16 Jun 2015
[Martin, California, USA asked: Dear Swami, Would you kindly explain what Shirdi Sai Baba meant by saying that He would speak from His Tomb or that His bones would speak? Thank you, Pranams.]
Swami Replied: Bones mean skeleton. Skeleton is the internal part forming the basis of the external imaginable body. The external body represents the human being. The internal skeleton represents the internal unimaginable God existing after entry in to the human being in the formation of human incarnation. This means after the death of the external human form, the internal eternal God will speak through the external tomb. The tomb represents another human being selected for incarnation. The tomb is constructed after the death of this external body only and hence represents another human form in which the same internal God (skeleton) exists. Thus, speech is possible through another external body only since the inert tomb cannot speak. The tomb is a temple. The body of human incarnation is said to be a temple (Deho Devalayah...). You should take the interpretation with the help of logic. The words stand for spiritual meanings, when they come out of the mouth of the divine person. You must take the help of logic (Yukti) and worldly experience (Anubhava) while giving the interpretation. The words of divine personality are thus symbolic. If you expect that the voice will come from the bones through the tomb, the logic and experience contradict such meaning. Some priests maintaining such tomb may stick to such impossible interpretation in view of exploiting people to do business. Of course, the unimaginable God can speak also through bones and tomb. God is very good administrator, who does the work through available easy path instead of very difficult path called as miracle that unnecessarily excites devotees. Miracles are occasionally done by God only in the case of highly deserving devotees. Also, miracle is not the specified identity of God like divine knowledge since even demons (Satan) also perform miracles.