Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

The mind plays many tricks with you, the chief of which is to foster the ego and hide the prompter and the power within. You might have heard the name of Chitragupta in Indian mythology. Chitragupta is the name of the secretary to Yama, the Lord of Death. Chitragupta keeps an unerring account of the good and bad which individuals do in their lives. You may be amused and wonder if there is really a Yama, the Lord of Death, and if he has a private secretary with the name of Chitragupta. All this may give you the feeling that Yama is being described in terms of an office and thus your faith may be shaken a little. In Indian culture, every word that is used has an inner meaning. We neglect the significance of these stories of our mythology by interpreting them superficially.

 

This Chitragupta has his office in the mind of man, all the time, awake, alert. The word means "the secret picture". What he does is to "picture" all the secret promptings that blossom into activity; he notes the warning signals as well as the occasions when those signals were ignored or wantonly disregarded. You must see that the warning of the Divine against the merely human, or even the bestial inclinations, are heeded.

 

Time itself is called Yama. Yama is no identifiable person riding on a buffalo, with a noose in his hand for roping in the souls of those he wants to drag to his realm. No, the God of Death is called Kaala, Time. Time is the God of Death. The birth of a body, the growth of a body, the changes that are brought about in a body, and the death of a body, are all caused by the passage of time. If there is no passage of time, there is no birth and there is no death. Because time is responsible for bringing all these changes, even the destruction and death of the human body, Time itself has been called the Lord of Death.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks; Vol. XI, P. 89-90.

Summer Showers in Brindavan, 1973, P. 15-16.