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There are four types of persons: the ‘dead’, who deny the Lord and
declare that they alone exist, independent and self-directed: the
‘sick’, who call upon the Lord when some calamity befalls them or when
they feel temporarily deserted by the unusual source of succor: the
‘dull’, who know that God is the eternal companion and watchman, but who
remember it only off and on when the idea is potent and powerful: and
lastly the ‘healthy’, who have steady belief in the Lord and who live in
His Comforting Creative Presence always”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, Vijayadashami, 1953)
“Note this also. In this Avatar, the wicked will not be destroyed, they
will be corrected, reformed and educated and led back to the path from
which they have strayed. The white ant infested tree will not be cut: it
will be saved. Again this Avathar will not select some place other than
the place where the nativity took place for the centre of Its Leelas,
Mahimas, and Upadesh. This tree shall not be transplanted: it will grow
where it rose from the Earth. Another specialty is this: the Avatar has
no affinity or attachments in Its Career to members of the family
wherein It appeared. Unlike the appearance as Rama, Krishna etc., where
the life was played out mostly among and for the family members, this
Avatar is for the Bhaktas, the Aspirants, the Sadhus and Sadhakas only.
It has no Japa, Dhyana or Yoga: It knows no worship: It will not pray to
anything, for It is the Highest. It only teaches you to worship and
pray.
To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will
laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane,
foolish, misled, blind. Of all the insanities that harass man,
God-madness is the least harmful, the most beneficial. The world has
suffered untold damage due to its “mad” guides: but nothing but harmony,
peace, brotherliness and love has come out of the ‘God-madness’ of man.”
(Prashanthi Nilayam, Maha Shivaratri, 1955).
“The Lord too has to come in human form and moves about among men, so
that He could be listened to, contacted, loved, revered and obeyed. He
has to speak the language of men and behave like human beings, as the
member of the species. Otherwise, He would be either negated and
neglected or feared and avoided”.
(Peddapuram, 03/09/1958).
“Until about an hour ago, the organisers of this function were nervous
that I might not come. They had reconciled themselves to the
disappointment in store and they were feverishly engaged in making
alternative arrangements, for they had heard that the Godavari was in
high floods and that I was at Rajahmundry. So they feared that I might
not be able to cross the floods and come south in time for this
engagement. From the fact that I had permitted them to announce My
arrival for the function, they could well have inferred that the floods
would subside and that I would be in their midst, for, once My word goes
forth, it must happen accordingly. Do not doubt it. The furious waves
calmed before Rama, the floods went down in time for Me.
Nothing can hold Me up or agitate Me or cast a shadow on Me, come in
this Human form : be certain of that. Forces of calumny or distrust or
ignorance can touch not even a hair, My sankalpa must prevail. My task
must be accomplished. My mission will succeed. I have come to illumine
the human heart with the Light of Divine and to rid man of the delusion
that drags him away from the path of Shanti, the perfect equanimity born
of realisation”.
(Venkatagiri Town 09/09/1958)
“That is My path, the path of Prema, along which I shall take you. This
I offer as my visiting card to every one of you when you come to Me. I
know your name, your degrees, your profession, your status and your
history. But you do not know Mine. I have no need to know all about you
from perusal of your cards: but I want you to know something of My
glory: and so I give you a glimpse of it, as a Mahima. But I also give
you enough of My Prema so that you can mix a little of it with whatever
you do or feel or think and make it sweet and palatable”.
(Venkatagiri, Adyantic conference, 12/04/1959).
“The Lord had announced that He would come down for the restoration of
Dharma and that He would assume human form so that all might gather
around Him and feel the thrill of his companionship and conversation.
And the Lord has come as announced”
(Markandeya Sanskrit College, Aukiri Palli, 22/01/1960).
“I must tell you that you are luckier than men of previous generations.
The accumulated merits of many previous births must have granted you
this luck. You have got Me and it is your duty to develop this
relationship that you have achieved by sheer good fortune. In four or
five years time, you will see Yogis and Maharishis and Munis crowding
here and you may not have such chances of asking Me questions and
getting the answers, or approaching Me and directly speaking to Me”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 27/09/1960).
