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The following talk was given by David Jevons in February 1996 to a Positive Living Group who
used to meet in a church in Bournemouth, Dorset, in England. Only a few of the audience had
heard about Sai Baba and none of them were familiar with his teachings. David always used to
approach these meetings with great tact and reservation. The story that he had to tell was just so
amazing that many in the audience found it hard to accept the story that he was telling. They
might believe one aspect of it, but then David would say something about Sai Baba, which
completely blew their minds, and they wound up by rejecting everything that he had said. David
found this to be particularly true when talking to people who held firm beliefs in one religion or
another. The whole topic was just too threatening for them unless he spoke in the vaguest of
terms. This talk reflects not just David’s own path to recognising the divine nature of Sai Baba
but also the path that all spiritual seekers have to walk, because it asks a question that we all have
to ask and to answer if we are serious about our spiritual evolution. Sai Baba says, “You are as
close to God as you are to your self.” So when we ask “Who is Sai Baba?” we are really asking
“Who am I?” for in as much as we ask questions about ourselves we are asking questions about
God. Sai Baba constantly reminds us that we are no different from God. Why do we find this so
hard to believe?
WHO IS SAI BABA?

I will begin by reminding you that what I am about to share with you are my own experiences,
are the understandings that I have developed over the past fifteen or so years through my own
relationship with Sri Sathya Sai Baba. My purpose in disseminating this information is not to
proselytise or publicise Sai Baba. That is the last thing that I want to do. That is the last thing
that Sai Baba would want me to do! We are all walking different paths towards the Godhead and
if you are happy with your chosen path, then my earnest desire is that this information will serve
to help you to walk that path more efficaciously. If, however, you are in the state that I was in
fifteen years ago and are dissatisfied with your understanding of the nature of God and the reality
of life on this plane of Earth, if you believe that a greater truth exists than is generally recognised
today, then I invite you to investigate with me the phenomenon that is Sai Baba. My wife and I
have journeyed out to India many times to visit Sai Baba and we have been privileged to have
several personal interviews with him. We have also spoken to many of his close devotees and
have obtained valuable insights from them about his life and his teachings. It is from this
viewpoint alone that we feel qualified to talk about Sai Baba.

There are books written about Sai Baba in practically every major language of our world. Sai
Baba isn’t just an Indian phenomenon. He is a universal phenomenon. From Russia to
Argentina, from Australia to Alaska, there are Sai Baba centres all over the world. When I
attended the celebrations at his ashram in Puttaparthi, India a few years ago, held to mark his
70th birthday, in the carnival-like procession which wound past the dais on which he was sitting
on the morning of his birthday there were the flags of over 130 countries flying, held by devotees
from Sai Baba centres in those countries. It was a graphic demonstration to all those who were
privileged to be there of the fact that he now has over 50 million followers in countries all over
the world and that this number is growing in leaps and bounds as each year passes and more and
more people get to hear about him.

The very fact that I am talking to you about Sai Baba is also significant because, until recently, it
was not permitted for any of his devotees either to advertise or to give public talks about him or
in any way to publicise his divine mission. So you could only get to hear about Sai Baba either
by visiting a Sai Baba Centre or else by talking to someone who had had some personal
experience of him. In my case it was the latter path, but I have to tell you that it has taken me
almost fifteen years from first hearing about Sai Baba to being able to understand even a little of
his divine mission. Why have devotees been forbidden from publicising Sai Baba? Swami
says that it has been done so as to restrict the numbers coming to visit him, so that those
souls who over many past lives have been trying to draw close to the Godhead may have
the first opportunity in this lifetime to have access to him before the massive crowds start
to arrive, when he will literally only be a small orange speck amidst hundreds of thousands
of people. So we are now at the beginning of a period of time when there will be a growing
worldwide interest in Sai Baba and his mission. So if you feel the need to go and see him
and to try to get close to him, don’t leave it for too long a time or you may be too late!

