Chapter-1 - concluding post.
God, when appearing with Form for the sake of upholding Dharma, behaves in a human way. He needs must! For, He has to hold forth the ideal life before man and confer the experience of joy and peace on men. His movements and activities (Leelas) might appear ordinary and commonplace to some eyes.
But, each of these will be an expression of beauty, truth, goodness, joy and exaltation. It will captivate the world with its charm, it will purify the heart that contemplates it. It will overcome and overwhelm all the agitations of the mind. It will tear the veil of Illusion (Maya). It will fill the consciousness with Sweetness. There can be no 'ordinary' and 'commonplace' in the careers of Avatars. Whatever is seen and taken as of that nature is really 'super-human', 'super-natural', deserving high reverence!
The story of Rama is not the story of an individual;
it is the story of the Universe! Rama is the Personification of the basic
Universal in all beings. He is in all, for all time, in all space. The story deals
not with a period that is past, but with the present and future without end,
with beginning less eternal Time!
No ant can bite, without Rama's Will! No leaf can drop
from its branch, without Rama's prompting! Sky, wind, fire, water and earth -
the Five Elements that compose the Universe - behave as they do for fear of
Him, and in tune with His Orders! Rama is the Principle which attracts - and
endears through that attraction - the disparate elements in Nature. The
attraction that one exerts over another is what makes the Universe exist and
function.
That is the Rama principle, without which the cosmos will become chaos. Hence, the axiom: If there be no Rama, there will be no Panorama (Universe).
1st
chapter ends
Dear All,
This post must be read and read and read again and all Sai devotees / other Bhaktas must align whatever Swami has poured in this post, with their one to one , subjective experience with SAI / their chosen God.
It is worthwhile to read what Swami has to say about an AVATAR, which is given in the link given below
A portion of Swami's gospel on Avatar covered in the
above link is produced below
"It has always happened that many people around the Avatar knew that the Avatar was God in human form; yet, they often forgot that fact. Why? Swami explains:
"When the Avatar appears in
human form, we find that He exhibits human consciousness along with Divine
Consciousness. Ordinary people cannot grasp the Divine Consciousness of
the Avatar.
God appears to be an ordinary human being to the
limited intelligence of lay people because of the co-existence of the Divine
and the human aspects of the Consciousness exhibited by Him. Man's perception
is limited to the level of human consciousness.
Therefore, human comprehension is restricted by the
limits of human consciousness. But the sages of yore were able to cognize the
Formless God in the visible Form because they had imbued themselves with Divine
Consciousness. Thus, according to their levels, different people regard
an Avatar as a mere human being or the Cosmic Reality."
Dear Readers,
It is for us to introspect in depth on the following questions which we must poser to ourselves.
"Have we really grasped the mystery of Sai Avatar?",
"Are we really following what Sai gave us in the form of so many SS Speaks, so many Vahinis, so many discourses?",
"Are we really getting closer and closer to SAI every moment, every month, every year In a manner that Swami considers us worthy enough to whisper into our ears, "YES, YOUR LIFE IS INDEED MY MESSAGE!!"
Love.
