Swami's August 6th Divine Discourse - Part 2

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You may contemplate upon Rama or Krishna. While doing so, keep the form of your chosen deity before your mind’s eye and contemplate on Him. Surely you will visualise that form. You should therefore not entertain the feeling that God has forsaken you. If God were to forsake you, how can you exist in the world? God and you are one. Lord Eswara is also referred to as Arthanareeswara, signifying the unity between the male and female aspects of Divinity.

 

In fact, all our troubles are due to our attachment to prakriti (material world). Do not entertain the feeling that you are separate from God; that you are only a devotee etc. Do not think that He is God and you are only a dasa (servant of God). You are not merely a devotee. You are God verily. Constantly remind yourself, “I am God, I am God, I am God.â€

 

All the names that are given to individuals are for the purpose of identification. They are not eternal. In fact, all names and forms are meant to be shed at one time or the other. But the Atma is eternal and changeless.

 

If ‘I’ and ‘Mine’ are removed, what remains is God only. You say this is my body, my mind, my intellect, etc. You are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the intellect. You are separate from all these things. You are God, verily. Fill the water in a thousand vessels and keep them in the Sun. The Sun reflects in all these thousand vessels, but there is only one Sun. Just as the one Sun reflects in thousand vessels, so also the one God illumines the entire universe. God is one and the goal is one.

You have to develop the feeling that everything good or bad, profit or loss, is God.

Of course, secular education and ideas are necessary to a certain extent.

 

Today Viswanath Pandit is taking charge as the new Vice Chancellor. He has also toured several countries of the world as an academician. He is ‘Viswanatha’. He is a very good person. In the past also, several Vice Chancellors worked in this university and left after completing their tenure. They may not be present here in their physical bodies. But their Atmas are always with Me. In fact, I am their Atma. Hence, no one should feel that someone has left and some other person has come in his place.

 

Perform your duty. This duty strengthens your relationship with God. Duty is God. Anil Gokak performed his duties very well. Even a small matter, he used to bring to the notice of Swami for clarification. I need such people. Right from the first Vice Chancellor, the senior Gokak to the junior Gokak, all Vice Chancellors are My people only. Even the future Vice Chancellors belong to Me only. I am utilizing the services of all these persons for the development of students.

 

The students are also good. College students in the outside world these days are problematic, but our students cannot be compared to those boys. Our students are unique. They do not join unsuitable company in the outside world. They maintain their good behaviour at all times. Everywhere they are distinct and distinguishable, but that does not mean that they are separate or misfits in any society. Wherever they are, they act in harmony with their local community and always conduct themselves with dignity, obeying Swami’s command.

 

Spirituality is like the head of a physical body. Only when the head functions well can all other limbs in the body function smoothly. All our students should therefore treat spirituality as their head.

 

Each lecturer teaches a particular subject in the classroom. Students should imprint their teachings in their hearts. They should not differentiate between the lecturers saying so and so is a great lecturer and others are not. If you conduct yourself as good boys with sterling character and leadership qualities, you can even rule this country in the years to come.

 

Hence, develop a sense of equal-mindedness, treat all lecturers as good, and take their lessons to your heart. This is what I wish to emphasise today as My advice to all the students of our Institute.

 

Let there be unity between your thoughts, words, and deeds. That is ‘Trikarana suddhi’ (three instruments of purity). What you think, you should speak; what you speak, you must put into practice. That is real humanness. Unity does not mean gathering of all people at one place. What is needed is perfect harmony between thoughts, words and deeds. That is real Educare. The Educare is very much immanent in you.

 

You need not refer to any text books to find Educare. Our heart itself is a text book. Follow its teachings. Then you will become good students and good people. The good people are God’s own people.. Don’t consider yourself as just students. You are not merely students. Only your body is a student. In your heart, you are verily divine.

 

Anil Gokak is leaving today. He will come back. Wherever he and his family reside, they belong to Me. I belong to them too. This is our relationship. I wish that all of you should conduct yourself as good students and welcome the incoming Vice Chancellor Viswanath Pandit with love and respect. Be happy.

 

Om Sai Ram

 

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