Words of God - The Avatar - HIS Role, HIS Purpose

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Words of God - "The Avatar - HIS Role, HIS Purpose" "..... Above all, do not give room for the canker of doubt. Why clique over Me, over this point or that concerning Me? Who exactly Baba, you discuss and debate! What does it matter to you who I happen to be? You are concerned about your goal, your ideal, yor experience, your effort, is it not? Why then worry about My Origin, My Nature, My Mystery, My Miracle? The basic thing is the hand, the cup it holds is secondary. The Adheya is less in importance than the Adhara, the Basic Reality, the Pure Existence. When you cannot reach down to your own Basic Reality, why waste time in exploring the Essence of Godhead? As a matter of fact, you can understand Me only when you have understood yourself, your own

basic Truth.The gross can grasp only the gross; its categories of knowledge can proceed only as far as that. Fish die when they have to breathe the air above the water. Children can learn the alphabet with the help of boards, slates, pencils and pieces of chalk. Sadhakas, going through the primers of spirituality, need symbols, images and rituals. You cannot discard Name and Form until you transmute yourself into the Nameless and Formless; just as the fish needed water and could not come up into the atmosphere, so long as they did not transmute themselves into land animals, giving up their aquatic nature. That is the reason why the Nameless and Formless has often to assume Name and Form, and come before humanity with limitations imposed by Its own Will, so that it may be loved, respected, worshipped, listened to and followed; so that the Purpose of Humanity may be fulfilled.A wooden elephant, however artistically perfect and lifelike, is but a toy; it cannot create the awareness of the genuine elephant. A library stacked with books is incapable of imparting the authentic touch of the living Guru; you may trek to ten temples and then, at last arrive here, believing this to be the eleventh. That is as fruitless as wandering from the tenth library to an eleventh. You must see, hear, study, observe, experience, reflect; then only can you understand Me.You will learn then that I am Prema Itself; that I give only one thing, Ananda, through that Prema. My task is to distribute Solace, Courage and Shanthi. That is to say, My characteristics are the ancient authentic ones; only the Manifested Form is new. My desire

- if I can put it in so many words - is this: More and more should yearn for Me. The desire could be realised only if I assume this Form and come among you.Those among you who have been following the unfolding of My story will have discovered this by now; though even to the best of you only a fraction of the Mystery is revealed. ..... My language, My role, My career, My purpose can be understood in a general way only by sitting through the entire film, watching earnestly and vigilantly and trying to get at the meaning of every word and act with patient attention.As a matter of fact, language is an impediment in dealing with Me. All languages have a place in the concourse of men, bringing out their feeling, hiding their weaknesses, shaping their thoughts etc. but I speak and listen to the language of the soul. The words littered by the tongues of men confuse

and confound; they breed factions and sects; they erect walls; the words that emanate from the soul radiate love and concord...... There are some who come here and earn Peace and Joy, but after years of sharing and serving, they fall a prey to waywardness and fall back into the old morass; declining to such an extent that they deny their very experience and play false to their own conscience! Not that I am anxious that they should worship Me or adhere to Me; far from it. I only ask that Truth must be proclaimed, regardless of the company you have fallen into; there must be courage of conviction, which will help you to overcome the temptation to deny your cherished joys.There are again some others who are swept off their feet by hysterical demonstrations by certain weak-minded individuals, which are described as My speaking through them or acting through them! Take it from Me, I am not given to such absurdities! I do not use others as My media; I have no

need to. I do not swing from side to side and prattle! ..... Their gestures, words and actions are hollow and vain;those who burn incense before them and revere them are turning away from Me and running after Falsehood...... For, how can the Full ever dally with the paltry and wear the habiliment of the trifling? When God has come assuming Form, take it from Me, it will not fill inferior vessels or embellish tawdry stuff or enter impure bodies...... The Lord is as anxious to assuage your pain as you are anxious to secure his Grace to get rid of it. You may not know this but I know, for I feel it...... Do not listen to destructive criticisms and cynicisms, which are the poisons eating into the vitals of spiritual life today. Bear witness to the truth of your own experience; do not be false to yourself, or to Me. My name is Sathya Sai; it means, "He who reclines on Truth."I

