SAI BABA

The whole assumption that the planet is there for us to exploit is false. We
are not mere observers of nature. We are nature. The human being is that
point where nature becomes self-conscious and can lift out in thought into
the universe and think God's thoughts again, can reflect God's thoughts, and
receive the ever-present God into heart and into mind. We are making this
discovery, this greatest of all experiences, that God is wherever there is life,
light and love, wherever we allow love and light to come into our hearts and
into our thinking.

It is wonderful to realize that God is there within our own thinking. "I am
with you always, closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet." What is
closer than breathing? The answer surely is thinking. "I AM there in your
thinking." Look at the implications of this. This is the message. This is the
thought for our generation and our time. This is the point which we have got
to apprehend and make conscious and utilize. God and all His creatures, your
guardian angel, your higher self, speak within your own thinking.

Man in God's image

Will you try this little experiment? Look into another person's eyes. You need
not smile, need not respond for this idea goes beyond individual
personalities. Just realize the wonder of this organ which enables the angelic
world or God to look out from within nature and see creation from the inside,
not merely looking down upon the planet in its beauty, but entering it
through that organ of perception in nature which we call Humanity. It is God
looking out of your eyes at Himself in mine.

We are looking through into that vast being of which God said "Let us make
man in our own image." This immense spiritual being of humanity is
everywhere and Earth, this gem of a planet, is the chosen point at which this
divine experiment can take place. It involved the releasing of a hierarchy of
spiritual beings into this chosen planet, and giving them freedom, which
involves freedom to err. It is the great gamble of the gods, the great
experiment to create a hierarchy of spiritual beings, who, having freedom,
are ultimately able to come back again to God out of free choice.
The forces of light are forbidden to interfere with human freedom, and
therefore the great guiding beings must watch and wait until a human being
out of its heart rededicates itself to service of the Lord. When it has really
made that choice in action, it is possible for that force of light to be flooded
through the human being. Without interfering with freedom by free choice,
you have elected to become a warrior for God in the great period of coming
change.

Higher forces at work

Think what is happening now in this room. Here are gathered dedicated
followers of God, recognizing in Sai Baba a true manifestation of God upon
earth. When a company comes together in such a setting as this, the whole
force field of vibration is raised. A higher frequency is created in this setting.
This is indeed the task of every cathedral, or temple, whatever the religion. A
point of ethereal space is created within the temple, into which a divine being
can descend into the heavy slow vibration of the earth plane without being
contaminated. The noble architecture of any temple, of whatever religion, is
enclosing sacred space and when we come into it in a mood of prayer and
dedication, we are entering a force field of high frequency linked with the
spiritual sun. As we meet here today dedicated in the service of Sai Baba as a
true manifestation of God in the human layer, we may be certain that these
energies are in fa ct flooding golden light into this space on a level which our
ordinary vision of course cannot as yet see.

"Droplet of God"
Remember the great truth—as in the macrocosm so in the microcosm. The
human body is the temple. That which can say "I" in you and me, is a droplet
of God, housed temporarily in a very beautiful and compact mobile temple
that is the body. You are not your body. You, the thing that can say I, is a
spiritual being, part of God and therefore axiomatically immortal and
imperishable because God is Life. For that being there literally cannot be any
death. The temple can of course be destroyed burnt, drowned, frozen,
smashed, but that does no more than release the immortal droplet of God
back to source.

Humanity is really still in a pre-birth condition. Consciousness in all of us is

awakening to the divinity of the totality of humanity of which we are each
cells. At this time the divine world is so close. The manifestation of God that
we call Sai Baba has entered the Earth and not only is there in Puttaparthi but
is everywhere and is here and knows all that each one of us is thinking. This
is a most wonderful thought, but as the Greeks said; "knowledge begins with
wonder." So wonder at this.

Take the idea that we are each a droplet of God and we are therefore one
great being of Humanity. Thus if I hurt, criticize, rob or kill you, I shall be
hurting myself.

I will put this lovely idea in my heart and in my thinking. I know that I am a
divine droplet and so are you and we are therefore One on this level. Glory
be! I know that God is not far behind the stars. He is everywhere. He, in this
case, Sai Baba, is in this room and in the thinking of every one of us.

Wonder upon wonder and privilege beyond all privileges! We have been
given freedom and the forces of light will not take us over without our
consent, which the forces of darkness are prepared to do. They have no
compunction about direct attack to get hold of the human being. Therefore,
what we can do is to surround ourselves with a protective shield, or Cloak of
higher light vibration. Now, knowing that there is no true protection but in
God, you would then have absolute protection in rededicating self to this
adventure of the in-flooding of the God power. This is truly the greatest
adventure that the human being can undertake.

All of us here now are droplets of God and identifying with the one great
being, which is humanity. With us in this ethereal space is not only Sai Baba
Himself, that Universal Being, but the angelic world in force. Take that
thought and fire as if it were true. You need not believe, because these ideas
are themselves living beings and therefore such an idea as I have tried to
describe will draw certainty to itself. As you live with it you come absolutely
to know what is true beyond any argument.

Never argue about these things. Remember when the great Karl Jung, in one
of the last press interviews before he died, was asked "Do you believe in
God?" he replied, "No, I don't believe in God, I know." That is a great
thought. We know and we can act on this inner knowledge. So in that sense
we know validly that Sai Baba is a universal manifestation of God and that
He is present with every human being and ther efore knows everyone of our
problems.
I will close with one little quatrain by James Elroy Flecker,

"Awake! Awake! the world is young

For all its weary years of thought.
The starkest fights must still be fought.
The most surprising songs be sung."
Let us sing together!