24 Apr 2014
Mr. Martin (USA): Dear Shri Datta Swami, Pranams. Swami, before I ask questions regarding Human Incarnation, Sat Guru, spiritual path and sadhana, devotion, and sacrifice upon which you have so clearly elucidated, may I first tell you an experience that happened to me? Several months ago I was sitting quietly after early morning meditation. My eyes were open and I was not thinking about anything, but I closed my eyes and suddenly as if my eyes were still open I saw Sathya Sai Baba standing across the room in a white cloth robe. Baba was the age of 85. He looked at me then walked over to a window in the room and opened the window (the window did not physically open) He turned and began to walk where I could see him. I was in total amazement as He was moving around as if He was in his own residence aware that I was there but not directly acknowledging me. Again suddenly I heard foot steps on the second level room where my wife was asleep which was directly above me, then I heard footsteps walking toward the room that has His photo and lingam. All the while my eyes were closed until I had heard the footsteps on the second level. That is when I opened my eyes. Swami, you have said in your discourses that when a Human Incarnation has Mahasamadhi, that Incarnation will take on an energetic form and continue to guide devotees, correct? Swami, how would you interpret this experience?
Your discourses are greatly enlightening and I can see how You are saying that Shirdi Sai Baba and Swami Ganapati Satchidananda, Sathya Sai Baba, are the foundation and walls. I recognize many similarities in Yours and Sathya Sai Baba's quotations and discourses.
Any of your comments are greatly appreciated by me and I consider them to be a blessing.
Very Respectfully,
Martin (USA)
Shri Swami: When you close your eyes, the events seen by you are similar to the dream in which the energetic forms are experienced by the soul. The soul in such a state of association with energy is called Taijasa as per the Veda. The state of dream results either through the experience of imaginations by the soul, which are forms of energy or through the experience of a scene of imaginations formed by the will of God. Both these options are possible in the state of dream. Hence, your experience of the scene of imaginations may come under the category of dream or the category of divine vision. There is equal possibility for both the options because your eyes are closed and still the experience is received. But, your vision cannot come under the first possibility since there is proof for the second possibility, which is the hearing of sounds of steps by the materialized sense organs called as ears. The validity of the proof is equal when you see something with eyes or you hear something with ears. That something seen or heard belongs to imaginable creation if the worldly logic is followed. If it is beyond worldly logic, it becomes the effect of the unimaginable power of unimaginable God. In the absence of the event of your hearing the steps, all that you have seen in the brain can be the revision of memory or the will of God being exhibited. The Brahma Sutras say that both are possible. But, the unimaginable event of hearing the steps makes all the imagination as a part of the unimaginable event only related to God. Hence, whatever happened in your case is a miracle only, which is the will of God playing through this event. The essence of all these events manifested by God is only to make you believe the existence of unimaginable God.
The vision of Shri Satya Sai Baba indicates the unimaginable God existing in the human form. The message is that you should take the human incarnation as the unimaginable God and not as a human being controlled by the scientific principles and worldly logic. Everywhere sharp analysis (Buddhi yoga) is necessary to understand anything that gives a message from God.
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