I believe that you can approach the phenomenon that is Sai Baba on three different levels. You
can choose whichever level you feel is appropriate for you. The choice is not a question of right
or wrong, of greater or lesser soul consciousness. It is more a question of the nature of your
esoteric or exoteric philosophical doctrine at the time. I will warn you in advance, though, that
you may find it hard to accept some of the things that I am going to mention. I say this advisedly
because, fifteen years ago, I was in the very same position that many of you will be in. Some of
the stories of what Sai Baba has done are beyond human understanding, if only because he
operates beyond time and space, because he is not bound by our scientific rules. You will hear
stories about some people’s experiences with this amazing man, which will stretch your
credulity. All that I can ask of you is that you just stay open, that you do not feel the need either
to accept or to reject what I say, that you just let my message reside in your consciousness, and
see how it germinates in the weeks and months to come. For some people the response is very
quick. I gave a talk about Sai Baba recently and a month later a person who had attended that
talk phoned to say that he was just about to leave for India to go to see Sai Baba as a direct result
of my talk! For other people, who are attached to a formless, nameless God, the very concept of
a manifest God is quite abhorrent. So, all that I can do is to ask you to walk the middle path and
to allow your conscience not your conditioning to decide the truth of what I am about to share
with you.

One of the levels on which you can relate to Sai Baba is that of seeing him as a great spiritual
teacher. There are, of course, many spiritual teachers in the world today, especially in India, each
with their bands of disciples and devoted followers, who all extol the virtues of their particular
guru. Often they tend to repeat the stories of the miraculous healings, of the psychic
manifestations, of the incomprehensible powers and attributes of their gurus, rather than simply
talking about their spiritual teachings, about the message that they are trying to give to
Humanity. This was exactly what happened to me fifteen years ago. I heard only the stories
about Sai Baba’s miracles, about his divine powers, about how he could manifest anything with a
wave of his hand, and this simply put me off him because I believed, wrongly as it turned out,
that this was just window dressing, designed to attract the spiritually gullible. Some years were
to pass by before I actually allowed myself to read some of Sai Baba’s teachings and to become
aware of his spiritual message. I should perhaps point out here that I have been a follower of the
Western Esoteric Tradition for almost thirty years. Nevertheless, much to my amazement, I
found that Sai Baba’s teachings were almost identical to my own understandings and slowly I
began to embrace the Eastern as well as the Western Esoteric Tradition and grew to realise that
they are really one and the same thing. As Sai Baba talked about the Vedas and The Bhagavad
Gita and the all-pervading Law of Karma, as he reiterated the steps that Humanity must take in
order to transform itself and to restore morality and right action in society, and so save itself from
self-destruction, I knew that I was hearing Infinite Truth. I knew that I had to go to India and to
find out more about Sai Baba.

In 1989 I had stopped the channelling process that had been a part of my life for almost twenty
years. I had stopped channelling because I realised that it was causing separation between my
God and me. I was relying on an intermediary for the source of wisdom rather than on the
Creator of All Life Himself. The channelling process had become a prop on which I was leaning
for spiritual support, in just the same way that a Christian relies on his or her priest to explain the
mysteries of life. Of course, at some stage in our lives, as we walk the path towards spiritual
wakefulness, we all need the help of intermediaries, but as we discover that we are no different
from God, that a part of God dwells within us, that we have a direct link to God, then, we realise
that we no longer need an intermediary. I saw this very clearly and just stopped the channelling
process. For me it was like being born again. It was like starting a new life. I found the whole
experience of questing for God very exciting, if only because I had no ideas as to what I would
find. Almost inevitably my quest took me out to see Sai Baba, because I identified so strongly
with his teachings. I have to admit, though, that in the very beginning my quest did not run
smoothly. I had to overcome a lot of prejudices and preferences. My first three visits to Sai
Baba’s ashram were really icebreakers! He completely ignored me, which was probably the best
thing that he could have done, because I was still questioning both him and his mission on every
level of my being. In an interview on a subsequent visit Sai Baba told me that I think too much!
I operate from my head rather than from my heart. I spent the whole time that I was in his
ashram reading, listening and watching, in fact just concentrating on being, on tuning in to the
energy that was present there. Gradually, as the seeds that he had sown within me began to grow
and flourish, my western resistance broke down and something deep inside me began to respond
to his presence.