am reminded now of past events, events in my previous body.Even then, I had Sathya or Truth as my Support. A wrestler challenged Me then for a fight and he was defeated before a large gathering of villagers. Pained by the insult, he invited Baba for a second tussle the next day, so that he might win back his lost reputation. The man swore that if defeated again, he would wear a long rough kafni and move about with his head covered in cloth.He dared Baba too to swear likewise. Baba was in no mood to enter the arena again and he was quite prepared to concede the fellow the victory he craved. So he accepted defeat and himself donned the kafni and the kerchief. The wrestler felt great remorse and his Insolence melted away. He appealed to Baba to resume his usual style of dress and released him from the obligation. But Baba stuck to his word. He was Sathya Itself. Then, as He is now, He wore the new attire. - Sai BabaSource- "Spend your days

with Shiva" SSS Vol II "..... No Avatar is born flesh and blood, including this Avatar. The body of the Avatar is chit substance; it is not jada like other materials. The embryo of ordinary mortals is 'jalodakasayi' enveloped in watery stuff; the embryo of the Avatar is encased in 'Kshirodakasayi', the pure white milk of holiness. That is why in the make-up of the Avatar, there is no blemish, there is no trace of Guna...... Like a man sunk in poverty, dwelling in a hut that is raised over a vast underground treasure, man is suffering, with a spring of joy inside him, of which he is unaware. I have come to give you the key to that treasure, to

tell you how to tap that spring, for you have forgotten the way to blessedness. If you waste this chance of saving yourselves, it is just your fate.You have come, most of you, to get from Me tinsel and trash, petty little cures and promotions, joys and comforts; very few of you desire to get from Me the thing I have come to give, viz, Liberation itself; and even among these few, those who stick to the path of Sadhana and succeed are a handful.Many are drawn away by the outer signs of sainthood, the long gown, the beard, the rosaries, the matted hair; they keep track of many such who move about in this land and follow them into the wilderness. It is very difficult to demarcate clearly the manifestation of the Lord and so, I am announcing Myself and Myself describing My mission, the task, the characteristics, the qualities which mark out the Avatar from the rest. You cannot have this chance of the

nearness of the greatest of all sources of JOY In any other place. Here it is so near, so easy to attain, so full of grace. If you fall back you will seldom get chance again. Ask and get what will save you, not what will bind you. You ask me thousand things of the world, but rarely do you ask for "Me". That is why i seldom address you as bhaktas; I usually adress you as Divyatma swarupalaara, for that is your real swarupa, this Divyatwam, divinity. - Sai BabaSource: Ask For Me SSS Vol IV *..... Do not be too conceited, feeling that the Avatar has come for you particularly. I have come for the sake of Dharma. And, how is the Avatar to guard Dharma? Well, "Vedokhilo Dharma MoolamThe Vedas are the root of Dharma." When the Vedas remain unharmed, that is to say, when the Vedic scholars are unharmed, the Veda will remain

ever-green in the heart of man. That is the real Dharma-sthapana...... You may ask, "Well. The Lord has incarnated. Then why should the world be torn by strife and stricken with sorrow?" Why, even when Lord Krishna was here, there was war and wickedness, strife and sorrow. The husk will have to be pulled out, the pure saved always from the impure. The present suffering is mainly due to the lapses in discipline among the professed followers of the Vedic Path, their disregard for the morality laid down in the Sastras and their absence of faith in the ancient scriptures. What uses can a blind man make of a lamp, however bright it may be?..... With Me, the resolution and the realisation coincide in time; there is no time-lag. You may say that only twenty boys have joined now; when a huge country is administered by a cabinet of twelve, this band of students is enough for the work I have in view. My task is to open your eyes to the Glory of the Vedas and to

convince you that the Vedic injunctions, when put into practice, will yield the results promised. My task is to make you aware of your errors and the loss you are incurring; not only you who are here just now, but all the people of India and even the world.My Prema towards the Veda is equalled only by My Prema towards Humanity. My Mission, remember, is just fourfold:Vedaposhana, Vidwathposhana, Dharmarakshana and Bhakarakshana. Spreading My Grace and My Power along these four directions, I establish Myself in the Centre. - Sai Baba - Prashanti Nilayam 23.11.1962Call on HIM; HE is there, always**..... God is not somewhere away from you, some One distinct from you. He is in you, before you, behind you, beckoning, guiding, guarding, warning, prompting, the