“As a matter of fact, Puttaparthi is a name revered and remembered with
gratitude by millions today and it will be treasured in history as an
immortal name. There have been many occasions on which Bhaktas have
pleaded with Me to move out of this miasma and settle down in Bangalore
or Madras or some such town, or if I preferred, some other quiet rural
spot. But let Me tell you here and now: this tree has to grow at the
very spot where it sprouted: it will not be transplanted: I shall not
give up this place, no, not I. This place will be transformed into
Tirupathi and those who are little boys and girls today will surely see
it in all its magnificence”.
(Puttaparthi, 23/11/1960)
“Can Paramatma assume human form? Well, man can derive Ananda only
through the human form: we can receive instruction, inspiration,
illumination only through human language and human communication”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, Birthday Festival, 23/11/1960).
“You all are waiting to hear from Me about the journey to Badri and what
happened there. These people went to Badri and returned Bhadram (safe).
That is the story in a nutshell.
For danger lurked all the time from fire, water, wind, sky and Earth -
all the five elements in fact. Every moment these people felt the Lord’s
grace: 150 persons, mostly old men with indifferent health, to
accomplish this Yatra without a single moment of even headache was due
to Swami. Swami also went to Badri because the Netralingam, which is the
central source of Holiness there, had to be revived with spiritual
efficiency. Shankaracharya brought five lingams from Kailas and
installed one each at Dwaraka, Sringeri, Badri and Puri and the fifth he
placed at Chidambaram. Of these, the one at Badri has the Narayan-amsam
and that had to be consecrated afresh. That was My task and these people
who came with Me saw Me doing it.
The Netralingam laid by Shankaracharya underneath the idol there, was
“taken” out by Me and Abhishekam was done with Gangotri water which I
fetched by the wave of My hand. It was worshipped with golden Bilva
leaves and Thumbe flowers, both created by Me on the spot, and sent back
to its original place.”
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 04/07/1961).
“Rama, Krishna and Sai Baba appear different because of the dress each
has donned. But it is the Self-same Entity, believe Me. Do not be misled
into error and loss. The time will soon come when this huge building or
even vaster ones will be too small for the gathering of those who are
called to this place. The sky itself will have to be the roof of the
auditorium of the future: I will have to forego the car and even the
airplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around
them will be too huge: I will have to move across the sky: yes, that too
will happen, believe Me.
You will witness this Puttaparthi becoming Mathura Nagar. No one can
stop this development or delay it. I will not give you up, nor can
anyone of you give Me up. Even if you loose faith, you will repent and
come to this refuge very soon, clamoring for admission. I shall be in
this body for 58 more years: I have assured of this already. Your lives
are intertwined with My Earthly Career. Act always in accordance with
that great privilege”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 21/10/61).
Let me tell you one more thing: Nothing can impede or halt the work of
this Avatar. When I was upstairs all these days, some people foolishly
went out saying, “It is all over about Sai Baba” and they turned back
many who were coming to Puttaparthi: Some said I was in Samadhi, as if I
am a Sadhaka: Some feared I was the victim of black magic, as if
anything can affect Me: The splendour of this Avatar will go on
increasing, day by day. Formerly when the little boy raised aloft the
Govardhanagiri, the Gopis and Gopakas realised that Krishna was the
Lord. Now it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted,
you will see: Have patience, have faith”.
(Guru Poornima day, 06/07/1963).
“You might ask Me to speak about My own mystery. It is not easy to
understand it. When you have the chance, gather all the joy that you
can. There is no use bolting the door when the thieves have robbed and
fled. Seize the chance and do not repent later that you have missed the
opportunity. Remember, you have to come to Me, if not in this birth, at
least within ten more births: strive to acquire Grace: Grace is the
reward for Sadhana: the highest Sadhana is to follow the instructions of
the Master”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 12/02/1964).
“The Lord comes as Avatar when He is anxiously awaited by saints and
sages. Sadhus prayed - and I have come. My tasks are three, or rather
two, Dharmarakshana and Vedarakshana both practically the same. The two
are therefore: Vedarakshana and Bhakta rakshana: fostering of the Vedas
and fostering of Bhaktas. Now what is Bhakti? Who are Bhaktas? It is
faith, steadiness, virtue, fearlessness, surrender, absence of egoism.
