Sai message for the day

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I beg your pardon for asking this question. While I am afraid to pose

the question, I am also very keen to know the answer from you. Since

you are our most compassionate God, I have made bold to ask you this

question. Swami! You talk to some devotees as soon as they come here,

whereas you don't talk to some others who have been here for a long

time. How are we to reconcile these two facts?

 

There is nothing wrong in asking any question in your search for

truth. It is not good to entertain any doubts. All the more so, in

respect of God.

 

You should always believe in one thing: whatever happens to you, it

is for your own good. Only God knows what, when, how, why and to whom

anything is to be done. You don't understand this. Every action of

Swami will help you. Swami may talk to some immediately and may not

do so to some others for a long time. This is a matter of time,

according to you. But Swami is beyond time and space.

 

I give you a simple example here. Suppose a bus starts from here,

and passengers start boarding it. What do you notice? The passenger

who gets into the bus first goes to the front and occupies the seat

by the side of the driver. The last passenger has to stand near the

door. Then, when the bus stops at the terminus and the passengers

start getting down from the bus, what happens? The last passenger

standing near the door gets down first and the first passenger

sitting near the driver gets down last. Isn't it so? Therefore, the

first becomes the last and the last the first. The same thing applies

to Swami's devotees:

 

Saint Mrikanda put a similar question to sage Narada. " Oh Narada!

How is it that so young a boy like Prahlada could see the divine

manifestation at an early age whereas we, who have been doing penance

for the last hundreds of years, are doing it in vain? Why should it

happen like that? " Narada replied like this: " Oh Saint! Prahlada is

very young in years, no doubt, but his yearning for God must have

been for several of his previous lives. This is the result of the

cumulative effect of his earlier lives of prayerful yearning for God.

You may think that you have been doing penance for long years. But

all this you have done during this lifetime of yours only. The body

of Prahlada is young but his soul has been pining for God ever since

his earlier births. You are old now in age but your attempt has been

short. "

 

I will give you another example. A young man, with a hammer, wanted

to break a stone. Inspite of his twenty strokes, the stone did not

break. An old man passing by that side hammered the same stone twice.

It broke! You may wonder how it could happen. The old man could break

the stone that couldn't be broken by the young man. Do you know why?

The stone had already received as many as twenty hammer strokes from

the young man. So the total came to twenty-two strokes, with the old

man hammering it twice. Similarly, the dawn of God-realization may

look early or late from your point of view. But the reality is

different.