Swami's Vision of the Sixteen-year-old Sai

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri PVNM Sharma asked: Swami! You often tell Your experience about the incident that happened in which You prayed Rama whereas Shri Satya Sai appeared before You asking You to propagate spiritual knowledge. Why some other divine form did not appear?]

Swami replied:- Often I get divine visions in which mainly God Datta appears as energetic form and speaks with Me, sometimes even for several hours! Of course, other divine forms of God Datta, which are energetic incarnations and energetic forms of past human incarnations, also appear now and then. In all these visions, the divine form seen is only energetic form and not materialized human form. For the first time in My entire life so far, that was the only one occasion when the divine form appeared before Me was materialized human form and also the silver throne on which He was sitting was also materialized form only! Actually, I expected that as usual the energetic form of God Rama will appear before Me since I prayed God Rama with a spontaneously composed song in Sanskrit (Yaache shriiraamam, tavaasmiiti). I composed this song on God Rama for a materialistic help because Rama told that if anybody surrenders to Him saying that he belongs to Rama, Rama will certainly protect the devotee (Tavaasmiticha yaachate-Ramayanam). But, instead of Rama, Shri Satya Sai appeared in materialized human form before Me sitting on materialized silver throne!

There is always a deep spiritual message in the actions of God, which is understood by us in due course of time through sharp analysis. The main question is that why when the prayer was done for Rama, Satya sai appeared? The answer for this is that in spiritual knowledge to be propagated by this Datta Swami shall be based on the most important concept of contemporary human incarnation. On that day of prayer, Shri Satya Sai was alive in Puttaparti and hence, was contemporary human incarnation of God Datta. Rama was also human incarnation, but not the then contemporary human incarnation. The contemporary human incarnation clears all the spiritual doubts to make the spiritual knowledge very strong to generate powerful devotion. Such facility is not with statues and photos of energetic incarnations and past human incarnations. This is the reason that why other energetic incarnations like Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma etc., or other past human incarnations like Rama, Krishna, Shirdi Sai etc., did not appear as energetic forms on that day. The very first statement of Satya Sai was that I was selected by Him for the propagation of spiritual knowledge. The appeared form was not an energetic form but human form because contemporary human incarnation is always human form and not energetic form.

Another important point was that Satya Sai appeared as 16 years boy while the same Satya Sai was existing in Puttaparti with about 75 years age simultaneously! He could have appeared with the same 75 years age. What is the background in this point? Satya Sai is incarnation of God Datta, who is said to be always with 16years age as indicated by one of His holy names (Nityashodasha varshiiyase namah). Angels always appear as 30 years old (tridashaah). The reason is that you have to love God Datta as your son and not as your father. The love to issues is always real and highest because even if the issues are ungrateful to parents, parents love the issues blindly. The devotion to issues is really real because apart from theoretical love (knowledge and devotion), practical love (service and sacrifice of fruit of work) also exists without aspiration for any fruit in return. Since God expects issue devotion from us so that even if He is not fulfilling our desires, our devotion to Him shall not change. This is very much inconvenient to us! Hence, we like to treat Him as father so that even though we are ungrateful to Him, He shall not care for it and shall show real love to us! In order to reverse our concept, He appears always as 16 years boy, who can be our son only and not father!! The angel with 30 years age has a chance to be father, but, God Datta appearing as 16 years old boy has no such chance to be father and has only one chance to be son.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★