你相信与罗摩(Rama)或基士拿(Krishna)或与其他神祇相关联的事物,因为你觉得那信仰并没有强加于你任何义务或束缚。但就在你眼前的化身而言,你担心在认知神时,某些结果就跟着来了而你却想回避它们。
一个神化身是无所不能的,无时不能的,然而神化身也不会动辄展示其神力。只有在特殊情况的要求下,神化身才会展示这样的神力,并会把恩典撒向应得的人。
我会告诉你,为什么我赐予这些戒指,护身物,念珠等。它特别表明我与领取者之间的联系。当灾难降临于他们时,该赠品立即来到我这儿然后又立即带着保护的补救恩典回归于他。那恩典对任何人都有效,只要他们以任何名或相来呼唤我,不仅只是那些戴上这些礼物的人。爱是赢取圣恩的联系。
赛游戏正在整个印度的千万户人家发生。为了避免游戏太过惹人注意,斯瓦米保持低调。国家治理者明白事情的端倪,但他们保持缄默。如果公开,千万人势必涌向斯瓦米。那么,政府就得派人保护他而信徒们就难以靠近他了。总而言之,时机未到。
你或可从你所谓的奇迹中推测,我正利用它们来吸引你到我这儿来,而只到我这儿来。它们不是被用来展示或宣传的;它们是自然流露的并且是神圣庄敬之附属的证明。
由于斯瓦米拥有一个肉身,他给自己加上一些恰当的限制。斯瓦米已变现诸多金像,如有必要,变现一座金山,也一样容易。但这样,政府就得派人来保护他,包围他而不让任何人接近他。
斯瓦米变现的物质就像他创造物质世界的方式一样。其他物质如手表等都是从现有的供应之中领取的。没有任何隐性的生命体协助斯瓦米提领这些东西。他的神圣意愿(Sankalpa)在刹那间把物品带来。斯瓦米无处不在。他的创造属于自然而无极限的神的力量,绝不是瑜伽师的瑜伽力量或魔术师的魔术的产品。这力量绝不是修来的而只是自然流露的。
那人正步行于水面上。但自我与贪婪油然而生而一切就完了。身口意务必一致。
这爱(Prema)是我独特的标记,不是全然地凭意愿的驱使而变现物质或创造福乐。你或认为你所谓的奇迹是圣灵最直接的征象,但欢迎和祝福大家的爱,使我赶紧出现于远方求道者或受苦者和沮丧者或其他身份者的面前,那才是真正的征象。
You believe in such things when they are related of Rama or Krishna or others, for you feel that belief does not impose any obligations on you. But in the case of the incarnation before you, you apprehend that when the divine is recognized, certain consequences follow, and you try to avoid them.
An Avatar is capable of all things at all times, yet the Avatar will not undertake to demonstrate his powers at all times. An Avatar will undertake to demonstrate such powers when exceptional circumstances demand it and will shed the grace on a deserving person only.
I shall tell you why I give these rings, talismans, rosaries, etc. It is to signalize the bond between me and those to whom they are given. When calamity befalls them, the article comes to me in a flash and returns in a flash, taking from me the remedial grace of protection. That grace is available to all who call on me in any name or form, not merely to those who wear these gifts. Love is the bond that wins grace.
I am determined to correct you only after informing you of my credentials. That is why I am now and then announcing my nature by means of miracles, that is, acts which are beyond human capacity and human understanding. Not that I am anxious to show off my powers. The object is to draw you closer to me, to cement your hearts to me.
Sathya Sai Speaks 2, p.118
Leelas are occurring throughout India in tens of millions of homes. Swami keeps his hand down so that publicity about the leelas will not spread. The rulers of the country know, but they keep it quiet. If the facts were to have publicity, millions would converge on Swami. The government would surround him with security guards, and devotees could not get close to him. The time is not ready.
You may infer from what you call my miracles that I am causing them to attract and attach you to me and me alone. They are not intended to demonstrate or publicize; they are merely spontaneous and concomitant proofs of divine majesty.
Since Swami has taken a body, he has imposed certain proper limitations on himself. Swami has created idols of gold, and could just as easily create a mountain of gold. But then the Government would surround him and let nobody through.
Some objects Swami creates in just the same way that he created the material universe. Other objects, such as watches, are brought from existing supplies. There are no invisible beings helping Swami to bring things. His sankalpa, his divine will, brings the object in a moment. Swami is everywhere. His creations belong to the natural unlimited power of God and are in no sense the product of yogic powers as with yogis or of magic as with magicians. The power is in no way contrived or developed, but is natural only.
The man was walking on water. But ego and greed arose, and that finished it. Thought, word, and deed must be the same.
This prema (love) is my distinctive mark, not the creation of material objects or of health and happiness by sheer exercise of will. You might consider what you call miracles as the most direct sign of divinity, but the prema that welcomes you all, that blesses all, that makes me rush to the presence of the seekers, the suffering, and the distressed in distant lands or wherever they are, that is the real sign!