Puja done however elaborately and pompously is sheer waste of time and
energy. Why pluck flowers and hasten their death? Some of you go round
this Nilayam and satisfy yourselves that you have done so many
pradakshinas, but they can be called so only when your mind circles this
place along with your feet. I notice that while your feet are taking you
round by force of habit, your tongue blabbers about the faults of
others, or the price of the vegetables, or the dish you propose to cook
for lunch. Before you start on your rounds, which you call Pradakshina,
give your mind a Dakshina (thanksgiving offering) to the Resident of the
Temple, the Lord. That is the first thing to do, and perhaps, the only
thing to do. Pradakshina is not to be taken for loosening the limbs or
giving them some exercise.
Be confident that you will be liberated. Know that you are saved. Go and
tell all that you had gone to Puttaparthi and got there the secret of
liberation”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 25/01/1963).
“It was declared that Rama was born of the payasam which was brought by
the Deity from out of the sacrificial fire. No Avathar is born flesh and
blood, including this Avatar. The body of the Avatar is chit substance:
it is not Jada like other materials. The embryo of ordinary mortals is
encased in ‘Jalodakasayi’ enveloped in watery stuff; the embryo of the
Avatar is encased in ‘Kshirodakasayi’, the pure white milk of holiness.
That is why in the make up of the Avatar, there is no blemish, there is
no trace of Guna. Dasaratha wept, for he had no sons to offer ritual
food when he moved out into the next world. When all are of the form of
God and of the substance of God, who is son and who is father, who is to
offer food to whom, when that high stage of wisdom is reached? Kshama is
the father, Santham is the mother, renunciation is the wife, and the
Lord is the son, the male issue to save him from perdition. This desire
brought his spirit before Rama, when Sita was about to enter the fire in
Lanka.
Ravana was killed and Rama asked Sugriva and Lakshmana to crown
Vibhishana as Emperor of Lanka; he pleaded that Rama Himself should
bless him on that auspicious occasion, but Rama insisted that His vow of
hermithood prevented Him from entering an inhabited city. Rama sent
Hanuman and requested him to bring Sita to the camp in a palanquin.
Vibhishana had not thought of that; he was too immersed in other
affairs. Hanuman bowed before Sita and got a vision of Lakshmi rising
out of the waves of the ocean of milk. He felt that that vision was
enough compensation for all the births he had to undergo. While the
palanquin neared the camp, there spread everywhere a sublime splendour
from it, which astonished the varana hordes. Rama sent word that Sita
may alight and walk the remaining distance, so that they may fill their
eyes with her glory. This is not mentioned in the books.
When Sita was about ten yards away, Rama, who is butter when He melts
and steel when He hardens, said, “Stop, I can accept you only after you
pass through Fire”. Lakshmana swooned at this thunderbolt; the monkeys
who had to bring the fuel for the Fire bent under the weight of seven
twigs. The Fire ordeal served two purposes: to scorch the slanderous
tongues, which haunt the tracks of Avatars at all times: and, to
retrieve from the Fire the real Sita who had entered into it, prior to
abduction by Ravana”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 04/02/1963).
“The airplane has to land at certain places in order to take in those
who have won the right to fly, by the tickets they have purchased. So
too, the Lord has to come down so that those who have won the right to
be liberated may be saved; incidentally, others too will know of the
Lord, of His grace and ways of winning it, the joy of liberation. There
are some who deny even today the possibility of air travel; they curse
the contrivance; they cavil it. Similarly, there are many who cavil at
the Avatar that has come to save”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 05/02/1963).
“You can call me on the phone, but I will not be available for all those
who do not have the sincere and steady yearning for the Lord. For those
who say, “No, you are not my Lord,” I say ‘No’ for those who say ‘yes’.
I too echo ‘Yes’. If I am available in your heart, I will be available
over the phone, but remember, I have my own special postal and telephone
systems. They operate from the heart straight to the heart. There are
rules and regulations for the operations of that system, which the
Sastras declare. You can find them there”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 29/07/1964).
“Krishna-Avatar is a Sampoorna Avatar, the Lord appearing with all the
16 Kalas; Rama shared the Kalas with other brothers. Rama appeared as if
He was associated with gunas or qualities, or as having qualitative
behaviour, whereas Krishna was above and beyond such. Krishna never
prayed, not even in the direst crisis: But Rama does so, to Adithya, for
instance; the intent of that Avatar was different. Krishna was
unaffected by gunas, His relationship with the Gopis was pure. A person
like Dharmaraja selected Him above all the sages and saints of the day
for special worship at the Rajasuya sacrifice”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 26/11/1964).
