Sahavas In The Company Of God
De Simple Silence.
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[modifier] Differences
Meher Baba
Honest differences between workers labouring in a common cause are signs of the vitality of the work. But a spirit of discipline is also essential in all creative activities of life. How can people work jointly without discipline, and on the other hand where would there be scope for self-control and discipline if there were no differences between workers?
Your eyes, ears, nose and mouth are placed in different positions to serve varying purposes. They also appear different in size and shape, and yet all are equally yours. Besides serving specific direct purposes, all your organs are also complementary to each other and in this respect equally valuable to you.
There is no question of one organ competing with another for supremacy of position or service to the body. Each serves in its individual capacity, and all harmonize in the smooth functioning of the whole body.
Differences between workers who toil in the cause of love and truth can either accentuate or mutilate them for other persons, and for the workers as well. Therefore differences must be properly harmonized and fairly adjusted with the aid of discipline, which is more to be lived sincerely within oneself than enforced upon others.
But neither differences nor discipline should ever be raised above love and truth. They should be sacrificed rather than be allowed to mar or cloud the main object. A body without a soul is best buried, burned or disposed of as quickly as possible. No one would like to die to save one’s eyes or ears.
[modifier] The Greatest Event In Our Time
K. K. Ramakrishnan
If men are asked today as to what was the greatest event in our time, the answer would necessarily be many depending upon the tastes and interests in life of each individual. Those who appear or claim to be materialistic in their outlook on life and are what one may call scientifically inclined would say that the greatest event in our time is possession of ‘Atomic Power’ in the hands of man.
This has not only brought to an abrupt end the horrors of the second world war, but also given hopes of a healthier and happier life for all by the peaceful exploitation of its potentialities.
Some others would say ‘Man’s Landing on the Moon’ is the greatest event in our time. Space research opens up avenues of understanding the mysteries of the vast universe in which we live.
For a student of biology and the medical science the possibility of ‘heart transplantation’ is the greatest event in our time.
For lovers of freedom who are concerned with the emancipation of subject people of various countries, races, religions and nationalities would say ‘Freedom from Foreign Domination’ attained by large number of colonial countries is the greatest event in our time.
Men of peace longing for lasting peace on this earth would say that the ‘Establishment of the United Nations’ is the greatest event in our time.
Each of the above is great and has its own significance in its own field and has influenced the life of human society. But life seen in its fullness is infinitely greater than different fields of human activities. Life is neither material nor spiritual alone. Life cannot be divided into watertight compartments under titles such as scientific, social, political, economical, cultural, religious or spiritual. Then what is life?
Life is a process of self-discovery : discovery of one’s relation with another and all other forms of life in existence. It is a discovery of one’s place in the advancing stream of life. It is in fact the discovery of the cosmos within one’s own self.
Discovery in conscious experience of the oneness in manyness or the unity in diversity is the goal of life.
Life is indivisible oneness, infinite and eternal. For those who aspire after the Real Life, or an undimmed vision of life in all its fullness, the greatest event in our time is the ‘Avataric advent of God as Man on this earth’ in the most beautiful, most lovely, most loving and appealing-to-all-heart-form of Meher Baba.
On February 13, 1968 Meher Baba issued a message to his lovers all over the world :
« LET MY LOVERS REJOICE ON MY 74TH BIRTHDAY. BECAUSE, SOON AFTER 25TH MARCH, SOMETHING GREAT WILL HAPPEN THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. »
What was this something great, that has happened soon after 25th March 1968, Something that has never happened before? God being infinite, His words given in His Avataric Advents can be interpreted and understood infinitely.
But the fact that Meher Baba wasn’t there physically, when his lovers celebrated his 75th birthday on 25 February 1969 (because Meher Baba passed away at 12 :15 P.M. on 31 January 1969) lends support to the belief that the message was a hint to his lovers of the approaching event.
For a lover, the beloved of one’s heart is the highest. To be in the presence of one’s beloved is the most blissful experience for a lover. And to live in the company of the beloved is heavenly life on earth.
The Avatar of God is the beloved of all hearts. The aim of a lover of God is to see God, and the goal of life is to become one with God. God is believed to be the indweller of every heart. He is also believed to be all-pervading.
When this God Who indwells all forms of life in existence, this God Who pervades the whole world and beyond enforms, Himself as Man, He is called the Avatar of God. His life and activities on this earth as Man is the true manifestation of divinity on earth.
God being Infinite Power, Infinite Knowledge and Infinite Bliss, His manifestation on earth as Man releases the triune aspects of divinity.
« Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new experience of life — not merely for a few, but for all. Qualities of energy and awareness, which had been used and enjoyed by only a few advanced souls, are then made available for all humanity. Life as a whole, is lifted to a higher level of consciousness and geared to a new rate of energy.[... ] »[1]
God becomes Man and lives the life of man so that man may love God as he loves himself and his nearest and dearest ones. God becomes Man and lives a divine human life of self-giving love and self-effacing service so that man may follow the example of God’s Man-life on earth and thus ennoble human life and enrich this earth.
God becomes Man and lives the life of love for man so that man may love God as Man and through that love, learn to love God in all men. God becomes Man and lives a life of self-sacrifice so that man may serve God as Man and through that service and self-sacrifice learn to serve God in each other.
During the avataric advent of God on this earth God as Man sows the seeds of His infinite love into the hearts of men through His personal contact individually and collectively ; quickens the process of spiritual aspirations in mankind through His work in the higher spheres of existence and planes of consciousness ; he awakens in man an awareness of God’s presence in every heart and internally inspires man to live a life of love and service and gradually uplifts him above his self-centered life of separative existence.
The Avataric advent of God as Man on earth occurs once in seven hundred to fourteen hundred years according to an eternally existing divine law and precipitated by the Five Perfect Masters of the time. They select the parents and prepare the womb for God to take birth as Man.
They watch over His birth and carefully protect His growth and when the time is ready for Him to begin His work hand over the world to His charge. God as Avatar works according to a divine plan chalked out by the masters of the time and at the completion of His work gives up His body as a final sacrifice for the redemption of the world through a universal transformation of human consciousness and a spiritual push to the creation as a whole.
© 1977 Adi K. Irani
- ↑ God to Man and Man to God, P. 48.
