Swami teaches... Realise the Cosmic Divine Power

[Guest guest]

Sai Ram

Light and Love Swami teaches.... (12 -14 July 2005)

Realise the Cosmic Divine Power

Swami tells. "I draw you to Me and then re-form and re-shape you. I am a

kind of smith who repairs broken, leaky, damaged hardware. I repair broken

hearts and fragile minds, warped intellects, feeble resolutions and fading

faith."

Today's task is to discover the one column that supports all spiritual

success. That is: Love, adore, serve the Sarveshwara (Almighty Lord) who is

resident in all mankind; through that Love, adoration and service, realise Him.

 

Celestial spheres are revolving and disintegrating; time is fleeting; age

follows age; era succeedsera; bodies that have taken birth, grow and end.

Through the process of 'giving up,' great things can be achieved. Cultivate

detachment, and the Lord will attach Himself to you. The past is beyond

recovery; those days are gone. But, tomorrow is coming towards you. Resolve to

sanctify it with Love and Service andsaadhana.

The mansion called life must be built on strong foundations; the pursuit of

artha and kaama - of wealth and welfare, of all desirable objects - must be

regulated by the standard of Dharma. Dharma fosters those who foster it. The

strongest foundation is ever-present Faith in God who reveals Himself only to

the person who yearns for the answer, not the one who puts questions out of

impudence or ignorance.

This world is God's play; it is not an empty dream; it has purpose and use.

It is the means by which one can discover God; see Him in the beauty, the

grandeur, the order, the majesty of Nature. These are but shadows of His Glory

and His Splendour. Upaasana (adoration of God), leads to the knowledge that He

is all; when you experience that there is no Second, that is Jnaana (Spiritual

Wisdom).

Have God as your lamp, you can pass through life in safety. Have the Name of

God on your tongue; He is bound to the Name, as Form. Welcome these epics as you

welcome efficacious drugs; they can cure deep-rooted illnesses of the mind.

Accept manthras (mystic formulas) as medicines, to cure the phobias of the

mind, the disabilities of the inner senses, the defects of the inner

consciousness. Adoration of God is not mere offering of worship with the

paraphernalia of rituals. It is an attempt to merge in the Divine, experiencing

the bliss of oneness with the Divine, recognising unity in diversity and the

Divinity that is present in all beings. The bubble rises from the water,

floats on water bursts and finally merges in the water itself. So, too, with

human who is Aathman (soul), lives as Aathman (divine self) and merges in

Aathman (Infinite Self). Human ought to proceed from one truth to another,

from one facet of truth to another brighter and clearer one. What is called

untruth is only partial truth, or dulled truth or clouded truth. The ultimate

goal is the uncovering of Truth.

God's Grace is as the shower of rain, as the sunlight. Grace will set

everything right. Its main consequence is Self-realisation; but there are other

incidental benefits too, like a happy contented life and a cool courageous

temper, established in unruffled shaanthi (peace). With every breath, draw His

Glory in; with every breath, exhale all that reduces His Glory. Saturate your

thought, word and deed with Divinity. Then, you can conquer death, and become

immortal. You are truly the embodiment of truth, goodness and beauty.

When you have no faith in God, you cannot gauge the efficacy of Grace. If

you start with cynicism and doubt and try to criticise and discover faults, the

result is deeper ignorance and confusion. Unholy thoughts fog the mind with foul

fumes. How can clarity come to the vision then? Those who deny God or the

Supreme Will or the First Cause, can give no really satisfactory justification

for their stand; nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely

on their own experience. We have to feel the great marvel of energy

manipulating both the minutest atom and cell and the vastest, most distant

star. How else can we understand this Omnipresence and Omnipotence except by

accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?

From birth, human's activities have to be directed to moral purification

and spiritual attainment. The most direct method of spiritual success is

Nishkaama karma (desireless action), action without any attention or attachment

to the fruit therefrom, action as duty, action as dedication, action as worship.

But, action and the fruit thereof are not two separate entities; the fruit is

the action itself, in its final stage, the conclusion. The flower becomes the

fruit. The action becomes the consequence.

It is the bounden duty of human in this life, as also in later lives, to

know and experience the basic cause of the Universe. The basic cause of the

Universe is Sath-Chith-Aanandha, and human too is a spark of the same first

cause and is made of the same components.

The differences one notices in the world arise not from the nature of

Creation but from the perspective from which one looks at the world. It may be

compare with a shepherd boy picked up a big diamond from the ground; he thought

it was a piece of glass; he tied it round the neck of a sheep. Human has

ignored own preciousness, own Divinity. Person pictorially is reducing own

existence to the position of a piece of glass.

