49. Open your spiritual heart
When the boy Prema Sai Baba was between three and eleven years old, he was visited by several hundred Russian devotees as well as devotees from other countries. Already, a large number of people around the world consider him the incarnation of God.
There is now a discussion about how to understand who Prema Sai Baba is. For those people who strongly deny Prema Sai Baba, I advise you to be more careful, because out of ignorance you can start denying God.
If you still do not feel an inner spiritual connection with Prema Sai Baba, continue to live a righteous and honest life by practicing meditation and prayer. We must learn to respect each other and accept that different people may have different views and opinions about God and Truth.
A certain boy was born in the South Indian ancient city of Doddamallur in 2012. How can we be sure that this particular boy is Prema Sai Baba? Logical proofs are useless and cannot help. Logic, reason and mind cannot understand God. Logic cannot prove or disprove that he is the divine incarnation. Only the spiritual hearts of devotees can feel the Divine presence.
The essence of the message of Sathya Sai Baba is the awakening of the spiritual hearts of people, the manifestation of love and compassion, and service to people and society.
Ancient texts help us understand some of the processes taking place in our era. The events of history are repeated in a circle. What happened in ancient times sometimes happens exactly right before our eyes.
Old Testament prophets predicted the coming of the Messiah. Prophecies about the coming of the Messiah have always been deeply symbolic and allegorical. This means they have never been unambiguous.
Many commentators have tried to interpret the prophetic writings in order to more accurately understand the details and signs of the coming of the Messiah. When the real Messiah (Christ) came to Earth, he was very different from human assumptions, so a difficult situation arose when those who were waiting for him could not recognize him.
Those who were destined, by divine plan, to know Christ accepted him as a teacher and savior. Is there a free choice in this situation, or is everything just a craft of God? The wise and incomprehensible providence of God is intertwined with the free choice of man. Free choice implies responsibility, and this is sometimes difficult.
Christ was recognized and accepted by those who God allowed, but the spiritual effort of the people themselves also played an important role. Reading the gospel stories, we are constantly in contact with the fact that the heroes of the story are faced with difficult choices, alternatives, and difficult decision-making in trying situations.
The readiness of the human soul to accept God is, among other things, a free choice between the illusion of the material world and the eternal bliss of the Spirit. Sathya Sai Baba often said all those who came to his ashram and were given the opportunity to meet him could only do so because he himself "invited" them.
When I heard these words of Sathya Sai Baba for the first time, it was hard for me to understand their meaning, because a huge number of people were constantly present in his ashram.
How could Sathya Sai Baba invite everyone who came to his gigantic ashram? The illusion was created that each of us came to him of our own free will as a result of our own decision. Behind all the main events of our life there is always the wise providence of God. There were many situations when people received many signs that it was time to go to India, to the ashram of Sathya Sai Baba. However, sometimes the vanity of this material world and social success dragged on, and people lost the unique opportunity to see the living God.
There are three great Vedic sacred texts that make up the entirety of Hindu philosophy — Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Bhagavatam. These texts tell the stories of numerous Avatars and incarnations of God, such as Rama, Narasimha, Krishna, and dozens of others.
These texts contain spiritual instructions on the most basic philosophical systems: Sankya (the structure of the inner world of a person) and Vedanta (the relationship of the soul and God).
Also, on the pages of the scriptures you can learn about the main areas of yoga: Karma yoga (service in the name of God), Bhakti yoga (devotion to God), Dhyana yoga (meditation on God), Jnana yoga (knowledge of the unity of the soul and God).
The pages of the Mahabharata give the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita — Krishna's instructions to his disciple Arjuna. The pages of the Bhagavatam narrate the teachings of the Uddava Gita, which are the instructions of Krishna to his disciple, Uddava. Obviously, the most significant of all the Avatars described in the Vedic texts is Krishna.
By studying the unique life path of Krishna, his unpredictability and incomprehensibility, we can at least get a little closer to understanding the appearance of the three Sai Avatars, in particular Prema Sai Baba.
Like Krishna, Prema Sai Baba is unpredictable and perfect in his endless divine play. For those who aspire to understand Prema Sai leela (the divine play of Prema Sai), I can advise you to immerse yourself in the study of the Bhagavatam. It is this greatest ancient text that has the power to open the spiritual heart and the eye of wisdom.
Dear reader, study the Bhagavatam, the greatest and most incomprehensible text of Vedic philosophy and mythology. By studying the stories of Krishna, it is possible to understand at least a little of the greatness and transcendence of Prema Sai Baba.
Prema Sai Baba is the most extraordinary and difficult to comprehend of the three Sai Avatars, because he is the third one. There are too many predictions, assumptions, prophecies, conjectures, and expectations about him. Through his two previous incarnations as Shirdi Sai and Sathya Sai, God prepared the ground for the coming of his greatest incarnation — Prema Sai.
In order to accept and realize the phenomenon of Prema Sai Baba, you need to completely free yourself from all prejudices, false expectations, religious conditioning, and open your spiritual heart to the flow of divine wisdom and love.
The highest teaching of Vedic philosophy is Advaita, the doctrine of the unity of the Absolute Consciousness. Advaita is not just a set of philosophical teachings, but a description of the actual experience of non-duality, which is the original unity of the soul with God.
Adi Shankara, a sage who lived in ancient times, formulated the foundations of the philosophy of Advaita, although this philosophical system existed long before him.
Studying his fundamental treatise Vivekachudamani, we see that the personal, intellectual and spiritual efforts of the student, as well as the blessing of God and the guru, are important for gaining enlightenment. Even the experience of non-duality is acquired as a gift from God.
The combination of one's spiritual efforts, the practice of meditation and the blessing of God, grant enlightenment, which is the inner experience of the Absolute Consciousness in one's spiritual heart.
The Apostle John wrote in his First Catholic Epistle that God is Light. This Upper Light in past epochs incarnated on Earth as Krishna, Buddha, Christ and many other Avatars.
In our era, this Supreme Light has incarnated as Shirdi Sai, Sathya Sai and Prema Sai. Sai is the greatest source of wisdom and love, blessings and happiness. He bestows the imperishable treasure that is enlightenment.
P.S:
Sai Ram. I began work on this book on February 19, 2023, the day after Maha Shivaratri Day, and completed this work on Prema Sai Baba's birthday, June 28, 2023, when he was eleven years old.
Prema Sai Baba — Numerology Report
In this analysis I have taken Prema Sai Baba’s time and date of birth as 6.10 am,28th June 2012 and his name as Preetham Gowda Mahesh Kumar. (note: Mahesh and Kumar are taken as two separate names).