Divine Sai's messages and assurances for mankind

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In no previous era have men got so many clear intimations of the Advent of the

Avatar as now. So use this chance of association with Me as much as possible.

Try as quickly and as best you can to follow the directions that I give you.

"Your mission has begun. Those are my words to you, my devotees, each of you

has a unique and valuable part to play in this lifetime. Only those whom I have

called can serve me"

 

For the protection of the virtuous, for the destruction of evil-doers and for

establishing righteousness on a firm footing, I incarnate from age to age.

Whenever disharmony (asanthi) overwhelms the world, the Lord will incarnate in

human form to establish the modes of earning peace (prasanthi) and to reeducate

the human community in the paths of peace. At the present time, strife and

discord have robbed peace and unity from the family, the school, the society,

the religions, the cities, and the state. Your virtue, your self-control, your

detachment, your faith, your steadfastness: these are the signs by which people

read of my glory. You can lay claim to be a devotee only when you have placed

yourself in my hands fully and completely with no trace of ego. You can enjoy

the bliss through the

experience the Avathar confers. The Avathar behaves in a human way so that

mankind can feel kinship, but rises into his superhuman heights so that mankind

can aspire to reach the heights, and through that aspiration actually reach him.

Realizing the Lord within you as the motivator is the task for which he comes in

human form. Avathars like Rama and Krishna had to kill one or more individuals

who could be identified as enemies of the righteous (dharmic) way of life, and

thus restore the practice of virtue. But now there is no one fully good, so who

deserves the protection of God? All are tainted by wickedness, so who will

survive if the Avathar decides to uproot? Therefore, I have come to correct the

intelligence (buddhi), by various means. I have to counsel, help, command,

condemn and stand by as a friend and well-wisher to all, so that they may give

up evil propensities and, recognizing the straight mark, tread it and reach

the goal. I have to reveal to the people the worth of the Vedas, the Sastras and

the spiritual texts which lay down the norms. If you will accept me and say

"Yes," I too will respond and say, "Yes, yes, yes." If you deny and say "No," I

also echo "No." Come, examine, experience, have faith. This is the method of

utilizing me. I do not mention Sai Baba in any of my discourses, but I bear the

name as Avathar of Sai Baba. I do not appreciate in the least the distinction

between the various appearances of God: Sai, Rama, Krishna, etc. I do not

proclaim that this is more important or that is less important. Continue your

worship of your chosen God along lines already familiar to you, then you will

find that you are coming nearer to me. For all names are mine, and all forms

are mine. There is no need to change your chosen God and adopt a new one when

you have seen me and heard me. Every step in the career of the Avathar is

predetermined. Rama came to feed the roots truth (sathya) and righteousness

dharma. Krishna came to foster peace shanti, and love prema. Now all these four

are in danger of being dried up. That is why the present Avathar has come. The

righteousness that has fled to the forests has to be brought back into the

villages and towns. The anti-righteousness that is ruining the villages and

towns must be driven back into the jungle. I have come to give you the key of

the treasure of bliss ananda, to teach you how to tap that spring, for you have

forgotten the way to blessedness. If you waste this time of saving yourselves,

it is just your fate. You have come to get from me tinsel and trash, the petty

little cures and promotions, worldly joys and comforts. Very few of you desire

to get from me the thing that I have come to give you: namely, liberation

itself. Even among these few, those who stick to the path of spiritual practice

(sadhana) and succeed are a handful. My acts are the foundations on which I am

building my work, the task for which I have come. All the miraculous acts which

you observe are to be interpreted so. The foundation for a dam requires a

variety of materials. Without these it will not last and hold back the waters.

An incarnation of the Lord has to be used in various ways by man for his

uplift.The Lord has no intention to publicize himself. I do not need publicity,

nor does any other Avathar of the Lord. What are you daring to publicize? Me?

What do you know about me? You speak one thing about me today and another

tomorrow. Your faith has not become unshakable. You praise me when things go

well and blame me when things go wrong. Where money is calculated, garnered or

exhibited to demonstrate one's achievements, I will not be present. I come only

where sincerity and faith and

surrender are valued. Only inferior minds will revel in publicity and

self-aggrandizement. These have no relevance in the case of Avathars. Avathars

need no advertizement.The establishment of righteousness (dharma): that is my

aim. The teaching of dharma, the spread of dharma: that is my object. These

miracles, as you call them, are just a means toward that end. These yogic

powers are just in the nature of the Avathar -- the creation of things with

intent to protect and give joy is spontaneous and lasting. Creation,

preservation, and dissolution can be accomplished only by the Almighty ... no

one else can.Your innate laziness prevents you from the spiritual exercises

necessary to discover the nature of God. This laziness should go. It has to be

driven out of man's nature in whatever shape it appears. That is my mission. My

task is not merely to cure and console and remove individual misery but is

something far

more important. The removal of misery and distress is incidental to my mission.

