Shri Baba: The Incarnation of God

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

Miracles are done by God and not by individual soul (Jiiva). The Veda says that God alone does miracles (Satyakamah…). The logic in this point is that this entire creation is just His will only. This world is just imagination of God. You can do any impossible thing in your imaginary world. You can also make somebody created by you in the imaginary world to do anything. That somebody is able to do anything due to your will only. Hence, if somebody is doing a miracle, that somebody is not doing the miracle. God, the creator of the world, is doing miracle through him. The will power is the material of your imaginary world and is responsible for any action that is natural as well as supernatural. Hence, for realized souls, who see every action as the will of God only, the miracle is not a special action at all. For realized souls, not only the actions but also the entire material of the creation is also His will only. In such case, they do not distinguish matter, energy, work and miracle. Only ignorant people distinguish miracle from ordinary action that can be done by human beings. They think that the human being can do such and such work and God is not involved in it. For them only, miracle is necessary, which is the action of God separately distinguished from the action of human being. This is the reason for the realized souls not giving any importance to a miracle since they see every action and even the entire world also as the action of God only. Even the human being itself is a work of God. Hence, the human being identified by the life or mind or awareness is called as Paraprakruti.

Prakruti means best work. Kruti means work. The prefix ‘Pra’ means best. This world is wonderful and hence, is called as Prakruti or best work. Within this best work, life or mind or intelligence denoting basic awareness is again the best of best. Para means best. Paraprakruti means best in the best work. Hence, the life itself is work. The awareness is the basic material of life or mind or intelligence. Infact, awareness is the best special type of work done by inert energy produced in the oxidation of food. This inert energy enters a special system called as nervous system and does a special work, and this special work is called as awareness. The effects of this special work are desires (Samkalpa) and discussions of desires in various ways (Vikalpa) constituting the field of mind. The final effect of this awareness or special work is intelligence, which takes decision (Nischaya). The life is Prana or oxygen maintained by the respiratory system that is needed to oxidize the food taken by the digestive system. The life is in plants. The mind requires nervous system, which is developed in birds and animals. The main part of nervous system is brain, which is well developed in human beings. Even the inert energy is a form of work only. Matter, which is a form of inert energy, is also work only. Hence, the entire creation involving matter, inert energy and awareness is just work only. The work needs worker and the worker is God. Hence, the entire creation consisting of inert matter, inert energy, plants, birds, animals and human beings is just the work of God only. In this work of God (world), the awareness (Chit) is the best work. If you say that awareness is modified into the world, science disproves it, since the inert energy is modified into awareness. If you call God as the awareness, we have no objection but the word used by you should not mean the awareness that is available in this world, which is generated by the inert energy only. Then, the word used by you has no meaning and hence, God becomes beyond the meaning available in the world, which means unimaginable. Hence, the link between God (worker) and the world (work) is unimaginable. In the world, you are finding imaginable worker and the imaginable work only. The link between two imaginable items becomes imaginable. The link between unimaginable God (worker) and the imaginable world (work) is unimaginable because such example is not available in the world. Hence, our logic and imagination is limited to the creation only and not to the creator and not also to the link that is a process of creation.