Perhaps the best way to tell you about the essence of Sai Baba’s teachings is to reproduce a
pamphlet that has been produced by the Sri Sathya Sai Organisation of the UK and which lists,
amongst other things, the objectives of the Organisation and the methods to be adopted to attain
them. I will begin by saying that Sai Baba himself has clearly stated, on many occasions, that he
has not come to start a new religion. He does not want people to follow him, to worship him, to
create a new cult around him. No, he wants them to follow the God that is in them, to pursue the
spiritual path or religion, which they have chosen, but to pursue it more conscientiously, more
devotedly. The emblem of the Sai Baba World Organisation is the Sarva Dharma which includes
the symbols of the six major religions of the world and, indeed, when you visit his ashram you
will find people from all the major world religions there, be they Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew,
Buddhist or Zoroastrian. Furthermore, the sacred days of all of the major world religions, not
just of Hinduism, are observed in the ashram. One of Sai Baba’s favourite sayings is that there is
only one race, the Race of Humanity. Cultures and creeds may differ but race is one. He is a
totally universal teacher. His mission is simply to bring about the spiritual regeneration of
Humanity by demonstrating and teaching the principles of Truth, Love, Peace, Right Conduct
and Non-violence. He says, “I know who I am; I have come to help you realise who you are.”

The principle objectives of The Sai Organisation are:

1. To help the individual -:

a) To be aware of the Divinity which is inherent in him and to conduct himself

accordingly.
b) To translate into practice in daily life divine love and perfection and, therefore,
c) To fill one’s life with joy, harmony, beauty, grace, human excellence and lasting
happiness.

2. To ensure that all human relations are governed by the principles of Truth, Right Conduct,
Love, Peace and Non-violence.

3. To make devotees of any religion more sincere and dedicated in the practice of their respective
religion by understanding properly the true spirit of that religion.
 These objectives are to be obtained in the following manner-:

1. By observing the four principles laid down by Sai Baba, namely -

a) There is only ONE religion, the religion of love.

b) There is only ONE caste, the caste of humanity.
c) There is only ONE language, the language of love.
d) There is only ONE God and that God is omnipresent.

2. By constant remembrance of God and looking upon all beings as only a manifestation of
Divinity in different forms and shapes.

3. By underlining the essential unity of all religions and securing proper understanding of all
religions as being based on Love.

4. By looking upon all work as service dedicated to the Divine.

5. By bringing to bear upon all of life’s problems attitudes flowing from Divine Love, such as
understanding, compassion, tolerance, helpfulness etc.

6. By basing all actions on love of Divinity, fear of sin and steadfast observance of morality in
society.

7. By engaging in spiritual, educational and service activities, both at the individual and the
community level, in an organised and systematic manner, without expecting any material reward
or appreciation, but solely as a means of winning God’s Love and Grace.

I don’t think that many people, no matter what is the nature of their spiritual beliefs, would find
conflict with a single one of those principles and objectives. This is what I find to be so
wonderful about Sai Baba’s teachings. They are totally universal. Above all, though, Sai Baba is
constantly reminding us of our divine birthright. He is forever saying, “I am God and you are
God, the only difference is that I know it.” He reminds us that we have forgotten who we really
are. He warns us that we should not identify with our physical body and its associated egocentric
personality, which are to be compared to passing clouds, since they are only with us for a short
lifespan and then disappear for ever. We should identify with our divine spirit or Atma, the
aspect of the Godhead that dwells within us and which is with us for eternity. As such, when we
do this, we will discover that we, like him, are capable of manifesting all the powers of the
Godhead. The reason why we, and the world as a whole, are suffering is because we have
forgotten our divine birthright. Many people are choosing to behave like animals rather than like
human beings and one of the main purposes of Sai Baba’s mission is to demonstrate for us the
reality of correct human relationship, is to help us to recognise and to respect the divine aspect
that is present in every single human being.

For me, personally, one of Sai Baba’s most significant teachings is that God is omnipresent, that
is to say that God is within us, around us and above us at all times. He says that human beings
can be likened to fish swimming in water, where the water can be considered as God. Using this
analogy we can see that God is all around us as well as being inside us and that without God we
cannot live, move and have our being. Without God we can achieve nothing. We cannot do
anything without God knowing of it. It has always amazed me how so many people today can
adopt the attitude that communing with and worshipping God is something that they can only do
in a church or temple and that when they leave that church or temple they have somehow
separated themselves from God and so are free to behave in any way that they choose,
sometimes in a very ungodly way, because God does not know what they are doing. Sai Baba
says that this is not so. God is omnipresent and, therefore, life around you is simply God
resounding, reacting and reflecting upon you at all times, without exception.

