MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES AND SUPER SAINT - MYSTERY OF DIVINE INCARNATION

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It is said that the life of a Divine incarnation and his relation with His

various associates and devotees leave behind a very rich tradition of holy

acts and ways of living which form the subject- matter of devotional texts,

and these become Themes for pious contemplation by generations of their

followers and devotees.

The trans-physical importance of the Divine incarnation is more after His

lifetime than when He is alive, that an incarnation receives wide

recognition. After the incarnation disappears, He is worshipped as the

deity by his followers, and his personality, deeds and teachings become the

centre of a cult. A person may not understand philosophies and theologies,

but through faith and devoted worship of the incarnation, even a man of

little learning can attain salvation. An incarnation is always hypostative

with Brahman, and even after his physical body passes away, he is available

for worship to those with faith. The faith consists in the capacity to

grasp the identity of the incarnation with the deity himself. The Divine

incarnate is always linked with the infinite and Absolute Brahman. He is an

expression of the Anugraha-Sakti or Grace of Brahman, and not a mere

individual center of power. So he is one with the eternal Godhead. The

worship of any personalized conception becomes object for practising

Bhakti and Jnana, and a means for salvation, only if this faith is

dominantly present in the mind of the worshipper. Bhakti, Jnana and Mukti

can be given only by the Supreme Being, and the incarnation is essentially

this supreme being - His Redeeming Power or His Anugraha-Sakti.

“According to the Stages of human evolution, there will be different

conceptions of the Deity, and the followers of one, even if they think that

theirs is more refined, need not look down upon others as heathens or

coffins worshipping false deities and consider themselves alone as the

followers of the true Deity - For whatever the path, God approaches man

through that path, and if the faith of the votary is genuine, he will be led

to higher and higher forms of worship. So the followers of every religion

must have respect for, and acceptance of, the faith and form of worship of

other religions in spite of the differences that are sure to prevail in

their ideologies and practices. For, it is the same God that is

worshipped by them all just as all rivers, in spite of their divergent

courses, led to the same ocean, so do all faiths lead to Him i.e., take

one to the same God who inspires them all”. So said Shirdi Sai Baba.

 

 

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