The creation is imaginable even though its limits are unimaginable. The deeper planes of the creation are also unimaginable even to the science today. You can’t say that even the creation also is entirely unimaginable. If everything is unimaginable, the word unimaginable itself cannot be generated. If something is known and something is unknown, the known and unknown exist together. If the known disappears, the unknown also disappears because both known and unknown are relative to each other. Hence, God created the world and made the surface planes of the world to be known to us so that the relative unknown also exists. Then only, we can say that God is unknown or unimaginable. If God and the link between God and world are unknown completely, then we can start with the world and end in the world only. This is what is being done by science. Science starts with world and ends in the world. Its logic is limited to the world perfectly. If anybody tries to project the known item as unknown, science will object it and we also must support science in this point. If you do some magic and say that it is a divine miracle, science opposes it and we must also support the science and not the magic projected as miracle. Therefore, you should be always scientific from all angles and try to disprove any miracle as magic. But if you really fail to prove the miracle as magic and still argue that the miracle is only magic, you are no more a scientist. You are in no way different from a blind ignorant fool who believes the magic as miracle since you are also blind ignorant fool believing the miracle also as magic. We should be impartial to call both as conservative rigid fools of their blind beliefs. You should have always the open mind to analyze and accept the truth. You can prove the miracles of fraud Babas as magic but you cannot say that the miracle of Shri Satya Sai Baba as magic, which is being done since His childhood. Magic requires some training. In that petty village of Puttaparti, in those days of childhood of Baba, who came to train Baba in the magic? People should have noticed the training very easily and should have recorded the fact, which cannot be hidden in that small village. Science is noble in admitting unknown things. Heisenberg is a noble scientist and winner of Nobel Prize, who admitted the uncertain phenomena under the uncertainty principle. It is not certain whether the electron is a wave or a particle. It has dual nature. Dual nature is not a precise answer and admits the concept of uncertainty or unimaginable nature.

Inert Energy is Basic Material of Universe

According to science, inert energy is basic material of this universe, which creates, maintains and finally dissolves entire creation and is the God of science. The design of the world doesn’t require the need of awareness because a long duration of time has set up the design of world perfectly by the theory of probability. Scientists do not accept the necessity of an intellectual agent to design this wonderful world as philosophers imagine in Vedanta (the Brahma Sutras). If this is the end of the story, science could have easily disposed the proposal of Vedanta and the scriptures can be easily concluded as poetic imaginations of certain poets. It can be easily concluded that certain people have created this poetry to exploit the society in the name of God. Anyone can easily believe science and by this time, the world should have been filled with atheists only and today, the minority should be theists. But surprisingly, the majority is theists and minority is only atheists. The atheists say that since majority is uneducated, theism exists due to possibility of easy exploitation of uneducated people. But even educated people show majority of theists only all over the world. What is the reason for this? The reason for this is that the unimaginable God is showing miracles in the lives of several people to establish the existence of unimaginable God. Not only this, the unimaginable God is exhibiting unimaginable miracles through several devotees and also demons widely. Not only this, God is coming in human form and is offering explanation of the miracles and concept of God.

Genuine miracles are many in the world and the minority of atheists is unable to dispose these miracles as magic. You may write the correct answer through copying in the examination. Somebody might have also written the same correct answer without copying in the examination. Since the answer is one and same, can you say that the other person who has written the correct answer also copied necessarily? The product may be same but the methods of production vary. Sodium chloride can be produced in several ways. You have produced it in one way. I have produced it in another way. The end product is the same sodium chloride. You cannot say that I have also produced in your way only. You may produce ash by hiding wet salt–powder in the hand. Shri Baba may produce the same ash by materialization of will force. Since the ash is one and the same, you cannot say that Shri Baba also must have hidden the ash in the hand like yourself. Baba is not recognized as God by mere miracles. He is recognized as God by divine knowledge, which is special and can’t be heard anywhere (Prajnanam), divine love expressed through practical service, infinite bliss due to balanced nature by entertaining self in any situation and miracles. The Veda gives these four identity marks for human incarnation. Prajnanam Brahma, Raso vai sah, Anando Brahma and Satyakamah are the four corresponding Vedic statements that prove Him as God.

Miracles are very widely distributed in the world to give proof for the existence of the God to every human being, which is the basic requirement. If you pray sincerely in a temple or even in open place, generally God gives you His answer through a miracle. Many have witnessed this in their lives. Sometimes due to the inevitable fruits of your past deeds, God keeps silent for some time, and that time is used in your transformation. Hence, scientists call this as probability or coincidence of events. Hence, God demonstrates specific miracles in human form to meet this twisted interpretation of scientists or atheists. Even devotees and even demons do specific miracles. God has given a wide coverage for spreading miracles since it involves the very basic issue of His existence. Scientists have to accept the existence of unimaginable nature from the practical example of unimaginable limits of this infinite Universe. Scientists may reject miracles but can’t reject the unimaginable limits of space. One instance of existence of unimaginable entity is sufficient to prove the existence of unimaginable God. The miracles act as supporting evidences of the same concept.

