Swami teaches... God is an echo of Wholeness

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Sai Ram

 

Light and Love

 

Swami teaches.... ( 30 March 2005)

 

God is an Echo of Wholeness

 

Swami always advocates deep inquiry to strengthen the foundations of faith.

Inquiry will only reinforce the springs of Love. Can there be anything more

lovable than God, who is Beauty, Strength, Glory, Fame, Splendour, Wisdom, in

their fullest bloom? Love of God creates in human the love for all examples of

His majesty, His mercy, His magnificence, His manifoldness. Raamakrishna saw in

a flower His charm; He saw everywhere His grandeur; heard from every throat His

melody, His Flute song.

Krishna's flute is the expression, the elucidation of the four Vedhas and Om

is their quintessence. 'A,' 'U,' 'M' and the dot (signifying the reverberation

of the Sound in the depth of the heart), are symbolic of the four Vedhas. Om is

also symbolic of the 'Raama-Principle. The four brothers, Raama, Lakshmana,

Bharatha and Sathrughna, represent the Rig, Yajur, Saama and Atharvana Vedhas.

When human neglects the Divine aspect of their nature and fails to pursue the

saadhana (spiritual discipline) that ensures the awareness of the Omnipresent

and Omnipotent Om, he falls prey to the impulses and instincts dominated by the

"ego and develops faith in material gains. He spends his life in amassing

wealth, power and authority over fellow beings and believes that holding others

under his sway is a desirable achievement.

If there were a vacancy in Heaven, man would surely apply for the position

of God, for hebelieves that he has all the necessary attributes. He forgets

that the real attribute for superiority isunshaken faith in Aathmic Reality.

Science must make human being humble by revealing that science knows so little

of what is worth knowing. (It is the latest scientific truth that science today

knows about 5 % of matter in the Universe, including the Earth and other

celestial bodies. So, scientific playground is about 5 % of all 'capacity' of

the Universe as 25% is unknown dark matter and 70% is unknown dark energy).

The Divine aspect of your personality will encourage humility, adherence to

truth, love andeagerness to serve, fortitude and detachment. Cherish the first;

manifestation of these qualities inyour life and practise them whenever you get

a chance. The innate brotherhood that sanctifies thehuman race is destroyed by

the weeds of envy that grow in the mind. These weeds ruin one'spersonality.

One must recognise God in all human beings and in all else that exists.

Since the jeeva (individual being) limits his viewpoint to the physical frame

he occupies, he limits God also to a certain name and form, and sees His

Compassion and Grace, Blessings and Benediction, limited to a small circle of

'devotees' who adore that specific name and form.

God is the echo of the hills, the flutter of the leaves, the whisper of

people, the babble of children, the Om (divine sound) that is wafted

everywhere. God is present at all places, but to recognise Him, saints have had

to prescribe a thousand methods.

God is Love, Premamaya, Premaswaruupa, Premabhaaskara (full of love,

Embodiment of Love, Sun of love), as He is described by those who have realised

Him. Love is expressed as sympathy, charity, reverence, affection, sacrifice

what exists in everyone as potency, as real I. However, in many people these

qualities are present in hidden forms.

'I' is the foundation on which one builds own Divinity and the Mansion of

Dharma (righteousness). This truth can be known through Karma and Upaasana

(activity and dedication, deeds and devotion) which purify and clarify. Karma

and Upaasana generate Jnaanam (spiritual knowledge), which moves human's life

smoothly along the rails of Peace and Joy. Karma and Upaasana create

detachment; they teach the true sense of values; human learns that peace can be

won only by withdrawing the mind from the objective world, not by allowing it to

graze in the poisonous meadows of sensual pleasure.

Remember the distress and calamity that the saints underwent with

enthusiastic welcome. People laughed at them and called them mad; but they knew

that they were in the Grace Hospital of God, not the mental hospital of humans.

Human is no ordinary being. The term Nara applied to human, means Aathma

(the Spirit).

