CHAPTER 16
One today is constantly fighting to give another less. You must
know that when you give less, you will receive even lesser. You
battle over who is richer, but tell Me, does money really make
you rich? If this is the truth, then only the ones with no
homes, no clothes, and no food must be around Sai Baba today.
But such is not the case. The fears of the rich are the same as
the poor. The worries of the rich are even bigger than the
poor. You all look for one thing today, real love and peace.
The rich waste their efforts in trying to buy love and buy
peace; the poor, on the other hand, waste their time in being
envious of the rich. The wealth of the universe lies in each
one's very home, and yet each one of you has acquired the habit
of being beggars, robbers, and peace breakers. Money is not
evil, your idea of the usage of money is evil. Being rich is
not evil, it is your greed for material riches that are evil.
Being poor is taken as a curse, but let Me tell you, that you
will always find the footprints of the Lord in the homes of the
needy. Then think and tell Me, what is the blessing and what is
the curse? Think, My sweet, and tell Me, who is rich and who is
really poor?
Begin to develop the faith that you are in the care of the Lord.
On each day, let this faith mould to become stronger. Know
that all will remain unharmed and that His love is the sky that
shelters all. In case of any calamity, the child runs to his
mother for he knows that she will rescue him, even at the cost
of her own life. You, too, must have faith that your true love
for God will even move the world of the Gods in chaos and will
bring them to rescue you in your time of need. Let your faith
become a mountain, and let no avalanche of calamities be able to
crumble it. When your faith becomes sturdy, the presence of the
Lord in your life will be constant. Your dependence and faith
in Him is your freeway to heaven. Heaven, is nothing, My child,
but living your life in love with God. You have lived with none
or very weak faiths until today, and you have suffered the
agonies of unknown consequences. Depend on the One who has
lived with you all through your past, depend on Him, for He
speaks and is guiding you in your present. Depend on Him, for
once He will hold your hand, you will walk into the future with
no fears of the unknown, for He will make each unknown known to
you as "God". Each day, you must reduce your desires and make
yourselves more and more content. Contentment lies in not
receiving material gifts - Contentment lies in receiving His
blessing, His grace and His approval of you. You are all
fighting a battle to love God today, but this battle will be won
very easily, when the Lord, with His grace, will shower you with
His Divine Love. Once you have recognized and tasted the
sweetness of His love, your love for Him from within will
sprout, your wall of desires will begin to fall, and slowly,
peace will find its way to give you the strength to love even
more. The more you will love, the lesser will be your needs.
It is the "pain of wanting", that will make to love bitter, for
the heart that wants grows only smaller each day. In the stress
of greed, you will want to be ahead of God, and in this walk,
where "you" are ahead and God follows, disaster will be
inevitable. This is the disaster where the self will burn, and
only your egos will survive. A body with only an ego and no
God, is the devil himself that will make life on earth a living
hell.
CHAPTER 17
Attachments are like glue, they will stick to you only to
immobilize you, but you must break away and must not let them
follow you. Remember, all that you are attached to, is in the
Lord Himself, but in your attachments itself, God does not
exist. The love for God will also make you cry, but these are
the tears that will bathe you to the freshness of purity. When
you cry for the world, the tears will be only that of pain,
bringing within an empty hollowness. You say, how do I let
these attachments go? You use the word "love" loosely for your
attachments, for true love only gives, forgets, and moves ahead
to tomorrow with no recollection and expectations from
yesterday. It is only attachment that never forgets the love it
gives, it is only attachment that will beg or demand the
security of love or its use back in return. You miss and cry
for the loss of your loved ones, but the one you think you lost,
was already lost when alive, and may actually be found in the
loving arms of the Lord. Then tell Me, what are you crying for?
They are the tears of your own insecurities, how are you going
to live without him? Who will take care of you? Who will love
you like he did? Yes! The tears are for you and the so-called
love is the nurturing of your own ego, and what you are actually
missing are his services to you. Is this selfless love, or is
it actually less love for the "self"?
Love is an energy that acts like a magnet to attract others to
you, but first you must be able to derive this energy
yourselves. This current of energy will flow within you, only
when you are in contact with the main source, constantly. Each
one of you must be receptive to accept this energy. What I am
trying to say, My loved ones, is to be able to love, you must,
at first, recognize the love of God, accept His love, and use
this love to transform all your negative energies within you
into love; for when love generates, God will be the product of
all your efforts.