Everything that happens to you each day is, in reality, simply God communicating with you. My
wife and I call this experience ‘universal feedback’, which means, quite simply, that the universe
is reflecting back to us the appropriateness of our thoughts, words and deeds. This is yet another
manifestation of the great cosmic Law of Karma, which can best be understood by using the
analogy of Nature, that is to say that as you sow, so you shall reap. Good actions or good seeds
can only grow into good fruits, whereas bad actions or bad seeds can only grow into bad fruits.
If you understand this fact you will understand the nature of suffering and will realise that the
individual, not God, is the cause of all human suffering. So no one suffers by chance, by an act
of fate. There is no such thing as an accidental death. Sai Baba says that everything that
happens to us on the face of this Earth is a direct result of our own actions, either in this or
in past lives. So never look at a tragedy from the viewpoint of just one moment in time. It is
rather like trying to understand a film from looking at just a few frames in the middle of the film.
We have no way of knowing what frames have gone before and what frames are coming
afterwards. We cannot hope to understand the film from that limited viewpoint. It is the same
with life. We need to be aware of the continuity of all our lives - past, present and future - before
we will be in a position to judge the appropriateness of our karma.

We have all lived hundreds of lives. We keep on coming back to the Earth in this eternal cycle of
birth and death and this leads me directly to another of Sai Baba’s teachings, which is that we
have it within our power to end this cycle and to remove the need to take birth again on the plane
of Earth. Sai Baba has come on the Earth at this time specifically to remind us that many human
souls are nearing the end of their time in this school of life called Earth and that it is within their
power to merge with the Source of All Life from which they separated aeons of time ago.
Amongst all evolved souls there are usually to be found feelings of weariness with physical life
and by weariness I don’t mean that they don’t enjoy life but that they are tired of having to go
through the trauma of birth and death in order to live in a world where so much suffering exists,
where people deny the reality of God, where people are interested only in the advancement and
the aggrandisement of the self, regardless of the cost to people around them. So there is a strong
desire to return home to the Source, which is God, and to break free from the cycle of rebirth.
Sai Baba says that his very presence on the Earth at this time will provide the impetus for many
souls to make that final jump in consciousness, to balance their karma and to achieve their soul’s
deep yearning, to merge with the Source of All Life. If we follow his living example, if we live
righteous lives, if we love all and serve all, if we draw close to the living God within us, then, we
can become one with that God.

Sai Baba, in both his public talks and his private interviews, is constantly reminding his audience
that in spite of all the miraculous powers that he manifests we are no different from him. All of
these powers are latent within us too. We are God. We are no different from God. He says “I
am I, and you are you, but we are one.” So we should not just look at our physical bodies and
the inherent and very obvious differences in them, because we are not our bodies. We were
never born and so we will never die. We are immortal beings, aspects of the One God, and all
that we are doing when we incarnate upon the Earth and take on a human form is to put on a coat
which we will discard when we return to the plane of our true existence. So we should never get
attached to our coat, to our physical body and its associated senses and feelings, because it is
going to wear out and die. We should always be in control of our body, we should always be its
master not its servant. Sai Baba often uses the analogy of a chariot and horses. The chariot is
our body, the horses are our senses, and it is obvious that the driver in the chariot should be
firmly in control otherwise the horses could run away and could damage or even destroy the
chariot.
The greatest gift that Sai Baba has given me, however, is to make me aware of my own divinity.
My Christian upbringing taught me that God was in Heaven and Man was on Earth and that there
was this great divide between the two, a divide that could only be bridged by God sending His
son down to Earth to make contact with and to redeem Mankind. I was never very happy either
with this understanding or with the doctrine of original sin and could never understand why, if
God created us, He wasn’t more involved with His creations on the Earth! Sai Baba teaches that
God does not reside in a heaven, or in a church or temple, for that matter. God is everywhere, in
all of Creation, at all times. There is only one God and that God is omnipresent, omniscient and
omnipotent. Sai Baba demonstrates this fact himself. I will talk about his ‘miracles’ in a minute,
but it is apparent that he can present himself in whatever form he likes, in as many places as he
likes, and all at the same time. He can appear in the form of any human being. He can appear in
the form of two, three or even four human beings at the same time. He is a living demonstration
of the fact that God dwells in everything, that all is one. There is only one Race - the Race of
Humanity - and that Race is divine. Inside every human being is the perfection of the divine.
We are truly no different from God and the more we align ourselves with the force of God that
dwells within us, the more we become God.