Swami Giving Cosmic Vision

I am provoked to site another miracle of Lord Datta shown through this poor fellow (Me) about cosmic vision. On one day of Guru Purnima, I was giving a divine discourse to a small crowd of devotees in the house of Shri CBK Murthy at Vijayawada. The speech went for three hours. In the middle of speech, I stood suddenly for five minutes closing My eyes. I do such things spontaneously without any plan or awareness of any point suddenly due to the will of God working through Me. I consider Myself to be most undeserving for such reasonless grace of God on Me. I never claim Myself even to be the dust particle of the divine lotus feet of God. After five minutes, I opened My eyes and looked at two devotees sitting far from each other in the crowd. They were Shri Ajay and Smt. Sitamma. I asked both of them to explain about their vision. I told that they should say whether they had the same vision or different. Both have explained their visions separately and both visions happened to be the same. The vision was the same cosmic vision. Both saw the Lord with the entire universe in Him standing before a golden chariot and both saw Arjuna fallen on the feet of the Lord. Previously some devotees were reporting visions on seeing Me. Some were thinking that it might be illusion of mind. How both the devotees got the same vision in the same time? How could I ask those two devotees only, when several devotees were sitting there? You can’t dispose everything by mere probability and coincidence. It is by the grace of Shri Satya Sai Baba only, I give this divine knowledge and if any merit or miracle is exhibited, the credit of it goes to Him only. If any defect is exhibited, I own it. Some devotees consider Me also as human incarnation of God Datta. But I sincerely feel that all My devotees are the real human incarnations of God Datta. I feel that God Datta is testing Me through them regarding the effect of injection of ego into Me through their praise. I know that God quits Me if the bad scented ego enters into Me as in the case of Parashurama. Shri Shirdi Sai Baba always maintained God in Him by resisting ego by always saying that God is the master (Allah Malik). Shri Satya Sai Baba also maintained God in Him constantly by saying that every human being is God already (Advaita).

The human incarnation is God entering the human body as said by the Gita (Manushiim tanumashritam…). The human body consists of three sub-bodies. The first is external gross body made of five elements. The second is internal subtle body (Jiiva), which is a bundle of qualities. The innermost is the causal body (Atman), which is the pure awareness or soul. Atman is like standstill water and qualities (Jiiva) are like the waves in the water. Jiiva and Atman are inseparable. Atman can exist without Jiiva, which is the steady soul in the meditation without thoughts. By effort, the thoughts (qualities) can be completely destroyed so that pure soul remains. This is the Nirguna-Atman (attributeless soul) of Advaita Philosophers. But Jiiva can’t exist without Atman. When God enters the human body, the Jiivatman, a jointly associated system of qualities and soul together, which is the liberated soul, exists there as the personal assistant. The Jiivatman is only a slave to God and can be considered as almost living doll. The Veda refers this to the two birds living together on a common tree. The two birds are God and Jiivatman and the tree is the gross body of Jiivatman. God is visiting guest in the house of the liberated soul. God doesn’t come into mere inert gross body. God lives with the liberated soul selected by Him from His family of liberated souls, so that the liberated soul becomes happy due to visit of God. God and the liberated soul are homogeneously united like two metallic components in a single phase of alloy. God pervades even the gross body whenever it is required as in the situation of uplifting the hill. The human being consisting of gross, subtle and causal bodies acts as a wire charged by current. The live wire is treated as current for all the practical purposes and can be treated as current. Hence, the human being is treated as God and this is the monism of Shankara limited to the human incarnation and not to be extended to every human being. In human being, the soul and Jiiva are the two birds as per Shankara and in such case, you can call the Jiiva as soul, but not as God. According to Ramanuja, the interpretation is God and soul only referring to the human incarnation.

