He Who Realizes the Divine becomes Divine

The Divine is the base, and also the superstructure. The beads are many, but the interconnecting, integrating string of the rosary is one. So also for the entire world of living beings; God, the permanent, omnipresent Parabrahman, is the base. The scriptures proclaim, "He who realises Divine verily becomes Divine (Brahmavid Brahmaiva Bhavathi)". The bubble born of water floats in it and bursts to become one with it. All the visible objective worlds are like bubbles emanating from the vast ocean of Divinity, Brahman. They are on the water and are sustained by water. How else can they arise and exist? Finally, they merge and disappear in water itself. For their origination, subsistence, and mergence, they depend only on water. Water is the basis; bubbles are delusive forms of the same imposed on it.

The Divine is the base, and also the superstructure.

What does Baba mean with the base and superstructure?  If we read the first sentence, we get the idea of it, but we are not really able to answer, probably we know he talks about Atman as it is always about Atman, but do we know Atman enough to be able to tell what it is? If we feel that we are not sure, we are able to not even go on reading it, because we cannot answer it.

But there is a way to answer it. We take the second sentence.

The beads are many, but the interconnecting, integrating string of the rosary is one.

 He compares it with the beads and the string is only one. We can look for other examples like God is one, people are many. Gold is one, golden jewelry or coins are many. Heart is one, lovers are many or love is one, lovers are many etc.

So also for the entire world of living beings; God, the permanent, omnipresent Parabrahman, is the base.

Here he explains it what is the base. The permanent, omnipresent Parabrahman (the big Brahman, also Paramatma) is the base. But here he calls the Parabrahman the base and at other times he calls Paramatam, the universal aspect of divinity. Is there a difference?

The scriptures proclaim, "He who realises Divine verily becomes Divine (Brahmavid Brahmaiva Bhavathi)".

If we realize the 'I am that', we become it. If the mantra Soham and 'I am that' is equal to 'I am God' and 'I am Shiva, as Baba said in the interview room, we become it.

He said, 'if the good for one is shared in the good for others, we merge'.

If one person wants to sit at 7 PM undisturbed in the center and wait a half an hour for Bhajans to begin and it is good for the others, who also want to sit and wait, it is good action and right action, but if we have a study circle and the person wants to sit undisturbed and asks therefore, the study circle to stop at a certain time so that he can sit, but only he wants to sit and not the others, what is right action?

If it is good for one and it is good for others, we merge. If it is good for one to end the study circle and it is good for others, we merge.

As there is only one who wants to sit at 7 PM and only when he is present maybe once a month and he never participates in the study circle, he should actually not disturb the others and just sit silently, as nobody is talking loud and he should not disturb others and not the opposite way around.

If he disturbs the others it is not good and we do not merge.

Above all the study circle is a joyful gathering and we have actually a good time and no normal person is disturbed by that.

He must have some problem if he is disturbed by it.

His problem is an old thing and it was a very strange situation during the Christmas event. He took over and began to organize and not at all the way Baba said, he didn't ask for Seva from people, what means they choose to do good for the others and that way we merge, but he began to assign tasks.

It was really awful. He was bold, he was loud, he took over the scheduled time for the study circle and he began to talk without that he asked for it, without announcing it and he began to distribute tasks to other people present.

In the insight (dream) it was as 'it was passion, stay alone' and as I didn't know exactly at that time what was meant we had several things going on, I stayed alone or away.  

If it is not possible to stay alone in a group like that when tasks are assigned and therefore, it spoiled it and I didn't participate at all. There was no room to be alone in the midst of it and therefore, I couldn't go actually.

We have a new center leader and we hope he will handle it properly.

I also sent to him the thought for the day about merging and if we do what is good for one and it is good for all, we merge. If we don't do good for one, it cannot be good for all. 

He thinks he does good for all and that we are a family and all have to participate no matter what and he assigned the tasks if we like it or not. But that is no love.

If he asked me to carry bottles, what felt totally beside the point, because I would never do that, too heavy, too small car, too many men around who can do it, he didn't ask me, he tried to impose it on me, he was out of mind, he had I don't know what in his mind, he was not his own self, he didn't respect the schedule of the other center activities, he just stood up and began to talk and the center leader didn't stop it and that was during study circle time etc.

There is an endless list of things which were not okay and he also assigned tasks to other devotees present, telling them what they should do and one claimed aloud having obviously fun with it, she said 'we could also use some servants and they can serve the food to others' and she was that insolent and making fun of it, it felt like in a nuts house and one of the present elderly ladies also said, 'I will not do it'. And Baba was in my dream and said, 'it is passion, stay alone'.

That guy took the idea of that loud person and went on distributing task to people present and it was really not a good situation, but it was also not good from the side of the center leader that she didn't stop it. She didn't do anything about it.   

It made us rather feel like throwing up than going for it and I stood up and said that I would not do it and if that happens again I will tell that is not on anybody to distribute tasks to people.

It has never been talked over and I have hardly seen him since then and there is a problem, whenever he can he creates troubles. He is a troublemaker.

The bubble born of water floats in it and bursts to become one with it.

Here also we have the issue of merging and becoming one with it. If we see the movement or the center as Sai family tendency seems to be there that we think things have to be done in a certain manner.