My main task is the reestablishment of the Vedas and Sastras (spiritual

scriptures), and revealing the knowledge about them to all people. This task

will succeed.

This body has come through the Lord's resolve to come. That resolve is intended

to uphold truth (sathya). Divine resolve is always true resolve. Remember there

is nothing that divine power cannot accomplish. It can transmute earth into sky

and sky into earth. To doubt this is to prove that you are too weak to grasp

great things, the grandeur of the universe.My mission is to spread happiness,

so I am always ready to come among you not once, but twice or thrice -- as

often as you want me. But let me declare the truth. I do not take anything from

anyone except their love and devotion. This has been my consistent practice for

the last many years. People who come here are giving me just the wealth of

faith, devotion, and love. That is all.Many of

you come to me with problems of health and mental worry of one sort or another.

They are mere baits by which you have been brought here. But the main purpose

is that you may have grace and strengthen your faith in the divine. Problems

and worries are really to be welcomed, as they teach you the lessons of

humility and reverence. Running after external things produces all this

discontent. That type of desire has no end. Once you have become a slave to the

senses, they will not leave hold until you are dead. It is an unquenchable

thirst. But I call you to me and even grant worldly boons so that you may turn

God-ward. No Avathar has done like this before, going among the masses,

counseling them, guiding them, consoling them, uplifting them, and directing

them along the path of truth, righteousness, peace and love (sathya, dharma,

santhi and prema). Not even the biggest scientist can understand me by means of

his laboratory

knowledge. I am always full of bliss. Whatever may happen, nothing can come in

the way of my smile. That is why I am able to impart joy to you and make your

burden lighter. I never exult when I am extolled, nor shrink when I am reviled.

Few have realized my purpose and significance, but I am not worried. When things

that are not in me are attributed to me, why should I worry? When things that

are in me are mentioned, why should I exult? For me it is always, "Yes, yes,

yes." If you give all and surrender to the Lord, he will guard and guide you. I

react to the pain that you undergo and to the joy that you feel, for I am in

your heart. I am the dweller in the temple of every heart. Cultivate a nearness

with me in the heart and it will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a

fraction of that supreme love. This is a great chance. Be confident that you

will all be liberated. Know that you are saved. Many hesitate to believe that

things will improve, that life will be happy for all and full of joy, and that

the golden age will recur.

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. ... 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 a vision of my Reality.

Instead, if you swing like the pendulum of a clock, one moment devotion,

another moment disbelief, you can never succeed in comprehending the truth and

win that bliss. You are very fortunate that you have a chance to experience the

bliss of the vision of the Sarvadaivathwa swaroopam (the form that is all forms

of the Gods) now, in this life itself.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 supra-worldly Divinity in human

form.Again how fortunate you are that you can witness all the countries of the

world paying homage to India (Bharatha); you can hear adoration of 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 the Ancient and Eternal Religion

(Sanathana Dharma) to its genuine and natural status, the righteousness

(dharma) laid down in the Vedas for the good of all the peoples of the world.

This is the Sai sankalpa (will).So utilize the chance of association with me as

much as possible, and endeavor as quickly and as best as you can to follow the

directions that I have been giving.

Obeying my instructions is enough; it will benefit you more than the most

rigorous asceticism. Practice sathya, dharma, santhi and prema, which are dear

to me; resolve to keep those ideals before you ever, in all your thoughts,

words and deeds. That can confer on you the summum bonum of mergence in the

supreme substance of Divinity.People may be very near (physically) to the

Avathar, but they live out their lives unaware of their fortune; they

exaggerate the role of miracles, which are as trivial, when compared to my

glory and majesty, as a mosquito is in size and strength to the elephant upon

which it squats. My power is immeasurable; My truth is inexplicable,

unfathomable. 'Willing' is superfluous for me. For my grace is ever available

to devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely among them,

talking and singing, even intellectuals are unable to

grasp my truth, my power, my glory, or my real task as Avathar. Only those who

have recognized my love and experienced that 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 crave from me trivial material objects; but, crave for me, and

you will be rewarded. Not that you should not receive whatever objects I give

as sign of grace out of the fullness of Love.Consider the meaning of the name

Sai Baba. Sa means 'Divine'; ai or ayi means 'mother', and Baba means 'father'.

The name indicates the divine mother and father, just as Sambasiva, which also

means the divine mother and father.

 

The Sai Avathar 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 that is

the basis on which the entire cosmos rests, and of instructing all to recognize

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 had to tell you so

much about my truth, for I desire that you should contemplate on this and derive

joy there from, so that you may be inspired to observe the disciplines laid down

by me and progress toward the goal of self-realization, the realization of the

Sai that shines in your hearts. "You must know that there is no end to the

incarnations that God indulges in. He has come down on countless occasions.

Sometimes He comes with a part of His Glory, sometimes with a fuller equipment

of splendor, sometimes for a particular task, sometimes to transform an Entire

Era of Time, An Entire Continent of Space".

 

With Sai love,

Sai brothers - ''

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