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Articles: Devotion | Living up to His message
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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“Why Do I Need to Transform?”
A few years ago, while addressing devotees in Brindavan, Bhagavan said, “I do not want your Bhakthi or Devotion. I want your transformation.” What does Bhagavan mean when He says, “I do not want your Bhakthi?” That devotion which does not lead to transformation is no devotion at all. What He wants is that our love for God should goad us, should prompt us, and should nudge us to action. One of the queries that one of our Sai Youth has expressed is: “Why should we spiritually transform ourselves?” Is it because Swami wants us to transform? Or is it because we must transform?
Or is it because the world needs our transformation? Or is it because the world is going to be damned if we do not transform? Why should we transform? That is a very good pregnant thought.
I wonder if you have ever seen a caterpillar, walking on its little legs on a leaf. As a caterpillar evolves, it grows into a beautiful butterfly, which hops from flower to flower, colourful, giving joy to everyone around. Have we ever asked ourselves, “Why should a caterpillar give up its existence as a caterpillar and become a butterfly?” Because its destiny is to be a butterfly! It is manifesting its own inherent nature when it transforms into a butterfly.
When we say that for whose sake I should transform, then I would like to ask, if you are sleeping, for whose sake should you wake up? For your own sake! When the Lord is walking on earth, if we are sleeping, time will be lost and then if you wake up, what a misfortune?
We are living in an age, which is called the information age, but the need of the hour is transformation. Bhagavan distinguishes between the two by saying, when you keep asking others, “Who are you, who are you?”, when you are concerned with the world, you are in the stage of information. When you ask yourself the question, “Who am I? Who am I? You have taken the first step in transformation.”
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