The human incarnation proves the existence of two components. The unimaginable God requires the medium, which is a part of the creation for His expression to devotees. The medium can’t be inert statue because the purpose of preaching knowledge and the purpose of receiving service directly from certain blessed souls is not served. The God component in Krishna said the Bhagavad Gita, which means the scripture spoken by God. It is not called as Krishna Gita. When the war ended, Arjuna asked Krishna to repeat the Gita. Krishna expressed His inability but on compulsion, spoke Anu Gita, which is not as good as the Bhagavad Gita. Anu Gita is just a scholastic composition of Krishna, who became a scholar trained by Sandipa. I have also experienced this situation several times. Whenever I give divine discourse, it comes spontaneously from the God component in Me. Sometimes a paragraph disappears due to some technical mistake in the computer. I become very much disturbed because I can’t repeat even a single sentence again! The two-component system proves dvaita and since God is major component and soul is minor component, it proves Vishishta Advaita. Thus, all the three theories co-exist simultaneously differing due to angles of observers. The highest devotees treat the human incarnation as God only neglecting the Jiivatman, who is just a slave of God. The higher devotees treat the human incarnation as almost God due to the major God component. The normal devotees see God and Jiivatman separately in the human incarnation. The three devotees of the different levels simultaneously maintain their corresponding views of human incarnation. Hence, all the theories of three Acharyas are simultaneously correct.

The main problem with anybody is the repulsion between the common media due to ego and jealousy, which are the very nature of human beings. The souls in physical bodies on earth worship the energetic bodies of God limited to the upper worlds due to absence of repulsion between common media. The energetic forms of upper worlds like Vishnu are meant for the same souls entering energetic bodies after death. The same soul is associated with energetic body after death and goes to the upper world. Now, the soul rejects the same energetic form of God, which it worshipped tremendously while existing on the earth based on the same old repulsion between common media. Hence, the Gita says that even the soul going to Brahma Loka returns back to earth. But the human being worshipping the contemporary human incarnation must have crossed ego and jealousy here. Hence, such soul on going to Brahma Loka crosses the same repulsion there also and does not return back since he is always associated with God. The devotee of energetic form here returns back from the abode of God, whereas the devotee of Krishna, the contemporary human incarnation, does not return back. Here, the word ‘Krishna’ in the Gita should be taken as the contemporary human incarnation coming in every generation. Hanuman didn’t worship statue of Vamana or Parashurama, the past human incarnation. He worshipped Rama, His contemporary human incarnation and became Brahma or God. Similarly, Gopikas worshiped their contemporary human incarnation, Krishna only and not the statue of Rama, the past human incarnation. They got Goloka, which is higher than the abode of God. Are you greater than Hanuman and Gopikas to worship the statues of upper energetic forms like Vishnu or statues of past human incarnations like Krishna, neglecting the present contemporary human incarnation of this generation, which is Shri Satya Sai Baba? Jambavan, a bear, famous for foolish rigidity couldn’t recognize Krishna as God and fought with Him. Rama and Krishna differ in the external physiology of gross bodies, which is only visible. Even the internal qualities (subtle bodies) differ. The innermost causal body (pure awareness) can’t be God, which is also existing in Jambavan himself! The unimaginable God is invisible and is also beyond the mental imagination and hence, he couldn’t recognize God in Krishna. God comes in human form in every generation to bless the devotees; otherwise He becomes partial to one generation only. God can simultaneously exist in several human forms also due to different programs in different places. Akkalkot Maharaj and Shirdi Sai Baba were simultaneous human incarnations of the same God Datta.

God comes in human form for multi-dimensional program. He preaches the divine knowledge covering all the humanity including atheists. Miracles are mainly for atheists only and some atheists are converted into theists through the miracles of Baba. God receives the services of certain blessed devotees who did lot of penance with that desire. He selects only such blessed soul with lot of penance in the background for His service. The human incarnation mainly comes to fulfill the desire of such blessed devotees only. Having come to the earth for that purpose, He always tries to uplift all through the divine knowledge and miracles. The few exceptional blessed devotees are pleased to serve the Lord personally and see the pleasure in the face of Lord for which they did lot of penance for several births. This is the main purpose of visit of God in human form to the earth.