“Some of you may imagine that it is source of joy for the Lord to take a
human form. If you are in this state, you will not feel so. I am always
aware of the future, the past as well as the present of every one of
you. So, I am not moved so much by pity. Not that I am hard-hearted, or
that I have no pity or Daya. If you bolt the door fast, how can the rays
of My grace be available to you? “Swami”, you cry, I have no eyes, I am
yearning to see you. Won’t your heart melt at your plight? Of course,
his pitiable condition melts your heart; will it not melt Mine? But
since I know the past, the background, My reaction is different. If only
you knew, you too will react differently. It is the consequences of the
evil, deliberately done in the previous births, and so I have to allow
the suffering to continue, modified often by some little compensation. I
do not cause either joy or grief; you are the designer of both the
chains”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 26/11/1964).
“When people forget the One and run after the many, Dharma declines;
for, there can be no love, no sacrifice, no detachment in human affairs
then. So, the Lord takes the human form and comes amongst men to restore
his sense of values. You may ask, why should the Lord Himself incarnate?
Why can he not set about the task of restoring Dharma through the many
minor Gods He has at His command? Akbar himself posed this question
before the courtiers, for, he laughed at the Hindu idea of the Formless
adopting Form, the descending into the world as an Avatar to save
Dharma. Birbal asked for a week’s time to furnish the answer and got it
granted by his Imperial Majesty. A few days later, when he was in the
pleasure boat of the Emperor sailing across the lake with his family,
Birbal cleverly threw overboard a doll made to look like the Emperor’s
little son, crying at the same time. “O, the prince has fallen into the
water:” Hearing this, the Emperor jumped into the lake to rescue his
son:
Birbal then disclosed that it was only a doll and that the son was safe.
He allayed the anger of Akbar by explaining that he had perforce to
enact this drama in order to demonstrate the truth of the Hindu belief
why God takes human form Himself, to save Dharma, without commissioning
some other entity to carry out the task. Dharma is as the son, God loves
it so dearly. Akbar could have ordered one among the many personnel he
had on board to jump in and rescue his son; but his affection was so
great and the urgency so acute that the Emperor himself plunged into the
lake to pull out the “son”. The decline of Dharma is so acute a tragedy;
the intensity of affection that the Lord has for good men is so great
that He Himself comes. The Lord is love itself. He comes in human form
so that you can talk to Him, adore Him, move with Him, serve Him and
achieve Him, so that you can recognise your kinship with Him.”
(Venkatagiri Prashanthi Vidwanmahasabha, 13/12/1964).
“The newspapers have a great role to play; but they are content to cater
to the vulgar tastes and become waste papers soon. I was, during the
last month, in Maharashtra state, in Bombay, where lakhs and lakhs of
people satisfied their thirst for Darshan and while I was discoursing to
the several thousands on the fundamentals of the Vedas and Sastras and
directing the members of the Prashanthi Vidwanmahasabha (Maharashtra
Branch) to resuscitate the glorious value culture of our land. I was
discussing with ministers, judges, business magnates, doctors, lawyers,
editors and others belonging to Maharashtra, Sourashtra and Delhi about
the programme of Dharmasthapana. And here, in this part of India,
certain newspapers were wallowing in the lies that they invented and
circulated about what had happened to Me. They print without any shame
their despicable inventions displaying malice and envy of the lowest
order. Of course, such calumny is quite an ancient experience for the
eminent; this is My experience in previous Yugas also. The successors of
Sisupala cannot remain idle; consider to what low level human weakness
has descended. I do not care either for praise or blame; I only pity
these people who, in order to scrap together a few paise from the poor,
resort to such venial tricks. For all who are pained by these subhuman
antics I declare, “Even if all the fourteen worlds unite together, the
work for which I have come will not suffer a bit; even if Earth and
Heaven combine. My truth can never be fully grasped”.
(Anantapur High School for Girls, School day., S.S.S,Vol.V)
“It is only in Sanathana Dharma that the importance of Karma in shaping
the destiny of man, the fact of the individual undergoing many births in
his progress towards birthlessness and mighty grace of God’s coming as
man among men to gather them around Him in Holy companionship for saving
them and saving the world through them, is so strongly and clearly laid
down. If you doubt any of these great truths, you are to suffer and
grieve. Every one of you must be saved, sooner or later, by the grace of
the All Merciful. Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before
the eye and march on”.