Inner Voice speaking ever with you. You need not seek Him, He is there ready to respond to the call from the heart. Call on Me and I am always by your side..... - Sai Baba - Hyderabad April 1973Hold on to SAI - do not slip***..... You have won this human body, this human life, as the reward for many lives spent in acquiring merit. You have won this chance, this unique good fortune of being able to get Darshan of Sai. Plunging deep into the waters of this tumultuous ocean of Samsar, you have heroically emerged from its depths, with this rare Pearl in your hands - the Grace of Sai. Do not allow it to slip from your clasp and fall into the depths again. Hold on firmly to it. Pray that you may have It for ever and be filled with the joy that It confers that is the way by which you can render this life fruitful. - Sai Baba - Rajahmundry 3.1.1974 ..... The way in which the Avathar has to be used for one's liberation and uplift is: watch His every step, observe His actions, and activities, follow the guiding principle of which His life is an elaboration. Mark His love, His Compassion, His Wisdom, try to bring them into your own life. Man has become artificial, crooked, twisted out of his normal shape. He has left behind the simple natural ways and made his mind a lumber-room for ideas, worries, anxieties and terrors. He can live on very much less, with much greater joy for himself and others. If only he remembers that he is a treasure chest with the Divine Spark in it he will be more loving and more useful. God incarnates for the revival of Dharma (Righteousness) which includes morality, truth, virtue, love and host of other qualities that uphold the communities of man as well as the individual. The other purposes usually given, such as serving the devoted, destroying the wicked, re-establishing the sacred tradition-these are all secondary. For, he who is righteous will be guarded from harm by righteousness itself; he who is unrighteous will fall into disaster through the evil that he perpetrates. The one task includes all else.I shall fulfil that task, whatever the comments that others may make. Comment is a natural corollary. I do not pay any

attention to it; nor should you. The higher the hill, the deeper the valley. Praise or blame will not affect me in the least. The unshakable foundation on which My work is proceeding is Ananda. I cannot be moved away from it by anyone, at any time...... Do not exaggerate the creation and the manifestation of the Linga; it is only the manifestation of an atom of My Majesty. In Me, who can create worlds, and fill the Universe, there are things more worthy of adoration; universal Love, the teaching of Dharma, the revival of the Vedas, the fostering of the good, the benediction on Sadhakas.- Sai BabaSource: Atom of Majesty SSS Vol VIPrashanti Nilayam Maha Shivaratri 26.2.1968 ...... The avatar of Krishna was a full incarnation, with all the sixteen facets of glory. In the avatar of Rama, out of the sixteen, the three brothers had one each and Parasurama, the contemporary, had one, until Rama met Him and overpowered Him and drew within Himself the fraction of the Divine power that He had. Other incarnations were for ad hoc purposes, the suppression of evil represented by one evil person or group of persons. The Rama and Krishna avataras were, however, for more general purposes, the mission of restoring Dharma and fostering virtuous living, besides punishing the wicked and teaching the world that vice will not succeed. Man is an amalgam of Humanity, Animality and Divinity. It is a tragedy if he cannot get rid of the animality; it is a greater tragedy if he cannot cultivate his Divinity.

Contemplation of the Rama and Krishna avataras and their leelas and mahimas is the surest method of cultivating the Divine in man.Before every incarnation, two collaborators for the task for which the incarnation comes, also appear-the *Mayasakthi and *Yogasakthi. Maya comes as the elder sister to warn the wicked; Yoga comes as the elder brother, to enthuse and keep constant company. Maya thrust Kamsa deeper and deeper into perdition, so that his downfall will be more terrible and educative. But in this Kali age, the wicked have to be reformed and reconstructed, through love and compassion. That is why this avatar has come unarmed. It has come with the message of love. The only weapon which can transform the vile and the vicious is the Name of the Lord uttered with Love...... All Avatars teach, as the first step in the long road of Sadhana, the giving up of attachment. In the Threthayuga, the Yoga-Vasistha taught the same rule. In the Dwaparayuga, Krishna taught Arjuna to give up Vishaya-Vasana, attachment to the objective world. **..... The Avatar comes to reveal man to himself, to restore to him his birthright of Atmic Bliss. He does not come to found a new creed, to breed a new faction, to install a new God. If such happens, it is the consequence of the evil in man. The Avatar comes as Man in order to demonstrate that Man is Divine, in order to be within reach of Man. The human mind cannot grasp the Absolute, Attribute less Principle; it is Abstract and beyond the reach of Speech, Mind and Intellect. Fire is inherent in the match-stick but it is only when it is struck as a flame that we can benefit by it. The Nirguna has to manifest as Saguna; the Nirakara has to appear with Form. Then only can Man listen, learn, understand, follow and be saved, through the

