1963: Siva Sakthi
Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform. In this auspicious year 2015 commemorating the 90th birthday of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, we offer a compilation of key messages from the over 140 discourses in the month of July, including Guru Poornima Days between the years 1958 and 2009.
1963:
Siva Sakthi
God is the refuge
for those who have no refuge. You know I declared on the very day when I
decided to disclose My Identity, My Mission, and My Advent that I belonged to
the Apastamba Sutra (Code of conduct) and the Bharadwaja Gothra (lineage).
This Bharadwaja was a great sage, who studied the Vedas for full one
hundred years, but, finding that the Vedas were endless (anantha)
he did penance for prolonging life, and from Indra he got two extensions of a
century each. Even then, the Vedas could not be completed, so he asked
Indra again for another hundred years. Indra showed him 3 huge mountain ranges
and said, “What you have learned in 3 centuries form only 3 handfuls from out
of the 3 ranges that the Vedas are. So give up the attempt to exhaust
the Vedas. Do a ritual sacrifice (yaga) instead, which I shall
teach you. That will give you the fruit of Vedic study, full and
complete.”
After the ritual sacrifice was over, They were so pleased that
They conferred even more boons on the sage. Siva said that They would take
human form and be born in the Bharadwaja Gothra (lineage) thrice: Siva
alone as Shirdi Sai Baba, Siva and Sakthi together at Puttaparthy as Sathya Sai
Baba, and Sakthi alone as Prema Sai, later.
Then Siva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon
Bharadwaja at Kailas on the eighth day of waiting in the cold on the ice. He
gave another assurance. “As expiation for the neglect that Sakthi showed you at
Kailas for 8 days, this Sakthi will suffer the stroke for 8 days, when We both
take birth as Sathya Sai and, on the 8th day, I shall relieve her from all
signs of the disease by sprinkling water, just as I did at Kailas to cure your
illness.” The assurance given in the Thretha Yuga (era) had to be
honoured.
There is no truth (sathyam) without goodness (sivam);
there is no goodness without beauty (sundaram). Truth alone can confer
auspiciousness, and auspiciousness alone is the real beauty. Truth is beauty;
joy is beauty. Falsehood and grief are ugly because they are unnatural.
Devotion is referred to as upasana —dwelling near,
feeling the Presence, sharing the sweetness of Divinity. First, you start with the idea, “I am in the
Light.” Then the feeling, “The light is in me,” becomes established. This leads
to the conviction, “I am the Light.” That is the supreme wisdom.
Points to Ponder:
· Why did Swami take on an illness
for eight days?
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