Source of Divine Love

By: C.S.Dinesh

Sai Satcharitra has fifty-three Chapters. Hemadpant contributed fifty-two chapters while the Epilogue was done by B.V. Deo which is an index of the book content. Therefore, practically it is Fifty-two chapters. Anything associated with Sai Baba has a deeper meaning which will be divine and not easy to understand. Fifty-two stands for five and two added to be precisely seven. The number seven is incredible as we come across Seven Sages – Sapta Rishis, Seven Colours of VIBGYOR. Seven Oceans – Sapta-Sagars, a week has seven days, Sapta-Dweepas, SaptaLokas, Sapta rivers, above these are Seven Chakras of body which precisely signifies Seven Seas – Bhavsagar. When we surpass Bhavsagar or Seven virtual spiritual chakras, we have attained MUKTI or liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Seven Wonders of the world and the list is continuous. All these are eternal. Sai Baba is also eternal, and his glories are eternal.

When we do Parayan of Sai Satcharita we should not read it ending as we read a novel or any fiction. It should not be stopped just like that casually at the concluding chapter but we should continue to read the first chapter again after finishing the week’s Parayan. Whenever Bhagawat Gita is completely chanted, after the last chapter, we again chant the initial few verses of the first chapter and then only formally conclude the Gita parayan. Similarly, we as devotees of Sai Baba should continue to read the divine poti of Sai Satcharita again and again. Seven stands for weekdays which has no end and it will continue to repeat. Sai Baba did not advocate any sort of rituals but strongly insisted on ‘Nama Smarana’. Reading a few pages of the divine poti Sai Satcharita will enable us to take his name every day in our life

Sai Baba made me contemplate a color wheel which is a round, flat disk made of paper or cardboard. The outer edge is painted or colored with stripes for each of the seven colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. When the wheel is spun quickly, the colors blend and turn into white. As it spins at high speed, only a pure white wheel with no hint of any of the rainbow colors is seen.

As a child, I was often amazed at how all the colors can turn into white. But what I did not realize is that it is the other way around. It is white light that is the only color, but through a process of dispersion, it breaks up into the different colors of the rainbow.

Each color has its own wavelength. As light passes through different materials, those substances reflect light at various wavelengths, giving the appearance of different colors. But there is only one color—pure white light.

Similarly, if we look at humanity, we see on the outer surface a variety of people with different hair colors, eye colors, and skin colors. While outer colors may vary, the underlying color of all humanity is the same. That color is light.
After I started worshipping Sai Baba I realized our soul as our true essence. The differences among us are only due to the different vestures in which that Light – our Soul is embodied.

Just as white light manifests as the seven colors of the rainbow when it passes through different types of matter, similarly, the Light of the soul is one, even though it inhabits physical bodies having many different colors.

At our physical level, all we see are our physical differences. When we develop spiritual consciousness, we experience that the same Light of God is within each person. We are all united at the level of the soul.

When we reach that level of awareness, we start to see all living beings as one big family of the Creator. We no longer differentiate between people based on outer form and custom. We recognize that there is beauty in diversity. We start treating all people with love and respect because we know at their very core is the same essence of which we are made. Then we realize as to why Sai Baba advised us – ‘See me in all beings’.

If we want to get a small glimpse of how this is possible, we need only look at our primitive technology today. We think we are very advanced, but it is just a small beginning for what humanity will develop in the future. If we look at the Internet, we find that all information is available to us by logging onto different sites. The server that hosts all the sites is a storehouse of all the information on all the sites. By logging on we access all the information we want.

Our God – Sai Baba is like a giant server that hosts all our individual souls or websites. Thus, all knowledge about us is known to Sai Baba – the God. He is also able to simultaneously know what is happening to each of us every second at the same time. When we tap into that spiritual consciousness and merge into the ocean of God, we too have access to all consciousness.

We can attain spiritual consciousness by focusing our attention on meditation and contemplation. Then, we contact our true nature, our Soul, and discover it is one with Sai Baba our God, the Source of divine love. Then we will experience peace and bliss.