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MAHASIVARATRI 2002 PHOTOS

The following discourse has been translated into English from Bhagavan's Telugu speech as heard on this festival's ashram audiocassette. It is a complete, literal translation made with the objective of preserving Bhagavan's precious original poetic style as much as possible.

DISCOURSE BY BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Summer Course  - 2002

#10

24 May 2002

Nasti Lobha Samo Vyadhi.

Nasthi Krodha Samoripuhi.

Nasti Daridavat Duhkham.

Nasti Jnanat Param Sukham.

There is no disease equal to greed.

There is no enemy equal to anger.

There is no sorrow like poverty.

There is no happiness like Wisdom.

(Sanskrit sloka)

God Is Everywhere

Embodiments of Love!

Prema, Aham, Atma, ‘I’: All of these are words with the same meaning. So every individual is putting to use the word  ‘I, I’. It means one is expressing that one is the Atma.

Sarvam Khalvidham Brahma.

  All is Brahman (God).

 (Sanskrit sloka)

Wherever one looks, wherever one is, whatever one experiences, it is only God which is everywhere. ‘Brahman’ also has the same meaning as the meaning of the word ‘I’.

Hence, Einstein said that there is nothing at all in this world, whether objects, forms or experiences. All is only one shakthi (energy/power). Even that shakthi doesn’t have a particular form. Shakthi is only shakthi. After undertaking numerous experiments in these times that are influenced by the Age of Kali, Einstein said:

Sarvam Khalvidham Brahma.

  All is Brahman (God).

(Sanskrit sloka)

Prahlada

However, a few thousand years before that, without doing any experiments, a seven-year old boy, Prahlada, said in those days:

Never have the doubt that:

‘He is in this and not in that.’

God is present everywhere.

Wherever one searches,

He is seen there.

 (Telugu poem)

Wherever Prahlada searched, God was present there. How did that experience occur? His own father, Hiranyakasipu, brought poisonous snakes and made them bite Prahlada. When Prahlada said the words, “Om Namo Narayanaya, Om Namo Narayanaya,” all f those poisonous snakes became a garland of flowers!

The father ordered them to take the boy and cut him into pieces. When each sword was taken, each time they struck him, Prahlada repeated, “Namo Narayanaya, Namo Narayanaya.” The swords did not work at all. Prahlada’s father said, “He should be made to drink poison.” They gave the poison to Prahlada and made him drink it. He had nothing else on his mind but the remembrance of Narayana: “Om Namo Narayanaya, Om Namo Narayanaya.” All of that poison changed into nectar!

Then Prahlada’s father said that was no use. He had the boy thrown from a mountaintop into the sea. When Prahlada was thrown into the ocean, he fell smiling saying, “Namo Narayana, Namo Narayana.”  The Sea god brought him up with two hands, lifted the boy and placed him on the shore!

What is the inner meaning of this? The root cause for this is faith. Without this faith, no matter how many times we say, “Namo Narayanaya, Namo Narayanaya,” it is not enough. All of this is only like playing a tape recorder. Yet to Prahlada, it was a sound coming out of his navel. It is the sound of God that is fully present everywhere.

The Shakthi of God

Man’s body is dynamic. When all the limbs of this body come together, it becomes like a generator. This body is an electric machine. Electricity also arises in it. So all that man possesses is only the shakthi of God.

Prahlada was one who attained success and had experiences. Therefore he could declare, “Wherever one looks, He is there.” However, scientists of today did numerous experiments. They also investigated whether what Einstein said was correct or not. They also declared that wherever they looked, it was only the nature of God that was observed.

There is no one who can create this shakthi. There is no one who can destroy this shakthi. Based on this, Newton also declared the same.  Newton completely dedicated his life to the experiment of discovering where the attraction power of this earth comes from. It is not something that arises through someone’s experiment. It is not destroyed if one ignores it. It has no certain situation or fate.

He is permanent, without any death and birth.

He is eternal, with no beginning or end.

He does not die, is not born and will not be killed!

He is the Witness of everything.

(Telugu poem)

Even Newton did many experiments regarding such a Divine shakthi. Newton is one who recognized that the earth had attraction power (gravitational force). How did he recognize that the earth had gravitational force? Wherever he looked, he observed gravitational force. Wherever he looked he, observed magnetic energy.

