"In truth, you cannot understand the nature of My Reality either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent enquiry even if all mankind joins in that effort. But, in short time, you will become cognisant of the Bliss showered by Divine Principle, which has taken upon itself the sacred Body and the sacred Name.
"Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded into the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I Am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging MySelf in activities with you. But, any moment, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment. Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavour to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.
"This is a Human Form, in which every Divine Entity, every Divine Principle, that is to say 'all the Names and Forms ascribed by man to God' are manifest. (Sarvadaivatha swaroopaalanu dharinchina manavaakarame ee akaram) Do not allow doubt to distract you; if you only instal, in the altar of your heart, steady faith in My Divinity you can win a Vision of My Reality. Instead, if you swing like a pendulum of a clock, one moment devotion, another moment disbelief, you can never succeed in comprehending the Truth and win the Bliss. You are very fortunate that you have a chance to experience the Bliss of the vision of Sarvadaivatha Swaroopam (The form which is All Forms of all Gods), while in this life itself."
I have changed the name of my blog, but there is a link for the other blog otherwise, nobody will find it anymore.
http://sai-contemplation.blogspot.ch
And I was reading the Sai Spiritual Showers and I thought I would like to think it over here in my blog because we get to a totally different feeling of it after thinking it over.
Reading that text I first get the feeling it is far away and not reachable, do you agree?
He is telling us we cannot understand the nature of his reality either today or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent enquiry and if all mankind joins in that effort.
Okay, that is the first sentence.
But in short time we will become cognisant of the bliss showered by the divine principle, it is the divine principle that has taken upon itself that sacred body and sacred name.
We cannot understand it, but we will become cognizant of the bliss of the divine principle. He is telling us that he is not the body and not the name, but the divine principle and that we can be cognizant, but we cannot understand it ever.
What is the difference between cognition and understanding?
He is in the body moving with us, eating like us, talking like us and we think it is also just an instance of common humanity, we all are in a body and we know the body will die, but he is not the body and he is the divine reality it is always around us but it needs to become cognizant, but it cannot be understood. If he would be just a body, he would be gone by now, but it is really possible to make the experience that he is still present now and in the divine principle all around us. If we contemplate the divine, we actually contemplate that the divine presence around us and not in his body.
Now he has left the body and for our mind he is gone, but for our heart if we focus on him and contemplate on the divine principle and that is the 'I am that' he is not gone, he was never the body and that has to be cognizant or realized. Is it far away, no it is not, it is about our own higher self. That is what was between us in the air, the 'I am that' and that we both are the same 'I am that', that is the divine principle and if we focus on that as he is telling us here, we will be cognizant of the divine reality and win bliss.
We were deluded by his divine presence that is right and he tells us to be ready the divine will be revealed to us. We have to overcome Maya (delusion) that hides it from our eyes.
What is that Maya delusion? If we look back, I was with my daughter in Prasanthi and in the canteen a year ago I missed that beautiful time and I was sad that it was gone. Not only that she is older now and not interested in it anymore and she would not come with me anymore, but also Baba has left the body that means we will not go together to Prasanthi anymore. It is gone and that is painful.
That is the illusion, that is Maya.
Not long ago it was after a study circle and while singing I felt that it was all here in the Sai-center, here in Zurich actually and I am still enjoying it with my daughter only not in the canteen.
If we get aware of his omnipresence or omnipotence, we realize that he is here actually and he is a living principle, but a principle cannot die. We can understand that it is the same and we find it here as well as in Prasanthi Nilayam and nothing is lost, because he never was the body and the mind, but if we don't have the experience of it, we think it is gone and that is painful. That is delusion and Maya and if we realize his omnipresence it is no more painful, because he was never not here and around us.
And he tells us again that he is divine in that human form, that we should not allow doubt to distract, but we know that if there is doubt, it is like an illness and we cannot just get out of it, we can just do our best to install the faith in the vision of reality and we know it is impossible to force us into it.
I know that swinging like a pendulum of a clock, one moment devotion another moment disbelief and that we can never succeed in comprehending truth and win bliss.
There is again the difference between comprehending it and winning bliss.
We are fortunate that we have the chance to experience the bliss of the vision, the form of all forms of all Gods, while in this life itself.
That makes us feel good to listen to that, doesn't it because he tells us that we are fortunate to experience the bliss in this life itself.
But we really get it only when we feel and know that there is no difference, it is the same, it is here and now and that is my focus now to make it present for the others as well.
He told us how, listen, think it over and absorb. If we think we should not think it over because we will never understand it anyhow, we get already to a wrong conclusion. He doesn't tell us to not do a spiritual effort, he tells us to be ready to be cognizant now in the presence. What is the difference, and we will not get aware of that difference if we do not think it over.
It even can make us feel bad because he seems that far away as we listen to it and we think we will never understand it anyhow.
But when we realize that we have been there and he was present and whoever was with us at that time, it is still the same, with that divine principle present, also that person is present again, we will be just amazed by it. Whatever the pain because it is gone, whatever the agony we think it is not real, what he does in the insight is making it clear and straighten it out and we get aware of it what was wrong, but in the end he is there again and nothing is lost, but he is omniscient and omnipresent and also here. The people we lost or missed either he takes it away because it was not him and not right and it is just putting everything in a wrong light or it is right and they are part of us and also present.
I guess that is bliss, we look at it differently when we have the experience of his omnipresence. Like with the principle of motherhood, when I remembered my mother and the joy and there is joy now in the relationship with my daughter and there will be joy in the relationship with her kids ..., it is the divine presence of the mother, it will go on and never change.
The same is in the truth and the father, if my worldly father was living it or not, it is anyhow the father and it is in husband and wife, but for me it is different, he said, 'no more husband, nothing left but an empty Western shoe', so the divine husband principle didn't work, not for me, but for someone else the wife is also still present in the inside and part of that experience of the divine presence.
That we can never understand, that it is the same and it was the same already thirty years ago and it is still the same, that is amazing and there is no way it can be understood, but when we are cognizant we will be amazed by it and every word what Baba tells makes sense.
It is a difference if I just read it and think I do understand it or maybe not or if we think it is that far away, do you agree?
Don't you think as well that we get to an all different conclusion after thinking it over and that it sounds different and that the insight is different and the feeling is different?
Baba said in the dream, he is he insight and he is the following step, if we take the insight and related it to his words and see it in that light, it is about the following step and that is also him, therefore, he is not anymore far away, but he is here in his words and omnipresent and always real, there is never a time he will not be and we will not experience him, it is only the mind that makes us feel the pain of something lost, there is nothing lost, it is all the same, we just have to get aware of his divine omnipresence.
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