Sai message for the day

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Swami! When the same divinity is present in everyone, why should

differences exist? Divinity being the same, why are we so different

from each other?

 

Sai Baba: Ekamevadvitiyam brahma, " God is one without a second " , says

the scripture. Then, how do we account for the variety, diversity,

differences, and so on? A small example to understand this. Power

supply being the same, don't you find the difference in the voltage

of the bulbs that illumine? A bulb with a low voltage gives you light

of low intensity and a bulb with a high voltage illumines more

brightly. Don't they? But, at the same time, electricity is one and

the same. Bulbs are different in their voltage and this determines

the intensity of light. Similarly, our bodies are like those bulbs

with the inner current of the same Divinity.

 

Swami! You said that divinity is in everyone. Then, before we were

born where had it been? Does divinity exist even after our death?

 

Sai Baba: The Divine exists. Divinity is imperishable, pure and

unsullied. It has neither birth nor death. It is eternal and stable.

It is beyond time and space. Divinity transcends all physical laws.

 

Now, your question is: where did divinity exist prior to your birth

and where will it be after your death, while it is in you during this

lifetime? You see, there is an electrical wire on the wall, and also

holders here and there to which bulbs are fixed. You get light only

if a bulb is fixed to a holder and not otherwise. Why? The current

passes through the wire that enters the bulb fixed to the holder. If

you hold the bulb in your hand, it does not illumine, as there is no

power supply. What you have to understand is this. The current has

not been newly produced to get into the bulb. It was already there in

the wire. If you remove the bulb, what will happen to the current? It

will be there in the wire only. The only difference is that you will

not experience its presence as illumination. Similarly, the bulb is

the body, the current of divinity flows into it as the illumination

of life. When this bulb of the body is removed, even then, the

current of divinity persists hidden or latent, so much so divinity

has all along been there before you were born, during your lifetime

and will even be there after your death like the current of

electricity.