Mahavatar Vishnudeva Saraswati
is thought to be older than Mahakaya Babaji. His home is Siddha Loka,
sometimes known as Gyan Ganj and also as Shambala, situated some 6000 meters high
on the Bhagirathi Parbat - the true source of the Ganga. Only at times
of human need does he consent to descend to human habitation.
Selected
Discources of
Bhagavan
Sri Sathya Sai Baba Words To Live By
Who is
Sai?
9 June 1974
(Sathya Sai Speaks IX, 88-92)
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.
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