Another level on which you can relate to Sai Baba is through recognising him as the avatar of the
Age in which we live. In Indian theology an avatar is regarded as a direct incarnation of the
Divine, who comes on Earth to close one Age, or Yuga, and to inaugurate another. In Judaic or
Christian theology this great being is known as the Messiah. Almost every religion in the world
today embraces the concept of the return of a divine messenger who comes with the express
purpose of raising human consciousness, of teaching Humanity how to discriminate between
right and wrong, between truth and falsehood. Indian theology teaches that the purpose of the
avatar taking human form is threefold, namely, to protect and re-establish dharma, which
translates roughly as right action or right conduct, to protect the devotees that have kept faith
with the Lord and to punish the evil-doers. The avatar, whilst not removing Humanity’s karma,
prevents it from destroying itself, for example, in some great nuclear holocaust. There have been
a succession of avatars, many unknown to us today. Indian theology teaches that there are both
full and partial avatars or, as they are sometimes called, major and minor avatars. Minor avatars
are beings like Jesus, the Buddha and Mohammed. Major avatars are beings like Rama, Krishna
and, some people feel, Sai Baba. One of the distinguishing features between a major and a minor
avatar is that major avatars are born with all of their miraculous powers latent within them,
whereas minor avatars acquire their powers whilst in physical incarnation by following certain
spiritual disciplines. It is therefore interesting to note that Sai Baba at the age of six was already
exhibiting his miraculous powers and by the age of twelve was a fully realised soul, whereas
Jesus only exhibited his powers during his ministry, after he had visited India as a young man
and had studied at various esoteric schools there.

In comparing Jesus with Sai Baba it is also interesting to note that Jesus went through three
recognisable stages of awakening his own divinity. He began his ministry by saying that he was
a messenger of God, then evolved to saying that he was the son of God and only at the very end
of his ministry did he proclaim that he and his Father were one. He clearly demonstrated that in
the beginning he was living in a state of duality, of being separate from God. During his
ministry, when he was overshadowed by the Christ Energy, he grew into the understanding that
there is no duality, that all is one. Sai Baba, on the other hand, incarnated with all of his powers.
As a child he could manifest whatever he chose. He would pick different types of fruits off one
particular tree no matter what the season. He could materialise any physical object that he
desired with just a wave of his hand. He understood things that had never been taught to him in
school. He knew all the Vedas and the sacred writings of India although he had never studied
them. He could hold learned discussions with priests and pundits even though he had only
attended his local school. He apparently has a full knowledge of everything.
At the age of 14 he revealed who he was and why he had come. He explained that he was in the
middle of a triple incarnation, the first being to reveal Divinity, the second being to awaken
Divinity and the third being to propagate Divinity. His first incarnation had been as Shirdi Sai
Baba, when he lived from 1835 until 1918. His second incarnation, the present one, as Sathya
Sai Baba, is from 1926 until 2022. His third incarnation, as Prema Sai Baba, will be from 2030.
Although the three physical bodies will be different, the indwelling Divinity is One and the same.
He has defined the purpose of his incarnation as being to reveal Man to himself, to restore to him
his birthright of divine bliss, to teach him the truth about love. Sai Baba states that the avatar
always comes when Humanity is on the brink of destruction, when fear stalks the streets
everywhere, when evil appears to flourish, when righteousness is mocked. In the eternal cycle of
human evolution we are now experiencing the lowest point of the cycle, the time when Humanity
is the most separated from the Godhead. It is precisely because of this that we can draw hope,
because the avatar always comes in the time of the greatest need and, as Sai Baba says “This
divine body has not come in vain. It will succeed in averting the crisis that has come upon
Humanity. It is not in the nature of an avatar to fail!”

