About The Book
Indeed an essential reading for one, who seeks to acquaint himself with the Avatar of the Kali age, 'The Essential Sai' introduces readers to a comprehensive array of knowledge about our beloved Swami and His mission. Spanning diverse subjects, like Who Is Sai?, Baba's Mission, Social Transformation, and Sai Seva, 'The Essential Sai' is a compendium of nectarous discourses that answer almost all conceivable doubts and enlightens its readers. It is not an ordinary book, but an extraordinary one that gives unto readers the words of the Avatar, God Himself.
PROLOGUE
The book you hold in your hands is not an ordinary book. It may be unlike any you have ever read. Its author, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, is unlike anyone you may ever meet or hear about. In Sanskrit, the word for such a one as Sai Baba is "Purnavatar," which means a full and complete Incarnation of the Lord. The last such appearance of perfect Divinity among us is said to have been Lord Krishna. Here is how Sai Baba describes Himself: I am lever] new and ever ancient. I come always for the restoration of Dharma (righteousness), for tending the virtuous and ensuring them conditions congenial to progress, and for educating the 'blind' who miss the way and wander into the wilderness. (SSBEL, 64. For full citations, see Bibliography.) The present Avatar has come invested with the totality of cosmic power. (SM, 236) I am the Divinity that is your Reality. (SSS, X, 133.) I am all deities in one. (Sathyam, III, 282.) This Form... is all Forms of all Gods. (SSS, VI, 212.) This is a Human Form in which every Divine Entity, every Divine Principle, that is to say, all the Names and Forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest. I am everything, everywhere, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. (SM, 243.) (SSS,VI,211.) Sai Baba speaks quite freely of His identity and His Mission, as you will see in these pages. He says that He has come down (an Avatar - a "descent" of God) to raise human consciousness above the warring, raping, pillaging, destructive and downward spiral that humanity has brought itself to. He has come to turn it back from its worship of self and pleasure, technology and ease, money and comfort. Sai Baba offers this metaphor to explain the reasons for His Presence: When there is a small disturbance, a police constable is enough to put it down; when the trouble is threatening to develop into sizable proportions, a police inspector is sent; when it grows into a riot, the superintendent of police himself has to quell it, but when, as now, all mankind is threatened with moral ruin, the inspector general comes down, that is, the Lord comes down with His army of saintly men and seekers. (LBSSSB, 213) Sri Sathya Sai Baba has come down to see that Earth does not erupt into thermonuclear conflagration and to raise the consciousness of humanity until a Golden Age is inaugurated for all the inhabitants of the planet. He says: 1 am acting a role now in this human form. The Function-less and the Role-less has come, taking on a Function and assuming a Role. (Sathyam, II, 39). (I have) to deal with (a) crisis which is world-wide and world-shaking.... Immorality has put on the garb of morality and is enticing man into the morass of sin. Truth is condemned as a trap: justice is jeered at; saints are tortured as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come, to uphold the True and suppress the False. (SSS, VI, 265.) The Mahapurushas Igreat beingsl, the Mahatmas [great souls), the Inanis [sages], the Yogis [enlightened ones)...
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