What is the Atma? It is pure consciousness. It is something that is indestructible birth less and deathless.

Another example. The Sahasra Chandra Yagna was performed in Puttaparthi for three days. The first two days Swami poured His compassion for the well-being of the world. It is due to this compassion that this yagna was performed. Swami remained in the Witness state. On the third day when He came in the golden chariot, He was in the state of Absolute Divine Grace. This Special divine Grace removes the evil powers from the world. On the same day, Swami asked me to offer ‘Time’, in the yagna in Mukthi Nilayam. As I am His Spandha Shakthi, Swami wanted me to remain in Mukthi Nilayam and offer ‘Time’ as Poornahuthi.
The Special Grace that Swami showered on the third day was a fruit of this. This is why Swami showered Special Grace on that day.
It is for this reason that Swami told me that I am the form of His Special Grace. He said, “You are pouring compassion on all and changing the very age.”

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All is God. Evrything is God; there is nothing but God

Swami does not interfere in the Karmic law. All should experience their Karma. The Spandha Shakthi shakes God who is in the Witness state to bestow Special Grace. The very descent of God as the Avatar shows His compassion. It is due to the same compassion that the Spandha Shakthi bestows Special Grace on some. During all the Avatars, this Special Grace is bestowed on a fortunate few. This is the omniscient nature of God. The Avatar descends due to compassion, however, Special Grace is an act of God’s Chitshakthi, this is the difference.
Once, Swami restored the life of a devotee, Walter Cowan. This is an example of Special Grace. There are many such examples. The Dynamic Consciousness kindles God to act and bestows Special Grace. Another example. At the time of Krishna Avatar, Trivakra gave Kamsa’s chandan to Krishna. After this, Krishna showered Special Grace on her transforming her form. In a single moment, Trivakra became a beautiful woman. As she recognized who Krishna was, Trivakra gave Kamsa’s chandan freely without fear. Thereafter Krishna restored her beauty and straightened her crippled body. In a moment all her Karmas were wiped away. The Spandha Shakthi kindled Krishna from within.
Every Avatar pours compassion and grace on humanity. Avatars only descend due to this compassion. Ordinarily Avatars remain in the Witness state. However, when they wipe out Karmas, they function from the state of Divine grace.

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Can anyone limit love? Narrow mindedness does not allow the experience of limitless love; it only finds fault

Spandha, the power of God’s Dynamic consciousness shakes Him. After this, a light descends from Him to take the form of an Avatar.
God is here as the embodiment of compassion. Spandha Shakthi means compassion. Whenever unrighteousness prevails and dharma declines, this power of compassion shakes God. It turns His attention to show that the time has come for His Avatar. This shaking is the cause for light to descend on Earth as the Avatar. Though He is the embodiment of compassion, the Avatar is in the Witness state. He has come here for the Avataric task and to establish dharma. He does not interfere in Karmic law. However, sometimes His grace pours on someone and their Karmas are wiped away.
An example. Many years ago, Swami spoke at a large gathering in Trichy. At that time, he called a blind boy from the crowd and restored his sight. All were wonderstruck. The next morning a large group assembled in front of the house where Swami was staying. All were blind! As Swami had restored the eyesight of the boy the previous day, all gathered to have their sight restored. Swami however, left the building through a side door and drove away. This incident shows Swami’s Special Grace for the boy.

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Living a life of detachment is liberation

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Special Grace

1 July 2008 Morning meditation
Vasantha : Swami, tell something about Spandha.
Swami : God is an embodiment of grace. Due to His compassion, He descends as Avatar in the state of Witness. He does not interfere in Karma. Sometimes He bestows His Special Grace on an individual. At that time all Karma vanishes. This is Spandha, Special Grace.
Vasantha : Swami is it the Spandha that turns God’s attention to a soul?
Swami : Correct. The Spandha acts when God removes ones Karma. It is not a common occurrence. Special Grace has taken your form and descended here. It is through this compassion the yuga changes.
Vasantha : Swami, were Sita and Radha also like this? They were Spandha Shakthi…
Swami : Yes. Sita’s role was very small, Radha’s bigger. Now your role is greater then theirs. You came to transform an Age through your penance and tears. You came here due to your compassion.
End of meditation

