By: Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji
Here we are, the products, as it were, of this great creative activity of the immeasurable completeness and perfection of Sai Baba the Almighty, the Supreme Being. Sai Baba is utter perfection, and everything that emanates from Him as His creation is also perfect. An imperfect product does not come out of a perfect cause. Thus, the great, most venerable, infinite Eternal Being, to describe Whom as perfection would be to say very little, has willed this universe, which also is a perfection. From poorna has come poorna. This Poorna, which is the universe, has come from Poorna, the Supreme Being, and we are all a part of this Poorna, the universe. Therefore, we also are representations of that Poorna only, not fragments or shattered personalities.
Sai Baba says: “You may ask where I am now and how I can meet you now. But I am within your heart and we can meet without any effort”. – Shri Sai Baba (Chap 44, Ovi 162)
All of us here, and everyone who is in any part of the world or any other world, all these beings we call living or non-living, moving or non-moving, animate or inanimate, call them by any designation, are also perfections, Poorna. Only Poorna emanates from Poorna, and therefore every one of you is also a Poorna … None of us is a fragment. This is very important for us to remember. We are not incomplete in any way.
Let us recite the universal prayer:
May the wicked turn good
May the good attain peace
May the peaceful be freed from all bondage and
May the liberated redeem others.
May everybody be happy
May everybody be free from disease
May everybody have good luck
May none fall on evil days;
May everybody surmount difficulties
May everybody have the good fortune
May everybody realize his ambitions
May everybody rejoice everywhere.
Many of us have distracted notions of our selves – poor, illiterate ideas of our being nothing, nobodies, unfulfilled, incomplete, and unfortunate. Nothing of the kind is the case with anyone or with anything because a wretched incomplete wreck cannot be manifest from a perfect being. If you believe you have come from that One Being, you are not that which you imagine yourselves to be under a false notion of yourself in your artificial adjustments and accommodations with a phenomenon we call human society which, to repeat once again, is also, in its essentiality, a symbol of perfection itself.
We read in Sai Satcharita – “If you recite ‘Sai, Sai,’ always, I will take you beyond the seven seas. If you believe in these words, you will be certainly benefited”. – (Chap 13, Ovi 11-13)
The whole universe is a radiant manifestation of the Almighty’s perfection. Glory is the name of this world. ‘Yasya nama mahad yasah’, says the Svetasvatara Upanishad. The glory of God is also the glory of this world; it is also the glory of every one of us, every one of you. Each one, even in the littlest of the forms of manifestation, is a completion in itself. Even an atom is a complete manifestation and is not a little part of something. You do not belong to anyone, and nothing belongs to you. The idea of something belonging to something else is the idea of subservience and fragmentation of personality. A thing that is complete cannot belong to something else, and if everything is complete, nothing can belong to anything. Neither can you belong to anything, nor can anything belong to you, because all these little manifestations of completion, perfection, Poorna, belong to the eternal perfection which is the Supreme-Being.
Sai Baba has commanded – “Such pious persons have become my followers whose sins have been destroyed and they have understood me.” – (Chap 13, Ovi 11-13)
These ideas, these thoughts, these contemplations even for a few moments will charge your personality with such strength, energy, joy, and satisfaction that you may not wish to even open your mouth. You will feel that everything is well.
Om purnam adah, purnam idam, purnat purnam udacyate;
purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate.
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