Consider the meaning of the name, Sai Baba. 'Sa' means divine;
'ai' or 'ayi' means 'mother' and 'Baba' means father. The name
indicates the divine mother and father, just as Saamba-Shiva,
which also means the divine mother and father. Your physical
parents exhibit love with a dose of selfishness; but, this Sai
"mother and father" showers affection or reprimands, only for
leading you towards victory in the struggle for self-realisation.
For, this Sai has come in order to achieve the supreme task of
uniting the entire mankind, as one family through the bond of
brotherhood, of affirming and illumining the Aathmic reality
of each being in order to reveal the divine which is the basis
on which the entire cosmos rests, and of instructing all to
recognise the common divine heritage that binds man to man,
so that man can rid himself of the animal, and rise into the
divine which is his goal.
I am the embodiment of love; love is My instrument. There is
no creature without love; the lowest loves itself, at least.
And its 'self' is God. So, there are no atheists, though some
might dislike Him or refuse Him, as malarial patients dislike
sweets or diabetic patients refuse to have anything to do with
sweets! Those who preen themselves as atheists will one day,
when their illness is gone, relish God and revere Him.I had
to tell you so much about My truth, for, I desire that you
should contemplate on this and derive joy therefrom, so that
you may be inspired to observe the disciplines laid down
by Me and progress towards the Goal of self-realisation, the
realisation of the Sai that shines in your hearts.
God is inscrutable. He cannot be realised in the outer
objective world; He is in the very heart of every being.
Gemstones have to be sought deep underground; they do not
float in mid-air. Seek God in the depths of yourself, not
in tantalising, kaleidoscopic nature. The body is granted
to you for this high purpose; but, you are now misusing it,
like the person who cooked his daily food in the gem-studded
gold vase that came into his hands as an heirloom.
Man extols God as omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent,
but, he ignores His presence in himself! Of course, many
venture to describe the attributes of God and proclaim Him
to be such and such; but, these are but their own guesses
and the reflections of their own predilections and preferences.
Who can affirm that God is this or that? Who can affirm that
God is not of this form or with this attribute? Each one can
acquire from the vast expanse of the ocean only as much as
can be contained in the vessel he carries to its shore.
From that quantity, they can grasp but little of that immensity.