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We have to adhere to our own dharma, our righteous duty, regardless of the innumerable hurdles on our path

Through this one word, ‘Dental’, thirty-two thoughts connected to make a long chain. How can one word produce so many thoughts! How many words are we speaking from morning till night? How many things do we see? How many words do we read? How many thoughts do we have? How many thoughts are connecting themselves everyday in this way?
If you spent time one day calculating how many different thoughts you have, it would total more than one lakh!
This bundle of thoughts is the mind. They are all rooted in body consciousness. One word collects one lakh of matter, in one day.
What did I do when I heard the word, ‘dental’?
First, I said, “The dentist’s father is a dentist as well.” This reveals that I always connect with the root of the matter.
This is ‘root feeling’. Whatever word I hear, it touches the root. I said the dentist’s father is also a dentist; he is the root of his son. This is the lineage.
The moment my mind hears a word, it finds out the root. God is the root of all, the source of all things. So when I heard the word ‘Transcendental’, I said, “Trans..., oh, as in transmigration. I will enter in all.” Next the thought ‘through transmigration I will enter all Creation. All will have only my feelings...only God everywhere’.

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We should think “all are my family, my neighbours, the street, all belongs to me” By linking hands with all, one experiences Universal love.

My mind is always running after God; I connect all with God. There is no ‘I’ here. If there is no ‘I’, then there can be no ‘my’. Since I have no ‘I’, I found the Adi Moola, the Primal Being. When there is no mind, God is seen everywhere. I find the root of all Creation, the Moola Prakrithi, Primal Matter. Now God and creation are the same. God is Creation.



...You collect the matter - I connect with God...

Here is an example how one word, transcendental, can create a whole chain of thoughts.

1) Dental
2) Tooth
3) Toothache, pain
4) Description of the pain
5) Solution for the pain
6) Doctor
7) Doctor’s name
8) Doctor’s form
9) Cost of the treatment
10) How many days of pain
11) How much suffering
12) Not able to eat
13) How much swelling
14) Asking for help
15) Who helped?
16) How many times I went to the doctor.
17) Nobody should suffer from toothache.
18) When I went to another doctor, he did not treat me very well.
19) My current doctor is a very good man.
20) He gave me an x ray last time.
21) There was quite a long wait in the waiting room.
22) Thoughts of the next appointment
23) How long I am sitting without seeing doctor
24) Recollection of talking with man next to me. I remembered his experience and he listened to mine and consoled me.
25) I did not see the man again, though I visited the doctor three more times.
26) I went to dentist as a patient and made a friend. I hope I see him again.
27) Why did I have to make an appointment, though I was an emergency case? The doctor told me he would only see me with an appointment!
28) I am suffering so much pain, yet he said make an appointment. What is this? My toothache did not ask for an appointment, it just came.
29) I only went to the dentist because it was an emergency!
30) How much I am suffering, but my appointment is not for two days.
31) But it is okay, he is a good doctor.
32) I will recommend all those with a toothache to consult with him. He is a good doctor.

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The Lord will reside only in a pure guileless heart

What is the root of these thoughts? What is the origin? Whenever one thought comes, another quickly follows. Then a third thought arises. In this way, all thoughts line up. What is the root of these thoughts? It is God, only God. The source of all my thoughts is only God. Since I only see the Source of all, it becomes Adi Moola, the Primal Being. This is how my mind thinks. Now about matter.
Whatever I see, wherever I look, I see only God. This is why I am different. Everything in Creation (all material things) brings thoughts of God and so becomes Primal Matter.
Man’s mind continually searches for and pursues matter. This is the reason he is trapped in the cycle of birth and death. Mind means ‘I’ and matter is ‘mine’. As you connect the ‘I’ with the body and collect matter, there is continual birth and death.