Another level on which you can relate to Sai Baba, and I accept that for some people this level
will be very difficult to comprehend, I know that it is for me, is through the understanding that he
is an actual incarnation of the Godhead, of the Source of All Life, on the Earth. In doing this,
though, one must not be confused by his name and his form. God is not the name and the form.
God only takes name and form because Humanity would find it difficult to develop faith in the
nameless and the formless. Understanding the Divine in human form is but a preparation for
understanding the nameless and the formless God. That is why avatars incarnate on the Earth, to
provide the name and the form that is so essential for the true seeker, so that they can love,
worship, follow and listen to God and through that devotion progress to the nameless and the
formless God. In the early days I found this particular concept very difficult to accept because of
my strong esoteric conditioning. In fact, even after fifteen years of investigating him, I still do
not know who Sai Baba really is! I find it very difficult to accept that he, or anyone else for that
matter, is God incarnate, if only because I have always believed in a nameless and a formless
God. Even today, I am still investigating, I am still trying to discover the reality of who Sai Baba
is and what is his divine mission.

Through a study and an observation of his life, through releasing long-held and preconceived
viewpoints as to the nature of the incarnation of the Divine, I am now coming to the point when I
can at least begin to accept that Sai Baba is probably more than just a great spiritual teacher. I
have witnessed his miracles, his manifestations and his healings, I have felt his divine power and
I know the effect that he has had not only on me but on those close to me. I am aware of the
transformation that he has wrought in my being. This, surely, is the only way that one can make
a valid assessment of Sai Baba, by asking “How has Sai Baba transformed me? Has he
influenced my life for the better?” Let me share a little personal story with you here. Five years
ago I mentally asked Sai Baba to soften my heart, to make me more compassionate towards my
fellow human beings, because there was a streak in me that often made me quite indifferent to
other people’s sufferings. On a subsequent visit to India, as I was sitting in his ashram at
Kodaikanal, Sai Baba walked past me and, with a beautiful smile, lightly touched my fingers
which were extended towards him in a greeting of ‘Namaste’. I immediately experienced a
feeling of supreme bliss and burst into tears! But something inside me had been touched, my
heart centre had been opened, and from that day onwards I felt much more open and
compassionate towards my fellow human beings. So in just this one aspect alone I know that Sai
Baba has had a very positive effect upon me and has transformed a very fixed part of my nature
for the better.
The divine powers that Sai Baba manifests are literally quite mind-blowing! They cannot be
proved or tested by science because they are beyond scientific understanding at this time. Of one
thing we can be sure, namely, that he is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. He apparently
knows everything that is going on everywhere in the whole world and, presumably, in all the
other worlds as well. Let me give you two examples of this fact. A pregnant lady was admitted
to a hospital in India in the first stages of labour. Unfortunately there was only one midwife on
duty that night and she was busy attending other births. The lady’s labour suddenly accelerated
and she felt the baby coming and cried out for help, but the midwife did not come. Desperately
she prayed to God for help and to her relief another midwife came into the room who safely
delivered her of her baby, washed it, wrapped it in clothes and laid it beside her. Sometime later
the original midwife came back into her room and was amazed to see the baby lying there and
asked who had done this. The lady told her about the other midwife who had helped her. The
first midwife then informed her that there was no other midwife on duty that night, that she was
the only one, and asked as to who had done this! The lady then described how the midwife
looked, how he was dressed in a red gown and had a mass of fuzzy hair. Yes, you have guessed
correctly. She described Sai Baba and later identified him from a photograph.

I will now give you another amazing example of Sai Baba’s divine powers and I know that these
facts are accurate, if only because I heard the gentleman concerned, an American called Isaac
Tigrett, relate them himself. Isaac was the founder and owner of The Hard Rock Café chain,
which has cafés all around the world. When he sold the chain he donated half of the sale price,
around $59 million, to Sai Baba for the building of his Super Speciality Hospital in Puttaparthi in
1991. You can go and see this magnificent hospital, the second largest in Asia, when you go to
the ashram. Isaac obviously has a very close relationship with Sai Baba but the events that I am
about to describe took place in the early days of that relationship. During this fifteen-year period
he visited Sai Baba many times before he was granted his first interview. Anyway Isaac
described two occasions in which Sai Baba physically manifested before him in the USA in order
to save his life. On the first occasion, when he lost control of his car whilst driving by himself,
he went over a cliff top and as his car was plunging down to certain destruction, Sai Baba
appeared in the seat along side him and put his arm around him in a protective gesture. When
the car impacted at the bottom it was a total write off but Isaac emerged without a scratch!
Again, after a drug overdose one night, when Isaac was choking on his own tongue and faced
imminent death, Sai Baba manifested in his room and rolled him over and cleared his air
passage, thus saving his life again. One can only marvel at the powers of such a being, which
defy all known scientific laws today.