However, it is not possible for anyone to create or destroy this shakti. Yet one may change one object into another. Magnetic power can be transformed into a type of electric power. Electric power can be transformed into Chaitanya shakthi (the power of Divine Consciousness). Chaitanya shakthi can be changed into light rays. This shakti may be transformed into a sacred form.

One may transform it into so many different shakthis; but it is not possible to change its basic identity at all. Magnet is magnet only.  Yet, for some time it becomes less and for some time it becomes more (the intensity changes). It may change and change again, but it is not fully destroyed.

As long as this earth exists, this shakthi will continue to arise. No matter where we put our step, that step will be attracted (drawn by gravitational force). No matter where our vision goes, magnetic force will attract that sight. Wherever we listen, the magnetic force attracts it. How does it attract? Why does it attract?

If that is observed, in the very beginning of his life, man was born with no resolves at all. There were no desires at all. When he had no desires, he was pure and steady. So all powers shined powerfully in his body.

Then as well as now, there are 13 crores of light receptors in each one’s eye (that enable one to see). Not only that, there are 30 lakhs of taste buds on the tongue. If we observe hearing, there are 50 lakhs of sound waves (that enable one to hear). In this way, man’s entire body is a Divine experience.

Sarvam Kalavidham Brahma.

  All is Brahman (God).

(Sanskrit sloka)

All is the principle of God. Not only this. If man touches any object, that object doesn’t leave his grip (on its own). Powers like this were spread in man from top-to-toe. Man’s body is spread with Divine power from top-to-toe. But due to desires increasing, increasing and increasing, that power has decreased and decreased.

We Have Seen the Radiant God

You don’t need to go that far. Look right now. You have so many desires. Suppose that you have thirty desires. Among these thirty desires, reduce three desires. Think how much shakthi will arise from you. Memory power will also increase. The rishis of those days spoke of events that happened long before.

Saraswath Maharshi was the first one who initiated the chanting of the Vedas. At one time he repeated eight letters. He said: “ka, cha, ta, tha, pa, ya, sa, ha.” What is ‘ka, cha, ta, tha, pa, ya, sa, ha’? All of the Vedas arose from these letters. The words of man arose from such sounds. The inner meanings of those words are the Names of God. The Names of God were spread to the world due to such words. The Wind god spread them. Which ones?

Shabda Brahma Mayi, Charaachara Mayi,

Jyotir Mayi, Vaak Mayi, Nithyananda Mayi,

Paraat Para Mayi, Maaya Mayi, Sri Mayi.

Brahma is Sound,

Everything mobile and immobile,

Light, Speech, Eternal Bliss,

Almighty, Elusive and Auspicious.

(Sanskrit sloka)

The Divine Vedas arose from these eight letters. It is said:

Vedahametham Purusham Mahantham,

Adithya Varnam Thamasa Paarasthath.

I know the Supreme Being,

who shines with the effulgence of the Sun,

 and who is beyond thamas, the darkness of ignorance.

(Sanskrit sloka)

“Oh people! We have seen the radiant God who is beyond darkness.”

The people asked, “In what way did you see?”

Vedahametham Purusham Mahantham,

Adithya Varnam Thamasa Paarasthath.

I know the Supreme Being,

who shines with the effulgence of the Sun,

 and who is beyond thamas, the darkness of ignorance.

(Sanskrit sloka)

Divinity Is Present Everywhere

“We beheld the light of God in a radiance like the effulgence of the Sun.”

Where did they see? Did they see inside?  Did they see outside? They said:

Antar Bihischa Thath Sarvam.

Vyapa Narayana Sthithah.

Inside, outside, everything is ‘That’.

Narayana pervades all over.

(Sanskrit sloka)

“Not only inside, outside, around and above! We saw Him everywhere also.”

Antar Bihischa Thath Sarvam.

Vyapa Narayana Sthithah.

Inside, outside, everything is ‘That’.

Narayana pervades all over.

(Sanskrit sloka)

Hence, Divinity is present everywhere. So the rishis of those days didn’t make journeys anywhere. They sat in only one place and they contemplated on God. “If we walk anywhere, maybe we would walk on God. Maybe God would be crushed by our weight.” The rishis of those days even did daily actions with such sacred feelings. In ancient times, their behaviour became very sacred in this way.

Today, even though looking and looking (at it), people will put their legs on the idol of God. They put their feet on the form of God. What is all of this? They are very perverse actions. Why did these perverse actions begin?

Vinaasa Kaale Vipareeta Buddhih.

  At the time of destruction, perverse resolves will arise.

