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When God’s subtle

presence writes answers to your prayers, there oozes out words of wisdom

packed with Truth unsullied. Here is an episode from San Salvador when God

decided to write The Answer... (From the Sanathana Sarathi

Archives)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Swami authorised the trip

of Dr. Goldstein and Leonardo Gutter to the Sathya Sai Centres in eleven

countries in Latin America, the devotees in El Salvador were very happy

even though we were number eleven. We decided to hold a public meeting and

immediately wrote to Swami for His blessings.

A few days later, two new

devotees who knew nothing of the public meeting, asked if they could dance

for Swami. This started a chain of events which led to the presentation of

the dance titled " The Death of the Ego " . Four dancers danced the

roles of Ego, Atma, Mind and the friend of the Mind. Everything was going

smoothly up to two weeks before the event. Then started some difficult

circumstances. First, the dancers all got into a big quarrel. The director

wanted to quit. But with some careful explanation it was brought to the

attention of the dancers that they wanted to present the death of the Ego

to Swami and in order to do this their egos must truly be under control.

They saw the light and danced beautifully together from that day forward.

 

Then it was discovered that the

National Theatre where the meeting was to he held did not have its air

conditioning in working order. The cost of repair was equal to two trips to

India. So we decided to organise a fan brigade. Everyone that could, loaned

us their electric fans.

A few days before the public

meeting, the posters with Swami's picture were delivered and all the

devotees helped to post these in strategic places around town. In a school

where the EHV programme had been introduced, a devotee teacher placed a

poster. To her chagrin a couple of days later the picture of Swami had been

defaced by some miscreant. The teacher was upset. At first she asked Swami

to punish the culprit, but then she thought, " No, that isn't

right. " One afternoon after school she was thinking on the problem and

praying to Swami for guidance when all of a sudden she started writing. It

was not her words that filled the paper. It was an answer to her prayers.

This is what she wrote...

" I

return to you not as the image on a poster that you pretend to destroy. I

return to you as the light which you cannot extinguish, as the truth that

you cannot destroy. I return to you as the voice of your conscience that

you cannot silence, because I am the essence of the universal truth. Wash

the dirt away from your heart so that you can hear my voice. Remove the

blindfold that is covering your eyes and you will be able to see Me. I am

in you, I'm your Atma, your spirit, your truth, the voice of your

conscience. I am your beginning and your end. You cannot destroy Me. You

can only achieve your own destruction. " The poster was replaced

with this message and all the students read it in silence and walked

away.

On the day of the public

meeting, Dr. Goldstein and Leonardo Gutter were received in the airport's

hall of honour and there we sang bhajans. Then after a brief visit to six

Sai Centres, the public meeting was held. But what a multitude! The crowds

were turned a way, the doors were closed, only those who arrived punctually

found seats. The nectar of the talks by Dr. Goldstein and Leonardo Gutter

found a place in the heart of each. Then the dancers flew through the

auditorium as the drama on the death of the ego unfolded. Swami was

watching from His chair in the Presidential box and from His jhoola in the

heart of each one present.

 

 

 

 

If

there is ego and you think Swami is yours, then Swami gets imprisoned by

your ego and cannot come to your help. But, if you think, “I belong

to Swami”, then Swami becomes free to look after you and bring you

spiritual progress. It is all a matter of humility and your attitude.

Accept everything as God. God is everywhere, in everything. True

realisation of the omnipresence of God will knock out your ego, since it

stands in the way of surrender.

 

 

 

- Sri Sathya Sai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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