It is because human becomes a slave of his senses that he descends to the

animal level instead of rising to the state of the Divine Master, Pashupathi.

Animal instincts and impulses have persisted in human nature as vestiges, and

it is only when their upsurge is controlled and gradually eliminated, that the

springs of Divinity can manifest, themselves. In the quest for the Divine,

there should be no hurry. Purity and serenity are required for God-realisation.

 

Two kinds of birds have got into the mind. One bird fosters the sense "I"

and "Mine" and fills the mind with ego. This is a destructive force. The second

bird fosters the feeling of freedom from attachment and hatred. It signifies the

power of the sun in the mind. The pure heart is the best mirror for the

reflection of Truth.

Every year people are celebrating the birthday of the Gita with pompous

puuja and speeches. In the midst of this confusion the essential teachings of

the Gita are ignored. When exactly did the Gita originate and mean? Literally

the word means 'song.' Since God is Omnipresent, the Song of God, too, must be

Omnipresent. So, in reality, Pranava (Om) is the Gita of God. The song 'Om'

is Universal, eternal, full of the essence of all spiritual significance, the

real Gita of God. And It can have no birthday that human should celebrate,

having itself arisen before time began. Our Self (real 'I') is resonant with

Pranava. But amid the clamour of the market-place and the noise of the commerce

of life, our selves are not able to hear it. Our own senses lay claim to

ourattention. Our minds crave for being let free among the pleasures of the

outer world. Obviouslyour passions and prejudices have to be calmed before we

can hear Om, the Song of the Lord thatwells up from the heart. Your own

'Soham' transmutes itself into Om when the distinction between He and I has

dissolved in the process of samaadhi. In the first stage the saadhaka says,

'I am in Sai,' in the second stage, 'Sai is in me,' and in the third and final

stage, 'Sai and I are One,' the duality between the two having been shed. In

that moment of llumination Om is revealed as Illumination the Wisdom of Light

and Divine Love.

It is not necessary to devote many hours to prayer. It is enough if one

thinks of God with all hisheart and offers himself even for a few moments. A

single match stick when it is struck candispel the darkness in a room that has

remained closed for years.

It has been said that in the Kali Age is no greater spiritual practice than

chanting the name of the Lord what always begins with song of God - Om.

There are four ways of chanting the Lord's name. One is through Keerthana

(song). Then there is Sankeerthana (community singing). Another is Dhyaana

(meditating on the Divine). The fourthis contemplation of the form of the

Divine. In all these, meditating on the name is basic. There is nothing

greater than bhajans. What a demonstration of oneness is it when myriad throats

join in uttering the name of God! The vibrations emanating from them make the

heart vibrant. In community singing, what you have is a wave of vibrations.

They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air. When you sing the

glory of God, the bad germs in the air are destroyed and the air gets purified

pictorially as by a treatment with anti-biotics.

Once the sage Narada appeared before Lord Vishnu and said: "Oh Lord! I move

about in thethree worlds and I know the past, the present and the future. If I

want to convey to you anyspecial information, to what address should I send it?

What is your permanent address?" Vishnu replied: "Narada! Take down my permanent

address: Wherever my devotees sing my glories, I reside there." Or as the Gita

says: “The Lord dwells in the heart region of all beings." He is equally in the

heart of everyone. In his own silent way, God will transform the mind and turn

it towards saadhana and successful spiritual pilgrimage. When you approach God

and seek His help and guidance, you have taken the first step. You are then led

to accept His Will as your own. Whatever you do, do it not for

pleasing others, but for pleasing the Indweller in your heart, foryour inner

satisfaction. This means acting according to the dictates of your conscience.

Everysuch act will please the Divine. To derive self-satisfaction from your

actions, you haveto cultivate faith. (Reet's compilation from, Sathya Sai

Speaks.

