Seeking the Divine Perfection...

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The essence of Swami's Teachings - Sanathana Dharma. Swami explains that to

serve Him - it is to serve Him through all people and creations - it is the

spiritual realisation for the sake of others. Swami Himself is the greatest

example of service. How much He Himself has given for the sake of others: how

many schools, hospitals are organised by His leadership, how many discourses

and books have given by Him, how many human beings has cured and directly

advised by Him, how many people have turned to the path of spiritual

development after visiting His Darshans. Also His photos and books written by

devotees are the sources of spiritual inspiration for them who finds a time and

a wish to discuss with own conscience. His Sailogram has helped to be more

balanced, concentrated, healthier, etc. for many who believes in it and

Omnipresence Divinity. (It's true that in the conditions of

consumer-society where often human values are reversed and many persons rush to

judge spiritual truths without knowing their essence and meaning. It is said

that the most dark time is before dawn....). There is about what to

contemplate and to ask from the own conscience how about duty to serve

Omnipresent Swami through serving all people in view of universal human values?

Swami teaches humans through His Teaching concern to humans spirituality,

eternal human values, lifestyles and inner culture, intelligence, etc. He

also offers humans free will and teaches how to fulfil these instructions in

relationships with other living beings and with Him. It is given the free

choice of performance or not performance their duties. There is a danger

that the free choice without spiritual education may lead to the delusion and

mistakes against humanity and consequently against Omnipresence Divine, whose

carrier is every human being.

 

Self-Realisation is practically as a personal transformation, profoundly

intense experience will lead to develop a new understanding of the Wholeness

and the role oneself in it. When the most of people have achieved the level

of Atmic Self-realisation, it caused a major spiritual, physical, psychological

and cultural planet-wide transformation - as spiritual evolution of humanity.

"Many hanker after Self-Realisation. But how can they have Realisation when

they have no self-confidence? What does Self-Realisation mean? It is not

discovering one's lineage and mundane identity. These relate to the body. But

you do not belong to any family or clan. You are yourself. Even to declare, "I

am God", implies dualism. It is difficult to comprehend the Divine Principle.

The nearest approach to comprehending the Divine is to consider Divinity as all

pervasive." (Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol.29. Chapter 26).

Throughout the entire history of humankind God teaches how to develop oneself,

seeking Divine Perfection and aspiring to Merge with Him. As a human

being is developed through biological evolution - mutations and genetic

recombination where behaviour determined partly by genes, so the further

development would proceed through spiritual evolution determined by Atmic

(Cosmic) consciousness.

On the way of Self-Realisation worldly attachments slowly is replacing with

attachment to God. This is difficult to accomplish at once; it needs some inner

courage, wish and inner state for that.

There was an interesting conversation between Swami and a lady.

 

Once in Prasanthi Nilayam, ... a lady got up from the last row and spoke

loudly, "Swami! I need your Grace." The lady repeated these words a number of

times. ... Suddenly, the Lord stopped, turned towards her and said, "Grace,

grace. Do you really know the meaning of Grace?" The lady replied, "Swami, it

means your compassion, your blessings." Baba said, "No, it means much more than

that. If you really want My Grace you should prepare yourself to face every type

of calamity. You will lose all your wealth and happiness and still instead of

crying and repenting you will have to completely merge yourself in meditating

upon me and utter my name in your heart. Your near and dear ones will turn

against you. People will implicate you in conspiracies with which you have

nothing to do. They will find faults with you where you are totally innocent.

Under all such circumstances, you will have simply to think of Me and Me alone

and suffer everything silently. Come on, are you prepared to face all these

things?" The lady was stunned. She could not utter a word and sat down

quietly." (Sai Baba and Nara Narayan Gufa Ashram, Part II. ed. B.P. Misra,

Bombay, Prasanthi Printers 1990, p.31) . Namaste - Reet