KRISHNA-KALA & ONE LORD GOD!!! or SATYA SAI BABA The Most Divine Avatara!!!

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Who is Sai?

 

9 June 1974

( Sathya Sai Speaks IX, 88-92)

 

[Editor's note. Swami talks about God, the religion of Love, and his

Avathar-hood. He

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

explains what

" Sai Baba " means.]

 

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 for ever. 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

Avathar,

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

Avathars 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 Avathar, 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

Avathar. 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 thatis 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.

 

Miriam

 

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