Why did Shridi Sai say Allah Malik?

Shri Shirdi Sai Baba used to say that He is the servant of God (Allah Malik). But He is God directly. Then, why does He say like that? The behavior of human incarnation has a specific divine program with respect to the humanity on the earth. Generally, the human beings don’t tolerate even little greatness in a co-human being. Generally, you can find the tendency of criticizing everybody except himself or herself in chatting with each other. In such case, how the humanity can tolerate the greatest God in human form? They should be guided spiritually, but every time, the human incarnation takes care about pacifying their jealousy and ego in every step of guidance. Hence, the dualism of the human incarnation is inevitable concept for the humanity leaving a few exceptional devotees of topmost level like Gopikas. In the dual concept of human incarnation, God and liberated soul co-exist together. It is the liberated soul present in the human incarnation that speaks ‘Allah Malik’. Moreover, God has to act as an ordinary human being first and then as a devotee to give practical guidance to the humanity. The monism of human incarnation is suitable to a very few devotees only like Gopikas. Even if they hear the ‘Allah Malik’, they are not disturbed by such statements due to their firm faith. Hence, God in human form always plans His program to the general humanity only. Even a divine play is arranged in which God takes both the roles of human incarnation and devotee, so that a practical demonstration of the selection and worship of contemporary human incarnation is exhibited. Rama and Hanuman are the incarnation and devotee playing simultaneously in their roles and God is the single actor. You find in cinema a single actor playing in double role simultaneously. For Omnipotent God, nothing is impossible. Both Rama and Hanuman are human incarnations of God to establish the concept of contemporary human incarnation. Similarly, Krishna and Radha are the same roles of God. Radha is incarnation of Durvasa. Durvasa is incarnation of Shiva. Krishna is incarnation of Narayana. Both Shiva and Narayana are energetic incarnations of same God and the Veda says same thing. Similarly, Rama and Hanuman are the incarnations of Narayana and Shiva. Hence, sometimes you find two contemporary human incarnations playing in the roles of God and devotee simultaneously to give effective message to humanity. Sometimes God becomes the devotee of even a devotee since God says that He is the servant of His servant. You may keep diamond on the floor and a gravel stone in the sky. The diamond will not become stone and the stone will not become diamond by the virtue of place.

When Hanuman became devotee of Rama or Radha became devotee of Krishna, it is God in one role becoming devotee of God in another role. But Shirdi Sai Baba became the disciple of Bade Baba for some time, and Sai Baba remains as God always and Bade Baba remains as devotee always. God preaches us to become submissive and avoid ego at any cost by all these incidents. God in the role of Rama defeated God in the role of Parashurama and this is again a message for humanity that one should not become egoistic taking the credit of any work to himself. Today, people are fond of ego and praise from others. Everybody is a victim of the wine of praise. Some like it externally but everybody likes it internally. While giving message to humanity, God also is entertained in the variety of roles. Lord Shiva is called as Eshvara, which means that He is the Master of every soul in the creation. He became bored in the continuous role of Master and became very fond of the role of a servant. Hence, He enjoyed very much in the roles of Hanuman and Radha as devoted servants. But this aspect is secondary only and the primary aspect is to give effective message to the humanity. Hanuman never said that He is God. He was given the post of God by Rama. Hanuman is already God and now becomes God again. In the role of Hanuman, God forgot Himself that He is God. In such case of Hanuman only, the Advaita Philosophy applies completely. Advaita says that the soul is already God and forgot that it is God. Now, by realization through spiritual knowledge (Maha Vakyas of the Veda), the soul becomes God and Advaitins say that this is Prapta Prapti i.e., the attainment of already attained. Now, this concept applies to Hanuman perfectly. He is already God and in the role of Hanuman. He forgot Himself. Now, after getting the post of God, He becomes God and it is only Prapta Prapti. If an ordinary human being applies this to itself, such human being is not Hanuman, but is a foolish petty monkey! Hence, there is every possibility of the devotee of contemporary human incarnation to be God just like the contemporary human incarnation.