You desire to communicate with Me, but your actions, today, show
that we lack total communication. You call upon Me to come into
your homes, but you leave your doors bolted. You break several
of your promises that you have made to Me with the lazy excuse
of being human, but you still expect Me to transform you in one
day. Remember, it is you that is the raw material, I am only
the final product. It is you that must go through several
changes, and I am only the cause of your change. In your
process of change, you sometimes forget and expect God to change
for you. God comes to bring change, but He is not affected by
the pressures of your ego. He will not work under your terms of
change, and only you and not He, is affected by your defiance
and your stubborn attitudes. This change is for you and not for
Me, for I have already accepted you, I will always love you, and
I know the true you. The change must come for you to know
"you", for you to feel God, for you to feel like God, and for
you to become God.
Smile, My little saints to be, for I have walked a long way to
come to you with My medicine.... the cure of love I call it; the
love that will inspire you to reach the truth, the truth in
which the Atma (soul) can overcome any pain and temptations of
pleasures; only in the silence of this love. Faith must become
your walking stick, and truth must become your eyeglasses.
Silence must be your mother tongue, peace your attitude, and
love the very nature of your being. Righteousness must be your
path, service your companion, then name of the Lord your
conversation, and your prayers must shape to become the tasks
you perform; His strength should inspire your smile, His love
your tears and His calling must become your journey of life.
Feeling pure love is nothing less than experiencing the vision
of the Lord, Himself. Shut the eye of the "I", become blind to
the "My", and open the eye that will only see "Me". The eye
that sees Me, always, has left the "I" forever. The heart that
speaks of My name, always, is a part of Me that lives forever.
My little saints to be, I have seen you march, but now it's time
for the "forward march" only! I have given the command, I have
blown the whistle, and I have given to you My salute - it's time
for you to respond.
The level of humanity has stooped considerably, and man is shy
to do what is right. In lying to impress others, he has become
one with the herd. If all are lost, you, too, want to be lost
with them. You can see the road that is right, but since no one
else takes that path, you, too, begin to fear the loneliness and
unknown challenges that lie ahead. All will be known to you,
when you realize that the only thing that is unknown to you is
"God". You brag and praise of your own devotion for God to
others, but to Me, this is your devotion to your own egos. You
have hypnotized yourselves to believe that you are pure, and
even if God were to come and point out your faults, you would
dismiss them as unfair accusations. Your pride has made you to
believe that you are the "ideals" and that God, Himself, remains
to be only an "idol". It takes a lot of courage, My dears, just
to recognize and realize your own falls and failings. But
without the realization of this first step, you will not find
the strength to find God. Do not despair, for however much you
have slipped in your virtues and character, the strength of My
love can wash off the dirt, and will, one day, make your walk
again with confidence in the purity of your own self. Yes!
This is all possible now, today and in the present life. All
your mistakes of all your previous lives, can and will be
forgotten and forgiven by Him with your repentance, efforts and
practice. So do not be discouraged, for I have taken the body
to show you the way out of this web of unreal attachments. I
have come to live this life with you, and I will not let you
live this life without Me. I am the life in you, and you, My
sweet, are My life, for the God in you will only live as long as
you will live to become God.
No war can end this world; war can only destroy it, but the end
will come when each one of you will give up every hope to find
Me, the end will come when love will totally lose its meaning,
and only the ego will triumph with the power of self
destruction. When the self is lost, the war has begun, and each
time that the self will allow you to win, more cruelty will
arise, more will climb the ladder of violence and destruction
and even more will spread the disease of evil. The world finds
itself in chaos, because each one's mind has lost its comfort of
rest. The leaders of the world are reflecting the morals,
character and virtues only of you. Yes! It is you that has
chosen them to be in power, just as you have chosen your mind,
intellect and egos over Me. Your fingers may point to blame the
rest of the world for all your unhappiness, but remember the
conscience, My dears, will always point its finger only at you.
You are the cause of every suffering and you are its effect.
Start the change with you, spread the change to all, and the
world will also start its slow process of change. The
responsibility of life lies in each one of you, and each one
must be your own leaders at heart to understand the commands of
the real leader. A real leader will lead only to serve.
Service to humanity and all that lives, must become the voice of
the leader in each one's heart. Start to serve with serving
yourselves. Serve yourselves to My love, serve yourselves to My
strength, serve yourselves to My truth, and only then will your
service for all truly begin.
