You can light more than thousand candles from a single lamp. Remember only a burning lamp or candle can be used to light other candles. An unlit candle cannot light the other unlit candles. So too only the one who earned wisdom can enlighten others who are in ignorance. One who is not illumined cannot illumine others who are dwelling in the darkness of maya: So you must strive to light your own lamp from the Universal Light of Love and from there transmit illumination to all who seek and strive. All lamps shine alike, since they are all sparks of that Param-jyothi, the Universal Luminosity, which is God. Lamps are many but light is one. Every patch of water on earth has the reflection of the sun in it but the original sun is one. Just as the one sun is seen in a million pots, lakes or wells the one same Divine (Paramjyothi) shines as wisdom in a million hearts.
We have to earn the wisdom, it tells us also that it is not just given, it has to be realized and if we see it in our own life, we feel it and if we have developed a feeling for it without that we are aware of it, but it has changed and transformed into inner wisdom and it is no more only on the thought level and theoretical knowledge. We have to make it our own, we have to feel it.
You can light more than thousand candles from a single lamp. Remember only a burning lamp or candle can be used to light other candles. An unlit candle cannot light the other unlit candles. So too only the one who earned wisdom can enlighten others who are in ignorance. One who is not illumined cannot illumine others who are dwelling in the darkness of maya: So you must strive to light your own lamp from the Universal Light of Love and from there transmit illumination to all who seek and strive.
He is the universal light of Love and in listening to his words and in thinking it over we make it our own. We have to take care that our candle is lit.
It is a mistake to think we know. He talks about the principle of 'I am that', but it doesn't mean if he tells us that he is an avatar, that we know who he is, we have to make our own experience of it and only if we have transformed it into experience, we know it. Most of people make just that mistake, they think they know because he told us, but in reality we don't know and without listening, thinking it over and being ready to absorb that highest wisdom, what means with other words, listening to his words, we don't make that experience.
All lamps shine alike, since they are all sparks of that Param-jyothi, the Universal Luminosity, which is God. Lamps are many but light is one.
It is for all of us the same light. The light is there, we have to make an effort to light the lamp.
Every patch of water on earth has the reflection of the sun in it but the original sun is one. Just as the one sun is seen in a million pots, lakes or wells the one same Divine (Paramjyothi) shines as wisdom in a million hearts.
There had been an insight and lots of people and they all looked very old-fashioned and I guess that are the hordes of people thinking they know because he said so, but they didn't make their own experience. We think we know divinity, what do we know? Nothing at all, if we don't experience the divine in our own self and in our heart, as long as it is what we think it is because he told us, we don't know it. It is projected in our old traditions and even the church and it makes it look that old-fashioned. If it is about Veda, it has to become self-experience.
We have someone who said to me that something is missing and they go on more and more into singing, they are looking for it somewhere else.
In that wisdom is the highest truth, as he said it is the holiest maxim and the Atmic principle and we had that experience in his Darshan, the 'I am that', that is how he gave Darshan, it is the principle of Atma or the 'Thou-art-That' and we find Swami in the study circle in that wisdom if we do it right. But the thing is they didn't study really, they all live in the illusion that they know and that is the biggest mistake.
He tells them, 'I am an avatar, I am the divine principle, I am God' and they think, 'how great, we know God', but that is an illusion, we don't know God, just because he told us. We have to make the experience to be able to know God and that is the wisdom we have to acquire.
We meet in the study circle and talk about wisdom, but the study circle is as it seems rather a bit difficult in the West, we have to face the problems that it can turn into argumentation and it is about keeping the discipline and people are not allowed to talk freely and that is why they talk only around in the circle and everybody tells something what comes to the mind and forgets about it again afterwards, it means it is a sharing circle, but not really a study circle, it is not a study of the wisdom, nobody is looking for that facet which is always true.
It is not study, it is sharing and socializing and people have to talk in the circle and not interrupt, otherwise, we have arguments and discussions and it turns into something unpleasant and we come back with headache and that means only a few people really come to the study circle and enjoy it, most of people don't, because they get stupid answers or have to be quiet and they get aware that it is not possible to express themselves freely and until they can talk again in the circle, they forgot what they had in mind before, it doesn't flow.
We talk in the circle but, we share thoughts and in the meantime that works out without arguments always coming back to the wisdom. Some said that the study circle has become great and we are really happy about it and we will go on doing it every fourteen days. We talk about the wisdom, we don't go into arguing, we stay with the wisdom and it works great and it is amazing cleansing the mind to contemplate on Swami's wisdom.
There have been some amazing insights with the study circle, issues that had felt like a problem before, just dissolved in thin air like they never had existed, even if it seemed for years a problem.
After one study circle we sat down and it felt like in Prasanthi after Darshan and we were waiting for the Bhajans to begin, there was that silence in the air, the holy presence of Swami. It felt great, very holy, very sacred and it is beyond words really to describe that inner silence and to realize how it feels when he is present. All we need is the wisdom, the light and a study circle sharing that divine wisdom. If we study his words and keep the focus on his words and don't go into something else, it is important to keep the focus and that is easy as we have his text, we just go always back to the text. If we cannot answer a question, we read the text and go back to the text looking for the answer in his words.
It is a great thing really to feel Swami in his words. It is a wonderful moment to find his presence in a study circle and to listen to that silence in the air afterwards, the same silence we know from Darshan. We have to get there, because in that experience we realize that he has never been the body, he has never been the mind, he is in the midst of us, if we do it the right way, he is in the wisdom.
We have everything it needs to experience Swami's presence, we make a study circle, we sit down and study his words and we have in a Sai center Bhajans afterwards and it really feels like after Darshan and we know he is present and we wait for the Bhajans as we did during the time with him in Prasanthi, it is the same feeling, he is in his words, he is in that wisdom, he is in the truth and if we live it and practice, we make our own experience of the presence of that Universal Light of Love and it feels great, it is about the greatest experience we can get.
We have to make that experience, because after we also get aware that he has never been the body and the mind and that everything is in his wisdom only! And that it is the sharing of the wisdom what makes his presence if we know that light and the light is in the words.
It is a big, a very big mistake to neglect that wisdom and to not thinking it over; he is nothing else, but the embodiment of that wisdom!
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