(Sanskrit sloka)

Meritorious times began in those days. Therefore, so many hidden things were propagated.

God's Powers

How are God's powers? The rishis of those days gave a few names to this. They called it: ‘Saikotikam Maha’. What does it mean? ‘Wherever one looks, there is Your sacred form and Your sacred sound.’ Hence, what name did they give to God? They gave ‘Saikotikam’. Then gradually, due to science changing, they said ‘Bhakshakthi’. This means ‘Divine shakthi’. It is not possible for anyone to touch it (in its absolute form). There is such power. Hold your hand and see: shakthi will touch your entire hand. That whole form (of God as shakthi) will touch you.

In those days, all experienced that kind of God's power. They were blissful and shared it. However, is that observed today? Without fail, it is seen. Will we certainly experience it? Certainly it will be experienced. However, we have to develop such faith.

Where is faith? One doesn’t even have any faith in oneself. In a situation like that, how can faith in God come? Therefore, wherever there is the full nature of Love:

Where there is Love, there is Peace.

Where there is Peace, there is Truth.

Where there is Truth, there is Bliss.

Where there is Bliss, there is God.

(Applause)

 We have to develop that nature of Love. Without that Love, where can this Truth be seen? How can we obtain peace? Who can gain this bliss? Bliss is moving about, step-by- step, like wave-after-wave.

Bliss used to touch the backs of all the sages going about in the forest. When it touched them, they used to forget themselves in ecstasy. Therefore, what courage did the few people have who went about in the forests in those days, all the munis and rishis? What weapons did they have with them? What guns did they have? What bombs did they have?

They didn’t have anything at all. Their big bomb (protection) was faith in God! They accomplished everything due to that true faith. Hence, due to us maintaining this sacred faith from ancient times in the land of Bharata, it (faith) is stable, it is firm and it doesn't move at all. It is observed to be eternal, true and pure.

What types of people would go to do austerity in those days?  Not only the very elderly or big (important) people who got disgusted with family life and left it. Six-year-old children, seven-year-old children, children within nine years of age went for austerity.

Dhruva

How old was Dhruva?  He was only six years old. His mother’s co-wife humiliated him, and with that courage, he went. He obtained the blessing of his own mother. He said, “Mother, I will obtain God’s Grace and return.” He went to a place without any people. He went to a silent place. He went to a pure place. In such a dense forest, there wasn’t even a place to put his foot down and no house to live in. Dhruva went to a place like that. He stood on one leg and he contemplated on the Name of Narayana saying, “Narayana, Narayana.”

Narayana came and manifested. “Son, what do you want?” Today, even aged and educated people do not have the intelligence of that small boy. Dhruva said, “I am a small boy. How do You know that I have come and am here in this place, which no one knows about? No one other than You knows, isn't it? So, don’t You, the One who knows that I have arrived and am present here, know what I want?”

Narayana answered, “Son:”

Manasekam, Vachasekam, Karmanyekan, Mahatmanam.

  A Great One has unity in thought, word and deed.

(Sanskrit sloka)

Narayana said, “You should become a Mahatma (a great soul). You took a determination. What was it? ‘I will do austerity, obtain the Grace of God and return.’ Appropriate to that, you came and you did austerity. Your resolve and austerity, both are unified. Yet, you could not express in words what you desired. So you need to also sanctify your words. I am questioning you for that reason.”

Then Dhruva said, “I was searching for a piece of glass, but I obtained a diamond. After obtaining a diamond, what work do I have with a piece of glass? I wanted to be the preferred son of the king. I wanted to sit on the lap of my father. I came and did so much austerity with that aim in mind. However, that desire isn’t necessary for me now. I only want You.”

Then Narayana said, “Dear one, I am ready to give anything you want. However, you should be sanctified. You have thought one thing and you did another. You spoke yet another. When these three are not in unity, your desire will not be fulfilled. Do it completely; then I will fulfill your desire.” When He said like that, obeying the command of God, Dhruva came home.

How intelligent were the children of those days! They had so many sacred feelings. They followed the best paths. Their resolves were the highest.

Desires Are Increasing

Then there was Prahlada. All of you know that Prahlada was such an ardent devotee. He didn’t have faith in anything except Narayana. He didn't even have faith in his father. He didn't even have faith in his mother. “The mother and father have vyamoha (love with physical attachment and delusion). However, Narayana has no vyamoha at all and no desires at all. He came to save me. Therefore, I will ask desires of the One who has no desires.”

