I LOVE YOU - Swami's message

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I LOVE YOU

 

My Dear Children!

Awake! Awake! Awake! There is no time for slumber. You have been asleep and

dreaming for thousands of years. If you do not awake now, this chance may not

come again for thousands more.

Come with Me. Separation is no longer the order of the day. I separated Myself

from Myself so that I could love Myself more. The experience is finished. I

want all of Myself to return and merge with Me, the One Self.

I gave many of you the advantage of an unhappy childhood, including conflict and

separation from mother or father. In doing this, I removed from you the

temptation to become attached to human parents or to a specific family

situation. That left you with only one option: to attach yourself to Me.

Why do you not avail yourself of this opportunity instead of continually seeking

relationships, which can never satisfy you? Even if your childhood had been as

idyllic as you would have liked, it is not your mother's love that you need.

Ultimately, it is not even the love of His name and form that you long for.

Your deepest, innermost urge is to return to your Self -- to become the being,

awareness, and bliss, which is all you have ever really been. Let go of the

past.

Stop trying to get from each other what you still think you missed in childhood

or marriage. You will never find anyone who is enough -- not even Me!

LOVE YOURSELF! KNOW YOURSELF! Only you will ever be enough. Can you not love

your Self because I have done so over and over again? Did I not virtually move

heaven and earth to bring you to Me?

I have asked my devotees to repeat the mantra 'I am God, I am God, I am not

different from God.' Now I ask you specifically to follow that instruction; it

will be more helpful than any other one thing you can do.

Remember that I love you, and love your Self.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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WHO IS SAI?

The optical sense cannot visualise 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 realising 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 unmistakable 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,

which 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

punish 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, 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 inquiry and the most meticulous measurement. Only those

who have recognised My Love and experienced that Love can assert that they have

glimpsed My reality. For, the Path of Love is the Royal Road that lead 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, so not crave from Me trivial material objects but, crave for Me, and

you would 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 Saambasiva, which also means the Divine Mother and Father

(Samba-Siva). Your physical parents exhibit Love with a dose of selfishness;

but, this Sai "Mother and Father" showers affection or reprimands, only for

leading you towards victory in the struggle for self-realisation.

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 which

is the Basis on which the entire Cosmos rests, and of instructing all to

recognise 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 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 towards the Goal of

Self-realisation, the Realisation of the Sai that shines in your hearts.

SSS Vol IX, 19.6.1974

 

 

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