The
Call - The Response
Baba addresses
the vast assemblies that gather to listen to His
Discourses, "Divyathma-swarupulara"! - "Ye,
Divine Atmic Realities"! He sees all as Himself;
He calls upon all to see Him as themselves. This
identity is the Truth, but, we revel in the
delusion of separateness and suffer. Baba is
Love, Wisdom, Power, Grace. So, He is able to
declare, "The world is My mansion; even those
who deny Me are Mine; call Me by any Name, I
shall respond; picture Me in any Form, I shall
present Myself before you." "I am in the least
of you, as much as in the best; do not slander
or injure anyone, for, you are slandering and
injuring Me who is in him." Such is the
universality of His Majesty and His
Love.
It is that
Love which prompts Him to invite us to approach,
examine, experience, judge and then, accept Him.
Lord Krishna, too, after teaching Arjuna the
Gita, said, "Now
that you have heard all, revolve this in your
mind and do as you
desire"!
(*)
Baba has no anger in His composition, no trace
of fear or fanaticism. We are all His
reflections; He recognises us as such, though we
have not yet become aware of it. How can He then
give us up? He sees mankind as a massive caravan
on the pilgrim road across the desert wastes -
some straying away where mirages attract, some
searching for oases, some listening to the
voices of those who have seen the goal. When
Baba, at the age of 14 cast away His satchel of
school books and stepped on to the road with the
words,
"I am no longer yours, My devotees are
calling Me, I have My work to
do",
[see:
The Serpent
Hill]
the caravan was about to destroy itself in the
arid region of simoomridden science and die of
thirst deprived of the waters of brotherly
Love.
There is in
every river, Baba says, the urge to return to
the sea from which it was born. Rising as vapour
into the sky, rolling across it as cloud,
falling as rain upon the earth, flowing along
the bed it scours, it keeps that urge in mind;
the urge ushers it forward over every obstacle
until it reaches the sea; so, too, all men in
all lands call out in all languages for God,
from whom they have come, so that, He may give a
sign, an echoing call to lead them along the
quickest, the safest path to
Him.
Baba hears
that call. He gives the sign, the echoing call.
"My devotees are calling Me; I have My work to
do", He said. "All men are Mine; the World is My
Mansion", He says. "I have no Name I can specify
as My very Own". He has come to guide all
mankind. When some one wrote to Baba, "I am
happy that Your name is adored in every home
here", Baba replied, "You will soon see that It
is adored in every inch of space all over the
World." Yes. That is the Meaning, the Purpose,
the Mission, the Consummation.
The World
Conference of Sevaks and Sadhaks of the Sathya
Sai Organisations and Groups will inaugurate
that Golden Era of Universal Love.
(*)
Bhagavad
Gîtâ of Order; Chapter 18b, verse
72.
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