Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Divinity is beyond the three Gunas

Assertions that all or any activity or interaction between Sai Baba and devotees is abuse is based on hearsay and hyperbole (rumour and innuendo) which has built up to hysterical proportion without sufficient investigation. It presumes without evidence that all who enter are abused. Patently false. The 'curtain of shame' is a fallacy, which fails to discredit and disgrace Sai Baba. This fallacy cannot both require the 'divine power' of an avatar or godman to conceal and at the same time dispense with and deny 'divine power'. This cannot be reasonably offered in denial of the divinity of Sai Baba.

link to - Sathya Sai Baba responds

Baba is beyond the three gunas. What does that mean for us who have human bodies and a human mind?

He is not affected by it, and we are in it and can therefore not imagine that someone can be out of it and beyond it.
Before he left the body in the dream during that night I went with him beyond the three gunas. In a dream the night ahead his body fell into dust and there was Krishna and Balarama, his brother. It was in the air that he would leave the body.
I was not able to take that, I asked him with all my heart to stay, tried to convince him inside in my dream. 
I didn’t want him to go and that was attachment to the body, and there was passion and also the idea of sacrifice, love, but it was all in the mind, not beyond the mind.
It was on all three levels.
There was a three phase plug with three different colours, one was white, one red and one black. If he would be inside the mind and the three gunas, we would not get aware of a three phase plug and go with him beyond it.
Going beyond the mind means going beyond the three colours and the one in which we are going beyond is the white one, sathva.
The human mind figures out that he is just a man, projecting a human mind in him and divinity not there, that is not possible.
Or they think that he is divine and human at the same time, and that is not possible too.
He is all self-control. Either he has self-control and is beyond the gunas, because the self is beyond the gunas or he would be in the mind and controlled by the gunas as we are on a human level. It is not possible to be both.
If we project a human mind in him, we think he is divine and controlled by the gunas and that is not possible.
If the self is in control it is always in control.
Baba is all self-control. He said that in an interview. It was in Ooty and we were all cold and wearing shawls and socks, it was raining a lot and we sat on the wet grass. He asked, 'Are you cold?' And he pointed at himself and his dress he was wearing summer and winter and said, 'all self-control!' 
It means the gunas are controlled by the higher self and he is divine, not human.
Therefore, we have to make the experience of going beyond the mind to know the difference. Once we have the experience of the observer, there will be no doubts about it.

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