(Dasara, 1966. 17/10/1966).
“I am also the target of such comments: people do not understand the way
of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a
particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people
try to sit in judgment and talk ill, when for example one dies of
illness at this place: how can anyone escape death? Even Avatars cast
off the physical form when the task for which they have come is over. It
is the height of foolishness to loose faith in God when someone you care
for dies. The sentence that he earned is over and he is released. No one
is born and allowed to live for the sake of another. Each has his own
burden to carry and lay down. Do not therefore allow any circumstances
to affect your faith in God, who is your strength and solace.”
(Mahashivarathri, Prashanthi Nilayam, 09/03/1967).
“You must have noticed that I do not speak about Sai in My Discourses,
nor do I sing of Sai during the Bhajan with which I usually conclude My
discourses. And you must have wondered why. Let me tell you the reason.
I do not want the impression to gain ground that I desire this name and
this Form to be publicised. I have not come to set a new cult. I do not
want the people to be misled on this point. I affirm that this Sai form
is the Form of all the Various Names that man uses for the adoration of
the Divine. So, I am teaching that no distinction should be made between
the names Rama, Krishna, Iswara, and Sai, for they are all My Names”.
(World conference of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, Bombay,
17/05/1968) .
“Since at this place, those who have devotion have gathered and people
of all nations have come, I cannot but tell you one fact. World
conferences dedicated to religion or spiritual problems have, no doubt,
been held before; also, Conference of Followers of Spiritual Faiths. But
these have been held only after the demise of the founders and divine
inspirers. This is the very first time that a world conference is held
of the persons devoted, while the Incarnation is present before every
one, with the Body assumed for the purpose, bearing the Name that is
chosen for it by itself. I must tell you this fact, because ninety nine
persons out of hundred among you do not know my Reality. You have come
here drawn by various needs, a taste for spiritual matters, eagerness to
develop the institution to which you are attached, admiration or
affection, love or reverence or spurt of enthusiasm to join others and
share with others your own exultations.
In truth, you cannot understand the nature of My Reality either today,
or even a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent enquiry even if
all the mankind joins in that effort. But, in a short time, you will
become cognizant of the Bliss showered by the Divine Principle, which
has taken upon Himself its Sacred Body and this sacred Name. Your good
fortune, which will provide you this chance, is greater than what was
available for Anchorites, monks, sages, saints and even personalities
embodying facets of Divine Glory.
Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are
deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity.
Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing
with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you.
But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be
ready, prepared for that moment. Since Divinity is enveloped by
humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides
it from your eyes.
This is a human form in which every Divine Entity, every Divine
Principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to
God, are manifest. (Sarvadaivathwa Sarvaroopaalanu dharinchina
maanavaakaarame ee aakaaram). Do not allow doubt to distract you; if you
only install, in the altar of your heart, steady Faith in My Divinity,
you can win My vision of My Reality. Instead, if you swing like a
pendulum of a clock, one moment devotion, other moment disbelief, you
can never succeed in comprehending the Truth and win the Bliss. You are
very fortunate that you have a chance to experience the Bliss of the
Vision of the Sarvadaivathwa swaroopam (The Form which is the all Forms
of all God) now in this life itself.
Let me draw your attention to another fact. On previous occasion when
God incarnated on Earth the Bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation
was vouchsafed only after the physical Embodiment had left the world,
despite plenty of patent evidences of His Grace. And the loyalty and
devotion they commanded from men arose through fear and awe, at the
superhuman powers and skills, or at the imperial and panel authority.
But, ponder a moment on this Sathya Sai Manifestation; in this age of
rampant materialism, aggressive disbelief and irreverence, what is it
that brings to it the adoration of millions from all over the world? You
will be convinced that the basic reason for this is the fact that this
is the supra-worldly Divinity in Human Form.
Again, how fortunate you are that you can witness all the countries of
the world paying homage to Bharat; you can hear adoration to Sathya
Sai’s Name reverberating throughout the world, even while this body is
existing - not at some future date, but when it is with you, before you.