Bliss of that Experience ... He lights the flame of Realisation in each; and the age-old ignorance is destroyed in an instant...... Avatars manifested in the *Kritha Yuga for the Preservation of Vedic Tradition, in the Thretha Yuga for the Protection of Dharma and in the *Dwapara Yuga for the promulgation of the Right of Property. In the Kritha Yuga, the Avathar saved the Vedas from neglect, in the Thretha Yuga, He saved women from dishonour, and in the Dwapara Yuga, He saved Property from Injustice. Now, in this fourth Age, the *Kali Yuga, all these three are in dire peril. The Vedas are ridiculed, Woman is tempted into unwomanly lives, and Property itself is condemned as theft! So, the Avatar has a Threefold Task. Man has no purity in the heart, no sanctity in his emotions, no love in his deeds, no God in his prayers. - SAI BABASource: "Three in One Now" - SSS Vol VIPrashanti Nilayam Krishna Janmashtami 28.7.1967 & **Prashanti Nilayam 31.8.1972*MAYASHAKTI: power of Maya.*YOGASHAKTI: power of yoga.KRITHA (krta), THRETHA (treta), DWAPARA (dvapara) and KALI are the four periods or ages of the world's existence. The first three periods have already elapsed; Kali is the present period. The duration of each is enumerated respectively as 1,728,000; 1296,000; 864,000 and 432,000 years. The discending numbers successively reduced by one-quarter, being supposed to represent a similar reduction of the physical and moral standards of each age. The four ages total4,320,000 years and

constitute a great yuga (maha yuga) *You are like the apple of the eye, My eye will be there to watch over you and guard you. Have Dhoopam and scent-sticks for the Puja, and I smell them. I answer to whatever Name you use; I respond to whatever request you make with a pure heart and a sanctified motive.**..... The essential purpose of all this Leela is Anandam...... This is one way of announcing the Divinity of the Avatara, which has to be done so that men may listen and obey. The common man will sit up in wonder and his awe will ripen into faith; later, even if he starts discriminating and arguing pros and con, the Avatar will only be glad, for the faith will thus be confirmed...... Swami's nature is Viswaprema, you have known, and Bhagavatham is the story of Viswaprema.***I declare that I am in

everyone, in every being. So do not hate anyone, or cavil at anyone. Spread Prema always, everywhere. That is the best way of revering Me. Do not seek to measure Me or evaluate Me. I am beyond your understanding. Pray or worship for your own satisfaction and contentment. But to say that I will respond only if I am called for that I will save only if I am thought of is wrong. Have you not heard the declaration."Sarvathah paani paadam?" (Hands and feet everywhere) You can hear My Footsteps, for, I walk with you, behind you, beside you. When you cry out in agony, "Don't you hear my heart's plaint? Have you become so stonyhearted?" My ear will be there to listen. Ask that I should protect****The Avatara has come in order to guard the world and to strengthen Dharma as the means of guarding it. Books that contain the Lord's words and great men who know them,

declare that the Lord assumes Human Form in order to carry out these purposes...... Avatars choose the time and the mode of announcement of their Advent and their Glory. Even in this Avatara, such miracles had to be done when I decided that the time was opportune for taking the people into My Secret.*****..... The Lord is all Prema. He has no anger or Dwesha in Him.Once at Shirdi, a certain man came with much suffering, and he prayed that he might be given ten births with the chance of dividing the pain into ten parts, so that he could suffer a little each time and payoff his Karmic debt, without being hard put to it having to pay it all off in one! He was informed through Kaka Saheb that he should fall at the feet of Baba and as he did so, Baba got the pain transferred to himself. For ten minutes, Baba suffered, at the rate of one minute for each Janma, and thus he rid _ of his obligation.Baba was quite normal, as soon as

the 10 minutes were over. - Sai BabaSource: * Prashanti Nilayam 7.9.1963** Thamo Gunam - Thapo Gunam SSS Vol III*** The SAI AVATARA - Prashanti Nilayam 2.9.1963**** Su-Darsana SSS VOL:II***** Vishaya, the Visha SSS Vol III Courtesy: http://www..com

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