If we meditate and we initiate other people into meditation, it is good for us and it is good for all and it is good for the world, because it purifies consciousness.

It has to be good for one first and if we see it on the level of family and we impose tasks, it has nothing to do with the 'good for one', but just expecting obedience.

We had never anything enforced on us by Baba, we went to Darshan because there was love and we meditate, because it is about 'pure love', we have to accept truth (that we are in the mind and it is not pure) we have to accept right action (that we need to meditate to purify the mind) we have to understand it that it is only possible to live in peace on that level of merging with all and not on the outside level.

All the visible objective worlds are like bubbles emanating from the vast ocean of Divinity, Brahman.

Here Baba is telling us why Brahman, it is 'consciousness' it is not about the person, but about the state of 'pure being'.

They are on the water and are sustained by water.

This water is the ocean of divinity and all visible objects are created like bubbles and emanate from that vast ocean of divinity. Consciousness is often compared to an ocean and they have no existence without that ocean.

How else can they arise and exist?

If there is no ocean, there would be no created things. And all created things somehow merge with that ocean of the divine and disappear and are part of it again.

Finally, they merge and disappear in water itself.

What is left after they disappear in the ocean, there is nothing left but ocean. It was always ocean and it just looked like solid matter.

For their origination, subsistence, and mergence, they depend only on water. Water is the basis; bubbles are delusive forms of the same imposed on it.

Finally Baba explains that water is the basis and the bubbles, the created things, are the form of that water of the ocean of the divine and the form is delusive, because it is not about the form, but the base of that form as everything merges with the ocean of the divine in the end again.

That is basic understanding of non-conceptual being as the ocean of the divine and the conceptual world are the bubbles on the surface of that water. Whatever is conceptual and we get attached to it is in the mind and is focused on the surface level of the deep ocean of the divine.

We have to know how to merge with the water of the ocean and become one with it.

So some people tell, but that will anyhow happen when we die.

Yes and no, the ocean of the divine is light and if we are caught up in the mind and we think we are the created water bubble and separate from the ocean, it is dark and not light.

Baba's task is to lead us from darkness to light, from untruth to truth, from death to immortality.

It is not about 'it will happen anyhow', because it will not happen that we merge with the ocean if we have not realized it.

We will be in darkness and we don't know where we are going in darkness and not that we are part of the ocean of the divine and if we have not realized it, we forget it in the moment of death and there will be only body and mind left and that is self-destruction and not self-realization.

If we think we are the body, we don't get aware that we merge with the ocean of the divine, we die in the body and that means we have not made it to Baba, he is the ocean of the divine.

Only if we go for self-realization we will be able to merge with the ocean of the divine, if it is good for one and that is self-realization and it is also good for others, self-realization is good for all, we are able to merge.

Does that help us to solve the dilemma of how to do or organize action when it has a spiritual purpose?

Why is it not okay to assign tasks to people?

Because it is not about self-realization. They have to choose themselves. We can tell that there are still tasks open and that we would be glad if there would be more people doing Seva helping taking care of it, I am sure there would have been people doing it and as we know our Indian devotees are always ready to take such tasks and to help, when there is need and it always somehow works out, but it has to work out from the inside and we don't need to assign tasks, we just tell we need still people helping for Seva, it means it is our own good to do it, because do it in a spirit of service and it serves all.

Some have troubles with letting go and trusting that Baba will take care of it.

As soon as they are in charge, they think they have to organize and make it perfect and that is not spiritual and the other person telling that we need still people to serve, so he began to assign task to people. That person who was so loud felt like the assistant of the devil in person enjoying herself telling, yes, go on, this one for that and the other for that and our center leader said nothing at all.

If that happens again I will speak up and tell it is not the right way of doing things.

I wrote them afterwards and told them, but it is all in vain.

The problems with him began some time ahead, I don't know why, but he said, 'you don't have to be always right'. I don't remember what it was, but it was for sure not about being right and I guess that was already passion, maybe he had a fight before with his wife.

I went into distance and there was no opportunity to talk and as it seems writing didn't help. I guess that was the moment it turned into passion and I anyhow never liked those meetings, they were loud, they spoke as loud as they could and made fun of everything and it was like he had lost the discrimination when he talked about always being right.

If we assign tasks to people and they are not good for one it is also not good for all, therefore, it has to be service and not an assigned task.

The service attitude has to come from the people and from inside and if there are not enough people, we just let it be and it is as it is and we take it as it is and live with it and if there is nobody doing it, we have a buffet and self-service.

The Divine is the base, and also the superstructure. The beads are many, but the interconnecting, integrating string of the rosary is one. So also for the entire world of living beings; God, the permanent, omnipresent Parabrahman, is the base. The scriptures proclaim, "He who realises Divine verily becomes Divine (Brahmavid Brahmaiva Bhavathi)".

He who realizes the Divine, verily becomes divine. That is the essence in that thought for the day.

If we realize the divine as our own self and if we go for self-realization, it is good for all and it is possible to merge. Only if the good for our own self is also good for all, it is possible that we can merge. That is most important and we have to understand it right when it is about activity and service. And if that is understood, there should nobody again assigning tasks to others, but we should ask people for Seva if there is a need for it.