And again, you can witness very soon the restoration of Sanathana Dharma
to its genuine and natural status, the Dharma laid down in Vedas for the
good of all the people of the world. The revival of Vedic Dharma is the
Sai Sankalpa (the resolve that Sai has) not only drawing people towards
Me, attracting them by the manifestation of My Shakti (Power) and
Samartya (capability). This is not a Bhramatatwam (phenomenon of
delusion). This phenomenon (Tattwam) will sustain truth, it will uproot
untruth, and in that victory may all of you exult in ecstasy. This is
the Sai Sankalpa”.
(World Conference of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, Bombay,
17/05/1968).
“Then we have this programme of Nagarsankirtan. It is nothing new, for
Jayadeva, Gouranga, Tukaram and Kabir used this type of Naamasmarana as
a means of self- improvement and mass spiritual awakening. Gather in the
early hours before dawn, say about 4.30 A.M or 5.00 A.M., and proceed
slowly along the streets, singing Bhajan songs glorifying God. Carry the
name of God to every door: wake the sleeping with it, purify the
atmosphere of the streets, rendered unclean by angry shouts of hate or
greed, faction or fight. Let the day dawn for you and others with
thought of the Almighty, the Compassionate, and the Omnipresent
self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and
others? This will give you health and happiness. Your egoism will be
shattered when you sing in the streets in full view of your neighbours.
You will forget in your enthusiasm all pride and self-esteem. Thus, this
Nagarsankirtan is a great Sadhana, a great piece of social service.
Another point too was raised yesterday, a small one about Prasadam (the
edible that is usually offered to the Lord after Bhajan and distributed
as consecrated food for the participants). Well, the edible offering is
to be avoided; the Name itself is the best consecrated offering to be
shared. You can give Vibuthi as Prasadam; that is enough. That is the
most precious and effective Prasad.)”.
(World conference of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Organisation, Bombay
evening of 18/05/1968).
“Another point; you desire that I should come to your houses: you pray
to Me to do so, you grieve when I do not come, you start reviling
yourself that you are poorer than others, that you are spiritually
underdeveloped perhaps, and so on. Now, all this is irrelevant. I have
no place in My heart for such distinctions and differences. You may
believe this or disbelieve. But, I must reveal the real response of My
heart. I have no enthusiasm to visit the houses of the people; nor have
I any disinclination to do the same. I do not care for the brick and
mortar structures in which you live; I care to visit and reside in your
hearts. This Prashanthi Nilayam is not My residence. When your hearts
are transformed as Prashanthi Nilayam, they are My residence. When you
pray that I should visit your village, I think of the facilities it has
- not for Me. I need only standing space - for the sake of thousand, the
tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands that gather to have My
Darshan. How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the
women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that
come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?
Let me tell you another point also. Do not delay any more; take hold of
this unique chance, even while you can. Ask me about the Sadhana you
should adopt about your liberation; begin practicing from this day.
Later it may be difficult to approach Me and ask Me. For, people are
coming towards Me in full unending streams, and you may have to take
Darshan of Me from miles away: This is bound to grow into a Viswa-vriksha,
a World-tree that sheds shade and shelter on all. This has come down in
this Form with that very purpose. It knows no halting, no hesitation. My
name is Sathya (Truth). My teaching is Truth; My path is Truth; I am
Truth.
In each Yuga, the Divine has incorporated itself as an Avatar for some
particular task. This Incarnation is different in that it had to deal
with the crisis, which is worldwide and World-shaking. Intellectual
conceit has grown so wild that men have become foolish enough to ask,
“What and where is God?” Immortality has put of the garb of mortality
and is enticing man into the morass of sin. Truth is condemned as a
trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence
this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False. I
behave like you, moving, singing, laughing, journeying, but watch out
for the blow I inflict all of a sudden, to chastise and to warn. I shall
scorch the wrong doer for his wrong and soothe the virtuous for his
righteousness. Justice shall be meted out to all”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 18/08/1968)
“I shall not change my course even by a hair’s breadth, as a result of
what people may say about Me. I am not afraid of any one or thing. Truth
has no fear; untruth shivers at every shadow. This body of Mine is named
Truth (Sathya); the principle that is in this body is also Truth. Truth
enclosed in Truth has been rendered the Truth of Truths (Sathyasaya
Sathyam). This form has been assumed, in order to lead mankind from
untruth to truth.
I eat as you do, move about as you do, talk in your language, and behave
as you can recognise and understand, for YOUR sake - not for My sake:. I
turn you towards Divine, winning your confidence, your love, your
submission, by being among you, as one of yourselves, one whom you can
see, listen to, speak to, touch and treat with reverence and devotion.
