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Sri Alwarula Bhakti Samrajya Mahotsavam, JUL 14 2010
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My wife Marsha returned from her first trip to Swami in 1977. She
had been present at the last public Maha Shivaratri, during which our beloved
Swami manifested Vibhuti, showered the audience with Ram Tirth, and produced
what Prof. Kasturi was later to describe as a "self illumining crystal lingam".
Soon after her return, Marsha and I were on a visit to my father
and step-mother. When they asked her, "Tell us about your trip in India," she
proceeded to do just that, with all the enthusiasm of one who had just returned
from her first three months with the Avatar.
Producing photographs of Swami holding up the glowing lingam,
Marsha excitedly explained to this senior medical man how Sai Baba produced
this unidentifiable object in His body, and then brought it forth from His
mouth every year to the delight of His devotees. This was, to say the least,
very difficult for my father to grasp or accept.
We did not know it at the time, but this conversation was a turning
point in our relationship with our folks. Being so unfamiliar with anyone even
remotely like Sai Baba they felt sure that we were being taken in by a master
magician, and "feared for our sanity". As the years passed however, their fears
abated when they perceived we had not given up personal control over our lives,
and continued to develop as human beings.
Three years after this visit we were back again, talking in that
room where the fateful exchange had taken place. I was browsing in the kitchen
cabinets when I spied a set of goblets I had never seen before—of clear heavy
crystal. "Hey Nona!" I called to my step-mother with mild curiosity, "where did
you get the crystal goblets?" "Oh, those were a gift to your father from Dr.
Sivalingam." "Oh." I replied.
So, the sceptical doctor who so profoundly doubted Lord Siva's
ability to produce a lingam of crystal, had himself received crystal from a
doctor named Sivalingam! And unknowingly participated in an exquisite first
hand experience of what Einstein might have meant when he proclaimed, in
referring to how "nature conceals her sublimity": "SUBTLE IS THE LORD, (but not
malicious)..."
In August 1989 Bhagawan invited our group of twenty one Americans
for an interview. I resolved that, with His Grace, I would leave it knowing
more about my connection to Einstein.
During the interview Baba gave everyone private time, answered
questions on all aspects of personal life, and blessed Marsha's and my entry
into advanced studies in psychology. He materialized a diamond pendent for her,
and a red, white and blue on gold pendent for my daughter Nilima. I was sitting
next to Baba in the same position as in 1978 and was filled to overflowing.
Again, I had an opportunity to pose my question about the meaning
of my relationship to Einstein. I took the opportunity, and Swami revealed some
personal information that I will ponder for some time to come.
Swami then went on to say the following to the group:
"Einstein is a body. That body is dead. He was a very good man.
Einstein was very patient. Peace, Peace, Peace. He was always thinking of
Bhagawan."
Swami, in an apparent reference to Einstein's pain that his work
laid the foundation for nuclear weapons, said "Einstein made 'gunpowder' and
felt bad at the end (of his life), —he said: I have made a mistake, this was a
mistake.”
Swami: "What is a scientist? Science is the study of creation.
Spirituality is studying the Creator."
[Swami draws a circle with His finger on the wall:] "Man as
scientist works from senses down. Man as Spirit works from senses up." [Points
to top of circle] "See, science is only a ' C,' (tracing one half of a circle)
but Spirit is full circle. It is the difference between this and that."
Swami concluded by saying: "If science were more spiritual, it
would know more. Science is no love. Science tries to get the exact truth but
has no goal; it is random. Always in the laboratory. There is no love in
science. Study Spirit! Spirit has a goal. Know yourself and you know
everything.”
What about the Future?
To Einstein's sadness, a major response to his discoveries about
relativity has been fear about the future of the planet itself.
A question arises: Dose a means exist to view or make use of
Einstein's insights in a positive way—one that will truly be a "blessing to
mankind, and not a curse?”
I am not a physicist or mathematician; but I offer several thoughts
about this question.
I believe that not only can the example of Einstein's life stand as
a blessing to humankind, but that one of the most profound expressions of his
work can serve as well: the formula E = mc² (energy equals mass into the
velocity of light squared).
We are accustomed to think of this formula in primarily negative
terms, the unleashing of the atom's destructive potential. Paradoxically, I
feel that it embodies something of a most heartening spiritual nature as well.
E = mc² mathematically expresses the unity to which Swami
frequently refers, through its having scientifically established that matter
and energy—the tangible and the invisible—are wholly equivalent and
interchangeable i.e., that mass is simply concentrated energy; and that energy
is mass minus form.
To expand: Starting with denser forms of energy, we might consider
Einstein's discovery E = mc² as a metaphorical “two sided coin", with one side
dark, the other light.
We are quite familiar with the "dark side"—nuclear fission. The
concept of a "light" side could be considered along the following lines of
thought
On the "dark" side, it seems that by tracing matter, visible and
tangible, to its most extreme potentiality, we observe that it transmutes into
energy, having a destructive effect upon other matter (nuclear fission).
If we do the reverse, and trace energy, diffuse and invisible, back
through its various forms; from radiation, combustion, electricity, and human
thought, we come to its ultimate state, Divine Thought, which we know can exert
a most constructive influence upon matter.
Einstein's formula accomplishes two things: It teaches the
fundamental truth that "All" is in fact "One", and that the various forms of
this One can be used either for our annihilation or for our highest good,
depending on the consciousness with which it is used.
Paradoxically, E = mc² provides both the means to destroy the
world, and scientific validation of liberating truth that everything is
interconnected and stems from one source. (The threat of the former perhaps
also motivating us to seek the latter). That Source, Reality which Einstein
laboured to discover, has come among us in the form of Bhagawan Baba.
While the Lord, in His infinite wisdom, granted Albert Einstein
rare insight into some of the workings of His creation, and though Einstein
revolutionised science and our perception of reality, like any of us, he was
not fully able to grasp all aspects of his favourite subject of study.
Like Spinoza, Einstein asserted his belief in an impersonal God
saying, "I can't believe in a God who gets involved in the affairs of men."
Ironically, though he helped in preparing us for the Presence by demonstrating
the essential unity of all creation, like Moses, Albert Einstein glimpsed but
did not enter the Promised Land: he died never knowing that the Eternal
Principle he sought had actually come among us.
Interestingly, and consistent with many aspects of both physics and
spirituality, an element of paradox exists regarding this question. As those
who have come into the orbit of Sri Sathya Sai Baba can well attest, the
Creator is infinitely multi faceted and unpredictable; at one moment seemingly
detached and remote "from the affairs of men” while at another (if not
simultaneously) intimately involved with them, down the minutest details of
their lives...
Baba's Presence here among us perhaps the greatest expression of
His love, and far transcending our limits knowledge, represents the perfect
synthesis of energy and matter, time an space. To gaze upon Him is in fact to
see energy and matter combined in their most mysterious and perfect form.
When we consider the fact the Baba has given us His personal
assurance that the world will not end in nuclear annihilation, we can know that
we are beyond the shadow of the fearful implications of E = mc² and in the
light of His Divine Presence, which beckon us to realize that energy, as Light,
Love—God—is our only Reality. Firmly rooted in this truth, we can confidently
proceed with our individual roles in Swami's transformation of the present era
into a Golden Age of Divine Consciousness, utterly permeated by His Love.
May Sai bless us with the faith ant skill to traverse this world
always remembering who He declares we are true synthesis of matter and Diving
Energy.
"The world was created by the word of God so that what is seen was
made out of things which do not appear.” — Saint Paul.