Therefore, even from those days, they gave the advice to reduce desires. Today desires are increasing without limit. Vyamoha is increasing. One is tied up in bondage. Due to this bondage, man is succumbing to numerous difficulties.

Where does this bondage come from? Your desires only are your bondage. Your difficulties only are your bondage. These desires are your bondage, so reduce these desires and then you will be without worries. No danger will ever happen to you. Therefore, as man decreases his desires, man’s peace increases.

Less luggage more comfort

These desires are increasing, increasing, increasing. Even when one’s life is about to end in a couple of minutes, one will ask for some desire. What are these desires? What is the result we get from these desires? Yet how much bliss may be obtained when there are no desires!

Follow Me

Truly, whether you believe it or not, I have no desires at all. (Applause) I never have any worry.

Follow Me.

So, you also remain without desires and with a heart of bliss. Desires are binding us, but they do not give liberation.

When your desires are fulfilled, you praise Me highly.

When your desires are not fulfilled, you scold Me.

You commit sinful acts,

but when danger confronts you,

you ask for protection, meanwhile blaming Me.

(Telugu poem)

Do you see? In this way, what you do are sinful acts; but what you want are meritorious results. This is not proper. We should never succumb to sin. We should always enter into meritorious deeds. Give help fully, as far as possible. Vishnu helped all. Eswara also helped all. Therefore, can't you do even a fraction of what God does?

Follow the Master.

Face the devil.

Fight to the end.

Finish the game.

Follow the Master. Therefore, if you follow that, you will obtain anything.

You are worshipping with devotion during so many years. You are doing parayanas (daily reading of holy books) and you are doing bhajan. But has even a bit of the pollution in your mind decreased? Day-by-day the pollution is increasing; but it does not decrease. Are you experiencing bliss wholeheartedly, even for a minute? Nothing at all! Then, why these desires?

You desire children, children, children, children. Children should indeed be desired. That is your duty, which you should do. Do your duty. God Himself will look after your children. You don’t need to look after them. You are looking after them. What result do you have through that? If you offer the responsibility to God, He Himself will take care of them. You will have joy and the child will have joy.

Therefore, we should not have these desires. They should gradually be decreased. We will be overwhelmed with bliss to the extent that they are reduced. Therefore, first and foremost, we should try to recognize the nature of God in the world.

The Entire World Was Pitch Dark

In the past, the entire world was pitch dark. No object was seen anywhere. No form was seen. In a situation like that, all prayed. After they prayed, there was heavy rainfall for a few crores (tens of millions) of years. It was a few crores of years, not just lakhs (hundreds of thousands) of years. Heavy rain fell for a few crores of years. The effect of that heavy downpour is the root cause for so many oceans.

That heavy rain poured, poured, poured, and then all of the clouds became clear. Then gradually stars could be seen. Due to these stars being seen, the Sun was also seen. Due to the Sun being seen, man’s desires could be fulfilled and he could ripen crops and thus live life. It happened like this.

So, first and foremost, in a situation where nothing was known, there were no desires at all. Gradually, due to light appearing, desires increased. Desires begin first thing in the early morning! However at night, there aren't so many desires. What does it mean?  There is not as much opportunity for desires to enter in at night. Therefore, we should be very happy when darkness comes. Many people scold the darkness saying, “Oh no! This darkness has come!” They think it should always be light. What is the use if there is always light? 

When Rama was born, the Sun didn’t rise for fifteen days. It was only dark. Due to it being dark, even the Moon suffered. “Alas, I am unable even to see Rama!” After fifteen        days passed, the Sun got disgusted. “I am unable to see Rama who was born!” Saying that, the Sun gradually contemplated on Rama within himself. Gradually the Sun rose. Then only the Moon also rose. The Sun and Moon fulfilled their duties. Due to them fulfilling their duties, the world could undertake creation and destruction.

Therefore, if you first recognize the secrets of Creation, in the very beginning in any situation, the form of man was not seen (man played no part in Creation). Are there men today? They are seen wherever one looks.

Now they are discovering very great inventions - medicines for trying to decrease the population. How can something like this come about? It is not reduced by medicines. Only when the mind is turned towards God, all of these desires will reduce. Only when these desires reduce, the population will decrease. Hence, first and foremost, we should have sense control.

Tomorrow, the subject of Prahlada, which is very great, will be explained.