My plan is to transmute you into seekers of Truth (Sathya-anveshakas). I
am present everywhere at all times; My will must prevail over every
obstacle; I am aware of the past, present and future, of your innermost
thoughts and carefully guarded secrets. I am Sarvaantharyami, Sarva
Saktha and Sarvajna. Nevertheless I do not manifest these powers in any
capricious manner or merely for display. For, I am an example and as
inspiration, whatever I do or omit to do. My life is a commentary on my
message.
For example, you must have noticed that I never call a woman alone for
interview. I call women only into group of ten or fifteen. I want that
you should note this and infer that one has to be extremely cautious in
dealing with the other sex, for, though I am above and beyond, the
Gunas, since this body is obviously masculine, I want to teach both men
and women how they have to regulate their social behavior and be above
the slightest tinge of suspicion, or of small talk.
Again, I am active and busy all the twenty-four hours of the day.
Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to
Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else,
even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of
your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having
implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter,
that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of
them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.
And, all this I do, not for personal gain, but only because I have come
for your sake. I never seek another’s help, never receive it. My hand
always gives; it never takes. Conclude from this that this must be
Divine, not human power.
Some of you may be wondering, ‘How does Swami arrange these elaborate
festivals and functions? Who does He charge with the various items of
work?’ I do not allot work to this person or that, or consult anyone for
ideas and suggestions. The Divine Will, operating through the force of
love, does all this. For example, though there are thousands gathered
here, absolute silence prevails. Under what compulsion? Only the
compulsion of love. In other places, where a hundred people collect, a
hundred and fifty constables are present to keep them quiet: Here there
is no need for any one to see that silence is maintained. For, here God
is the Master, and Creation dances in joy. There is no third entity
here. Only Purusha and Prakriti are here. A glance from the corner of
the eye is enough to get things done towards successful conclusion. Love
activates, love fulfils.
When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that
they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this
gift from Me: When you have Kamadhenu here, why seek to know and secure
a cow? Kamadhenu can give you all that you need. When you have Kalpataru
here, why bother about fruits on a tree? Kalpataru can give you all that
you ask. When you have the mountain of gold and silver, Meru, why cringe
for silver and gold from persons who are themselves beggars? When you
have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through
crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of
gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission”.
(Dasara, Prashanthi Nilayam, 11/10/1970).
“Once Hislop asked me a question whether inanimate things too had
emotions and feelings of disappointment and despair? The occasion was at
Dharmakshetra: I asked that about a hundred sarees he bought, so that I
could select some, for distribution to the women workers at Anantapur
who are helping to build a Sathya Sai College there: I selected 96 and
asked them to return 4 to the shop. I kept the 4 aside and the 96 were
placed in my room. Later, when I passed the table on which the four
discarded sarees were kept (Hislop was standing by the side of the
table), it was noticed that the card board box which contained the four
was dripping tears: The sarees were weeping; that they could not get
appreciation from Me and were declared unfit. Yes: They had shed tears.
You may ask whether this is ever possible. I answer, there is nothing in
this world which has no heart, which is incapable of feeling joy or
grief: Only you must have the eye to see, the ear to listen, the heart
to respond”.
(Prashanthi Nilayam, 14/01/1971).
“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 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 trivial,
when compared to My Glory and Majesty, as a mosquito is in size and
strength to the elephant upon whom it squats. Therefore, when you speak
about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow
yourself so easily to loose 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 a gift of a visiting card: Let Me tell you that emphatic
declarations of the truth by Avatars were made so clearly and so
unmistakably only by Krishna. In spite of the declarations, you will
notice in the career of the same Krishna that He underwent defeat in His
efforts or endeavors, on a few occasions you must have also noted that
those defeats too, were part of the drama, which He had planned, and 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 Kauravas
court for ensuring peace had failed: But He had willed that it should
not succeed: He had decided that the war would be waged: His mission was
intended to publicise the greed and envy 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 failure 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 grace is ever available to devotees
who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely with 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 enquiry and the most
meticulous measurement. Only those who have recognised My love and
experienced My 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 the God, you pray with closed eyes,
don’t you? Why? Because you feel that the inner eye of wisdom can alone
reveal Him to you. Therefore, do not crave for from Me trivial material
objects; but, crave for Me. And you will be rewarded. Not that you
should not receive whatever object I give as sign of grace out of
fulness of love.