 

Nature will not give real bliss as long as it is viewed from a physical and

worldly point of view. The pleasure to be derived from any object in the world

depends on the condition in which it is enjoyed. If Nature is seen from purely

sensory point of view, it will give only bitter taste. As long as human sees

only with the external vision, one can experience only the external.

 

When human develops the internal vision and experiences the Divinity within,

the Cosmos will appear as a reflection of the Divine. This is called realization

of the Cosmic Divine. What is the difference between the Cosmic Divine and the

Inner Divine? There is no difference between the two. But when it is

experienced by the individual, it is described as Inner Divine. When the

individual experience is extended to the entire universe, it is called Cosmic

Divine. The Individual Self and Paramaathma (the OmniSelf) are one, like the

rind of a fruit and the juice inside. When does human experience the pure

Divine Self? It is in the Thureeya state - the fourth state of consciousness

beyond the waking, dream and deep sleep states. This is the state of the

Over-Mind. In that state human is one with the Divine. Truth, Bliss, Beauty are

forms of the Divine. They are also known as Sathyam, Shivam, Sundharam. These

represent the true form of human. Shivam is that which has no death. Sathyam is

that which is not subject to change (on account of time, place or circumstance).

Sundharam (Beauty) is the form of the Divine. This is not visible to anyone,

but the beauty of a pure heart is beyond description. The heart is beautified

by qualities such as love, forbearance and compassion. These qualities confer

enduring bliss.

To experience the great fragrance emanating from Nature, its unity with the

Divine has to be realised. For this, it is necessary to transcend the

limitations of the ordinary mind and proceed to the Super-Mind, the

Higher-Mind, the Illuminated Mind and the Over-Mind. It is quite easy. For

instance, people feel that adhering to truth is difficult. Actually it is

uttering untruth that creates difficult problems. To stick to the facts as they

are is easy.

Nature is bound by the five qualities of sound, touch, form, taste and smell

(these are the qualities of space, air, fire, water and earth - he five basic

elements). With the loss of each quality, starting from smell, a process of

expansion takes place. Finally, we have Akaasha (ether or space) which has only

one quality, sound, and it is all-pervading. How much more pervasive must be the

Lord, who has no attributes.

 

Today we sow the seed of thought - karma - and reap the fruit of action. From

the seed of karma arises the fruit of behaviour. Out of the seed of behaviour

comes the fruit of character. The seed of character yields the fruit of

fortune. Thus, from thought to fortune, the chain of human progress can be

perceived. Our good and bad luck are thus linked to our thoughts. The mind

immerses human in impenetrable darkness through bad thoughts. The same mind can

lift human to sublime heights by good thoughts.

Human's thoughts are those which lead to actions, behaviour, speech and

conduct affect the tendencies of the mind and give rise to good or bad

impulses. The power of thought is immense. Thoughts outlast the human body.

Thought waves radiate to the outer space. The thought waves are the cause of

human's joy or sorrow, health or disease, birth or death. The potency of these

waves has to be understood by human and the conduct has to be based on this

awareness. The nature of thoughts as waves (vibrations) has studied and

declared by the modern science too. However, about it would be a separate

contribution. Human existence can become meaningful only when human, at the

very outset, recognises the nature of the mind and bases his actions on that

understanding. There is no end to the waves arising from the ocean of the mind.

The mind is responsible for differences in opinions, likes and dislikes, and

diversity in attitudes. The world is perceived through the mind. The world is

permeated by the mind. Without the mind there can be no world and no

attachments and hatred, no joy and sorrow. There are Sanskrit sayings:

"Yaddhrishyam thannasyam" (That which is seen is subject to extinction).

"Yathpindam thath Brahmaandam" (what is in the microcosm is in the macrocosm).

All that appears in the microcosm are miniature replica of the macrocosm. When

one looks at the seed, the tree is not visible. But all that are seen in the

tree, the branches, the leaves, the flowers and the fruits, were immanent in

the seed.

When the mind desires something, you must immediately set the Buddhi

(intellect) at work. The intellect may give you the proper advice. Examine your

desire, using the power of discrimination to find out whether it is good or bad,

right or wrong. When your actions are sincere, mind loses its potency. This

Vijnaana is full of intelligence and common sense. It is called Divine

Intellectual Will. The Divine Will Power has to be acquired by everyone. It is

through this Will Power that the Cosmic Divine nature of the Universe can be

recognised.This Cosmic Power has to be seen with the eyes, experienced

mentally, practiced through the body and made an integral part of one's being.

Do not speculate whether this is possible or not. If one has the determination

anything is possible. (Reet's compilation from, Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 8.

"One-fourth and three-fourths," Chapter 14 and "The lost key," Chapter 16;

Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 14. "At every level of consciousness," Chapter 4;

Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 26. "Beyond the Mind," Chapter 20 and "Thought waves

make up the Cosmos," Chapter 21).

 

Namaste - Reet