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His True Mission
Source:
http://www.saibaba-aclearview.com/contents2.htm
by R. D. Awle
[Copyright 2001. Dated August 2001.
This material may be downloaded, reproduced and distributed
freely, as long as the source is
clearly attributed.]
In understanding
Baba's miracles, it's important to remember His own words on the
subject: He
says that in comparison with His true mission, His miracles are “like a mosquito on an
elephant’s back.” He
repeats what Shirdi Sai Baba said so often: “I give them what they want, so they
will want what I have to give!” He says He has come not to
manifest rings or bless us with promotions and healings -
the purpose for His incarnation is to usher in a new age of
Divine Peace on Earth, and establish divine qualities in our
hearts:
“This
Sai has come in order to achieve the supreme task of uniting the
entire mankind as one family through the bond of brotherhood, of
affirming and illumining the Atmic Reality of each being
in order to reveal the Divine, which is the basis on which the
entire Cosmos rests. This Sai has come to instruct all to
recognize the common Divine Heritage that binds man to man, so
that man can rid himself of the animal and rise into the Divine,
which is his goal. This Sai has come to show that Love -
Prema - is the easiest way to reach the Divine.”1
Baba says He has come to “avert the crisis that has come
upon humanity”, and usher in a new age of divine wisdom
upon the Earth, a golden age of Love, peace and understanding -
and He assures us that He will succeed. In the mid-1980’s He told His
students that He would be working directly with the minds of
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to bring about a change in the
world. I would guess it is no mere co-incidence that the fall of
global communism occurred less than ten years after that statement
was made! (As Baba said in the
’70s when asked about Communism, “Communists? Come you next!”) Now Baba has thousands of
devotees from the former communist nations, spreading His message
of Divine Love where such words were forbidden for decades.
Surely Baba’s work has made the world a better place; the Earth,
by His plan, grown a hair closer to Planet Peace. Perhaps it will be with Prema Sai, Baba’s
next incarnation - due to be born in some lucky South Indian
manger around 2028 - that the global level of spiritual knowledge
will reach critical mass, and the Earth and its atmosphere finally
be divinely transformed, into a Paramatma-sphere.
May the day come soon!
1 “Thought
for the Day” at Sai Baba's Brindavan Ashram, May 3,
2001.
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