You Are The Embodiment Of Love

People of all countries are coming to propagate the nature of Buddha to the world. Listen to whatever is spread regarding the nature of Buddha, and then control the mind to some extent. They control everything, but the desires in the mind are not being controlled. We have to control desires. Then you will attain so much peace.

Where does this peace come from? You yourself will be surprised. When this peace comes, it will not circulate. That peace will arise out of oneself. Wherever one looks, there is only peace. Wherever one looks, there is only Truth. Wherever one looks, there is only Love.

You are the embodiment of Love.

You are the embodiment of Peace.

You are the embodiment of Truth.

You are the embodiment of God.

(Applause) First and foremost, recognize this Truth. Truth is not anywhere separate. Where is Truth?  Right here! Where there is Truth, there is God.

Peace, peace, peace. Where is peace? Is peace outside? Wherever one goes, there are only pieces, pieces, pieces - no peace. Peace is only near God. Develop the Divinity in your heart. Have faith in the truth that, “God is in my heart”. Only when you have faith in that truth, will you certainly get peace.

The entire Creation has originated out of Truth

and it will merge back into Truth.

Is there any place in this Universe

where there is no principle of Truth?

This is the pure, unsullied Truth.

(Telugu poem)

Therefore, we don’t need to go anywhere to search for God. Where there is Truth, God manifests there. Wherever there is Truth, there Narayana manifests. Where Narayana manifests, there Lakshmi (the Goddess of Wealth) is present. So, how will Lakshmi come to you? Lakshmi (money or wealth) is needed.  But where will it come from? It should come from within you. Make that Lakshmi within you arise. When you keep Narayana in your heart, Lakshmi herself will come along with Him.

Hence, undertake good actions with sacred feelings, firm resolve and constant contemplation on God. Help others. See that jealousy of others does not arise. We should not be jealous of others. If jealousy comes, one is useless. Jealousy ruins man.

Today jealousy has increased. If anyone is doing well, seeing them, others will shed tears. If someone is happy, seeing him or her, others cannot bear it. It is very bad, very bad. First and foremost, if others are joyful, be happy. Certainly you will be happy. So, these are the secrets of Divinity.

The Well of Grace

There is as much Grace as is needed. However, a well is deep. If one wants to draw water out of a well, you tie a rope onto your bucket and throw it into the well. Then, only when it is pulled out of the well again, you will get water in that bucket.

So everything is present, but you are not tying the rope to your bucket. Tying the rope, you are not dropping the bucket into the well. Dropping the bucket into the well, you are not pulling it up again.

What is that rope? That is the rope of devotion. Tying the rope of devotion: Tie it up nicely to the container of the heart, which is well cleaned. Then, only when it is dropped into the well of Grace, we will obtain the water of bliss.

It has to be dropped into the well of Grace, not into the well of anger, not into the well of jealousy and not into the well of discontentment. It has to be dropped into the well of bliss. So, make distant the bad qualities in man. Why should we develop these bad qualities during this sacred opportunity? Due to increasing these bad qualities, we ourselves are obtaining a bad fate.

Therefore, Embodiments of Love!

Develop good and sacred feelings. Mingle and mix together with Love. If you earn that one thing - Love - all will come walking towards you.

Bhagavan ended His Divine Discourse by chanting the bhajan,

"Prema Mudhita Mana Se Kaho…" 

Summer Course Glossary

#10

May 24^th, 2002

Taken from "A Glossary of Sanskrit Words

Gleaned from Sai Literature"

1)     Brahman (pg. 88) The Cosmic Self; Paramatman; Brahman describes a state of consciousness beyond time and space, in which Being (Sath), Consciousness (Chith), Bliss (Ananda) merge to become One. That which is beyond eternity. The Katha Upanishad states that Brahman can be realized only in this life or in the highest spiritual realm. In none of the other spiritual regions can Reality be apprehended. Therefore, man has to seize the opportunity of this lifetime to work towards his goal, since failing to do so would mean returning to the cycle of birth and death. Brahman is the basic Truth of the Universe, which includes Oneself.

2)     Bhajan (pg. 68) The singing of devotional songs in praise of God.

3)     Chaitanya (pg. 94) Divine Consciousness

4)     Mahatma (pg. 210) A great soul

5)     Muni (pg. 239) the ascetic who recognizes God in his heart and adores Him.

6)     Rishi (pg. 298) A great saint, fully knowing the omnipresence of God. A rishi is not one who is a great scholar or a ritualist, but on who is free from evil tendencies.

7)     Shakthi: (pg. 347) The great Universal power or energy