Good Friday, Love and Self by Swami.

[Guest guest]

Sai Ram

Good Friday - a sacred Friday of Christ's crucifixion before Easter Day.

Christ died for sins of humanity. His death is as a pictorial proof that

eternal spirit never dies. Christians meditate on Christ's suffering and death

on the cross. In many churches meditation includes seven last words by Bible of

Jesus on the cross.

"Father , forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke

23:34).

"Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise"(Luke 23 :43).

"Woman,here is your son….Here is your mother"(John 19:26).

"I am thirsty"(John 19:28).

"It is finished"(John 19:30).

"Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?"(My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?)

 

(Mark 15:34).

"Father, into your hands I commend my spirit"(Luke 23:46).

 

There is a wish to share contemplation about life and eternal love inspired

by Swami's discourses and Good Friday.

 

Below is a short compilation (with some personal insights in brackets) from

the:

 

1. The Divine Discourse Sathya Sai Baba "Divine Origin of Five Elements." 15

May 2000 PM, Brindavan.

2. The Divine Discourse Sathya Sai Baba "Love is God -live in Love." 28 Oct

2003 Prasanthi Nilayam.

3. The Divine Discourse Sathya Sai Baba, Thirupathi, 6 April 1961.

http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/askbaba/discourses/d1961/d19610406-1.html

Swami's explanations are directed to many problems of humanity, caused by

delusion of human's mind from ancient times to today.

 

There is Divine Love in you, which has neither birth nor death. That love is

always with you. If you cultivate such love, you will always remain as

embodiments of love. Have firm faith in this Divine Love. Do not believe the

worldly love, lest you should be deceived. Love the principle of Love itself,

which is Divine and Eternal. The more you love that Divine Love, the more it

grows. The rivers of love must flow continuously.

Love has no form; it makes no demands. It neither borrows nor lends. It does

not indulge in business. Love is Love. Love can be obtained only by Love.This

Truth can be understood only by spiritual enquiry and by a steady and sincere

enquiry into one's own nature.

You just develop firm faith in the existence of God. Spirituality is not

something un-understandable or a futile exercise. There is a fundamental

principle in this universe, which is the prime mover.

It is a human being who is responsible for turning everything good into evil

in God's creation. He/she should make a sincere endeavor to get rid of the vices

in him. Human's misadventures have created several problems for the entire

humankind. His misdeeds coupled with his evil thoughts and feelings have

degraded human life on the earth. (Christ had crucified for sins of humanity).

Fire, which burns everything to ashes, has a message to convey to all. The

fire of wisdom burns to ashes all that are foul and evil. Though a human being

has acquired secular knowledge, he disregards spiritual wisdom. Fire teaches

you that the lamp of wisdom should be ever burning.

 

The chanting of the divine name has the superlative capacity to sanctify the

polluted atmosphere. Sacred vibrations set off by the chanting of the divine

name have absorbed by man and transform his very nature. That will destroy

everything evil in you.

(Nearly the same capacity has idols, divine imaginations, divine words, all

what concern to Almighty in its different direct and indirect expressions).

The power that is inherent in the material of stuff the idol, that is

symbolised by it, the same power that is inherent in his own heart and that

pervades and transcends all creation. (On the most cases the sacred rituals,

idols, mantras are the pinpointers on the way towards own Self. How to live and

to have a belief without them? It is possible through knowledge,deep meditation

but there is the lack of divine vibrations, especially the divine vibrations of

living God).

(The individual 'self' is a part of personal imagination. The body, mind

and intellect are sources of joys and sorrows. However, they are not the real

human's nature. By Vedas and Swami the real Self is unchanging Atma. The

Christ's experience showed that the real Self is above the involvement with the

body, mind and intellect, what can be affected by the world. The Self is only a

neutral witness of all happenings with the body and mind. Swami teaches to

reach to acknowledgement that the worldly events cannot affect the Self as

atmic core of human beings.

Whatever is happens the Self remained unaffected. This fundamental truth

has explained by different saints, beliefs, by Swami. Many ways lead to this

basic truth of the Universe. Atmic Self what is present in everyone, is the

basis of the whole creation. One Reality has manifested in all human beings.

The modern science has reached near to his truth. Swami calls humanity to awake

and to recognize this hidden reality within through different religions,

beliefs).

 

PS: Sincere thanks to Raja for sharing Swami's darshans. Her mails as carry

an illumination of Swami's love, spreading to all devotees.

 

Namaste - Reet