His Omniscience

Dear devotee,

Really speaking, these are all objective phenomena, passing clouds that are but a feature of the external nature. The Ananda that the Atma can confer on you cannot be lessened or hindered in the least. Have faith in this Truth. Don’t you know Bangaroo, the freedom, the delight and the peace that the unbroken awareness of the Atma can endow you with! Then, though mountains roll on your head, do not get attached with, or affected by, happenings in the objective world.

To preach to others is quite easy; but it is extremely difficult to put even a fraction of what is preached into actual practice and experience the felicity promised. You have been announcing in ringing tones that ‘Swami knows everything; Swami is the embodiment of all the names and forms by which man has adored God, down the millennia.’ But you forget to establish its truth in your life, when problems overwhelm you. Don’t I know? The other day, when you were reduced to plead with your father for help and when you were about to proceed to where he resides, your wife suggested, “We shall write to Swami about our troubles and losses.” Let me ask, why you told her, “I won’t allow this; you should not write.” May I tell you the reason? You thought she might inform me various other details! Don’t I know already? Can I know only if she writes to Me? Foolish, Bangaroo!

Don’t I know that you went to Ramachandrapura, proposing to give a series of talks on the Gita and returned with a minus balance? The “Gita discourses” did not receive the response you expected, since your talk was pervaded and polluted by the Burrakatha style that has struck roots in you since long. It cannot easily be overcome. Bear with it patiently and by steady effort, get rid of this tendency. If you desire that your Gita talks should be appreciated, some improvements are called for. Without effecting them, why do you moan, be gloomy and dejected, blaming your scholarship and your experience as mere useless loads?

Well! For Me who is fostering all these worlds, fostering you and your family is no burden. I am giving you these series of troubles in order to teach you some lessons. ‘Study is not all important. Practising what you have learnt is very necessary.’ My purpose is to bring to your notice this facet of the process of learning.

Let me tell you this. He who plants a sapling cannot but water it; if he had no will to water it, he wouldn’t have planted it. This is the identifying principle of the atma and the jiva, the Universal and the individual, God and man. You had written and published that the name of Swami is dancing in home after home, that Swami’s form is being adored in home after home. And for this little vision, you were filled with ananda. No, it is not only in every home that Sai’s Name will arouse ecstatic delight filling the entire world, nay, every inch of it. People sing now, ‘All is Sai—full, this world is Baba—full.’ This fullness will be realized, without doubt. Be bold; be in bliss; take up the realization of the four goals of man—‘justice’, ‘prosperity’, ‘righteous desire’ an ‘liberation from bondage.’

When you resolve to progress on these lines the Lord of Parthi (Sai Ram) will Himself be available to you as the God who will lift you and liberate you. Therefore, Bangaroo, seek and gain your own motivating principle. I will never give you up. I will not forget you. No; never.

You have been maligning the rich. Give up this erroneous habit. Not only the rich; you should not dishonour anyone in any manner in any measure. Remember, Sai resides in all men; so, maligning any person involves the maligning of Sai Himself. If they are bloated in their ego, they will suffer. How can it affect you? Convey my blessings to your wife and children.

I have written this long letter out of the compassion and love I bear towards you. I have not written this out of anger or a sense of hurt. Be ever in joy; be ever intent on practice and experience.

The Resident of your heart,

Sai.