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Articles: Devotion | Living up to His message
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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The Most Ideal Form of Love
One very beautiful aspect that I have experienced and perhaps many of you have also felt the same is this. When we come to Bhagavan, He accepts us as we are, with all the angularity of personality, with all the vagaries of our minds, with all our shortcomings, He accepts us completely as we are. We have lots of problems in accepting Him. We have so many conditions…1, 2, 3, 4. “Swami, if you fulfil this, then I will accept you.” But Swami is unconditional in His Love. But then He gives us what we ask, so that we begin to ask Him for what He has come to give. That is to awaken us to our own reality.
“Who Are We?”
Decades ago, one day, here in Prashanti Mandir, as Bhagavan was passing by amidst the students, we observed that there was a little reddishness in Swami’s eyes. We were a little concerned and thought that it would go away, and every darshan that Swami would walk by, we would peer into His eyes to see, has that so called ‘ailment’, disappeared? But days passed and nothing happened. In fact, there was an elderly Doctor in the Mandir, He also expressed his concern to Swami.
One evening, a few students were sitting in the darshan line, Swami called 3 - 4 of us, we went forward and He called us into the interview room. And He asked the question. “Who are you?” We were dumbfounded by that question. “Who are we?” What is the answer that Swami expects? And then He said, “You and I are one.”
The Vedas declared, “Shrunvantho vishwe, Amruthasya Puthraha” that is “Listen my dear child, you are not a mortal being. You are the child of immortality!” If this is too high for us to understand, the same thing can be put in much easier terms. We are the children of Sai. If Sai represents the immortal spirit, we as His children, also embody that immortal being.
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