16 Jun 2021
[Śrī Aditya asked: Sathya Sai Bāba. Dear Śrī Datta Swāmi You have said that Satya Sai Bāba is Your Guru. You have also indicated that He is the previous human incarnation of Lord Dattātreya. Lord Śrī Dattātreya as Śrīpāda Vallabha had declared that He will incarnate as Shirdi Sai Bāba. He had also mentioned other important incarnations that would take place. However, He had not mentioned anything about Satya Sai Bāba as His incarnation. Moreover, Satya Sai Bāba had said that He is Shirdi Sai Bāba reincarnated once again for the welfare of humanity. Shirdi Sai Bāba lived like a renunciate whereas Satya Sai Bāba was surrounded with all worldly opulence. Many God-realised saints denied living amidst worldly opulence, but they still executed their mission. How do You explain this? Since there are many people, who claim to be incarnations of some God or popular saint but yet their attitude proves otherwise. Nowadays, many people who claim to be saints are richer than average householders. Detachment from material fame and wealth is a very important characteristic that cannot be ignored for any saint. Another question that I would like to pose is that Satya Sai Bāba had said that He will end His incarnation at the age of 96 but He had already passed away at the age of 84. Why does the reality contradict with His prediction? How can something uttered by someone as an incarnation of Shirdi Sai Bāba be proved false? Sir these are just some of my questions that I would like to ask You since Your website says You are the full incarnation of Lord Dattātreya. Please clear my doubts with credible sources of evidence. Thank You. By, Aditya]
Swāmi replied:- When Shirdi Sai Bāba was mentioned, the two other incarnations (Satya Sai Bāba and Prema Sai Bāba) are spontaneously included in the triad chain because God promised that He will incarnate in the Gotram of Sage Bharadvāja thrice. The three Sai incarnations are taking place in the same said Gotram. Hence, Satya Sai told from the beginning that He was the incarnation of Shirdi Sai only. Of course, one student was very anxious to know the original God present in Satya Sai, who was also present in Shirdi Sai. Satya Sai asked him to take His picture through a Polaroid camera. The photo came showing God Dattātreya. This means that the first energetic incarnation, God Datta, with whom the unimaginable God (Parabrahman) merged takes any incarnation by merging with energetic or human medium.
In Shirdi Sai, God Datta exists. In Satya Sai, Shirdi Sai exists in whom God Datta exists. Does it not mean that God Datta exists in Satya Sai? Every incarnation, be it energetic or human and be it direct or indirect contains God Datta only in whom the unimaginable God exists. Such differences are foolish. Some think that one incarnation has greater power and other incarnation has lesser power. This is again climax of ignorance. In any incarnation, the same God Datta exists having the same quantity of power. God Datta may exhibit one kind of power to required extent of the divine programme. This means that the exhibited power of God Datta through one incarnation may differ from the other both qualitatively and quantitatively, but, the possessed power of God Datta in each incarnation is one and the same!
The mission of the disciple (Saint etc.) accompanying the incarnation is limited confined to certain boundaries of the field as stipulated by God or incarnation. Hence, the disciple follows the discipline. The field of incarnation has no limits and has no discipline. He is all in all, who is omniscient and omnipotent. Whatever way He feels to be congenial to a set of devotees dealt by Him is right and proper and He will follow it. Who are you and I to criticise the God? If you are criticising any incarnation, you are criticising God, who is God Datta and who is the unimaginable God present in God Datta.
In the last days, Satya Sai told that He is going to leave His body very shortly. Then a devotee asked Satya Sai “You told that You will live up to 96 years”. Then, Satya Sai told that 96 is reached if the Adhika māsas (correction of leap year) are added. Duryodhana also told Bhīṣma that 13 years were not completed when Arjuna came to fight with Kauravas, who were taking away the cows of King Virāṭa. Then, Bhīṣma told Duryodhana that 13 years were completed by adding the Adhika māsas that are left in the counting. God has the perfect answer for every question put up by even Angels and Sages. What are we, after all, petty human beings! He told that He will live approximately (He used the word ‘Ramaarami’, which means approximately.) up to 96 years. Suppose you go to the house of your relatives and say that you will stay approximately up to 10 days in their house. Suppose your work in that city is over by a week and you feel like coming back to your home. Will your relatives mock at you telling that you are a liar? Is it a lie at all? We say several blunt lies from morning to evening in a day. Then, are we eligible to criticise incarnation of God for this? On hearing this answer, you shall decide whether this ignorant petty human being called Datta Swāmi is speaking or God Datta present in Him is speaking!!
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