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As the quality of our devotion becomes more refined, the distance between God and us reduces and things happen by themselves.

For example, when I see a door, I do not see it as a mere door, but a gateway to liberation. When I see a pillow, which in Tamil is referred to as ‘a dam for the head’, I say ‘This dam is not for the head, but for the thoughts that arise in the mind’. In this way, I connect everything I see with God. All my thoughts are turned towards God. I trained my senses and mind to connect like this from a young age. I see God in everything. My mind only connects with God, so all my thoughts are centered on Him. My ‘mine’ is God only.

Here is another example. In Mukthi Nilayam, many peacocks roam the grounds. My eyes see a peacock and I immediately remember the essay I wrote, ‘The peak of ‘I’ is peacocks eye’.

...This connects to the omnipresent God principle.

...This links to the sloka ‘Sarvatho Paani Paadam’.

...‘Sarvatho Paani Paadam’ brings the thought that Swami is all.

The next moment, if I see a peacock’s feather, I connect it to Krishna’s form. The chain of my thoughts begins with a peacock feather and ends with God. The peacock is the matter, the chain of thoughts, the mind. This is the way that I connect all I see with God.

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What is the use of liberation attained after death? Can one experience it after death? This bliss of Sai is supreme to any heavenly bliss. Experience the sweet nectar of Sai here and now.

He laments further…

… ‘Even near God there is ‘I and mine’. Where is the place without mind or matter? Oh God show me a place where thoughts will not come. Show me a place where there is no enmity, jealousy, a place without ‘I and mine’. Where can we find refuge?’

What is the remedy? He went from worldly life to spiritual life, to God’s very place. Yet there too it was the same.

Now let us look at my life. How have I lived? Whatever I see I connect with God. An example. Let us take the same word, ‘transcendental’. When I heard the word, I remembered, ‘Transmigration’. In the book Prema Sai Pt 3 ‘Sai Digest’, Swami told in the chapter, ‘God’s Transmigration’, “Even if God Himself transmigrates into you, you will not change. Your sharing nature and innate wisdom will never leave you.” Swami said that even if God talks about worldly matters, I would remain untouched.

How did this wisdom come to me? It is due to matter. Whatever matter I see, I connect with God. I wrote in the book ‘Yoga Sutra’, how I connect all worldly matters with God.

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We are only the caretakers of the Lord's creation. Wedo not ownanything

Now that he knows the name, form, time, place and the actions of God, he is very happy. He thinks, ‘Enough of this worldly life, I will go to God’. He finishes his duty to his son and daughter and goes to live in Puttaparthi with his wife. There he tells of the high post he held in the world and shows the degree he attained. Finally, with great difficulty he secures a post inside Prasanthi Nilayam. He begins to do service. He gets a room inside and tells all, “I am living with God and serving Him.” This he tells proudly to all. He thinks to himself,

… ‘I am in the correct place. Why are worldly people suffering so much? I am free from all the worries of the world. I have come to God. Appaadaa! Now I can take it easy.

… My worldly suffering has ended. I have Swami’s darshan every morning and evening. The whole day I am immersed in serving Swami chanting…. Sai Ram, Sai Ram, Sai Ram. How peaceful!”

Then…

… ‘Yesterday, when Swami came he spoke to the person next to me. Why didn’t He speak with me? He began doing service after me…he is a junior. Swami did not even look at me when He came close... Why did that officer speak harshly to me? Is he so very high? I am also doing service like him…Why does he have a VIP seat? This morning Swami called him and spoke very harshly to him. As he is very near to Swami, he has become very big headed…that is why Swami spoke with him so seriously today… I would be very careful if I were him...!’

For some days, his mind was very calm. Now it has started again. It begins to say many things. He thinks,

‘My old life was much better. Why have I come here? If I was with my family, I would be very happy. I could play with my grandchildren. But here with God there is no peace. All only find fault with me. I am living here with God fearful every moment that I might be asked to leave’.

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