaks IX, 88-92)

[swami talks about God, the religion of Love, and his Avatar-hood. He explains

why he materializes rings, etc., and gives them to people, and he explains what

"Sai Baba" means. This is the CROWN GEM among all gems of Swami’s talk and

messages]

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

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 gold 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 predilections and 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 quantity, they 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 its 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 eye-less 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 a single stream of love.

The optical sense cannot visualize the truth. It gives only false and fogged

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 Yogis, the

pundits, the Jnanis, all of them are aware only 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

Vedic lore, not realizing that the person from whom the Vedas emanated is in

the midst, for their sake. They even ask, in their pride, for a few more

chances!

This has been the case in all ages. People may be very near (physically) to the

Avatar, but they live out their lives unaware of their fortune; they exaggerate

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 declaration, you will notice in the career of the same

Krishna that he underwent defeat in his efforts and endeavors, on a few

occasions; you must also note that those defeats too were part of the drama

that he had planned and that he himself directed. For example, 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 war would be waged! His

mission was intended to publish the greed and iniquity of the Kauravas and to

condemn them before the whole world.

Now, I must tell you that, during this Sai Avatar, there is no place for even

such 'drama' with scenes of failures 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 freely 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 most intensive enquiry 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 image of God, 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

sign of grace out of the fullness of Love.

I shall tell you why I give these rings, talismans, rosaries etc. It is to

signalize 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, just as Sambasiva, which also means the divine mother and father. Your

physical parents exhibit Love with a dose of selfishness; but, this Sai "mother

and father" showers affection or reprimands only to lead you toward victory in

the struggle for self-realization.

For this Sai has come in order to achieve the supreme task of uniting the entire

mankind, as one family through the bond of brotherhood, of affirming and

illumining the Atmic reality of each being in order to reveal the Divine that

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, and rise into the Divine, which is his goal.

I am the embodiment of divine love; love is my instrument. There is no creature

without love; the lowest loves itself, at least. And its self is God. So there

are no atheists, though some might dislike Him or refuse Him, as malarial

patients dislike sweets or diabetic patients refuse to have anything to do with

sweets! 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 by me and progress toward the goal of

self-realization, the realization of the Sai that shines in your hearts.

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