I shall tell you why I give these things, talismans, rosaries etc., it
is to signalise the bond between Me and to those whom they are given.
When calamity befalls them, that articles come to Me in a flash and
return in flash taking from Me the remedial Grace of protection. The
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 that Grace.
Consider the meaning of my name, Sai Baba. Sa means ‘Divine’; aye means
‘mother’ and Baba means ‘father’, just as Saambasiva, 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 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 malaria patients dislike sweets or diabetic patients refuse to have
anything to do with sweets: those who present 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 and reform 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 heart”.
(Brindavan, 19/06/1974).
Swami declared, “Why is it that so many lakhs of people have gathered
here today? There must be some compelling reason for it. You must be
seeking something, which you have not found in your native place. Here
there is Divine Love; It is this powerful magnet of Divine Love that has
been attracting all the iron filings in the form of human beings. Not a
single invitation was sent to anyone. No one was asked to come. What has
drawn all the people here is power of Divine Love, the bond uniting
hearts. At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there
love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss (Ananda).
Whatever work we do, whatever sacrifices we perform, they are not of
much use in the absence of love.
NEW HOSPITAL PROJECT: With this object in view (Providing free medical
facilities), we decided to establish a big hospital here. Many persons
appealed to Me to set up the hospital in an urban centre. There are many
medical institutions run as business in several cities. When any
educational or medical institution is established, the sole aim is to
make a business out of it. There are only a few who are ready to set up
such institutions to provide free facilities for the poor. Therefore
from the start we decided to set up a hundred crore hospital near
Prashanthi Nilayam itself. Even as higher education is free here ‘higher
medicine’ also is free. People spend some lakhs to get heart surgery
done in the U.S. What is the plight of the poor? Who looks after them?
If they go to the cities, they will not get even coloured water
(Mixture). Recognising this fact, we have launched this big hospital
project, whether it is heart by-pass operation, or a kidney transplant,
or a lung operation or brain surgery, everything will be free here. THE
HOSPITAL WILL BE OPENED ON NOVEMBER 22,1991. No one can understand Sai
Sankalpa (working of the mind) Thought and action are simultaneous, like
the light and sound that come out when a gun is fired. Hence it is not
easy for every one to understand Sai’s resolve.
In the case of earlier Avatars their fame grew only after their passing.
In the case of the present Avatar, in His own life time a UNIVERSITY,
BIG HOSPITAL, AN AERODROME, AND MANY OTHER THINGS, have been
established, for the benefit of the villagers, and many more will follow
in the years ahead. Many persons have doubts as to how all these things
are being accomplished. The ADVENT (OF THIS AVATAR) took place 64 years
ago. All these years this hand has not been stretched, at any time, to
seek anything from anyone. I will never ask anyone and there will never
be an occasion for it. How then are these things happening? For any good
work, there is not any impediment in Bharat. When you want to do any
good work whole-heartedly, money flows in torrents.
The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They
cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and
broad-minded.”
(65th Birthday Celebrations, Hill View Stadium, 23/11/1990)
“Today I have just made a beginning with the exposition of Vedanta.
Every Mantra in the Vedanta is pregnant with meaning. I shall take up
every day one Mantra and explain its meaning in simple and easily
intelligible terms. The essence of the Vedanta can be compressed in a
small message, but that small message is composed of 15000 Mantras. I
shall reveal to you the meaning of these Mantras. This cannot be done by
anyone except the Divine.
You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of
this reality can never be understood by anyone. I am a man amongst men,
when they see Me, I appear as a man. Amongst woman, I am a woman.
Amongst children I am a child. When alone, I am God. This is the truth
about Me. The reason is I have to act towards each section at their
level.
You must realise that all this is coming to you because of your extreme
good fortune. Any previous Avatar has not given this kind of blessing to
anyone.
Your good fortune will fructify immensely if you make good use of this
opportunity to learn and benefit from Swami’s teachings.
You will see in the due course that even the blind declare, “Swami is
God”.
In the human condition, occasionally Maya enters and subjects people to
various tests. Do not submit to Maya in any way.
Succeed in all tests. Then you will become tasty for Bhagawan. Immerse
yourself in the love principle. Its true nature is beyond description.
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit
of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.
(Sai Kulwant Hall, 31/07/1996)
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