Vol. 7. "From every throat, his melody," Chapter 9; Vol. 13. "The I in

you," Chapter 36;

Vol. 14. "Music of the spirit," Chapter 9; Vol. 22. "The name that

redeems," Chapter 9; Vol. 27. "Chant the Name : sing His glory," Chapter

29).

Namaste - Reet

[Guest guest]

Sairam Reet,

 

What a synergy between the thoughts! Day before yesterday, one of my

colleague asked me whether I know about the deadly earth quake. I told him

that I knew it 7 days before by will of Lord Sai and felt the earth quake. I

was told that it's intensity will be 8.5. Even I felt the splash of waves

that was created because of earth quake. Yesterday again the same colleague

came to me and asked me which name I worship? I told definitely Om, because

Om is the universal priminal sound which was originated from the time of

creation of this universe. Om had been spread through out the universe along

with the creation in voice of God. So whatever sound you are making,

whatever form or name you are taking all will be dissolved within Om. How

come a new name can reach before Om, when Om is billions of years old and

already traveled billions of light years since of its creation. Even Ram,

Krishna, Jesus everybody is traveling within the stomach of Om because they

are only few thousands years old and could have travel only few 1000s light

years since from its creation.

 

So ultimate absolute name is Om and Om has only three attributes that is

Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. I told him that why dualism can not

last because they are not absolute like Om. Om is the primal sound of this

universe and all will reflect back after traveling certain distance to its

source within this vast Omnipresent Om and no body can go and touch the

surface of this infinite universe like Om. Imagine, if you broadcast one TV

program all its images and sound waves reflect back to the earth after

traveling certain distance that you can see in your TV channels. That means

if the wave would have traveled infinite time and could not reflect back you

have to wait infinite time to see that program which does not happen. So

that means all name has a limit within the absolute and none can be

infinite.

 

Now if your channel is not open during the broadcasting of that program you

can not see it again until anybody can provide you a recorded program. So

original program can be seen only during the broadcast. Similarly name and

form is only a broadcasting of God during a certain period which is visible

while the broadcasting is going on or the record is preserved to watch

again. Once the broadcasting is over you only can see the recording program.

But you can not watch the same recoding program everyday every time when

there are other good programs are getting broadcasted. Broadcasting is the

cause and watching of the TV channel is one event for a particular time for

you.

 

So that's why name and form is the continuous process of the broadcasting of

divine programs and you will heard many name and form in future also. Some

of the program are always superior and you may like to watch it many times.

Those programs are the form of Avatar when God makes a superior drama using

His entire professional team through His Lelas. One of such drama is

currently broadcasted as Sai Avatar.

 

But one thing is always unchanged that whatever is broadcasted it comes back

to your TV by getting reflected from the absolute which is Omnipresent

,Omnipotent and Omniscient. So this absolute is real and broadcasting itself

is only an event with respect to the absolute. Now remember that the

Broadcasting which was the cause for watching the program for you is the

event to the absolute. So which is cause that is event. Again cause and

event are one phenomenon and that is absolute when absolute is always real.

 

This absolute is the witness of all broadcasting and is preserver of

permanent recordings. Some of the broadcasting which is so good and

attractive, that can transfer those recordings to the suitable listeners who

contemplate for those recordings to watch again or perform it again. So

that's why through prayer and meditation you can know the past recordings

that was broadcasted to this absolute earlier. So try to realize this

absolute which is unchanged and always the knower and preserver of every

broadcasting.

 

There are certain time when no good programs are broadcasted and all

programs are monotonous. In that case people want to see all previous

recorded programs and they pray for it. The absolute becomes happy and offer

them one single recorded program in a particular name and form. The person

watch the recording and play again the same drama perfectly using the same

name. So that name which was not real and forgotten by every one, now it

becomes real and present. So in that case the present and past is same with

respect to the absolute which makes another new recording of the same

broadcasting. So with respect to absolute , there is no present, past of

future. It is only absolute, Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omniscient.

 

Sairam!

 

Srimanta

 

 

 

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