But omnipresence and omniscience go much deeper than that. It means that Sai Baba knows
your every thought, word and deed and, indeed, the thoughts, words and deeds of the whole of
Humanity. He knows the whole destiny of Humanity, both past, present and future. He knows
everything that has been and will ever be. He is the total consciousness of Humanity. So
although he didn’t incarnate as the Buddha, as Jesus or as Mohammed, he is them because they
merged with the greater consciousness of which he is a part. That is why he knows everything
about their lives down to the minutest detail. Let me tell you another little story to demonstrate
this fact. Sai Baba gave a man a ring during an interview but, some time later, when he was
crossing a river on a ferryboat, the ring fell off his finger into the water and was lost. He was
very upset at the loss of the ring, if only because Sai Baba had given it to him. The very next
time that he visited the ashram, Sai Baba said to him “You have lost your ring” and then with a
wave of his hand he manifested the very ring that the man had lost and gave it back to him. The
man was amazed and said “Swami, how can you do that?” to which Sai Baba replied, “I am the
river, I am the river.” So what you have to realise is that when you become one with the Source
of all life you become a part of everything. That is the birthright which one day we will inherit.
Apart from his physical manifestations Sai Baba is renowned for his healings. It is reported that
he has raised several people from the dead and that he has cured people who were terminally ill
and had been deemed to be incurable by their doctors. I, personally, have seen people go into his
interview room in a wheelchair and come out of it walking, if a little unsteadily! He has cured
people of cancer with a wave of his hand and the simple statement “Cancer cancelled.” Some
people have been cured of an illness simply by being in his presence at Darshan, others by taking
the vibhuti or sacred ash that he has manifested for them. Now this doesn’t mean that he cures
every person that comes to him asking to be healed, no matter how much they believe in him.
All illness is karmic settlement and healing can only take place when the karma is discharged,
when the lesson is learned and God’s grace is invoked. Just being in Sai Baba’s presence,
receiving his energies in Darshan, can be a healing process on many levels of being. He can also
effect healing through a third party. For example, he has given Ann and I a lingam to be used for
healing. Sai Baba manifested this lingam for us during an interview. The lingam can be likened
to an egg-shaped stone. He told us to pour water over the lingam, invoking God’s blessing on it,
and then to give the water to sick people to drink. We have had some wonderful healings with
this water!

I will end, as I began, by reminding you that you have to experience Sai Baba for yourself. My
experience will not be your experience. If these words have inspired you to go and visit him
then please make that sacred pilgrimage, but remember that you cannot go and see him unless he
permits it, indeed, you cannot even dream about Sai Baba unless he permits it! On one level, of
course, you don’t have to make the long journey to India because Sai Baba is omnipresent. He is
with you right now, as you read these words, and is noting your response, to see if you are ready
to begin the journey back to the Source of All Life. But for those of you who are prepared to
make the journey, perhaps in response to some deep inner soul yearning, I can tell you that what
you will gain by receiving his Darshan, by feeling his unconditional love, by placing your being
in his divine energy, will be beyond human value. Sai Baba often uses the analogy of the ocean
and the raindrop. When you are in the ocean, before birth, you are part of the ocean, you have no
identity, you are the ocean itself, but then the cosmic wind stirs the waves and you become
separated from the ocean as spray, you become absorbed into the clouds and form into a
raindrop. For a brief moment in time you think that you are separate from the ocean, that you
have a separate identity and purpose, but then the rainfalls and you return to the ocean. That is
the nature of human life. We are temporarily separated from the Source of our being but we will
all return one day to the Source from which we came. Sai Baba says that there are four
important questions that we all should consider - Who am I? Where did I come from? How long
will I be here? Whither am I going? Sai Baba has helped me to both ask and, in part, to answer
those questions. He has made me aware not just of my own divinity, but of the divinity of all
life. He has taught me that there is only one God and that that God is omnipresent. He has
shown me the reality of God in a physical form on the Earth today. Above all, he has made me
aware of my divine birthright, the opportunity to attain liberation and to merge with the
Godhead, never to return to this plane of Earth again and to get caught in the cycle of karmic
bondage again. I commend Sai Baba to you. Go, see and experience the transforming power of
his unconditional love, which, of course, is the power of God.

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