“Vinipisthundhaa?” do you hear Me?
Thursday, January 2nd, 2020
Over 5000 years after the epochal Advent of Bhagawan Sri Krishna in the Dwapara, …over 2000 years after the Advent of the proclaimed ‘Son Of God’, Jesus – The Christ, over 90 years after the epochal Advent Of The Sampoorna Avatar Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai, how much have we heard, learnt, imbibed and assimilated to mend our ‘humanimal’ ways of living? Are we on the right track? …the track that leads unto Him?
Bhagawan Sri Krishna had out of His infinite love granted the Arjunas of the ‘Kali Age’ The Song Celestial Bhagavad Gita, the quintessence of Which is ‘Mama Dharma’ as revealed by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai. Without making much ado, any confusion, it is understandable that ‘Mama Dharma’ refers to Atma Dharma or Swadharma, man’s path back unto his ‘True Truth’.
When Jesus walked the Earth, he had his clear-cut-task on hand, to act and enact a life of dualism, qualified non-dualism, only to finally merge in absolute surrender, non-dualism of Oneness. At the end of ‘his’ tenure, at the age of 38, Jesus ‘chose to walk unto the cross’ only to affirm his oneness with the Father Supreme.
Sri Sathya Sai came over nine decades ago… delivered His first ever public message of ‘Manasa Bhajare…’, exhorting mankind to worship the Lotus Feet Of The SadhGuru, which is the quintessential message of human life for all time. He repeated His message in the simplest of languages possible, not once, many a thousand time, ‘investing’ ‘qualified time’ on mankind. The Master when finally ‘chose to withdraw’ His physical frame from the public eye, He had again His finest message for humanity, to go beyond the trap of ‘illusion’ succumbing’ to name and form. It was He Who revealed the essence of the Bhagavad Gita, coining the last word of the last stanza that is Mama, with the first word of the first stanza, Dharma, to give out the quintessential wisdom of Bhagawan Sri Krishna over 5000 years ago, Mama Dharma.
It is relevant to go back to July 6, 1963, the day when Bhagawan ‘miraculously’ healed HimSelf out of an apparent ‘paralytic stroke’ to announce to the world about the true nature of His Avatarhood.
The message on this day had a subtle, yet profound pointer for every single sadhaka. This was the discourse wherein Bhagawan had revealed to the world of believers the ‘Bharadwaja’ story involving Lord Shiva, announcing HimSelf as ‘Shiva-Sakthi’ Avatar.
Shiva here stands for The Eternal Purusha, The Primordial Being, and Sakthi refers to Adi Para Sakthi, The Eternal Divine Mother, moulding into One as The Supreme Sri Sathya Sai, the Supreme Resolve manifesting as The Sampoorna Avatar. The subtle indicator here is, that on 6th July 1963, while delivering His Divine discourse, His Voice had turned ‘feeble’, barely audible to the grossly anxious devout assemblage awaiting a desperate positive hint about His ‘well being’. Addressing the august assembly, Bhagawan opened up slow and steady, still showing symptoms of physical discomfort. He released His Voice, feeble and thus barely audible to the assemblage. He asked, “Vinipisthundhaa?”, meaning ‘do you hear Me?’
Yes, did anyone hear Him… then, and ever since? He, Who Is The Cosmic Canvas, keeps sending us gentle reminders, gentle taps from The Source, Sri Sathya Sai Hiranya Garbha, reminding His dear ones of The True Truth behind the apparent Truth.
But, are we ready? Are we listening? I vividly remember an off-the-cuff telephonic satsangh I had a few years ago with an elevated soul, a diligent practitioner of the Sai Path of Love. During the conversation, I had blurted out a statement that, ‘I keep asking Swami, Swami, why are You sleeping?’ (inside of me). As I paused at this sentence, there was a pause of silence at the other end too, a meaningful pause, much to my dismay. The moment next, I heard the response, full of love and wisdom, telling me, ‘Why do you think so, that Swami inside of you is sleeping? If the ‘Swami’ inside of you is sleeping, then whom do you think is listening through you now, speaking through you and doing all and everything, all the time through you?’
I was awakened in that very instant, for, this has been my ‘self-parroting’ language ever since I had a real taste of Bhagawan’s Jnana Vahini, speaking of the ultimate Brahma Jnana. The voice at the other end did not stop at that. It resounded: ‘How open and apparent is His message, that every time He would address His devout assemblage, ‘Prema Swaroopulara’, ‘Divyatma Swaroopulara’ and so on, openly announcing to the ‘you and me’ that We Are In Essence That. …what more proof of His Presence you need?’
Recently I had an inner call, to visit my ‘earthly preceptor’, who was instrumental in taking me into the world of Brahma Vidya. As I went over to meet him, he was lying down, the only position his ailing physical frame yields to sans much resistance. Pausing for a while, pointing to his body, he said, ‘Five elements are withdrawing slow and steady. One must always remember that ‘i’ am not the body. Every single sadhana is aimed at reaching this goal.’ I vividly remember a conversation with him once, when he said: ‘Look around, see if anything else other than ’I Am’ existing anywhere. ‘I Am’ is verily the Pranava.’
If alone we constantly remember to deliberately hear this one whispering voice of our Beloved Bhagawan, asking us, “Vinipisthundhaa?” meaning ‘do you hear Me?’, we are sure to be on the right track towards that most aspiring ‘Oneness’, that our twin-millennia old true friend and role-model Jesus – The Christ had achieved.
Lord Krishna spoke of ‘Mama Dharma’… Jesus ‘burnt himself out’ on the Holy Cross exemplifying the message of Put-Apart-I to be One with Him and Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai always reminded us of our True Truth, showcasing His Life As His Message. Are we ready? If ‘Yes’, let’s be deliberate in our attempts, listening to Him every single moment, while praying:
O’ Lord! Let me burn out…
Burn this candle out of life…
In Thy Name…The Holy of holies…
Unto that world, sans time…
Without seconds, without minutes and without days…
No weeks, no months and no years…
Unto that world beyond…
Beyond time and space…
Where exists only Sai…
Sai sans any duality!
Oneness!!! Oneness!!! Oneness!!!
II Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu II
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