God never projects Himself for the sake of praise, love and service from others. There is no trace of need for these for God, as in the case of a soul. All the sages and angels are constantly praising Him. Does He require the praise of these human beings, which is always need based? Radha and Gopikas, Prahlada etc., are there, who love Him with total surrender prepared even to sacrifice their lives to please Him. Does He require the love of these human beings, which is always apparent like water in mirage? There are many devotees like Hanuman, Garuda, Adishesha to serve Him continuously without a trace of aspiration for any fruit in return. Does He require the service of these human beings who fear to serve in advance and ask God to give the fruit first and then offer service? He is the infinite ocean of bliss and is giving divine happiness to the devotees, who are just present near Him. Does He require the happiness from any human being, which is just momentary? The Veda says that God has no desire for anything from anybody. He creates the divine play just to show what you are to yourself in practice, because you always boast yourself about your faith, love, surrender and sacrifice to God. He wants just to show you to yourself so that you will realize the truth about yourself and take the necessary steps for your further spiritual effort.

God wants that all the souls should live in peace and harmony to each other in the society and make Pravrutti as a strong stage for His divine play with His devotees. To rectify the Pravrutti of souls and to achieve a peaceful society with mutual love to each other, God puts all His efforts always. Except this one aim, God has no other intention for any selfish motive. Krishna projected Himself as God only to make Arjuna to rectify his behavior in Pravrutti. Otherwise, never He projected Himself as God at anytime in His life. Even if He did miracles, He was trying to hide them always with some natural interpretations. He was showing His divine power only to punish the evil forces, which disturb the society. He wants to establish the existence of divine administration through His superpowers so that the future will be safe at least due to fear to God. God always hides Himself on the earth so that He can take some rest without being disturbed and can enjoy the life of a normal human being for which He is fascinated due to constant bore in the divine life. Unless there is some real requirement for the welfare of society, He never projects His divinity. He is happy if all the souls are happy with love and harmony. Shri Baba always tried to rectify the Pravrutti of the society, for which only, He was projecting His divinity through miracles. He never said that He alone is God and others should worship Him, even though it is real that He alone is God as the contemporary human incarnation. He always addressed the public as embodiments of His divine soul. It means that He is treating all the human beings as forms of God. By this address, He pacifies the ego and jealousy of the human beings towards Him at the very outset. He said that unless the soul rectifies Pravrutti and raises itself from unjust animal nature to its normal human nature, how it could raise to the divine nature?

Shankara used the concept of Advaita to change atheists into theists. Baba used the same concept to rectify the Pravrutti of human beings and restore the normal human nature in the society. Only a few blessed souls go deep into the God and enter Nivrutti after tasting the divine nature of God. God opposes them and tries to keep them in Pravrutti only. But, having tasted the infinite bliss of God, the devotees of Nivrutti are prepared even to sacrifice their lives like the drug-addicted people resisted to use the drugs! Finding their rigidity in their love to Him, God embraces them and they enter His inner circle. When Krishna asked Gopikas to return back from Nivrutti, they told that they will jump into the river Yamuna and sacrifice their lives, if Krishna rejects them. God never tries for devotees. Devotees only try for God. Sugar does not search for ants. Ants search for sugar. The sweetness of sugar is inherent quality of sugar and sugar cannot become salty to avoid the invasion of ants! Sugar hides itself in tight iron box. Similarly, God hides in human form and covers Himself with tight Maya and sometimes even exhibits negative Maya to escape from devotees. It is meaningless and climax of foolishness to say that God tries for devotees. People who do not know the divine knowledge only speak that Shri Baba tried to attract more number of people by making such controversial scene since the number of devotees decreased recently. These people who talk like this always measure God with the standards of a politician, whom they observe frequently in their daily lives. They compare God in human form to a political leader, who makes some controversial scenes in public just to raise his image. God says in the Gita that ignorant people insult Him in the human form due to their ignorance of the God component in the human incarnation. The Veda says that if you miss your contemporary human incarnation here, you will miss the Lord in energetic form in the upper world also, who is called as Father of heaven.

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